Closed for plant shopping for the 2024 season.

Our focus and specialty is Native (indigenous) Plants including perennials, grasses,  shrubs, trees and complimentary plants and products focused on restoring habitat right at home 🐝🦋🐦. Be sure to ask about our signature plant, Native Prickly Pear Cactus which happily grows outdoors in Southern New England sandy soils.

Our inventory is constantly changing, just like the New England weather. Visit often to score the very best finds! We are a small, hyper-local establishment with a huge variety of Northeast Native Plants. We often have more than 250 varieties on hand at any time including rare, endangered and hard to find in the nursery trade native plants. Nearly all of our plants are native East of the Rockies and many are New England specific natives, including Eco-Region 59 seed grown varieties.

Throughout the Spring we carry a wide selection of certified organic herb & veggie plants including heirloom and unusual varieties. We also offer a line of amazing designer jumbo flowering annuals selected for their uncanny ability to attract hummingbirds and butterflies from miles away.  At all times of year we offer perennials, grasses, ferns, shrubs and small trees in robust sizes typically ranging from 1-7 gallon pots.  We do not use any pesticides here at our nursery and we only source plants from growers who are deeply committed to environmental stewardship in their growing practices including integrated pest management techniques that minimize the use of any chemical inputs. The plants that we sell are not artificially forced into bloom in heated greenhouses. Most of the perennials and shrubs are grown outdoors and following natural growing rhythms and our annuals are grown by an experienced grower who utilizes a complex hardening off process that creates far more cold tolerance and resiliency in the plants. 

We are very committed to meeting the rapidly growing demand for great native plants and so as of 2024 we have significantly scaled back our own growing to focus our energies on working with very high quality specialty Northeast Growers who are able to supply us with a dazzling array of responsibly grown, extremely high quality, well rooted plants in the quantities we need to respond to your planting goals. These wholesale growers have decades of experience offering some of the very best products in the industry. Many of these plants are grown from eco-type seed from New England and nearby Long Island. We believe that making this switch is important not only to get more beneficial plant roots into the ground in our area but also to help to demonstrate to growers that there is in fact a strong market for native plants, thus seeding broader and longer-lasting change.

We are definitely not a traditional nursery. We are here on a mission to change gardening practices for the greater good and to offer support and community for others on a similar quest. We encourage you to use the educational resources we produce in the form of newsletters, newspaper articles, blog posts and more. We also hope you will attend one of the educational programs we offer in the community or here at the Emporium.