It may just be January, but the plant sale team has been busy building the inventory for this year’s sale. The plant list will be finalized by March 20 and will be posted here after that time. In the meantime, peruse Our Plants to see what we have offered in the past since many will be on this year’s list as well.

Veggies and Herbs

Our veggie team is super organized. They are excited to introduce two Indian peppers, and…

We hope to get pictures and descriptions up for you soon.

Perennials

Bring on the natives!

We are hearing the call to plant more native species that produce habitats friendly to our local bird and insect populations, and continue to expand our seed-grown and locally sourced divisions of native plants. Curious about natives versus nativars? Check out this post to learn more.

Our propagation teams are learning about the importance of ecotypes in growing native plants. We are working to establish local native plant populations from which we can source our seeds that we grow for the sales, so the plants you get will be optimally adapted for this area. While we continue to dig and divide from local plant populations - generally producing a more mature plant - starting from seed increases genetic diversity and minimizes the risk of transferring unintended species, such as weed seeds, along with the plant.

Many native favorites are already potted, collected or growing, such as wild ginger, coral honeysuckle, sundrops, butterfly or orange milkweed, Jack in the Pulpit and purple verbena. A couple of new selections that we’ll have are long-headed coneflower and climbing aster.

We are starting a lot of natives from seed, and are hopeful they will all be ready for you! Check out our final list after March 20. We hope to have some great pollinator plants - coneflower, rattlesnake master, cardinal flower, several lobelias, bee balms, and several of the tough as nails goldenrods. The team is trying a few new and potentially challenging seeds, but with any luck you may see blanket flower, meadow beauty, helmet flower, boneset, wild quinine, Maryland golden aster and perhaps Piedmont Barbara’s buttons. We are excited to see what grows!

Old Favorites

We haven’t forgotten the non-native favorites. Many are easy to grow, beautiful, evergreen, deer resistant, drought tolerant or great pollinator plants - reason enough to choose them. Look for, among many others, black and blue sage, lambs ears, catmint, sedum, hardy begonia, canna, sedge, Russian sage and creeping rosemary.

One of a Kinds

Our propagation team lives up to its name - they will attempt to divide anything! As a result, we can offer quite a few unique plants in small quantities. Many are simply favorite plants; others are special selections from local nurseries such as Plant Delights that may not be well known. Some examples include several named agaves, crinum, cyclamen, lilies, gloxinia, hardy ginger and yew. If these unique plants interest you, be sure to check out our final inventory in late March so you can read up on them and look for them in the sale.

Trees and Shrubs

There will be a selection of both native and non-native trees and shrubs. We like to price our plants competitively, sell propagated plants within a year or two, and maintain healthy root systems for dug or divided plants. For these reasons our trees and shrubs may be smaller than what you would find at other nurseries or big box stores. Experienced gardeners know that these affordable plants settle in quickly and may catch up to their larger counterparts in just a few years.

Natives

Look for Florida anise tree, red twig dogwood, Sweet Betsy, pawpaw, redbud, red mulberry, yellow buckeye, elderberry, oakleaf hydrangea, sweet pepperbush, beautyberry and shrubby St. John’s wort.

Non-natives

Look for fig varieties, gardenia, hydrangea, lilac, lantana, winter hazel, smoke tree, paperbush and variegated false holly.

Check back for a complete listing!

About half our plants are started from seed, and about half are divided or propagated from our own Master Gardeners’ collections. While our seeds for 2025 have already been selected and many have been sown, if there are plants in particular you are looking for, drop us a line as we may be able to locate and share those plants, or at least consider them for the next sale. Master Gardeners love nothing more than to share their plants!

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