Windy Top Nursery NJ

Windy Top Nursery NJ A down-to-earth garden nursery in a wooded setting, specializing in native plants and annuals.

Today is the last day that Windy Top will be open. Chris will close today at 5. Thank you.
07/31/2026

Today is the last day that Windy Top will be open. Chris will close today at 5. Thank you.

An update on our 50% closing sale. As of end of the day Friday, our native plants are about half gone. Lots of great opt...
07/24/2026

An update on our 50% closing sale. As of end of the day Friday, our native plants are about half gone. Lots of great options are still here, including the ever-so-popular paw paw tree, Jersey tea, Joe Pye and swamp milkweed. There is still a robust supply of annuals, including flowers and herbs that will take you through first frost with a little TLC after you take them home.

Thank you for all of your kind words and comments. We share them with Chris and with John’s widow, Karen. They are both deeply appreciative.

Open 9-5 this weekend.

Starting Thursday, July 23, all plants will be 50% off. Chris has done an extraordinary job keeping the “doors” open for...
07/23/2026

Starting Thursday, July 23, all plants will be 50% off. Chris has done an extraordinary job keeping the “doors” open for Windy Top, but it is now time to close those doors. Windy Top will stay open for as long as there are plants to sell, and will then close. (Because of the nature of the sale, it’s impossible to say what day Windy Top will be sold out of plants. We will keep this page updated as the sale unfolds.)

Thank you. All of you. New customers this year, people who have come here for decades, native plant enthusiasts, community members building butterfly gardens for schools and shared spaces, nonprofits that we partner with, butterfly enthusiasts from the annual butterfly festival, folks who “like” our page, and local nurseries who are a part of this close-knit community we have.

Thank you - especially - to our dedicated volunteers from all walks of life who stepped in with love and gusto to help Chris after John died. Opening this year would not have been possible without you.

Thank all of you for keeping this community alive. Thank you for keeping John’s vision alive. Thank you for honoring the spirit of what John lovingly created for all of us.

Windy Top will close its doors, but what John built will now live on through all of us.

Be kind to one another. Offer advice on native plants. Learn from one another. Share plants freely.

Do what John would do. 

Here is John, in his element, last summer just before he knew he was sick. You can see his joy and purpose. On this day, he was carrying water into the woods behind the property for the children who were bussed in from Camden to experience a little bit of nature on his property.

I feel like I can speak for all of us when I say: John, we love you. We miss you. And we promise to carry you in our hearts, and in our gardens, for the rest of our lives. Until we meet again, my friend. 💚🌱

Sometimes we just need to sit still and listen. Found this little cricket (North American spur-throated cricket) making ...
07/13/2026

Sometimes we just need to sit still and listen. Found this little cricket (North American spur-throated cricket) making himself at home in a bright zinnia. Like the zinnia's bright petals, let's bloom boldly where we are planted. And like the cricket, let's remember there is joy in the simple song of the present moment. 🌻✨

Ahead of the last heat wave, Chris brought as many annuals outside from the greenhouses that he could. Come out and have a look, without needing to go in the warm greenhouses. Available annuals are starting to wind down. Zinnias are $15 per flat and will bloom for you through the first frost. Open Wednesday through Sunday, 9-5.

When you build a habitat, nature responds - even here, where the plants live and grow, but are for sale. We spotted this...
06/23/2026

When you build a habitat, nature responds - even here, where the plants live and grow, but are for sale. We spotted this adult Fowler’s toad (native) next to the center raised beds, using the yarrow (also a native) above it as cover.

Three interesting facts about Fowler’s toads:
1. They eat velvet ants, a solitary ground wasp with a painful sting. (Velvet ants are also native.)
2. They don’t eat earthworms!
3. They are known to play dead as a defense mechanism.

Keep your hanging pots thriving all summer by mastering the big three: watering deeply (sometimes more than once a day w...
06/20/2026

Keep your hanging pots thriving all summer by mastering the big three: watering deeply (sometimes more than once a day when it’s super hot or sunny), feeding regularly, and mid-season pruning. Since hanging baskets hold limited soil, they dry out more quickly and need more attention than plants in the ground or in raised beds. Hanging baskets $14, open Wednesday through Sunday, 9-5. 

John shared a part of his heart with us by sharing his love of native plants. Another big part of John’s heart was Lizzy...
06/15/2026

John shared a part of his heart with us by sharing his love of native plants. Another big part of John’s heart was Lizzy, his almost 4-year-old lab mix named after the 1970s band Thin Lizzy (best known for the song “The Boys are Back in Town.”) John’s widow Karen has made the painful decision to find this good girl a new forever home, as Lizzy is a 60-pound, high-energy dog who needs to be walked frequently and Karen’s health simply isn’t up for that.

John’s daughter-in-law shares from her perspective that Lizzy would probably do best as the solo dog in a household. Lizzy does well with another dog in John’s extended family, but it took some work to get there. Lizzy is good with children and it is unknown if she would do well with cats.

Lizzy was adopted through the Animal Sanctuary Society and last saw her veterinarian at Delaware Valley Veterinary Hospital April of this year.

Please message if interested and we will send you the name and phone number of the person at the Animal Sanctuary Society who will handle Lizzy’s rehoming and all questions regarding Lizzy.

Thank you for understanding that while plants brought us all together, the community spirit that John created warrants this non-plant post.

Customer and volunteer Amanda Cha introduces you to, “Saskatoon, Juneberry, Shadbush, Shadblow, Sugarplum, Sarvis, Servi...
06/04/2026

Customer and volunteer Amanda Cha introduces you to, “Saskatoon, Juneberry, Shadbush, Shadblow, Sugarplum, Sarvis, Serviceberry- these are among the many names for Amelanchier” (The Serviceberry, Robin Wall Kimmerer, pg. 3)

As one of their names suggests, this tree and/or shurb produces berries tasting reminiscent of a blueberry in June. It flowers, as a signal to weather patterns shifting and that the ground has thawed- spring.

Its history, is vast as an important food source in indigenous communities as part of a gratitude and reciprocity economy.

Planting native brings history into our yards, bridging an appreciation of what was, what is- to enhance the future.

Photos show a young Serviceberry still in its nursery pot ready to find its forever home in a garden in West Deptford, NJ.

Customer and volunteer Amanda Cha shares her experience with one native plant. Thanks, Amanda! We would also like to add...
05/27/2026

Customer and volunteer Amanda Cha shares her experience with one native plant. Thanks, Amanda! We would also like to add that this plant self-seeds in a lovely way, surprising you with a few volunteers, but is not one that takes over a space. Show us your own blue false indigo!

A wait well worth.

Sometimes it’s a plant that can launch your curiosity and excitement for gardening. Blue False Indigo, Baptisia australis was that. Their seed pods drew me in first. I did know what the blooms looked like until a quick internet search. Our little one (at the time 18 months old) loved shaking the seed pods like maracas.

This is a second year plant, first time blooming, in a home garden in West Deptford, NJ. These photos were taken on April 28 and May 8. Everyday I would go out, walk my garden’s perimeter and be entranced by the daily growth. Waiting and hoping for blooms.

Last year, the plant barely grew, I was nervous that it wouldn’t make it and then, spring arrived this year. Excited to see leaves return, you can imagine the joy when flower buds formed in April.

Finally, this year, after the Blue False Indigo blooms, our 4 year old will get to shake maracas from our own seed pods.

If you build it, they will come!These Swamp Milkweed, Asclepias incarnata, plants are two years old. Growing around 3 fe...
05/23/2026

If you build it, they will come!

These Swamp Milkweed, Asclepias incarnata, plants are two years old. Growing around 3 feet tall, they are a perfect addition to the garden for those wanting a taller ‘shrub’. These photos were captured in West Deptford, NJ, where a very early monarch laid eggs (first found on May 6) Eating full leaves daily; the monarch caterpillars are much bigger! It won’t be long now until they begin to make their chrysalis!

The swamp milkweed has not bloomed yet. By the time the caterpillars emerge as butterflies, the plant will have clustered pink flowers, giving the monarchs their next food source, nectar.

Planting native enhances your home’s ecosystem, bringing new life and a better sense of admiration and wonder to the yard.

Post courtesy of Amanda Cha.

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240 Harrisonville Road
Mullica Hill, NJ
08062

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Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm
Saturday 9am - 5pm
Sunday 9am - 5pm

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