09/02/2026
😎😎😎🎃FLASH FALL SALE!!! GET 20% OFF WHEN YOU SPEND $35 OR MORE AT THE NURSERY OR A WEEKDAY VISIT BY APPOINTMENT
🌻It's time for our weekly NATIVE PLANTS SALE!!! (Saturday, September 5th, 9-2 pm at 209 Paddock Road)!
🌻Saturdays not good for you? Contact us to order for pickup or to schedule a nursery visit any time😃. I recommend this! We are there most days of the week doing chores, and you get the run of the place, and our full attention, with no disruptions. It's a very relaxing, pleasant experience.
🌻Here is our updated Plant List of what is available this Saturday.
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🌻PLANT PRICES FOR 2026
*PLUGS ($2.50 each) ($7 per three of the same plant = $2.33 per plug). A few higher priced plug trays purchased from Wholesalers may be slightly more.
*6 Pack Plants in Deep Plug Six Packs ($14 = $2.33 per plug)
*Ferns ($5)
*Pots ($4)
*Native Annuals in deep plug trays or deep plug six-packs (same prices as above)
*Non Native Annuals ($4 per Six Pack = 67 CENTS per plug!!!)
*Whole Native Plug Trays of 50 ($110 =$2.20 per plug)
*Whole Native Six Pack Tray of 48 plugs ($105 = $2.19 per plug)
🌻 Greenhouse Notes and Updates:
✅ We have Crossvine and Coral Honeysuckle/ $4 per pot, and MORE Purpleheaded Sneezeweed!! (What a cool plant)! We have more Big leaf Aster.
✅ Each customer will receive a plug tray to keep for collecting your plug choices. PLEASE!!! HOLD ONTO THEM AND BRING THEM WITH YOU FOR EACH VISIT! Thanks so much. If I run out of old ones and donations of them, new ones cost me almost $2 a tray.
✅Keep your plugs moist and aim to get them in the ground in the next 24 hours. It is not a bad idea to trim the greens down a bit after planting so the roots can focus on expanding rather than having to support the existing height of the plant.
✅I encourage you to take a picture of each plant sign along with the plug, but we have also provided plant tags and markers in cups hung around the greenhouse to keep track of your choices.
✅We provide bolts or permanent markers in cups hung around the greenhouse for you to pop the plugs out of the tray from the hole underneath the tray
✅Each Monday, the Plant List will be updated for what will be available for that Saturday's Sale.
🌻We are thrilled to be able to continue donating large amounts of plants to public volunteer loctions such as Columbia Cares (MD) Community Group, a Girl Scout troop doing a great garden restoration at a historical spot in a beloved Wilmington Park, and the volunteers of White Clay Creek State Park/Judge Morris Estate. PLEASE Follow AND Share our Page with your friends and visit us often so we can increase our plant donations around Delaware.
🌻Pay by Cash, Check, Zelle, Credit, Debit, or Venmo
🌻*The greenhouses sit in a 12 acre meadow covered with native flowers and native grasses.
🌻*Come by to see the Native Plants for sale.
🌻 EVERY PLANT IN OUR NURSERY HAS AN IMPORTANT STORY
🌻Nursery Highlight (I have so many plants that I am excited about!) The plants look so great and mature, with blooms on many.
🌻Sneezeweed (Helenium autumnale) and Purplehead Sneezeweed (Helenium flexuosum) is blooming now. It got its name because Native Americans used the dried, ground flower as a s***f which induced a sneeze. It reaches 4+ feet and does best in wet to consistently moist soil. I have had tremendous success in my garden by having it in thick wood chips in both full and part sun locations. The large and numerous daisy-like, yellow flowers of Helenium autumnale can provide welcome color in late summer and autumn when many other blossoms have disappeared. Its pollen is distributed by insects, not wind. Sneezeweed is one of the host plants of the Dainty Sulphur.
Purple-headed Sneezeweed, (Helenium flexuosum), is a perennial in the aster family that grows full or partial sun. It can tolerate temporary flooding, prefers moist soil, and may wilt if the soil dries out. This clump forming plant with showy yellow flowers is great for borders, low spots, wetland boundaries, and areas with wetter soils.
Purplehead Sneezeweed not only has aesthetic appeal but also nectar and pollen to long-tongued bees, short-tongued bees, wasps, flies, butterflies, and skippers. Caterpillars also rely on the foliage of the majestic Purple Headed Sneezeweed, for example, the butterfly Nathalis iole (Dainty Sulfur), the caterpillars of Papaipema impecuniosa (Aster Borer Moth) and Papaipema rigida (Rigid Sunflower Borer Moth), and Smicronyx discoideus (Sneezeweed Weevil). It thrives in the same conditions as our other sneezeweed, but is a little shorter. It looks the same but has a bulbous purple/brown head.
