Our 12th Annual Native Plant Sale offers 6 collections and 20 individual favorites for pre-order. All plants available for pre-order are grown by a local Minnesota native plant nursery without the use of neonics.
Order deadline: Tuesday, May 15th, 2018
Payment in the form of check, cash or moneyorder must be included with order.
Pick-up: Sunday, June 3rd, 2018
Noon to 3 pm
4009 Minnehaha Ave S
Minneapolis, MN
(next to Visual Expressions)
2018 NATIVE PLANT SELECTION:
Collections (A-F) each contain 8 species in 6-packs, 48 plants, $60 per flat.
Please note that species in collections may be substituted if there is a crop failure, and we have selected appropriate alternative native species that fit the purpose and garden conditions for each collection. All flat and plant reservations will be accepted in the order they are received.
Individual favorites come in three sizes:
• wildflowers and grasses in 3.5" pots ($5),
• early woodland plants in #1 pots ($10), and
• native shrubs in #2 pots ($25 each)
We suggest you make a note of everything you have ordered for a reference as you design your garden. Please use the ORDER FORM when placing your order. Thank you for your support!
...AND MORE PLANTS!
Additional native plants donated by WOTC members will be available for sale on Pick-up day. Keep this in mind as you divide your native plants this spring, and donate extras to help support your local Wild Ones Chapter!
If you would like to donate plants, please label each pot with both the common and Latin names, and bring to the pick-up location above on Sunday, June 3rd between 10 am and noon.
...AND NATIVE PLANT SIGNS!
Attractive and durable native plant signs will also be available for sale on pick-up day. Please check here for more details!
COLLECTIONS
A | BUMBLE BEE BANQUET | $60.00
8 species | 48 plants per flat
1-5’ | medium-dry |sun/part sun | bloom: April-October
Inspiration: Heather Holm's Bumble Bee Forage
Inspiration: Heather Holm's Bumble Bee Forage
Fragrant Hyssop - Agastache foeniculum
3-4’ | medium-dry | sun/part sun | bloom: purple | Jun-Sep
White Wild Indigo - Baptisia alba
2-4’ | medium-dry | sun/part sun | bloom: white | Jun-Jul
Pale Purple Coneflower - Echinacea pallida
2-4’ | medium-dry | sun/part sun | bloom: lavender | Jun-Jul
Wild Bergamot - Monarda fistulosa
2-3.5’ | medium-dry | sun/part sun | bloom: lavender | Jul-Sep
Smooth Penstemon - Penstemon digitalis
2-5’ | medium-dry | sun/part sun | bloom: white | May-Jul
Rigid Goldenrod - Solidago rigida
3-4’ | medium-dry | full sun | bloom: yellow | Aug-Oct
Hoary Vervain - Verbena stricta
1-2’ | dry | sun/part sun | bloom: purple | Jun-Sep
Heart-leaved Golden Alexander - Zizia aptera
1-3’ | medium-dry | sun/part sun | bloom: yellow | Apr-Jun
B | MONARCH HABITAT | $60.00
8 species | 48 plants per flat
2-7’ | medium-wet | full sun | bloom: June-October
Inspiration: Heather Holm's Monarch Butterfly & Wild Ones Wild For Monarchs
Inspiration: Heather Holm's Monarch Butterfly & Wild Ones Wild For Monarchs
Swamp Milkweed - Asclepias incarnata
3-4’ | medium-wet | full sun | bloom: pink | Jun-Sep
Purple Coneflower - Echinacea purpurea
2-4’ | medium-dry | full sun | bloom: pink | Jul-Aug
Spotted Joe-Pye Weed - Eutrochium maculatum
3-7’ | medium-wet | full sun | bloom: pink | Aug-Sep
Meadow Blazingstar - Liatris ligulistylis
2-4’ | medium-wet | full sun | bloom: purple | Aug-Sep
Prairie Blazingstar - Liatris pycnostachya
2-5’ | medium-wet | full sun | bloom: purple | Jul-Aug
New England Aster - Symphyotrichum novae-angliae
3-5’ | medium-wet | full sun | bloom: purple | Aug-Oct
Blue Vervain - Verbena hastata
2-5’ | medium-wet | full sun | bloom: blue | Jun-Sep
Ironweed - Vernonia fasciculata
3-6’ | medium-wet | full sun | bloom: purple | Jul-Sep
C | FOR THE BIRDS | $60.00
8 species | 48 plants per flat
1-4’ | medium-dry | sun/part shade | bloom: May-October
Whorled Milkweed - Asclepias verticillata
1-2’ | dry | full sun | bloom: white | Jul-Sep | attracts 12 larval insects
Northern Bedstraw - Galium boreale
1-3’ | medium | sun/part shade | bloom: white | Jun-Aug | attracts 18 larval insects
Rough Blazingstar - Liatris aspera
2-4’ | medium-dry | full sun | bloom: pink | Aug-Sep | attracts 4 larval insects
Wild Bergamot - Monarda fistulosa
2-3.5’ | medium-dry | sun/part sun | bloom: lavender | Jul-Sep | attracts 7 larval insects
Showy Penstemon - Penstemon grandiflorus
1-3’ | medium-dry | sun/part sun | bloom: lavender | May-Jun | attracts 8 larval insects
Little Bluestem - Schizachyrium scoparium
1-3’ | medium | sun/part shade | attracts 6 larval insects
Gray Goldenrod - Solidago nemoralis
1-3’ | dry | sun/part shade | bloom: yellow | Aug-Oct | attracts 112 larval insects
Silky Aster - Symphyotrichum sericeum
1-2’ | dry | sun/part shade | bloom: pink | Aug-Oct | attracts 105 larval insects
D | 3-SEASON BOULEVARD | $60.00
8 species | 48 plants per flat
4”-3’ | medium-dry | sun/part sun | bloom: April-October
Inspiration: Heather Holm's Support Native Bees: Sandy Soil
Field Pussytoes - Antennaria neglecta
4-16” | dry | sun/part sun | bloom: white | Apr-Jun
Butterfly-weed - Asclepias tuberosa
1-2’ | dry | full sun | bloom: orange | Jun-Sep
Purple Prairie Clover - Dalea purpurea
1-2’ | medium-dry | sun/part sun | bloom: purple | Jun-Aug
Wild Lupine - Lupinus perennis
1-2’ | dry | sun/part sun | bloom: blue | May-Jul
Dotted Horsemint - Monarda punctata
1-3’ | dry | full sun | bloom: lavender | Aug-Oct
Wild Petunia - Ruellia humilis
8-24” | dry | sun/part sun | bloom: lavender | Jun-Aug
Prairie Dropseed - Sporobolus heterolepis
1-3’ | medium-dry | full sun
Aromatic Aster - Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
1-2’ | dry | sun/part sun | bloom: purple | Sep-Oct
E | POLLINATOR RAIN GARDEN | $60.00/flat
8 species | 48 plants per flat
1-7’ | medium-wet | sun/part sun | May-October
Inspiration: Heather Holm's Planting for Pollinators: Rain Gardens
White Turtlehead - Chelone glabra
1-3’ | medium-wet | full sun | bloom: white | Jul-Sep
Boneset - Eupatorium perfoliatum
3-7’ | medium-wet | full sun | bloom: white | Aug-Sep
Blueflag Iris - Iris versicolor
1.5-3’ | medium-wet | sun/part sun | bloom: blue | May-Jul
Great Blue Lobelia - Lobelia siphilitica
1-3’ | medium-wet | sun/part sun | bloom: blue | Jul-Oct
Monkey Flower - Mimulus ringens
1-3’ | medium-wet | sun/part sun | bloom: violet | Aug-Sep
Obedient Plant - Physostegia virginiana
2-4’ | medium-wet | sun/part sun | bloom: pink | Aug-Sep
New England Aster - Symphyotrichum novae-angliae
3-5’ | medium-wet | full sun | bloom: purple | Aug-Oct
Culver's Root - Veronicastrum virginicum
3-5’ | medium-wet | sun/part sun | bloom: white | Jun-Aug
F | SHOWY WOODLAND EDGE | $60.00
8 species | 48 plants per flat
8”-6’ | medium | part sun/shade | bloom: April-October
Inspiration: Heather Holm's Support Native Bees: Shade
Thimbleweed - Anemone cylindrica
1-2’ | medium-dry | part sun/shade | bloom: white | Jun-Aug
Bottlebrush Sedge - Carex comosa
2-4’ | wet | sun/part shade
Prairie Shootingstar - Dodecatheon meadia
8-20” | medium-dry | part sun/shade | bloom: white-pink | Apr-Jun
Large-leaved Aster - Eurybia macrophylla
1-4’ | medium-wet | part sun/shade | bloom: white-pink | Jul-Sep
Spreading Jacob's-Ladder - Polemonium reptans
1-2’ | medium-wet | part sun/shade |bloom: blue-violet | May-Jun
Sweet Black-eyed Susuan - Rudbeckia subtomentosa
2-6’ | medium-wet | part sun/shade | bloom: yellow | Jul-Oct
Royal Catchfly - Silene regia
2-4’ | medium-dry | sun/part shade | bloom: red | Jul-Aug
Zig-zag Goldenrod - Solidago flexicaulis
1-4’ | medium-dry | part sun/shade | bloom: yellow | Aug-Sep
INDIVIDUAL FAVORITES
Nodding Wild Onion - Allium cernuum
1-2’ | medium-wet | sun/part shade | bloom: Jul-Aug
• add to a Bumble Bee Banquet, Monarch Habitat, a 3-Season Boulevard garden, or a Pollinator Raingarden!
Big Bluestem - Andropogon gerardii
2-7’ | medium-dry | sun/part shade
• add to garden For the Birds!
Wild Columbine - Aquilegia canadensis
1-3’ | medium | sun/shade | bloom: red/yellow | Apr-Jun
• add to a Bumble Bee Banquet, or Monarch Habitat or garden For the Birds!
Dotted Blazingstar - Liatris punctata
1-2’ | dry | full sun | pink | bloom: Jul-Sep
• add to Monarch Habitat or a 3-Season Boulevard garden!
Switchgrass - Panicum virgatum
3-6’ | sun/part shade
• add to garden For the Birds!
Prairie Blue-eyed Grass - Sisyrinchium campestre
4-16” | medium-dry | full sun | bloom: white-lavender | May-Jul
• add to Monarch Habitat or 3-Season Boulevard garden!
Showy Goldenrod - Solidago speciosa
1-5’ | medium-dry | full sun | bloom: yellow | Jul-Oct
• add to a Bumble Bee Banquet or garden For the Birds!
Elm-leaved Goldenrod - Solidago ulmifolia
2-4’ | medium-dry | sun/shade | bloom: yellow | Jul-Sep
• add to a Bumble Bee Banquet, a 3-Season Boulevard garden, or a Showy Woodland Edge!
EARLY WOODLAND | #1 pots | $10.00 each
Jack-in-the Pulpit - Arisaema triphyllum
1-3’ | medium-wet | part shade/shade | bloom: green-purple | Apr-Jun
Lady Fern - Athyrium filix-femina
16-40” | medium-wet | part shade/shade
Wood Fern - Dryopteris marginalis
12-40” | medium | part shade/shade
Wild Geranium - Geranium maculatum
1-2’ | medium-dry | part shade/shade | bloom: lavender | May-Jun
Sharp-lobed Hepatica - Hepatica acutiloba
2-6” | medium | part shade/shade | bloom: violet-white | Apr-May
Cinnamon Fern - Osmunda cinnamomea
24-40” | medium-wet | part shade/shade
Blue Woodland Phlox - Phlox divaricata
10-18” | medium | part shade/shade | bloom: blue-violet | Apr-Jun
• add to Monarch Habitat!
Large Flowered Bellwort - Uvularia grandiflora
1-2’ | medium-wet | part shade/shade | bloom: yellow | Apr-Jun
• add any of these to a Showy Woodland Edge garden, or create a spectacular shady boulevard garden!
SHRUBS | #2 pots | $25.00 each
Gray Dogwood - Cornus racemosa
3-8’ | medium | sun/part shade | bloom: white | Jun-Jul
• bumble bee forage; attracts 115 larval insects
• add to a Bumble Bee Banquet or a For the Birds garden!
4-16’ | dry-wet | sun/shade | bloom: Apr-May
• attracts 124 larval insects; edible nuts; high wildlife value
• add to a Bumble Bee Banquet, a For the Birds garden, a Pollinator Raingarden, or a Showy Woodland Edge!
Common Witch Hazel - Hamamelis virginiana
6-20’ | part shade/shade | bloom: yellow | Sep-Oct
• medicinal value; host plant to several species
• add to a Bumble Bee Banquet, a For the Birds garden, or a Showy Woodland Edge!
10-25’ bloom: medium-wet | bloom: sun/part shade | bloom: cream |May-Jun
• attracts 97 larval insects
• add to a Bumble Bee Banquet, a For the Birds garden, or a Pollinator Raingarden!
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All photos courtesy of Katy Chayka and Peter M. Dzuik at Minnesota Wildflowers: https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info
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WHY NATIVE MINNESOTA PLANTS?
Native plants were here long before lawnmowers, sprinklers and garden chemicals. Once established, plants native to this region are low maintenance and do not require care typically associated with gardens. Native perennials build a strong, deep root system before focusing on the production of leaves, stems and flowers, resulting in plants that are sturdy and drought tolerant. Native plants are beautiful, and provide food and shelter for wildlife including butterflies, dragonflies, pollinators and birds.MATCHING SPECIES TO LOCATIONS
It is important to match species requirements with the site features such as soil type, light conditions, moisture and drainage for the planting to be successful.SITE PREPARATION
You can start now! Proper site preparation gives your plants a great head start. Removal of competitive weeds and grasses must be accomplished before planting begins. One option: cover the area with 10-15 layers of newspapers to block out sunlight. Saturate the newspaper with water to prevent it from blowing away, then apply a clean shredded mulch or compost. Later, after the newspaper has softened but is damp, punch holes in it and insert your new plants.IMPORTANT NOTES ON PLANT SALE
Flats include 6-packs, and have been designed to cover about 30 to 45 square feet, depending on flat selected. Plants should be spaced 12-18 inches apart as most will spread out as they mature. A good rule of thumb: One plant per square foot. Species may be substituted if there is a crop failure.
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