Native Plant Nurseries

the one in belton is actually a nursery selling plants like a nursery and has a planting on the property. fairly new. work in progress. their catalog is better than the website. took a while for me to figure out what exactly they were by the website. they have everything from seeds to trees.

You did a good job "digging" that one up!

actually it is within driving distance. i've been there several times.

Whatdidyabuy> Come on now, don't think I don't know there is no way you could have gotten out of a place like that without buying something.

Last year i bought 20 bags of branfield organic fertilizer. Most of stuff i had already ordered from other places like prairie moon etc., but i want to get some hawthorn trees from them if i ever get all these roses planted. I sowed about $------ worth of seeds this spring. 1 mexican hat and some hare's tails came up this year. we'll see if anything happens next year. black-eyed susans sunflowers and canadensis verbena is wild here.
i love the verbena it just spreads everywhere. also the wild petunias grow crazy.i just bought 10 bags of bradfield's yesterday at sutherlands lumber for $5.00 per bag (all they had) i think they are closing it out must not have sold well.
some of the plants they have are as expensive as a nursery. i just can't bring myself to pay $5 or so for a black-eyed susan that grows wild. Not when i can nearly buy a rose.lol!

What are you referring to as Wild Petunia?

Hairy wild petunia. ruellia humilis they are a lavendar-bluish-pink color. the color is a little different than most of the photos show, i've read that it's hard to capture the true color in photos.

I love that plant.

at first i thought of it more as a weed, but it doesn't hurt anything. i try not to mow when they are blooming madly. nice little flower.

Ruellia humilis. Of course, there are variations in color. This is one of mine, and the color here is true. A perennial, it emerges from the soil quite late in the spring. The year they bloomed from June 30 to Aug 25.

Here are the native plant nurseries for Alabama:

http://plantnative.org/nd_altoar.htm

Leftwood, Nice plant.

Maryland Native Plant Nurseries

These aren't typical nurseries.
Clear Ridge Nursery primarily is a wholesale/landscaper's nursery, but they will sell trees 'retail' if you don't mind letting them pick out the plants for you--you can not just walk through and choose for yourself.

Adkins Arboretum has a native plant sale twice a year and specifically indicates which are native to the coastal plain--members can pre-order and get a pre-sale tour of what's available, as well as other events and activities. (Not too late for the Spring sale in early May!)

Clear Ridge Nursery:
http://www.clearridgenursery.com/index.php

Adkins Arboretum:
http://www.adkinsarboretum.org/


The Maryland Native Plant Society has a list of other native-plant sources, but many of them are wholesale only, or I have no personal experience with them:
http://www.mdflora.org/

Teresa

Hey soivos, this thread is sort of obsolete. It was started before we had Go Gardening.

I am glad you posted Teresa, I hadn't found Go Gardening yet.

I would have never known what "Go Gardening" meant !? Now I know.

Thanks for the MD nurseries.

Depending on exactly where you are in south central PA, you might not be so far from Clear Ridge Nursery in Union Bridge, MD.
We are really, really pleased with how well all our trees from them have done and their prices are excellent!

Teresa

Teresa - thanks! Yes, Union Bridge is not too far west of Westminster and that's maybe 30 minutes away. I thought the nearest to us was Doyle's Farm in Lancaster - quite a bit further. Really appreciate the info!!