Northeast Natives

Rose Milkweed, also called Swamp Milkweed, isn't just our favorite milkweed in the garden, it's adaptable to many soil conditions, gorgeous, and it...

A fantastic garden plant, Great Blue Lobelia is both beautiful and provides nectar for native pollinators in late summer. It really is funny to wat...

These plants offer beautiful lavender-hued blooms in the fall and are fantastic in the garden. They do have a tendency to flop over, so it would ma...

This woodland Joe Pye is an amazingly versatile plant. It can take full sun or shade, wet or dry soil. It can grow up to 7 feet tall, so if you hav...

Wild Bergamot is one of the best pollinator plants a garden can have and one of our favorites, easily one of the high points of the year in the gar...

Common Milkweed has big, broad leaves and pretty pink globe-shaped flower clusters. In June, it draws a diverse group of pollinators. It's also rig...

Our native Columbine here in the eastern United States has elegant arching branches and beautiful flowers that provide nectar for hummingbirds, as ...

New England Aster is a classic garden plant for many reasons. They're gorgeous fall blooming plants that come in a dazzling variety of pinks and pu...

This plant normally goes by the common name Sneezeweed, but we refuse to call it that because it absolutely does not cause sneezing and Helenium - ...

If you're looking for a plant that works well in tough/poor soil or a gravel garden, look no further. Pearly Everlasting is a perfect addition to a...

One of the most spectacular plant species in all of North America, Spotted Bee Balm uses pigment in specialized leaves - called bracts in botany - ...

Scarlet Bee Balm is an intensely bright red fireworks display of tubular flowers that attract hummingbirds, native bees, and butterflies. It thrive...

We're utterly enamored with ironweeds and New York Ironweed in particular is a lovely garden plant that can grow to around 6 feet tall. It prefers ...

Like the other Joe Pye species, Spotted Joe Pye prefers moist soil and is a butterfly magnet. It has an elegant and beautiful whorled leaf structur...

Golden Alexander blooms in late spring and is the native host plant for Black Swallowtail butterflies in their caterpillar stage. It sports a numbe...

Hollow Joe Pye is the giant among Joe Pye species, reaching up to 10 or more feet in moist soil conditions that it favors, with a dome of small pin...

A lovely woodland denizen that grows to three or four feet and elegantly drapes itself on other plants. Very well-behaved in the garden and a wonde...

Aptly named, Showy Goldenrod also brings the pollinators in droves for the fall. Along with the asters, goldenrods are keystone plant species and s...

Gray's Sedge, or Common Bur Sedge, is a wonderful garden addition, growing to two or three feet with incredible mace-like seed heads that last for ...

Stoneroot, also known as richweed or horsebalm, has to be one of the most interesting woodland plants from our eastern forests, with big, toothed l...

Like the other asters, New York Aster blooms in fall, but it tends to bloom even later than most and that late blooming supports many native bees i...

A white blooming variant of Rose Milkweed, it similarly serves as a host plant for Monarchs and attracts many pollinators to its sweet scented flow...