Native Plant Sale 2021

Native Plant Sale 2021 @ Native Plant Center WCC: The Native Plant Sale 2021, presented by the Native Plant Center at Westchester Community College, is now open and ready for your order! This year’s sale is online only with contact-less pickup in mid-May (May 14-16). The order deadline is March 31. Please note that: Due to the pandemic constraints and pickup schedule the minimum order at this year’s sale is $200. (Order early to be assured of getting the plants you want, as quantities are limited.)

As always, you’ll find a great mix of native plants in various sizes to suit all garden needs. Shop online  for fifty varieties of plants. On The Native Plant Center site you can break your search down by plant type. Including, Spring to Summer Perennials, Summer to Fall Perennials, Grasses, Ferns or Trees, Shrubs and Vines.

Featured Flower (Threatened & Endangered)

This Twin-Leaf (Jefferson diphylia) spring perennial is threatened in New York and endangered in New Jersey. It’s blue-green foliage emerges with dainty white, short-lived blossoms. Leaves expand into pairs of tiny elephant ears. Look beneath in mid-summer to find urn-shaped seed pods that explode when touched, a fun feature in a children’s garden. Clumps expand slowly.

Grasses

We like the Carex appalachia, a compact grass with fine blades perfect for edging, groundcover, or lawn substitute for low-traffic areas. It that can be grown in part to full shade in average to dry soil. It’s flowers are used by pollinators and its seeds by birds.

Ferns

And the Christmas Fern (Polystichum acrostichoides), a leathery fern with glossy, evergreen fronds that is robust and easy to establish and provides winter interest in the garden. It grows one to three feet tall in moist to dry soil in part to full shade.

Bushes, Vines & Trees

In the bushes, trees and vines category we’re going with the Lowbush blueberry (Vaccinum angustifolium). This native bee attractor will grown 8 to 16 feet tall and yields bell-shaped flowers in the spring, sweet blueberries in the summer and brilliant red foliage in the fall. (How about that combo?) Plant them in moist to dry to soil, acidic soil in sunny or part shady areas.

Spring to Summer Perennials

We are phlox lovers, so we can’t resist this Amazing Grace Creeping phlox (Phlox subulate) that grows 4 to 6 inches tall. Phlox is perfect for rock gardens, over a stone wall or as gorund cover. It creates a colorful carpet in May, attracts butterflies and bees and should be planted in average soil in sunny to part shady areas.

Summer to Fall Perennials

And how about these Oxeye Sunflowers (Heliopsis helianthoides)? It’s yellow blooms last throughout the summer. It attracts hummingbirds. And it spreads when happy. It likes average soil and sun and grows 3 to 6 feet tall.

Native Plant Center members receive a 5% discount on orders. To become a member or to renew, click here. You will then be sent the discount code to apply at checkout.

About the Native Plant Center

The Native Plant Center was established in 1998 under the auspices of the Westchester Community College Foundation as the first national affiliate of the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin, Texas.

The Native Plant Center’s demonstration gardens showcase native plants and are open to the public free of charge daily until dusk. They also hold classes, seminars and other special events throughout the year to educate and inspire people to incorporate native plants in their own landscapes.

The Native Plant Center is located on the Westchester Community College Campus at 75 Grasslands in Valhalla.

Native Plant Center members receive a 5% discount on orders. To become a member or to renew, click here. You will then be sent the discount code to apply at checkout.