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Edgewood Nursery

A small plant nursery based in North Falmouth, Maine. We specialize in unusual edibles, medicinal herbs, perennial vegetables and permaculture plants.

Open by appointment only. All our plants are grown in organic, no-till system that minimizes use of non-renewable resources and maximizes soil health.

06/14/2026

This Milkweed comes with a free Monarch caterpillar!

06/09/2026

Nursery open today 9-5 for in person sales. Cash preferred, but Venmo, PayPal and checks are fine too. We’re still potting up a few more plants, but we’re almost at full potted inventory. These plants are newly available as of today:
Slide 1-2 : Sea Kale (Crambe maritima) $10 E A lovely perennial vegetable with edible leaves, buds, flowers, seed pods and roots.
Slide 3: New plants this week
Slide 4: Anise Hyssop (Agastache foeniculum) $6-12 E
Slide 5: Self-Heal (Prunella vulgaris ssp. Lanceolata) $7 E, ME, LE
Slide 6: Iris, Blue Flag Iris versacolor $7 ME, LE
Slide 7: Black Raspberry (Rubus occidentalis) $10 E, ME, LE?
Slide 8: Nodding Onion (Allium cernuum) $10 E, NE
Slide 9: Korean Angelica (Angelica gigas) $6
Slide 10: Pearly Everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacea) $7 ME, LE
Slide 11: Green and Gold (Chrysogonum virginianum) $7 NE?
Slide 12: Spreading Dogbane (Apocynum androsaemifolium) $7 ME, LE
Slide 13: Jurema (Mimosa hostilis syn tenuiflora) $40 (NOT HARDY)

06/07/2026

Another recent propagation success is this Apple nurse graft. A nurse graft is a technique used to get a difficult to root plant to grow on their own roots, by first grafting to the rootstock and then slowly transitioning onto own roots. I’m pretty sure I learned about this technique from . I want a own root tree here for 2 reasons, I’m excited about this variety, ‘I-95’, so I’m curious to see what they do on their own roots, also if they perform well a no-spray (or even low spray) fruit for me, I’d like to be able to offer them as a own root clone using a stooling method, and I want to be sure to avoid rootstock suckers. To accomplish the nurse graft, I took a ‘I-95’ tree with a healed graft, girdled it right above the graft with a double wrap of wire and planted it so the graft union was buried by 3-4”... then I waited a few years. Last year a sucker came up, you can clearly see different leaf and bark characteristic on the scion and sucker so I was pretty sure it was a rootstock sucker and it seemed like a good cue to dig up the whole tree to check on the nurse graft. Looks to have been successful! I cut off the rootstock, pruned the top back a touch and replanted. A different ‘I-95’ tree bloomed this year, so I hope to get a fruit or two on that one, which will hopefully reinforce my excitement about this variety.

06/03/2026

Fun propagation experiment success. A couple weeks ago I realized I forgot to sow Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca ) and Red Columbine (Aquilegia canadensis). Both these species require stratification and I should have sown them between November and February. Rather than wait until next year, I put some seeds in the fridge, but also treated some seeds with Gibberellic acid (GA3). GA3 is a naturally occurring plant hormone, which can also be synthesized by bacterial fermentation. For this experiment I used a 400ppm GA3 solution in water and soaked the seeds for about 48hrs. Wonder of wonders, just 5 days later the Milkweed was germinating en-masse and now a little under 2 weeks later the Columbine is starting to pop up. I’m not going to use this trick as a replacement for stratification, but in this case it was very helpful and I will probably try GA3 on some difficult to germinate seeds (like Viburnums) just to see what happens.

06/02/2026

Nursery open today 9-5 for in person sales. Cash preferred, but Venmo, PayPal and checks are fine too. Newly updated availability list linked in comments. We’re still potting up a few more plants, but we’re almost at full potted inventory.
Slide 1-4 : Paw Paw blooms and potted stock. Paw Paw’s interesting dark purple flowers are pollinated by flies and beetles. I’ve had the occasional customer say they aren’t interested in paw paw because the flowers smell like rotting meat… which is funny because the flowers have no scent. Paw Paw is North America’s largest native fruit and has native populations as nearby as upstate new york. They are easy to grow and very tasty, with a tropical mango + banana flavor. Potted seedlings $18-24.
Slide 5: One offs that might not be on the availability list: Wild Columbine (LE), Seaside Goldenrod (LE)
Slide 6: newly available potted stock: Lovage, Atlantic (Ligusticum scoticum) $8 (LE)
Slide 7: Lungwort Pulmonaria spp. $7
Slide 8: Joe-Pye W**d, Spotted Eutrochium maculatum $6 (LE)
Slide 9: Skullcap, Hooded (Scutellaria galericulata) $6 (LE)
Slide 10: Rudbeckia, “Herbstonne” Rudbeckia cv. “Herbstonne” $12 and Sochan / Cut-Leaf Coneflower Rudbeckia laciniata $7 ME, E
Slide 11: Lingonberry ‘Ruby’ and ‘Red Pearl’ (Vaccinium vitis-idaea) $6-$8 ME E
Slides 12-14: Availability list

05/30/2026

In this episode I’m talking to Ken Asmus of Oikos Tree Crops about perennial beans. Ken has been growing and breeding perennial food plants since the 1970s and has developed many interesting populations of several species. We talk Thicket Beans (Phaseolus polystachios), how they can hybridize with Lima Beans (Phaseolus lunatus) as well as Peashubs (Caragana spp) and Hog Peanut (Amphicarpaea bracteata). You can find Ken’s writing at biologicalenrich.blog

Cover image photo and additional photos by Ken Asmus

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05/27/2026

Edgewood Nursery garden tours are the last Saturday of the month at 10:30am, May through September. That means the first one of the year is this Saturday! Come check out some unusual native plants, some unusual edible perennials and a few that are both.
Photos: Canadian lousewort (Pedicularis candensis) propagating this hemi-parasitic native perennial has been a long term project for me. It took several attempts, but eventually I settled on sowing fresh seeds in June into a 3 gallon pot, with some Carex pensylvanica transplants in the pot for the Pedicularis to parasitize. I don’t know if I will ever sell plants, or even seeds of this species… but I’ll keep trying to increase my plantings and hopefully one day I’ll have a big patch.

05/26/2026

Nursery open today 9-5 for in person sales. Cash preferred, but Venmo,PayPal and checks are fine too. The season for bare root plants is basically done, but we now have potted versions of almost all the plants that were bare root only. We’re about 4/5 of the way to having full potted stock inventory available, see the second slide for what’s new this week.
Slide 1: Nursery looking bigger and tidier than ever before!
Slide 2: New stock list
Slides 3+: newly available potted stock

05/25/2026

Golden Ragwort (Packera aurea) is a native groundcover with very pretty flowers. They are adaptable, but prefer more moisture in full sun. They spread pretty quickly, which is nice if you want cover an area, but can become an issue if planted too close to similar sized plants that that can’t compete. I’m growing this one in a shadier spot to slow their growth a bit. Available in pint pots for $6 each.

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4 Cruston Way
Falmouth, ME
04105

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http://www.edgewood-nursery.com/

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