Red Trillium Gardens

06/10/2026

We will be set up at this event this Saturday, 6/13/26, with a selection of our best-looking native plants! This is a ticketed event, so if you'd like to shop, please get your ticket from North County Land Trust!

Those late spring blooms are on their way. Don't miss your chance to see one gardener's luscious pollinator garden at its peak 🌼

Register at: northcountylandtrust.org/events/gardentour26/

06/10/2026

Join me for a SUPER SIZED event!

Multiple growers all working to bring the maximum number of species to you!

I will have :

$12/quart (unless otherwise noted)

Adiantum pedatum, Maidenhair Fern ($15/ea)
Asarum canadense, Canada wild ginger
Asclepias incarnata, Rose (swamp) milkweed
Asclepias purpurascens, Purple Milkweed
Asclepias tuberosa, Butterfly Milkweed
Carex plantaginea, Seersucker Sedge
Eragrostis spectabilis, Purple Love Grass
Eupatorium perfoliatum, Boneset
Heuchera americana, Alum Root
Hypericum ascyron, Great St. John's wort
Lobelia cardinalis, Cardinal Flower
Lobelia siphilitica, Blue lobelia
Penstemon digitalis, Foxglove beardtongue
Penstemon hirsutus, Hairy beardtongue
Polystichum acrostichoides, Christmas fern ($15/ea)
Pycanthemum tenuifolium, Narrow Leaf Mountain Mint
Sedum ternatum, Woodland Stonecrop
Sisyrinchium angustifolium, Blue-eyed grass
Solidago caesia, Bluestem goldenrod
Symphyotrichum laeve, Smooth Aster
Veronicastrum virginicum, Culver's Root
Zizia aptera, Heart-Leaved Zizia
and gorgeous garden signs too!

The other growers will have equally robust lists! Dont miss out!

06/05/2026

Have plans for this weekend? How about *plants*?

Red Trillium Gardens will be at the opening Leominster Farmers' Market tomorrow, Sat June 6, 2026, in Monument Square in Leominster, MA, from 10am - 1pm. Come and shop our native plants, as well as goodies from ~20 other vendors!

Available for the first time at our nursery: Tall meadow-rue, or Thalictrum pubescens (pictured). Look at its lacy foliage and its delicate breaking flower buds! This perennial wildflower has striking "pom poms" of white flowers and loves sunny, moist sites. It's growing fast, so come get it before I have to bump it up to a bigger pot (and a higher price)!

05/31/2026

Gosh I love Adam Haritan's work. He always has something insightful to say, and his recent tick series has been brilliant. I'll drop a link to the most recent one in the comments -- but this one was most relevant to what I wanted to say today.

I was super entertained to learn from this video that Per Kalm complained about ticks when he was botanizing in North America 🤣 For those who don't know, Kalm was a Swedish contemporary of Linnaeus who visited the nascent U.S. in the 18th century, and was responsible for describing many of our native species. He lent his name to several native species, include my beloved Kalmia latifolia (mountain laurel) and Hypericum kalmianum (Kalm's St. John's wort). Both of which I am growing, fwiw!

(Though the Kalmia won't be available for a loooong time. And that's assuming I don't kill it first, lol).

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05/29/2026

Live in MA and want to share your nature drawing skills? Here’s a neat opportunity!

Unfortunately because I am snarky, my answers would probably not be keeping in the spirit of the art show!

05/24/2026

What's in bloom on my property, May 23, 2026. Some deliberately planted, some growing wild in my swamp.

05/20/2026

Sitting here with my plants, waiting for three (THREE!) cars to get towed so I can set up at the popup market at the Davis Square Farmers Market. Come join us from 12-6pm today, 5/20/2026, at Day St and Herbert St in Somerville, MA.

05/18/2026

It's a busy week here at Red Trillium Gardens -- we'll be at two different markets!

First up is another Grow Native Massachusetts pop-up market, this time at the Davis Square Farmers Market in Somerville, MA. The market runs from noon to 6pm, 5/20/2026, at Day Street and Herbert Street, across from American Flatbread. We'll be joined by Checkerspot Farm , Butterfly Effect Farm , Hilltop Natives , and Tree Talk Natives . Between the five of us, you'll be sure to find something you like!

Thursday (5/21/2026) will be the last Leominster Indoor Farmers Market of the year, at Leominster City Hall in Leominster MA, from 4pm to 6pm. I've never done this market before, but I trust NCM Markets to run a good one!

We'll have a selection of our best and brightest native plants, including the last(?) of our annuals for the season! Get them before they're gone!

As always, if you would like to reserve plants for pickup at any of these markets, see our Buy Plants page (link in profile) and email me at [email protected] with your order.

Photo credits:
- (Top) Davis Square in August 2024, looking north up Holland Street, by 4300streetcar - Own work, CC BY 4.0
- (Bottom) Leominster City Hall by Marcbela (Marc N. Belanger) - Own work, Public Domain

05/18/2026

We will be at the last indoor market of the season in Leominster! Some of the things we'll expect to have:

- Anything that's in bloom
- Native annuals: partridge pea and pale corydalis
- Our collection of singleton plants. Take home a lonely plant today!
- Virgin's bower clematis
- Cutleaf coneflower
- ... and many more possibilities!

If you'd like to reserve a plant for pickup at the market, please see our Buy Plants page (you can find the link on our profile).

This week!!!

It is almost time for the last indoor Leominster Farmers Market until we move outside for the summer and fall!

Please join us This Thursday May 21st from 4-6pm!
Inside the beautiful Leominster City Hall!

Come support our local vendors! There will be something for everyone! 🛍️

Don’t forget Growing Places will be there accepting
SNAP/HIP benefits as well as cash and cards. 🥬

Presented by: NCM Farmers Markets

Leominster Community Development

05/13/2026

Thank you to everyone who came out in the rain and cold for our plant sale on Saturday! You are truly dedicated to native plants, and I thank you for making the sale a success despite the weather 🙏

Now... I have another small favor to ask. If you bought plants from us in past years, I'd love to see how they're doing! They don't have to be in flower or look magazine-worthy -- I just love knowing what happens to my plants after they leave my hands ❤️

You can email photos to [email protected]. Also please let me know if you're okay with my sharing the photo, as well as under what name I should credit you.

(Speaking of... this is a photo of a colony of starflower [Lysimachia borealis] that has volunteered under my maple tree).

Looking forward to seeing your pics!