Red Trillium Gardens

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!

05/07/2026

Found this fat grey tree frog(?) hiding between some of my pots. Guess I’m not pricing those right now…

05/07/2026

It's almost here -- our spring sale! This Saturday only, May 9th, 2026, from 11am to 5pm, in Lunenburg, MA.

Right now it looks like it's going to rain, but this is a RAIN OR SHINE event. This event (might be) in-tents! 🤣 (You've probably heard me make this joke before, but I will not apologize).

Please PM for the address. The nursery is my home, so I want to make sure you're a real person before handing out my address.

Want to know what we'll have available? See the Buy Plants page on our website! You can reserve plants for pickup by dropping me an email at [email protected]

We'll also have copies of the Build a Meadow card game designed by Jocelyn of Checkerspot Farm. It's a game that teaches and celebrate the ecological web that native plants belong to! We're excited to offer these decks at $20 each.

05/03/2026

As someone who grew up in New York, and is familiar with Actaea species, this really knocks my socks off!

Cornell plant biology Ph.D. student Justin Scholten '22 knows the plants of the Finger Lakes forest floor cold. There's white baneberry (Actaea pachypoda), and red baneberry (Actaea rubra). Both grow about 30 to 70 centimeters tall, both are herbaceous, and both are extremely toxic if eaten.

But in 2023, hiking through Summer Hill State Forest less than 30 miles northeast of Ithaca, he spotted something off: a baneberry with pink berries.

He first assumed it was a hybrid of the red and white. Instead of moving on, he spent the next two years searching the region, finding more populations, spending a full growing season measuring every trait, and running genetic tests back in the lab.

It's not a hybrid. It's a new species — Actaea rhodostigma — and it's the first new flowering plant described in New York in nearly a decade.

Read more at the link in our comments.

05/02/2026

White, pink, purple, and more! Here are just a few of the species we expect to have at the popup market at Carlisle Route to Sustainability tomorrow (5/3/2026):

- White turtlehead
- Pale corydalis - in bloom!
- Sundial lupine
- Flowering raspberry
- and many more 🌸

Details: Sunday, May 3, 2026, 1-4pm, Carlisle Public School gym, Carlisle, MA. We’ll be joined by Checkerspot Farm, Mystic Meadows Gardens, and 1 Acre of Trees, as well as the Grow Native Massachusetts organizers!

Come shop native this Sunday!