Native Blooms Nursery

04/06/2024

Painted buckeye is a great native shrub to small tree that blooms within 2-3 years! We’ve got 20 that will bloom next year! Special deal $15 pre-potting sale.

And yes, we are back!

03/03/2023

This spring-like weather has many of us itching to garden! Our inventory is currently low, but just finished potting up a bunch of shrub seedlings! Keep an eye out for an updated inventory list soon.

Plants: Painted Buckeye, Spicebush, Umbrella Magnolia, Elderberry, and Venus Fly Traps (nursery propagated).

09/05/2022

This is another great reason to purchase native plants from local growers! Like you, we love native plants for their beauty AND wildlife value. Therefore, we do not treat our plants with chemicals that harm pollinators.

A new study coauthored by Xerces staff found harmful levels of pesticides in milkweed plants purchased from retail nurseries across the United States. Pesticides were found in all plants tested, raising alarms for monarch conservation efforts. Researchers gathered 235 milkweed leaf samples from retail nurseries across 15 states and tested them for pesticides. A total of 61 different pesticides were found, with an average of 12 per plant and as many as 28 per plant.

Here are the top 5 takeaways from this study:

1. Retail milkweed can be contaminated with harmful pesticides.
In this study, milkweeds were collected from stores in the United States and screened for pesticides. Multiple pesticides were detected in every milkweed plant sampled. On average, 12 pesticides were found per plant.

2. Be wary of unregulated claims and labels.
Plants with labels suggesting they were friendly to pollinators or other wildlife did not have fewer pesticides in or on the leaves of the milkweed plants. In some cases, plants with such labels were more likely to have pesticide residues.

3. Pesticides on retail milkweed can harm monarchs.
Endangered monarch butterflies depend on the milkweed plant — it’s the place where they lay eggs and the only food for their caterpillars. 38% of milkweed samples tested contained a pesticide at a known harmful concentration for monarchs, with the most common offender being fungicides.

4. It’s important to keep gardening for pollinators.
While this study is discouraging, monarchs and other pollinators still need milkweed in the short and long term. Fortunately, the limited residues found on some plants indicated that it is possible to grow milkweed in a pollinator-friendly manner.

5. You can do something to reduce pesticides and their effects.
Let your supplier know you want pollinator-safe plants. If you don’t know how your new plants were grown, take steps to protect pollinators from pesticide exposure: assume the soil is contaminated and discard before planting, cover plants the first year with netting, water heavily, and avoid pesticide use.

This study was coauthored by colleagues at University of Nevada, Reno and University of Tennessee, Knoxville

https://xerces.org/press/harmful-pesticides-found-in-milkweeds-from-retail-nurseries

08/17/2022

08/04/2022

Which would you rather have?

07/31/2022

Lessons learned this morning. We had to repot 30 pitcher plant seedlings after they started swimming. We are thankful for the rain, but wow!!! All plants they safe and new holes are drilled in their kiddy pool…. Once they are ready to return.

07/21/2022

Imagine how awesome this would be!!

Because of the interest in this post, we've added a few links to help answer some of your questions.

Greening Your Homeowners Association
https://www.nwf.org/Home/Magazines/National-Wildlife/2022/Feb-Mar/Gardening/HOAs

Guide to Passing Wildlife-Friendly Property Maintenance Ordinances
https://www.nwf.org/MayorsMonarchPledge/Resources/landscaping-guide

Saving Nature By Learning To Live With It: The Benefits Of Native Plants
https://ourstoriesandperspectives.com/2013/07/10/saving-nature-by-learning-to-live-with-it-the-benefits-of-native-plants/ #:~:text=Replacing%20turf%20lawns%20with%20native,bigger%20than%20Shenandoah%20National%20Park.

Native Plant Finder
https://www.nwf.org/nativeplantfinder/

Native Gardening
https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/Native_Plant_Materials/Native_Gardening/index.shtml

06/04/2022

Replaced an entire bed of knock-out roses with native shrubs from Pam's Perennial Plants. Oak-leaf hydrangeas, Sweet Shrub, and Virginia Sweetspire.

05/05/2022

04/23/2022

Happy Earth Day weekend!!! We spent today potting up a bunch of new seedlings. See the link in the comments for what’s available.

04/23/2022

A List of our current inventory and pricing.

In Stock As of:,4/23/2022,Available,Coming Soon,Out Of Stock Species Common Name,Scientific Name,Number Available,Size,Price Purple Coneflower,Echinacea purpurea,15,seedling,$3.00 Spotted Beebalm,Monarda punctata,24,1 qt,$5.00 Rattlesnake Master,Eryngium yuccifolium,26,seedling,$3.00 Mallow, Mal...