Our native Amelanchier trees, also called shadbush, juneberry, or serviceberry, do double duty as a food source for birds. Their berries are much-loved by many avian species. Just as… Read more
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Our 2020 Native Plant Sale Join Us For Festivities and a Great Selection of Plants! Special Event When:
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Just ten years ago we were a group of neighbors committed to improving the ecological quality of our landscapes and getting together over pot luck dinners. We launched a website. We started a speaker series and began organizing native plant sales. In our hearts, we understood the importance of community-based action to address the degradation of local ecosystems. Now, we are entering our second decade and my, have we grown! The power of our mission binds us together and is more important than ever. Our future depends upon our collective actions as stewards of our shared ecosystem. There is so much yet to do. Please join us.
Mayflower or trailing arbutus (Epigaea repens) is much beloved for its fragrant flowers, which bloom early in spring. This species adorns the top banner of our website, and we chose it for many reasons. It grows throughout the Commonwealth and was selected a century ago to be our state flower. Beautiful, small but tough in its own way, it was also used medicinally by Native Americans. Its history, winding from relative abundance, to threatened status, and now legal protection, is emblematic of the challenges that so many of our native plants face.
We built this website for you— to make information about native plants, and the practice of ecologically sound landscaping, much more widely available. We consider ourselves an "open source" nonprofit. Through this website and so many of our other programs, we offer tons of free information— access to resources, lectures, videos, ideas, and inspiration. Our goal is to change the world, to help all of us as humans better understand ourselves as part of a complex organic system, to make ecology more mainstream, and to include you in our community.
This one volume reference on native plants, describing many that are available in the nursery trade, is one of the best resources for considering the native plants you might want to use in your landscape. In print for over a decade, it is a very valuable addition to your library. Learn about this book and many additional resources here.