Native Plants Sale are available all around our region. Many plant sales sponsors hold plant sales several times a year. Often the sales are held in the spring and fall.
Spring sales are often held in April and early May. Fall sales in September and early October.
Always check for dates and times.
Big Box stores and chain nurseries have begun to sell native plants. I guess they realized native plants will the most likely plants to be successful in local gardens. I have bought six-packs of Rudbeckia and Echinacea from Home Depot. Who would have thought it? The big boxes have a limited selection of native plants, but that is okay because I rarely buy from them. I like buying from small local nurseries and charity plant sales.
Delaware
- Delaware Center for the Inland Bays (James Farm Ecological Preserve in Ocean View) – early May
- Delaware Native Plant Society (Dover) – first Saturday of every November
- Delaware Nature Society (Coverdale Farm, Greenville) – annual native plant sale
- University of Delaware Botanic Gardens (Newark) – the last weekend in April
District of Columbia, Washington
- US National Arboretum Show and Sale – annual symposium and sale in April
Maryland
- Adkins Arboretum (Eastern Shore) – Spring and Fall plant sales
- Assateague Coastal Trust (Berlin) – native plant sale Saturday before Mothers Day
- Audubon Society of Central Maryland (Mount Airy)- native plant sale the last Saturday in April
- Environmental Concern (St. Michaels) – Fall plant sale
- Irvine Nature Center (Stevenson) – annual native plant seminar
- London Town and Gardens (Edgewater) – Spring and Fall plant sales
- Maryland Coastal Bays Program – where to buy native plants
- Mountain Maryland Native Plant Festival (New Germany State Park) – plant sale in May
New Jersey
- D&R Greenway Land Trust (Princeton) – plant sale in May
- New Jersey Audubon Society (Bernardsville) – native plant sale in June
- Pinelands Preservation Alliance (Southampton) – plant sale in April
- Toadshade Wildflower Farm (Frenchtown) – native plant nursery
- New Jersey Native Plant Society – has plant lists and events
Pennsylvania
- America’s Plants (Philadelphia) – check the website
- Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania – throughout the season, anytime the Audubon Nature Store is open
- Bartram’s Garden (Philadelphia) – annual native plant sale
- Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve (Washington Crossing) – sell seeds by mail and have native plant sales in the Spring and Fall
- Brandywine Conservancy (Chadds Ford) – annual sale of native plants on Mother’s Day weekend
- Lower Merion Conservancy (Gladwyne) – annual native plant sales in the Spring and the Fall
- Manada Conservancy (Hummelstown) – annual native plant sale
- Native Plants in the Landscape Conference (Millersville) – annual landscaping conference and plant sale
- Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education (Philadelphia) – twice-annual native plant sale
- Red Bud Native Plant Nursery (Glen Mills, PA) – native plants of the Mid-Atlantic region
- Octoraro -native plant nursery – wholesale only
Virginia
- Earth Sangha (Fairfax) – nursery run by volunteers
- Green Spring Gardens (Alexandria) – seasonal plants
- American Horticultural Society’s River Farm (Alexandria) – native plant sales
- Long Branch Nature Center (Arlington) – native plant sales in the Spring and the Fall
- Parkfairfax Native Plant Sale (Alexandria) – native plant sales in the Spring and the Fall
- Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy (Loudoun) – native plant sales in the Spring and the Fall
- Virginia Native Plant Society (PDF) (6 pp, 98K, About PDF) – List of nurseries for native plants
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The bulk of this list was copied from http://www.epa.gov/reg3esd1/garden/sales.htm with additions by Donna L. Long.