Ray’s Native Plants
Located in Chapel Hill, NC, I focus on growing plants native to North Carolina and the SE USA from seed.
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I will be open again August 14th-16th in the afternoons (1-6pm).
See my updated inventory at: https://sites.google.com/view/rayshillito/native-plant-inventory
Its Aster Time!
Pollinator Garden Perennials:
New York Aster (Symphyotrichum novi-belgii)
New England Aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae)
Heart-leaved Aster (Symphyotrichum cordifolium)
Large Flowered Aster (Symphyotrichum grandiflorum)
Tall Thimbleweed (Anemone virginiana)
Eastern Purple Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea)
Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis )
Great Blue Lobelia (Lobelia siphilitica)
Foxglove Beardtongue (Penstemon digitalis)
Common Evening Primrose (Oenothera biennis) - second year plants
Fernleaf Phacelia (Phacelia bipinnatifida) - a biennial that seeds freely
Downy Woodmint (Blephilia ciliata)
White yarrow (Achillea millefolium)
Yellow Crownbeard (Verbesina occidentalis)
Wingstem (Verbesina alternifolia )
Sneezeweed (Helenium autumnale)
Green and Gold (Chrysogonum virginianum var. australe)
Wild Quinine (Parthenium integrifolium)
Obedient Plant (Physostegia virginiana)
Yellow Avens (Geum aleppicum)
Late Figwort (Scrophularia marilandica)
Scarlet Rose Mallow (Hibiscus coccineus) - 2-3ft tall already!
Blue vervain (Verbena hastata)
Hoary vervain (Verbena stricta) - (more of a plains-USA plant but found in Tennessee).
Wild Bergamot (Monarda fistulosa) - a few left
Ditch Stonecrop (Penthorum sedoides)
Grasses and Sedges:
Little Bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium) a widely used iconic grass
Splitbeard Bluestem (Andropogon ternarius)
Oval Leaf Sedge (Carex cephalophora) for dry woodlands!
Pennsylvania Sedge (Carex pensylvanica)
Stout Wood Reed (Cinna arundinacea) for shade
Bottlebrush grass (Elymus hystrix)
Virginia Wild Rye (Elymus virginicus)
Side-oats Gramma (Bouteloua curtipendula)
Poverty Oat Grass (Danthonia spicata) - low growing grass ground cover
Purple Lovegrass (Eragrostis spectabilis) - 2 left!
Coming later:
Cynthia (Krigia biflora)
Pussytoes (Antennaria plantaginifolia)
More Purple Lovegrass (Eragrostis spectabilis)
Various Goldenrods
Bradbury’s Monarda (Monarda bonardensis)
Aromatic Aster (Symphyotrichum oblongifolium)
If you have a specific request we can arrange to sell by appointment. We will also be a vendor at the NCNPS 75th anniversary on September 26th in Pittsboro.
Registered Nursery NC#9371
Virginia Wild Rye in the Pollinator garden
I have lots of grasses like Little Bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium) and Splitbeard Bluestem (Andropogon ternarius), Side Oats Gramma (Bouteloua curtipendula), along with several others.
Looking for plants for shady spots? I have Oval Leaf Sedge (Carex cephalophora), Stout Wood Reed (Cinna arundinacea) and Bottlebrush grass (Elymus hystrix). I also have Heart-leaved Aster, Pennsylvania Sedge, and Phacelia bipinnatifida.
Scarlet Rose Mallow (Hibiscus coccineus)
Sneezeweed (Helenium autumnale)
Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis )
Planting Plants Native to NC provides value to pollinators (like bees, butterflies, flies, dragonflies, native predatory and pollinating wasps, and even midges and beetles), and also to birds and other wildlife. I have seen a range of native bumblebees, carpenter bees, sweat bees, and solitary bees, as well as Monarch and other butterflies on my native plants. Those butterflies need native plants on which to lay eggs that develop into the next generation of butterflies. Leaving the stems in place during the winter provides places for bees and other insects to overwinter.
Having a wide range of native plants in your garden/yard means that pests are less likely to be around. I have had no issue with pests and don't have to use use insecticides at all. There is damage to plants by caterpillars, as that is the purpose of Native plants, but it has never yet reached epidemic proportions. Even if you grow vegetables, having locally adapted plants will encourage pest control and attract pollinators to maximize your yield.
We are located on the East edge of Chapel Hill convenient for Durham, Hillsborough, Pittsboro, Mebane, Burlington, Orange, Alamance and Chatham counties, and the rest of Research Triangle Park (RTP) including Raleigh, Apex and Cary.
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