Ray’s Native Plants
Located in Chapel Hill, NC, I focus on growing plants native to North Carolina from seed.
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It IS time to plant your pollinator garden.
Hopefully we will get some rain this week!
Hopefully we will get some rain this week!
Here is a list of what we have ready for May 8th-10th:
2nd year Mature plants (some in limited numbers) - $10-$12:
Eastern Smooth Beardtongue (Penstemon laevigatus) (3 left)
New York Aster (Symphyotrichum novi-belgii) (2 left)
Smooth Blue Aster (Symphyotrichum laeve) (3 left)
Common Evening Primrose (Oenothera biennis)
Early/False Sunflower (Heliopsis helianthoides)
Virginia Wild Rye (Elymus virginicus)
Bottlebrush grass (Elymus hystrix) (3 left)
Stout Wood Reed (Cinna arundinacea)
Special plants:
Itea virginica (Virginia Sweetspire) - just one
Cercis canadensis (Eastern Redbud) - just one
Prunus serotina (Black cherry) - small plants
and some Asclepias syriaca, (Common milkweed)
in 4" pots:
Cynthia (Krigia biflora) - limited numbers
Wild Bergamot (Monarda fistulosa)
Spotted Bee Balm (Monarda punctata)
Scarlet bee balm (Monarda didyma)
Foxglove Beardtongue (Penstemon digitalis) - new addition
Eastern Purple Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) - new addition
Downy Woodmint (Blephilia ciliata) - new addition
Green and Gold (Chrysogonum virginianum var. australe)
White yarrow (Achillea millefolium)
Scarlet Rose Mallow (Hibiscus coccineus)
Crimson-eyed Rose-mallow (Hibiscus moscheutos) - new addition
Purple Giant Hyssop (Agastache scrophulariifolia)
Blue vervain (Verbena hastata)
Hoary vervain (Verbena stricta) - new addition
Tall Thimbleweed (Anemone virginiana)
Bearded Beggarticks (Bidens polylepis).
Stokes Aster (Stokesia laevis)
Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis )
Great Blue Lobelia (Lobelia siphilitica)
Blanketflower (Gaillardia pulchella)
Frost Aster (Symphyotrichum pilosum)
Eastern bluestar (Amsonia tabernaemontana) - limited numbers
Appalachian Cliff Stonecrop (Sedum glaucophyllum)
Oval Leaf Sedge (Carex cephalophoa) for dry woodlands!
Grasses:
Purple Lovegrass (Eragrostis spectabilis)
Stout Wood Reed (Cinna arundinacea)
Coming soon:
Ditch Stonecrop (Penthorum sedoides)
Bunch Flower (Veratrum virginicum)
Wild Quinine (Parthenium integrifolium)
and grasses:
Side-oats Gramma (Bouteloua curtipendula)
Prairie dropseed (Sporobolus heterolepis)
Poverty Oat Grass (Danthonia spicata)
and many more
If you have a specific request we can arrange to sell by appointment.
Registered Nursery NC#9371
Krigia biflora (Cynthia)
Monarda punctata (Spotted Beebalm)
Eastern Bumblebee on Vernonia noveboracensis (NY Ironweed)
Conoclinium coelestinum (Blue Mistflower)
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 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 conveniently on the East edge of Chapel Hill 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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