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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Next sale dates are June 20-21 (Saturday and Sunday) 1-6pm
Looking for plants for shady spots? I have Oval Leaf Sedge (Carex cephalophora), Stout Wood Reed (Cinna arundinacea) and Bottlebrush grass (Elymus hystrix) in 2½ inch pots. 4 for $20 while they last. I also have Heart-leaved Aster, Pennsylvania Sedge, and Phacelia bipinnatifida at my regular $6 price.
Eastern Purple Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea)
Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis )
Great Blue Lobelia (Lobelia siphilitica)
Blanketflower (Gaillardia pulchella)
Smooth Blue Aster (Symphyotrichum laeve) (2 left)
Common Evening Primrose (Oenothera biennis) - second year plants
Fernleaf Phacelia (Phacelia bipinnatifida) - a biennial that seeds freely
Downy Woodmint (Blephilia ciliata)
Yellow Crownbeard (Verbesina occidentalis)
Green and Gold (Chrysogonum virginianum var. australe)
Wild Quinine (Parthenium integrifolium)
Obedient Plant (Physostegia virginiana)
Yellow Avens (Geum aleppicum)
Heart-leaved Aster (Symphyotrichum cordifolium)
Late Figwort (Scrophularia marilandica)
Scarlet Rose Mallow (Hibiscus coccineus)
Purple Giant Hyssop (Agastache scrophulariifolia) - only 3 left!
Blue vervain (Verbena hastata)
Hoary vervain (Verbena stricta) - (more of a plains-USA plant but found in Tennessee).
Bearded Beggarticks (Bidens polylepis) - last chance
Wild Bergamot (Monarda fistulosa) - a few left
Appalachian Cliff Stonecrop (Sedum glaucophyllum) - a few left
Ditch Stonecrop (Penthorum sedoides)
Foxglove Beardtongue (Penstemon digitalis)
Don't forget the Grasses and Sedges:
Oval Leaf Sedge (Carex cephalophora) for dry woodlands!
Pennsylvania Sedge (Carex pensylvanica)
Stout Wood Reed (Cinna arundinacea)
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) - a few left
Coming later:
White yarrow (Achillea millefolium) - SOLD OUT - more coming!
Bunch Flower (Veratrum virginicum)
New York Aster (Symphyotrichum novi-belgii)
New England Aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae)
Tall Thimbleweed (Anemone virginiana) - SOLD but more coming!
Cynthia (Krigia biflora) - more coming
and grasses:
Prairie dropseed (Sporobolus heterolepis)
and many more
If you have a specific request we can arrange to sell by appointment.
Registered Nursery NC#9371
Fernleaf Phacelia (Phacelia bipinnatifida) at Sarah B Duke Gardens
Monarda punctata (Spotted Beebalm)
Bee on Downy Woodmint (Blephilia ciliata)
Scarlet Rose Mallow (Hibiscus coccineus)
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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