Ray’s Native Plants
Located in Chapel Hill, NC, I focus on growing plants native to North Carolina from seed.
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The greenhouse and nursery is full.
It IS time to plant your pollinator garden.
Here is a list of what we have ready for April: and more to come:
2nd year Mature plants (some in limited numbers):
Foxglove Beardtongue (Penstemon digitalis)
Hairy Beardtongue (Penstemon laevigatus)
American Bellfower (Campanula americanum)
New York Aster (Symphyotrichum novi-belgii)
Large flowered Aster Symphyotrichum grandiflorum)
Smooth Blue Aster (Symphyotrichum laeve)
Frost Aster (Symphyotrichum pilosum)
Common Evening Primrose (Oenothera biennis)
Spiked Wild Indigo (Baptisia albescens)
in 4" pots:
Wild Bergamot (Monarda fistulosa)
Spotted Bee Balm (Monarda punctata)
Scarlet bee balm (Monarda didyma)
Green and Gold (Chrysogonum australe)
White yarrow (Achillea millefolium)
Scarlet Rose Mallow (Hibiscus coccineus)
Early/False Sunflower (Heliopsis helianthoides)
Purple Giant Hyssop (Agastache scrophulariifolia)
Blue vervain (Verbena hastata)
Tall Thimbleweed (Anemone virginiana)
Virginia Wild Rye (Elymus virginicus)
Bottlebrush grass (Elymus hystrix)
Stout Wood Reed (Cinna arundinacea)
Purple Lovegrass (Eragrostis spectabilis)
New jersey tea (Ceanothus americanus)
Coming soon:
Stokes Aster (Stokesia laevis)
Blanketflower (Gaillardia pulchella)
Great Blue Lobelia (Lobelia siphilitica)
Downy Woodmint (Blephilia ciliata)
Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis )
and grasses:
Side-oats Grama (Bouteloua curtipendula)
Prairie dropseed (Sporobolus heterolepis)
and many more
If you have a specific request we can arrange to sell by appointment.
Registered Nursery NC#9371
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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