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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Here is a list of plants for the next sale May 31st and June 1st.
Wild Bergamot (Monarda fistulosa)
Spotted Bee Balm (Monarda punctata)
Scarlet bee balm (Monarda didyma) - a few left
Foxglove Beardtongue (Penstemon digitalis)
Eastern Purple Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea)
Stokes Aster (Stokesia laevis)
Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis )
Great Blue Lobelia (Lobelia siphilitica)
Blanketflower (Gaillardia pulchella)
Smooth Blue Aster (Symphyotrichum laeve) (3 left)
Common Evening Primrose (Oenothera biennis)
Downy Woodmint (Blephilia ciliata)
Yellow Crownbeard (Verbesina occidentalis)
Green and Gold (Chrysogonum virginianum var. australe) - more coming!
White yarrow (Achillea millefolium)
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)
Early/False Sunflower (Heliopsis helianthoides) - only 2 left!
Purple Giant Hyssop (Agastache scrophulariifolia) - only 3 left!
Blue vervain (Verbena hastata)
Hoary vervain (Verbena stricta)
Bearded Beggarticks (Bidens polylepis)
Frost Aster (Symphyotrichum pilosum)
Appalachian Cliff Stonecrop (Sedum glaucophyllum)
Oval Leaf Sedge (Carex cephalophora) for dry woodlands!
Cynthia (Krigia biflora) - only 2 left!
Ditch Stonecrop (Penthorum sedoides)
Grasses:
Purple Lovegrass (Eragrostis spectabilis)
Stout Wood Reed (Cinna arundinacea)
Bottlebrush grass (Elymus hystrix)
Virginia Wild Rye (Elymus virginicus)
Side-oats Gramma (Bouteloua curtipendula)
Poverty Oat Grass (Danthonia spicata)
Coming soon:
Bunch Flower (Veratrum virginicum)
Pennsylvania Sedge (Carex pensylvanica)
New York Aster (Symphyotrichum novi-belgii)
Tall Thimbleweed (Anemone virginiana) - SOLD but 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
Stokes Aster (Stokesia laevis)
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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