Ray’s Native Plants
Located in Chapel Hill, NC, I focus on growing plants native to North Carolina from seed.
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Thank you to everyone who came to my weekend sale!.
Here is a list of what we will have for the next weekend sale in June.
2nd year Mature plants (some in limited numbers) - $10:
Smooth Blue Aster (Symphyotrichum laeve) (3 left)
Common Evening Primrose (Oenothera biennis)
Virginia Wild Rye (Elymus virginicus)
Stout Wood Reed (Cinna arundinacea)
Special plants:
Prunus serotina (Black cherry) - small plants
Rudbeckia hirta (Black eyed susan)
in 4" pots ($6):
Cynthia (Krigia biflora) - only 2 left!
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) - SOLD but more coming!
Downy Woodmint (Blephilia ciliata)
Green and Gold (Chrysogonum virginianum var. australe) - SOLD but more coming!
White yarrow (Achillea millefolium)
Scarlet Rose Mallow (Hibiscus coccineus)
Crimson-eyed Rose-mallow (Hibiscus moscheutos) - only 2 left!
Early/False Sunflower (Heliopsis helianthoides) - only 2 left!
Purple Giant Hyssop (Agastache scrophulariifolia) - only 3 left!
Blue vervain (Verbena hastata)
Hoary vervain (Verbena stricta)
Tall Thimbleweed (Anemone virginiana) - SOLD but more coming!
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) - SOLD
Appalachian Cliff Stonecrop (Sedum glaucophyllum)
Oval Leaf Sedge (Carex cephalophora) for dry woodlands!
Wild Quinine (Parthenium integrifolium)
Ditch Stonecrop (Penthorum sedoides)
Obedient Plant (Physostegia virginiana)
Yellow Avens (Geum aleppicum)
Heart-leaved Aster (Symphyotrichum cordifolium)
Grasses:
Purple Lovegrass (Eragrostis spectabilis)
Stout Wood Reed (Cinna arundinacea)
Bottlebrush grass (Elymus hystrix)
Coming soon:
Bunch Flower (Veratrum virginicum)
Pennsylvania Sedge (Carex pensylvanica)
New York Aster (Symphyotrichum novi-belgii)
and grasses:
Side-oats Gramma (Bouteloua curtipendula)
Prairie dropseed (Sporobolus heterolepis)
Poverty Oat Grass (Danthonia spicata)
Virginia Wild Rye (Elymus virginicus)
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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