CLASSES + KITS
Available Spring 2024: Native Nook kits and optional upgrades; a thoughtfully curated garden could be yours in a snap.
Available Fall 2024: Bare root spring ephemerals!
Also, Planted Green hosts online and in person classes to assist the home gardener in transitioning their landscapes out of traditional practices. INFO is at bottom of page.
CLASSES
Learn about a sustainable gardening style that helps promote healthy soil, runoff water absorption and habitat for birds and pollinators. Native Garden Design and Care will cover the basics of design and bed preparation, plant palettes for different levels of sun and moisture, and techniques for keeping these otherwise known “wildflowers” looking tidy for front yard landscaping. Immerse yourself in an evening of native trees, shrubs and perennials that are fantastic for nature and your curb appeal.
Park Ridge Park District - Centennial Center
February 20, 2024
7-9pm
FREE, Registration Required
NATIVE NOOK: Sunshine Kit
ORDER BY 4-1-24
Perfect for the DIY spirit with a garden on the drier side in the sun. This pre-set kit is a 49 sq. ft. oasis for the endangered Monarch Butterfly and the Rusty Patch Bumblebee. Each plant has been selected for its environmental value as a host or nectar source to less common threatened butterflies as well. Invite Skippers, Fritillaries, Checkerspots and more!
Unlike other pollinator kits, this planting comes in a robust size container to maximize your garden’s potential upon planting. A gallon size plant has achieved a maturity to quench the desire for more immediate satisfaction. Each plant will show you its flower power the first growing season. All plants have been grown from local seed in St. Charles, IL.
This combination of native perennials will bloom April to October. They have been selected for their appeal in the home landscape for a “tidy” performance. The design plan included showcases their individual habits so each species can shine, including a semi-evergreen groundcover. If left standing over winter, birds will also be attracted to the seed heads of the upright stalks.
These native plants are naturally drought tolerant. However, they will need to be consistently watered the first year to establish.
SUNSHINE KIT INCLUDES:
26 individual 1 gallon size native perennials for a 7’x7’ bed
Layout Design Plan with 2 options
Plant Roster with instructions and plant care
Delivery within 15 mile radius of O’Hare Airport
Price: $450, includes tax
PLACE ORDER BY 4-1-24
LATE MAY 2024 DELIVERY
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Planting natives is relatively easy since most do not want luxuriant soil. The best planting medium is also your mulch! Upgrade your Native Nook Kit, Sunshine or Shady Side, with enough leaf mulch appropriate for planting and mulching your new garden bed. This will be delivered with your Kit order.
INCLUDES:
9 cubic feet bagged Leaf Mulch
PRICE: $95, includes tax
PLACE ORDER BY 4-1-23
LATE MAY 2023 DELIVERY
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Add some texture and green up the garden bed with the addition of perennial early risers!
Spring ephemerals are the native bulbs, showing up with nectar for the early emerging pollinators. These fleeting plants go dormant by June and will be hidden by the perennials in the Sunshine Kit for a tidy appearance post bloom.
Native sedges are cool season growers which makes them the first mounds of green that tuff out in spring. They enhance the legs of the taller flowering plants and hold steady into early winter.
INCLUDES:
10 Sunshine Kit spring ephemerals
10 Native Sedges, pint size
Upgraded Layout Plan and Plant Roster
Delivery with Native Nook Kit
Price: $125, includes tax
PLACE ORDER BY 4-1-23
LATE MAY 2023 DELIVERY
NATIVE NOOK:
Part Shade Kit
ORDER BY 4-1-24
Perfect for a garden with half day of sun, preferably in the morning from the east with moist, well draining soil. This pre-set kit is a 70 sq. ft. oasis for threatened and endangered indigenous moths, butterflies and bumblebees. Each plant has been selected for its environmental value as a host or nectar source plant. Bonus, hummingbirds are attracted as well!
Unlike other pollinator kits, this planting comes in a robust size container to maximize your garden’s potential upon planting. A gallon size plant has achieved a maturity to quench the desire for more immediate satisfaction. Each plant will show you its flower power the first growing season. All plants have been grown from local seed in St. Charles, IL.
This combination of native perennials will bloom from late April into October. They have been selected for their appeal in the home landscape for a “tidy” performance. The design plan included showcases their individual habits so each species can shine.
These native plants are naturally drought - tolerant. However, they will need to be consistently watered the first year to establish. This palate of plants works best in a spot that will receive water from a downspout or an irrigation system. Not appropriate for standing water sites. Soil will need to drain between waterings.
PARTIAL SHADE KIT INCLUDES:
23 individual 1 gallon size native perennials for a 10’x7’ bed
10 pint size native ground cover plants that spread by rhizome
Layout Design Plan with 2 options
Plant Roster with instructions and plant care
Delivery within 15 mile radius of O’Hare Airport
Price: $480, includes tax
PLACE ORDER BY 4-1-24
LATE MAY 2024 DELIVERY
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Description text goes herePlanting natives is relatively easy since most do not want luxuriant soil. The best planting medium is also your mulch! Upgrade your Native Nook Kit, Sunshine or Part Shade, with enough leaf mulch appropriate for planting and mulching your new garden bed. This will be delivered with your Kit order.
INCLUDES:
10.5 cubic feet bagged Leaf Mulch
PRICE: $95, includes tax
PLACE ORDER BY 4-1-23
LATE MAY 2023 DELIVERY
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Add some texture and green up the garden bed with the addition of perennial early risers!
Spring ephemerals are the native bulbs, showing up with nectar for the early emerging pollinators. Selected for shade is the Virginia Bluebell, a fleeting plant blooming in May and early June that goes dormant by mid-June. It’s placement will be hidden by the perennials in the Part Shade Kit for a tidy appearance post bloom.
Native sedges are cool season growers which makes them the first mounds of green that tuff out in spring. They enhance the legs of the taller flowering plants and hold steady into early winter.
INCLUDES:
10 Virginia Bluebells, pint size
10 Native Sedges, pint size
Upgraded Layout Plan and Plant Roster
Delivery with Native Nook Kit
Price: $125, includes tax
PLACE ORDER BY 4-1-23
LATE MAY 2023 DELIVERY
Clockwise: Dodecatheon meadia, Camassia scilloides, Mertensia virginica
BARE ROOT: Spring Ephemerals
ORDER BY 10-10-2024
Now offering trays of bare root spring ephemerals to add to your garden during the fall of 2024, just as you might a Tulip. Only these are native and perennial, so they will come back each year in larger populations. All grown from local genotypes.
Dodecatheon meadia, Shooting Stars
Dry to well-drained sites, full to partial sun
Mertensia virginica, Virginia Bluebells
Medium, well draining or moist locations, partial sun to shade
Camassia scilloides, Wild Hyacinth
Moist, open woodland, full to partial sun
Trays of 10 per single species: $70 tax included
Available for pickup at Planted Green in Norwood Park, Chicago 10-26-24 through 11-1-24. Must be paid in full no later than 10-10-2024.
Delivery and installation available for an additional hourly rate of $65 per hour*. Must be within 10 miles of Norwood Park, Chicago.
*Excludes current stewardship clients, regular rates apply.
Ravenswood, Chicago - DIY Kit’s first year