Spring 2025: Native Nooks and optional upgrades; a thoughtfully curated garden could be yours in a snap.
Fall 2025: Bare root ephemerals are ready to plant while the garden is moving into dormancy prior to winter. Order site specific indigenous fleeting beauty.
NATIVE NOOK: Sunshine Kit
ORDER BY 4-1-25
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 4-1-25
LATE MAY 2025 DELIVERY
NATIVE NOOK:
Part Shade Kit
ORDER BY 4-1-25
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 4-1-25
LATE MAY 2025 DELIVERY
BARE ROOT: Spring Ephemerals
ORDER BY 10-10-2025
Now offering trays of bare root spring ephemerals to add to your garden during the fall of 2025, 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
