2024 Fall Plant And Bulb Sale
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Crocus “Flower Record”
This is a pack of 5 bulbs for $6.00
Description: These beautifully deep purple flowers make a great additions to beds, rock gardens, and walkways. Avoid mowing until six weeks after they have bloomed to have large flowers the next year. Warning: toxic to dogs, cats, and horses.
Habitat
Light: Sun to Part Shade
Soil Type and Moisture: Well-drained, sandy soil.Characteristics
Bloom Color: Violet flowers and orange anthers
Bloom Period: Very Early Spring
Mature Height: 4 inchesWildlife: Beneficial to Pollinators.
Other Features: Deer ResistantSold As: a pack of 5
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Crocus “Large Flower Mixture”
This is a pack of 5 bulbs for $6.00
Description: A mix of colors, including purples, yellows, whites, and bicolor. Warning: toxic to dogs, cats, and horses.
Habitat
Light: Sun to Part Shade
Soil Type and Moisture: Well-drained, sandy soil.Characteristics
Bloom Color: Mix of White, Yellow, Purple, Purple Bi-Color
Bloom Period: Very Early Spring
Mature Height: 5 inchesWildlife: Attracts Bees.
Other Features: Deer ResistantSold As: a pack of 5
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Daffodil “Botanical Mixture”
This is a pack of 5 bulbs for $7.00
Description: This mixture comes in an extensive array of sizes and shapes. Great to use for containers, rock gardens, garden borders. Warning: toxic to dogs, cats, and horses.
Habitat
Light: Sun, Part Shade
Soil Type and Moisture: Well-drained soils enriched with organic matter. Loose, crumbly soils is good for growth and drainage.Characteristics
Bloom Color: Mix of Pale Yellow, Yellow, and White and Yellow.
Bloom Period: Mid Season
Mature Height: 8 to 14 inchesWildlife: Attracts Pollinators.
Other Features: Deer Resistant, Rodent Resistant, Rabbit Resistant.Sold As: a pack of 5
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Daffodil “Double Mixture”
This is a pack of 5 bulbs for $7.00
Description: Mix of fragrant, double flowered varieties. These daffodils do not have a cup, instead, they have a filled center. Warning: toxic to dogs, cats, and horses.
Habitat
Light: Sun, Part Shade
Soil Type and Moisture: Well-drained soils enriched with organic matter. Loose, crumbly soils is good for growth and drainage.Characteristics
Bloom Color: Mix of White, Pale Yellow, Orange-Pink
Bloom Period: Mid Season
Mature Height: 16 inchesWildlife: Attracts Pollinators.
Other Features: Deer Resistant, Rodent Resistant, Rabbit Resistant.Sold As: a pack of 5
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Daffodil “Double Obdam”
This is a pack of 5 bulbs for $7.00
Description: Beautifully filled, white flowers make this daffodil an excellent choice for any garden. Flowers look like camellia or peony. Warning: toxic to dogs, cats, and horses.
Habitat
Light: Sun, Part Shade
Soil Type and Moisture: Slightly acidic to neutral soils.Characteristics
Bloom Color: White
Bloom Period: Mid Season
Mature Height: 18 inchesWildlife: Attracts Pollinators.
Other Features: Deer Resistant, Rabbit Resistant, Drought Tolerant.Sold As: a pack of 5
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Daffodil “Sempre Avanti”
This is a pack of 5 bulbs for $7.00
Description: This large cupped flower is great to use for naturalizing, borders, and container gardening. Warning: toxic to dogs, cats, and horses.
Habitat
Light: Sun, Part Shade
Soil Type and Moisture: Tolerates a variety of soils including acidic, clay, loamy, and sandy soils. Well-drained soils.Characteristics
Bloom Color: Orange, White
Bloom Period: Mid Season
Mature Height: 18 inchesWildlife: Attracts Pollinators.
Other Features: Deer Resistant, Rabbit Resistant, Drought Tolerant.Sold As: a pack of 5
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Foxglove Beardtongue Seed
Penstemon digitalis
Description: A well known tough-as-nails plant with a grow-anywhere attitude. Pretty trumpet flowers that range from white to pink. Great for native bees and a host plant for the Chalcedony Midget Moth and great for native bees. On Dr. Robert Gegear’s plant list.
Habitat
Habitat and Wetland Indicator Status: Disturbed habitats, meadows and fields (FAC)
Light: Sun, Part Shade
Soil Type and Moisture: Fertile, well-drained loans, clay loams, and sand. Acid preferably but tolerates lime. Dry, Moist, Wet.Characteristics
Bloom Color: White
Bloom Period: June, July
Mature Height: 4 feetGermination: Cold, Moist Germination for 30 days
Wildlife: Attracts hummingbirds and bumblebees. Special value to native bees. Nectar source for Golden Northern Bumblebee, Yellow-banded Bumblebee, and the Half-black Bumblebee.
Other Features: Deer Resistant, Drought Tolerant, Shade TolerantSold As: approximately 2,500 seeds per packet
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Hairy Beardtongue (Now Foxglove Beardtongue)
UPDATE: Nursery had crop failure of Hairy Beardtongue, this is being substituted with Foxglove Beardtongue, Penstemon digitalis.
Penstemon hirsutus
Description: Beloved by both gardeners and wildlife, this late spring bloomer makes a great addition to woodland gardens or low meadows. Watching bees climb inside the flower is quite a delight! It is endangered in Massachusetts, so please keep seeds from your plants in your personal garden. On Dr. Robert Gegear’s plant list.
Habitat
Habitat and Wetland Indicator Status: Disturbed habitats, cliffs, balds or ledges, meadows, fields, ridges or ledges, woodlands (NI)
Light: Sun, Part Shade, Shade
Soil Type and Moisture: Thin, well-drained soils. Dry.Characteristics
Bloom Color: Purple, White
Bloom Period: May, June
Mature Height: 2 feetWildlife: Attracts Hummingbirds. Special value to native bees. Nectar source for Golden Northern Bumblebee, Yellow-banded bumblebee, and Half-black bumblebee.
Other Features: Deer Resistant, Shade TolerantSold As: each
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Hyacinth “Blue Star”
This is a pack of 5 bulbs for $8.00
Description: An extremely fragrant hyacinth that blooms for two to three weeks in mid-spring. Great for underplanting shrubs, in containers, or along beds and borders. Warning: toxic to dogs, cats, and horses.
Habitat
Light: Sun, Part Shade
Soil Type and Moisture: Moderately fertile, well-drained soils. Moist soil but not waterlogged.Characteristics
Bloom Color: Soft Blue with paler edges
Bloom Period: Mid Season
Mature Height: 1 footOther Features: Deer Resistant, Rabbit Resistant.
Sold As: a pack of 5
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Hyacinth “The Pinks Mix”
This is a pack of 5 bulbs for $8.00
Description: A great show of pale pink to purple flowers to use as borders, rows, or inside containers. Warning: toxic to dogs, cats, and horses.
Habitat
Light: Sun, Part Shade
Soil Type and Moisture: Moderately fertile, well-drained soils. Moist soil but not waterlogged.Characteristics
Bloom Color: Mix of Pale Pink to Purple
Bloom Period: Mid Season
Mature Height: 10 inchesWildlife: Attracts Pollinators.
Other Features: Deer Resistant, Rodent Resistant, Rabbit Resistant.Sold As: pack of 5
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New England Aster
Symphyotrichum novae-angliae
Description: Another late season bloomer with stunning bright purple flowers. Easily to identify pre-bloom by leaves that nearly encircle a hairy stem. Another attractor of numerous pollinators and a host plant for the Crescent butterfly. Serves as a nectar source for monarchs. Best planted in meadow gardens or as backdrop to shorter plants such as the purple coneflower due to leaves dropping as it grows. Prune this plant early in the season to promote bushy growth. Notice: does not do well in dry soils. Also a prolific self-seeder; prune seed heads before they are ripe to decrease unwanted seedlings.
Habitat
Habitat and Wetland Indicator Status: Disturbed habitats, meadows, and fields (FACW).
Light: Sun, Part Shade.
Soil Type and Moisture: Moist soils. Moist.Characteristics
Bloom Color: Purple
Bloom Period: August, September, October
Mature Height: 6 feetWildlife: Attracts butterflies, hummingbirds, and bees. Nectar source for Monarch butterflies. Host to the Pearl Crescent and Checkerspot butterflies. Special value to native bees and honey bees.
Other Features: Drought Tolerant, Salt TolerantSold As: each
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New England Aster Seed
Symphyotrichum novae-angliae
Description: Another late season bloomer with stunning bright purple flowers. Easily to identify pre-bloom by leaves that nearly encircle a hairy stem. Another attractor of numerous pollinators and a host plant for the Crescent butterfly. Serves as a nectar source for monarchs. Best planted in meadow gardens or as backdrop to shorter plants such as the purple coneflower due to leaves dropping as it grows. Prune this plant early in the season to promote bushy growth. Notice: does not do well in dry soils. Also a prolific self-seeder; prune seed heads before they are ripe to decrease unwanted seedlings.
Habitat
Habitat and Wetland Indicator Status: Disturbed habitats, meadows, and fields (FACW).
Light: Sun, Part Sun.
Soil Type and Moisture: Moist soils. Moist.Characteristics
Bloom Color: Purple
Bloom Period: August, September, October
Mature Height: 6 feetGermination: Cold, Moist Germination for 60 days
Wildlife: Attracts butterflies, hummingbirds, and bees. Nectar source for Monarch butterflies. Host to the Pearl Crescent and Checkerspot butterflies. Special value to native bees and honey bees.
Other Features: Drought Tolerant, Salt TolerantSold As: approximately 50 to 100 seeds per packet