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European Red Elderberry, Red Elderberry Sambucus racemosa
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

* The blossoms have been used in the treatment of measles. * The fruit is a bright red or sometimes purple drupe containing 3 to 5 seeds. The fruits are popular with birds, who distribute the seeds.
  • Common Name: European Red Elderberry, Red Elderberry
  • Species: racemosa
  • Seeds Per Pound: 104,420
  • Germination: 91%
  • Family: Caprifoliaceae
  • Crop Year: 2012
United States
Massachusetts
Fly Honeysuckle, Dwarf Honeysuckle Lonicera xylosteum
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* Lonicera xylosteum , commonly known as Fly honeysuckle , European Fly Honeysuckle , Dwarf Honeysuckle or Fly Woodbine is a deciduous shrub. It is one of two honeysuckles native to Britain, the other being the Common Honeysuckle ( Lonicera periclymenum...
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 4
  • Quantity: 0.24 lb
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 45
  • Species: xylosteum
  • Collection Locale: Holland
  • Germination Test Type: cut
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Massachusetts
Christmas Candlestick, Klip Dagga, Lion\'s Ear Leonotis nepetifolia
Prices start at : 5.95 USD / 1 packet

It can also be found growing abundantly in much of Latin America and the West Indies. * It grows to a height of 3 metres and has whorls of striking lipped flowers, that are most commonly orange, but can vary to red, white, and purple.
  • Seeds Per Pound: 340,500
  • Height: 3-8 feet
  • Quantity: 0.14 lb
  • Species: nepetifolia
  • Germination: 91%
  • Germination Test Type: cut
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Massachusetts
English Primrose Primula vulgaris     - Primula acaulis
Prices start at : 5.95 USD / 1 packet

* Single 1 1/2" yellow, blue, white, green, or purple flowers on long stems in spring; the color range is even broader in cultivated varieties; leaves to 10"; likes part shade and moist fertile soil; native to Europe and Turkey.
  • Germination Test Type: Actual
  • Crop Year: 2013
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 68
  • Purity: 99%
  • Botanical Name: Primula vulgaris
  • Common Name: English Primrose
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Massachusetts
Butterfly Weed, Butterfly Milkweed Asclepias tuberosa
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

The leaves are spirally arranged, lanceolate, 5-12 cm long and 2-3 cm broad. It was much used by the North American Indians and acquired a reputation as a heal-all amongst the earlier white settlers.
  • Quantity: 1.8 lb
  • Seeds Per Pound: 85,352
  • Species: tuberosa
  • Common Name: Butterfly Weed, Butterfly Milkweed
  • Family: Asclepiadaceae
  • Collection Locale: USA
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Massachusetts
Bi-Color Butterfly Bush
Prices start at : 5.00 USD / each

It is an excellent attractant for butterflies and hummingbirds. Drought and deer resistant. Great cut flower. A breakthrough in color! Bi-color is the first Butterfly Bush to feature multiple colors on each bloom.
  • Colors: Orange, Purple, Yellow
  • Plant Lighting: Full Sun
  • Max Height (feet): 8
  • Season Color: Summer
  • Spread: 4-6'
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Massachusetts
Upright Prairie Coneflower Ratibida columnifera     - Ratibida columnaris
Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

* A pleasant tasting tea is made from the leaves and flower heads. * Ratibida columnifera , commonly known as Upright Prairie Coneflower or Mexican Hat , is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family, Asteraceae , that is native to much of North...
  • Germination Test Type: estimate
  • Quantity: 1.35 lb
  • Species: columnifera
  • Crop Year: 2017
  • Height: 24-30 inches
  • Collection Locale: TX
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Massachusetts
Catmint
Prices start at : 5.00 USD / each

Plant in full sun. Pretty lavender-blue flowers bloom all the way through summer. Aromatic gray-green foliage. Attract both butterflies and hummingbirds with their delightful scent.
  • Max Height (feet): 3
  • Deer Resistant: Yes
  • Colors: Blue, Lavender
  • Zones: 3-8
  • Spread: 24"
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Massachusetts
3-N-1 Butterfly Bush
Prices start at : 7.49 USD / each

Aptly named, the butterfly bush attracts loads of butterflies and is also a favorite of hummingbirds. Grows 4-8' tall. Wonderful lightly scented clusters of white, red and purple flowers can measure one to two feet in length.
  • Genus: Buddleia davidii
  • Max Height (feet): 8
  • Colors: Mixed, Purple, Red, White
  • Zones: 5-9
  • Deer Resistant: Yes
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Massachusetts
Rose of Sharon Hedge
Prices start at : 5.49 USD / each

This is not an evergreen. (Our choice of color.) Plants may have single or double blooms. In mid-summer it bursts into bloom when little else is blooming and continues to flower through fall.
  • Deer Resistant: Yes
  • Plant Lighting: Full Sun, Partial Sun/Shade
  • Genus: Hibiscus syriacus
  • Spread: 5-10'
  • Colors: Lavender, Pink, Red, White
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Massachusetts
English Primrose Primula vulgaris     - Primula acaulis
Prices start at : 5.95 USD / 1 packet

* Single 1 1/2" yellow, blue, white, green, or purple flowers on long stems in spring; the color range is even broader in cultivated varieties; leaves to 10"; likes part shade and moist fertile soil; native to Europe and Turkey.
  • Family: PRIMULACEAE
  • Botanical Name: Primula vulgaris
  • Collection Locale: Holland
  • Germination: 77%
  • Quantity: 0.22 lb
  • Seeds Per Pound: 403,200
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Massachusetts
Lanceleaf Tickseed, Lance Coreopsis Coreopsis lanceolata
Prices start at : 1.95 USD / 1 packet

* Lance-leaved coreopsis produces yellow flowers in late summer. * The lance-leaved coreopsis , Coreopsis lanceolata , is a species of coreopsis (Tickseed). It is commonly kept as an ornamental plant.
  • Germination: 90%
  • Collection Locale: Oregon
  • Purity: 99%
  • Crop Year: 2015
  • Family: Asteraceae
  • Quantity: 1.97 lb
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Massachusetts
Purple Bauhinia, Butterfly Tree, Hong Kong Orchid Tree, Purple Camel\'s Foot, Hawaiian Orchid Tree Bauhinia purpurea
Prices start at : 5.95 USD / 1 packet

* A species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae ,native to South China (which includes Hong Kong ) and southeastern Asia * Common names include Hong Kong Orchid Tree, and Hawaiian orchid tree.
  • Family: Fabaceae
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 16
  • Crop Year: 2017
  • Common Name: Purple Bauhinia, Butterfly Tree, Hong Kong Orchid Tree, Purple Camel's Foot, Hawaiian Orchid Tree
  • Height: 50 feet
  • Seeds Per Pound: 1,498
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Massachusetts
Great Globethistle, Giant Globe Thistle, Great Globe Thistle, Common Globe Thistle Echinops sphaerocephalus
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

They are sticky hairy above, and white woolly below.Atop each stem is an almost perfectly spherical inflorescence up to 6 cm in diameter, packed with blue-gray disc florets . * Plant forming huge clumps with white or grayish spherical flowers 2-3" across,...
  • Seeds Per Pound: 36,320
  • Collection Locale: Hungary
  • Quantity: 1 lb
  • Family: Asteraceae
  • Purity: 98%
  • Germination Test Type: cut
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Massachusetts
Seven Son Flower, Seven Son Tree HEPTACODIUM miconioides
Prices start at : 5.95 USD / 1 packet

* The plant is now also widely grown as an ornamental around the world. * Fast grower especially when young. * Heptacodium miconioides, commonly known as the Seven Sons plant, is a member of the Caprifoliaceae family, a cousin of the Honeysuckle, and...
  • Common Name: Seven Son Flower, Seven Son Tree
  • Germination: 50%
  • Genus: HEPTACODIUM
  • Crop Year: 2013
  • Collection Locale: Tennessee
  • Family: CAPRIFOLIACEAE
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Massachusetts
Bee Insect Garden
Prices start at : 8.99 USD / each

Each mat is generously preseeded on recycled paper that promotes germination. Our Conservation Garden Assortment attracts and helps protect nature's hardest workers. Mats are 20"x5'.Attracts natues's hardest workers to the garden.
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Lanceleaf Tickseed, Lance Coreopsis Coreopsis lanceolata
Prices start at : 1.95 USD / 1 packet

* Lance-leaved coreopsis produces yellow flowers in late summer. * The lance-leaved coreopsis , Coreopsis lanceolata , is a species of coreopsis (Tickseed). It is commonly kept as an ornamental plant.
  • Germination: 90%
  • Genus: Coreopsis
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 4
  • Common Name: Lanceleaf Tickseed, Lance Coreopsis
  • Germination Test Type: Actual
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 382
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Massachusetts
Narrowleaf Plantain, Ribwort Plantain Plantago lanceolata
Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

An extract of them has antibacterial properties. Lanceolata has been found in western Norway from the Early Neolithic onwards. Lanceolata is used frequently in tisanes and other herbal remedies.
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 6
  • Height: 12-15 inches
  • Collection Locale: Hungary
  • Botanical Name: Plantago lanceolata
  • Family: Plantaginaceae
  • Germination: 90%
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Massachusetts
Southern Catalpa Catalpa bignonioides     - Catalpa syringifolia
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

The tree is fairly free from fungal diseases and has few insect enemies. * Many people grow this tree in the Southern USA just so they can gather the Catalpa worms to use as fishing bait.
  • Common Name: Southern Catalpa
  • Family: Bignoniaceae
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 88
  • Species: bignonioides
  • Botanical Name: Catalpa bignonioides
  • Seeds Per Pound: 44,069
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Massachusetts
Virginia Snake Root, Virginia Snakeroot Aristolochia serpentaria
Prices start at : 20.95 USD / 1 packet

* Use Ornamental: Showy, Ground cover Conspicuous Flowers: yes Attracts: Butterflies Larval Host: Pipevine swallowtail butterfly. It merits consideration for cultivation in forest areas.
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 3
  • Germination: 23%
  • Seeds Per Pound: 63,560
  • Crop Year: 2017
  • Botanical Name: Aristolochia serpentaria
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
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Massachusetts
Chickasaw Plum, Sand Plum, Sandhill Plum Prunus angustifolia
Price : CALL

It also provides cover for nesting sites. * Cultivated by the Chickasaw Indians and other indigenous peoples before the arrival of Europeans. Because they bloom early in the spring, before many other plants bloom, and require very little maintenance,...
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 6
  • Height: 12-36 feet
  • Botanical Name: Prunus angustifolia
  • Family: Rosaceae
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Massachusetts
Appalachian Mountainmint, Savanna Mountainmint
Prices start at : 9.99 USD

Appalachian Mountainmint is native along much of the east coast from Virginia to Florida and west to Mississippi. It is also on the long list of plants that are larval hosts to the Gray Hairstreak Butterfly.
  • Grows To: 2-3'H x 2-4'W
  • Outdoor Light: Full sun, Part sun
  • pH Range: Acidic, Mildly Acidic, Neutral
  • Native To / Origin: US- East Coast, eastern Gulf Coast
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Summer-sweet, Sweet Pepper Bush, Coastal Sweetpepperbush, Summer Sweet, Summersweet Clethra Clethra alnifolia
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* The stalk of the blossom is used as a soap substitute. * An oval shrub with pleasing dark green leaves and very fragrant white flowers in upright terminal racemes in late summer; does well in heavy shade; yellow or golden brown fall color; may expand...
  • Purity: 80%
  • Collection Locale: MA
  • Crop Year: 2002
  • Family: Clethraceae
  • Lot#: 020916
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 4
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Massachusetts
Chinese Plum Yew, Chinese Cowtail Pine, San Jian Shan Cephalotaxus fortunei
Prices start at : 7.95 USD / 1 packet

* Cephalotaxus fortunei, commonly called the Chinese Plum Yew, simply Plum Yew, Chinese Cowtail Pine or in Chinese as San Jian Shan (Chinese: ???; pinyin: s?nji?nsh?n), is a coniferous shrub or small tree in the plum yew family.
  • Genus: Cephalotaxus
  • Seeds Per Pound: 1,044
  • Crop Year: 2016
  • Family: CEPHALOTAXACEAE
  • Purity: 99%
  • Quantity: 2.57 lb
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Massachusetts
Miss Pearl Butterfly Bush, Buddleja
Prices start at : 9.99 USD

Butterfly Bushes are easily grown, free flowering butterfly magnets and are moderately drought tolerant once well established. Deadheading is not required but removing spent flowers will help the plant look 'cleaner'.
  • Grows To: 4-5'H x 4-6'W
  • Native To / Origin: US Gardens- JC Raulston, NCSU, Dr. Dennis Werner
  • Outdoor Light: Full sun, Part sun, Part shade
  • USDA Cold Hardiness Zones: 5,6,7,8,9
  • pH Range: Acidic, Mildly Acidic, Neutral, Mildly Alkaline, Alkaline
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Massachusetts
Common Privet, European Privet Ligustrum vulgare
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

All Bonsai need root protection in below freezing temperatures. Plant indoors or out in full sun and shade in warmer climates. Ligustrum vulgare are hardy plants and tolerate temperatures down to 20 degrees F.
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Common Name: Common Privet, European Privet
  • Genus: Ligustrum
  • Collection Locale: Hungary
  • Seeds Per Pound: 16,214
  • Crop Year: 2016
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Massachusetts
Golda Emanis Yellow Foliaged Great Coneflower, Cabbage-Leaf Coneflower
Prices start at : 12.99 USD

Great in foliage or flower. Greg Grant mentions that ‘Golda Emanis' was named for his great aunt. Just as vigorous, easy, and tolerant as any other Great Coneflower, Golda Emanis Rudbeckia produces large golden yellow daisies on statuesque, 5-7' stalks...
  • pH Range: Acidic, Mildly Acidic
  • Native To / Origin: US - Greg Grant - selected in Cherokee County, TX
  • Outdoor Light: Full sun, Part sun, Part shade
  • USDA Cold Hardiness Zones: 4,5,6,7,8,9
  • Container Size: Quart / 30 fl.oz. / 887 ml
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Massachusetts