Northeast Native Plants138 Stories
Gardening GuidesGreat Design Plant: Comptonia Peregrina
Though not a fern, sweet fern sure smells sweet and thrives in tough spots where many shrubs and ferns cannot
Full StoryGardening GuidesGreat Design Plant: Ceanothus Americanus
Thriving in lean soil and attracting the good bugs, New Jersey tea is a boon to full-sun areas of the garden
Full StoryGardening GuidesGreat Design Plant: Gentiana Andrewsii
If you’re a fan of closed flowers every autumn, then today is your lucky day!
Full StoryNative PlantsGreat Design Plant: Caltha Palustris Is a Welcome Sign of Spring
Brighten your rain garden or pond edge in spring with marsh marigold
Full StoryGardening GuidesGreat Design Plant: Chelone Glabra
White turtlehead is perfect for rain gardens and moonlit strolls; plant this butterfly host in spring for subtle style in late summer
Full StoryGardening GuidesGreat Design Plant: Tradescantia Ohiensis Adds Shades of Blue
This reliable, adaptable U.S. native provides spider-like foliage and clusters of blue to purple flowers in Eastern gardens each spring
Full StoryGardening GuidesGreat Design Plant: Mitella Diphylla Provides Snowflakes in Spring
This Eastern U.S. native plant will wow you with its delicate, snowflake-like petals and lacy texture
Full StoryGardening GuidesGreat Design Plant: Woodland Garden Beauty Polystichum Acrostichoides
Eastern U.S. native Christmas fern is a living decoration in the winter woodland garden
Full StoryGardening GuidesGreat Design Plant: Winterberry Rouses Frosty Gardens
Energize dormant winter landscapes with this shrub's brilliant berries — and do right by hungry birds too
Full StoryNative PlantsGreat Design Plant: Hydrophyllum Virginianum
This reliable, shade-tolerant native plant provides spotted foliage and clusters of pink flowers in eastern U.S. woodland and shade gardens
Full StoryGardening GuidesGreat Design Plant: Lobelia Siphilitica Keeps Its Cool
Great blue lobelia, a flowering native that prefers moist soil, adds a calming blue hue to the late-summer garden
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