10/12/2026
It's a bittersweet time of year... fall is here, winter's moving in, and it's time to close our doors for the season. And yet asters, goldenrods, and a few very persistent blue lobelia are still holding on! This is a time of year when we can celebrate how variable and speciose those aster family plants are in New England, and be grateful for what they provide to native pollinators.
It's not too late to get your native plants, either! This will be our last week of semi-regular greenhouse hours, as well as our last market of 2026.
Monday 10/12, Weds 10/14, and Fri 10/16 I will be at the greenhouse (29 Sawyer Hill Rd, Berlin, MA) from 10am to 4pm. You might also catch me there at other hours as I work on late season tasks. If the door to greenhouse 4 is open, or there's a "native plant sale" sign outside, I'm open!
Saturday 10/17 is our last market of the season, with Grow Native MA at their headquarters in Lexington -- right on the battle green, at 7 Harrington Rd, Lexington, MA. There will be NINE native plant nurseries there from 10am to 3pm, including Blue Stem Natives, Lady Fern Farm, Tree Talk Natives, Oakhaven Sanctuary, and more. I hear there will also a bakery and an artist doing block prints of nature art on t-shirts. Exciting!
Catch us before we hibernate for the winter! (... okay not really. I'll be busy with seed collection, cleaning, and sowing all winter).
