Natives In Harmony

09/23/2026

This Saturday is our annual Fall Foraging Festival at the nursery! Come on out to the nursery and enjoy live music, wild edible education, foraging, and more! Join one our experts on walks around the grounds looking at various native plants that produce the abundance of food that our ancestors depended on. Try some locally prepared wild game such as venison, elk, wild turkey, or trout. You can experience living history and try your hand at various survival skills practiced on the Ohio frontier! Explore the history of Native American plant use. Learn ways that you can use native plants in your landscaping to feed both yourself and your local pollinating insects. This free-to-attend event is family friendly and of course the numerous native plants at the nursery are available to shop and purchase as well. We hope to see you there!

09/18/2026

Come out to the Ohio Pawpaw Festival this weekend in Nelsonville! We will be in the Pollinator Tent selling plants through Sunday!

Join us in the Pollinator Tent on Saturday at 11a! Gale Martin presents Plants to Attract Hummingbirds 🌿

Full Pollinator Tent schedule here: https://tinyurl.com/5upy3usw

09/16/2026

We’re back with another Wildflower Wednesday plant profile! This week’s featured plant can be found blooming right now in Ohio’s upland woods.

Blue-stemmed Goldenrod (Solidago caesia) is a distinctive and elegant goldenrod species that prefers shadier conditions in woodland understories. This species excels in dry, upland habitats and can often be found in high-quality forests that have remained largely undisturbed. Growing from 1.5-3’ tall, this is a very well behaved goldenrod species that doesn’t spread as aggressively as some of its cousins. Goldenrods are the number one keystone wildflower in Ohio and host numerous caterpillars and other insects. The flowers are foraged on by various bees, wasps, beetles, flies, skippers, butterflies, and moths. The seeds of this and other goldenrods are eaten by indigo buntings, eastern goldfinches, slate-colored juncos, and other songbirds. Deer will browse the foliage, but this typically just reduces the height of the plant and does not do lasting damage. Blue-stemmed goldenrod is an interesting species to add to open woodland gardens and shaded boarder, cottage or butterfly gardens. It is also an excellent choice for restoring an upland woods.
Height: 1.5-3’
Bloom Color: yellow
Bloom Time: late summer into fall
Sun: dappled sun, medium shade to partial sun
Water: medium to medium-dry

09/08/2026

Come see us this Saturday at the Cincinnati Civic Garden Center’s Fall Native Plant Festival!! Featuring local growers, educational programs, live music, food and drinks, family-friendly activities, and more! No pre-registration is required! Hope to see you there 💚

09/08/2026

Watch: Our owner, Gale Martin, gives a talk on the history of the Sandusky Plains at the 1st Annual Marion Prairie Festival!

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08/28/2026

Check out the September edition of Nature Scoop! Written by our friend, Toni Stahl, Habitat Ambassador with NWF. In this month's article she discusses the invasive spotted lanternfly and helpful steps for planting a new tree, plus more yard and garden tips!

Spotted Lanternfly. Tree Purchase & More!

08/27/2026

It’s time for another Wildflower Wednesday! This week we’re highlighting a great native perennial for woodland edges and shadier areas of your landscape.

Meet Yellow Giant Hyssop (Agastache nepetoides), a robust grower reaching heights of 4-7’ tall in woodlands, wooded boarders, openings in forests, thickets, meadows in wooded areas, and powerline clearings with a wooded corridor. This plant dislikes dry, sunny areas and thrives in partial sun or light shade in moist, fertile loamy soils. In favorable conditions, it will slowly form colonies by spreading rhizomes. Unlike other members of the mint family, its foliage is not fragrant, but due to the bitterness of its leaves it is not a preferred browse by deer. The flowering spike contains many cream-yellow flowers that open a few at a time beginning in late summer and throughout autumn. This makes it an important long-lived nectar source for various bees, bee flies, butterflies, and moths during a crucial time of year. While the blooms are not very showy, yellow giant hyssop deserves a spot in any woodland garden, forest edge, or shaded pollinator garden for the late season resources it provides.
Height: 4-7’
Spread: 1-3’
Bloom Time: July-September
Bloom Color: cream-yellow
Sun: light shade-partial sun
Water: moist-medium

08/19/2026

It’s Wildflower Wednesday and this week we are highlighting a beautiful native plant that is sure to please the pollinators in your garden.

Obedient Plant (Physostegia virginiana) gets its common name from the interesting fact that you can manipulate an individual snapdragon-like flower, and it will “obediently” stay in that new position. It prefers full to partial sunlight in moist to medium, well-drained soils but will adapt to heavy clay and sandy soils. This showy member of the mint family features square stems and the tendency to form colonies by means of its rhizomes. It makes a great competitor for weeds on moist ground. The steeples of pinkish white flowers attract numerous pollinators from August into October. Visitors include long and short tongued bees, hummingbirds, and hummingbird moths. Sometimes large butterflies such as swallowtails and monarchs will visit the flowers as well. The color of the blooms also makes this a good moon garden candidate for attracting night-flying moths. Like other mints, obedient plant is not favored by herbivores. Uncommon in the wild, native habitats include moist to mesic black soil prairies, thickets, openings in woodland areas and along woodland borders, moist meadows along rivers, and borders of lakes. Due to its lovely flowers, obedient plant is commonly grown in flower gardens and makes a great cut flower.
Height: 2-4’
Spread: 1-2’
Bloom Time: August-October
Bloom Color: pink-white
Sun: full to partial
Water: moist to medium

08/16/2026

We've just restocked over 50 native Ohio grasses, sedges, forbs, shrubs, and vines! Check out the list below for all the new species you'll see in the sales area at the nursery!
Grasses and sedges:
Schizachyrium scoparium Little Bluestem
Carex blanda Common Wood Sedge
Hystrix patula Bottlebrush Grass
Bouteloua curtipendula Side oats Grama
Panicum virgatum Switchgrass
Carex pennsylvanica Pennsylvania Sedge
Spartina pectinata Prairie Cordgrass
Sorghastrum nutans Indian Grass
Sporobolus compositus Rough Dropseed
Koeleria macrantha June Grass
Bromus kalmii Prairie Brome grass
Sporobolus heterolepis Prairie Dropseed

Trees, Shrubs and Vines:
Adlumia fungosa Allegheny Vine
Asimina triloba Pawpaw
Lindera benzoin Spicebush
Ceanothus americanus New Jersey Tea
Staphylea trifolia Bladdernut
Rhus copallinum Winged Sumac
Celastrus scandens American Bittersweet
Gymnocladus dioicus Kentucky Coffee Tree

Forbs:
Agastache nepetoides Yellow Hyssop
Ageratina altissima White Snakeroot
Amsonia tabernaemontana Willow Amsonia
Amphicarpa bracteata Hog Peanut
Asclepias exaltata Poke Milkweed
Asclepias sullivantii Sullivants Milkweed
Asclepias tuberosa Butterflyweed
Asclepias verticillata Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias viridis Spider Milkweed
Blephilla hirsuta Hairy Wood Mint
Baptisia leucantha White False Indigo
Cynanchum laeve Honeyvine Milkweed
Echinacea purpurea Purple Coneflower
Euthamia graminifolia Grass-leaved Goldenrod
Filipendula rubra Queen of the Prairie
Gillenia stipulata Western Indian Physic
Lilium canadense Canada lily
Lobelia siphilitica Blue Lobelia
Lythrum alatum Wing-angled Loosestrife
Napea dioica Glade Mallow
Optunia humifusa Eastern Prickly Pear
Optunia cespitosa Common Prickly Pear
Salvia lyrata Lyre-leaved Sage
Senna hebecarpa Wild Senna
Solidago rugosa Wrinkle-leaf goldenrod
Tradescantia virginiana Virginia Spiderwort
Verbena hastata Blue Vervain
Vernonia altissima Tall Ironweed
Veronicastrum virginicum Culver's Root
Viola sagittata Arrow-leaved Violet
Viola sororia forma rubra Red Violet

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