Backyard Wildlife Native Plants Nursery

10/30/2026

I have enthusiastic approval from the St Anne's Episcopal Church administration of Middletown to offer 1 year old White Oak seedlings that are the offspring of the historical, massive tree that is well over 344 years old.

I collected these acorns last fall and grew them in mass in an air pruning situation. I just separated them and put them in pots so they are quickly accessible. The pots stay with me, and you go with the tree.

I am selling them as bare root trees for $2 each. We have about 25 ready to go this fall. Contact me to pick up.

10/21/2026

😎😎😎🎃 FLASH FALL SALE!!! GET 20% OFF WHEN YOU SPEND $35 OR MORE ON A WEEKDAY OR WEEKEND VISIT BY APPOINTMENT. 209 Paddock Road, Townsend, Delaware.

🌻 Place an order or schedule a visit anytime. This is actually the best time to plant up until mid to late November. Saturday sales are over for the season.

🌻THIS WEEK'S PLANT LIST:
Plant List link is located in the comments. Copy and paste to address bar to view the list.

🌻 PLANT PRICES FOR 2026
*PLUGS ($2.50 each) ($7 per three of the same plant = $2.33 per plug). A few higher priced plug trays purchased from Wholesalers may be slightly more.
*6 Pack Plants in Deep Plug Six Packs ($14 = $2.33 per plug)
*Ferns ($5)
*Pots ($4)
*Native Annuals in deep plug trays or deep plug six-packs (same prices as above)
*Non Native Annuals ($4 per Six Pack = 67 CENTS per plug!!!)
*Whole Native Plug Trays of 50 ($110 =$2.20 per plug)
*Whole Native Six Pack Tray of 48 plugs ($105 = $2.19 per plug)

🌻 Greenhouse Notes and Updates:
🧨🧨🧨🌻Pennsylvania Sedge $1.50 per plug on Saturday or by Appointment

✅ Each customer will receive a plug tray to keep for collecting your plug choices. PLEASE!!! HOLD ONTO THEM AND BRING THEM WITH YOU FOR EACH VISIT! Thanks so much. If I run out of old ones and donations of them, new ones cost me almost $2 a tray.
✅ Keep your plugs moist and aim to get them in the ground in the next 24 hours. It is not a bad idea to trim the greens down a bit after planting so the roots can focus on expanding rather than having to support the existing height of the plant.
✅ I encourage you to take a picture of each plant sign along with the plug, but we have also provided plant tags and markers in cups hung around the greenhouse to keep track of your choices.
✅ We provide bolts or permanent markers in cups hung around the greenhouse for you to pop the plugs out of the tray from the hole underneath the tray

🌻 UPDATE: We just donated 50 plugs of White Wood Aster to two of Delaware's best volunteer Native Plants Ambassadors to install in the raised beds in front of Greenbank Aquarium Shopping Center. We are also about to make a large donation to a public garden by Wesley/DSU College installed by members of the Kent County Master Gardeners.
We have just donated a total of 5 trays (about 350 plants) to Friends of White Clay Creek State Park and Friends of Bombay Hook State Park. We will be able to give them more in October.
PLEASE COME BY TO BUY OUR EXTREMELY INEXPENSIVE PLANTS FROM US THIS FALL. THIS IS THE BEST TIME TO PLANT NATIVE PERENNIALS! THE MORE WE SELL, THE MORE PLANTS WE CAN AFFORD TO GIVE AWAY.
🌻We are thrilled to be able to continue donating large amounts of plants to public volunteer locations such as Columbia Cares (MD) Community Group, a Girl Scout troop doing a great garden restoration at a historical spot in a beloved Wilmington Park, and the volunteers of White Clay Creek State Park/Judge Morris Estate. PLEASE Follow AND Share our Page with your friends and visit us often so we can increase our plant donations around Delaware.

🌻Pay by Cash, Check, Zell, Credit, Debit, or Venmo

🌻*The greenhouses sit in a 12 acre meadow covered with native flowers and native grasses.
🌻*Come by to see the Native Plants for sale.

🌻 EVERY PLANT IN OUR NURSERY HAS AN IMPORTANT STORY
🌻Nursery Highlight (I have so many plants that I am excited about!)
🌻 We still have around 100 species to offer you this fall. Here are 3 great choices of beauty that cover bloom times most of the summer, and provide essential food for our local wildlife.
Pictured from Top Left: We have lots of Alumroot and Hairy Alumroot, a semi evergreen, are both fairly short, do well in part sun, average soil (Hairy A. is more versatile with sun and moisture levels. Both are a specialist plant for the cellophane bee. It blooms late spring into early summer.

We have Downy and Hairy Wood Mint; they bloom in June and July, stands to 1.5 feet, and have beautiful and quite unique light purple flowers. They are a specialized larval host and nectar source for numerous native insects.

Iris is a really popular plant. Why not get the native one instead of the more popular ones from other continents (they cannot be a host plant to our local insects). Get Blue Flag Iris instead. It attracts Hummingbirds, and many pollinators, and is the host plant for the Virginia ctenucha moth as well as several other wetland moths and butterflies.

10/14/2026

😎😎😎🎃 FLASH FALL SALE!!! GET 20% OFF WHEN YOU SPEND $35 OR MORE AT THE NURSERY OR A WEEKDAY VISIT BY APPOINTMENT

🌻 THIS IS OUR LAST NATIVE PLANTS SALE OF THE SEASON!!! (Saturday, October 24th, 9-2pm at 209 Paddock Road)! HOWEVER,... you can still place an order or schedule a visit anytime. This is actually the best time to plant up until mid to late November.
🌻 Saturdays not good for you? Contact us to order for pickup or to schedule a nursery visit any time😃. I recommend this! We are there most days of the week doing chores, and you get the run of the place, and our full attention, with no disruptions. It's a very relaxing, pleasant experience.

🌻THIS WEEK'S PLANT LIST:
Plant List link is located in the comments. Copy and paste to address bar to view the list.

🌻 PLANT PRICES FOR 2026
*PLUGS ($2.50 each) ($7 per three of the same plant = $2.33 per plug). A few higher priced plug trays purchased from Wholesalers may be slightly more.
*6 Pack Plants in Deep Plug Six Packs ($14 = $2.33 per plug)
*Ferns ($5)
*Pots ($4)
*Native Annuals in deep plug trays or deep plug six-packs (same prices as above)
*Non Native Annuals ($4 per Six Pack = 67 CENTS per plug!!!)
*Whole Native Plug Trays of 50 ($110 =$2.20 per plug)
*Whole Native Six Pack Tray of 48 plugs ($105 = $2.19 per plug)

🌻 Greenhouse Notes and Updates:
🧨🧨🧨🌻Pennsylvania Sedge $1.50 per plug for

✅ Each customer will receive a plug tray to keep for collecting your plug choices. PLEASE!!! HOLD ONTO THEM AND BRING THEM WITH YOU FOR EACH VISIT! Thanks so much. If I run out of old ones and donations of them, new ones cost me almost $2 a tray.
✅ Keep your plugs moist and aim to get them in the ground in the next 24 hours. It is not a bad idea to trim the greens down a bit after planting so the roots can focus on expanding rather than having to support the existing height of the plant.
✅ I encourage you to take a picture of each plant sign along with the plug, but we have also provided plant tags and markers in cups hung around the greenhouse to keep track of your choices.
✅ We provide bolts or permanent markers in cups hung around the greenhouse for you to pop the plugs out of the tray from the hole underneath the tray

🌻 UPDATE: We just donated 50 plugs of White Wood Aster to two of Delaware's best volunteer Native Plants Ambassadors to install in the raised beds in front of Greenbank Aquarium Shopping Center. We are also about to make a large donation to a public garden by Wesley/DSU College installed by members of the Kent County Master Gardeners.
We have just donated a total of 5 trays (about 350 plants) to Friends of White Clay Creek State Park and Friends of Bombay Hook State Park. We will be able to give them more in October.
PLEASE COME BY TO BUY OUR EXTREMELY INEXPENSIVE PLANTS FROM US THIS FALL. THIS IS THE BEST TIME TO PLANT NATIVE PERENNIALS! THE MORE WE SELL, THE MORE PLANTS WE CAN AFFORD TO GIVE AWAY.

🌻We are thrilled to be able to continue donating large amounts of plants to public volunteer locations such as Columbia Cares (MD) Community Group, a Girl Scout troop doing a great garden restoration at a historical spot in a beloved Wilmington Park, and the volunteers of White Clay Creek State Park/Judge Morris Estate. PLEASE Follow AND Share our Page with your friends and visit us often so we can increase our plant donations around Delaware.

🌻Pay by Cash, Check, Zell, Credit, Debit, or Venmo

🌻*The greenhouses sit in a 12 acre meadow covered with native flowers and native grasses.
🌻*Come by to see the Native Plants for sale.

🌻 EVERY PLANT IN OUR NURSERY HAS AN IMPORTANT STORY
🌻Nursery Highlight (I have so many plants that I am excited about!) The plants look so great and mature, with blooms on many.

🌻 We still have around 100 species to offer you this fall. Here are 4 great choices of beauty that cover bloom times most of the summer, and provide essential food for our local wildlife. Columbine, pictured on the 2 bottom-right, starts blooming just in time to greet the hummingbirds at the end of April. They love them. Next to bloom is the Spiderwort; the closeup of the purple flower. It flowers on and off throughout the summer, especially when you have some woodchip cover on it. The Joe Pye W**d, Blue Lobelia, Cardinal Flower, and Sneezeweed all bloom late summer into fall, and the hummers are crazy for them also. My sneezeweed is still blooming and shows no signs of stopping anytime soon.
Express your love for nature in your own yard by visiting our nursery to pick up these and other life giving plants.

10/12/2026

My favorite way to add plants to my spaces

10/12/2026

10/11/2026

STAY DRY! Walk 50 yards with umbrella in hand. The greenhouse is dry. As usual, I will help you get your haul to the car!

10/10/2026

Playing hookie today. At the U.S. Women's Soccer game vs Spain today with my granddaughter and family in D.C.
Open tomorrow 10-1PM.

10/09/2026

"Meet my little mule, Pepè."

A few weeks ago we added to the meadow (over 1,200 Shrubs and trees).

This week, we took away from the meadow and tree borders (cleared A LOT of invasives)!

This tiny cordless 6" chainsaw is a miracle worker. It was a Birthday gift from Karen.

My Son In Law, Jaye and I were able to clear tough debris for hours per charge.
It cut through very large Autumn Olive, Multi Flora Rose, Grape Vine, Asian Honeysuckle, large Mulberry, and others with such ease! It weighs next to nothing, easy to one hand reach with, and is just about as aggressive as a regular chainsaw.

We found a lot of gems that were hidden under the mess. Wild: Arrowwood Virburnums, Black Tupelo, Elderberry, Willow Oak, Chestnut Oak, Red Oak, Silky and Red Osier Dogwood to name a few.

We freed a lot of trees under siege such as Persimmon, Red Cedar, and Winged Sumac.

It feels so satisfying to clear out an area to make way for what belongs there!

🐸🐸🐸CLOSED TOMORROW, BUT OPEN SUNDAY 10/11/26, 10-1PM.

10/07/2026

😎😎😎🎃 FLASH FALL SALE!!! GET 20% OFF WHEN YOU SPEND $35 OR MORE AT THE NURSERY OR A WEEKDAY VISIT BY APPOINTMENT

🌻 It's time for our weekly NATIVE PLANTS SALE!!! (Saturday, October 17th, 10-2pm at 209 Paddock Road)!
🌻 Saturdays not good for you? Contact us to order for pickup or to schedule a nursery visit any time😃. I recommend this! We are there most days of the week doing chores, and you get the run of the place, and our full attention, with no disruptions. It's a very relaxing, pleasant experience.

🌻THIS WEEK'S PLANT LIST:
https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:va6c2:e7fc2461-7c91-4306-b2b3-ded9ac3d6bf6

🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️OUT OF SWAMP MILKW**D AND COASTAL JOE-PYE W**D.

🌻 PLANT PRICES FOR 2026
*PLUGS ($2.50 each) ($7 per three of the same plant = $2.33 per plug). A few higher priced plug trays purchased from Wholesalers may be slightly more.
*6 Pack Plants in Deep Plug Six Packs ($14 = $2.33 per plug)
*Ferns ($5)
*Pots ($4)
*Native Annuals in deep plug trays or deep plug six-packs (same prices as above)
*Non Native Annuals ($4 per Six Pack = 67 CENTS per plug!!!)
*Whole Native Plug Trays of 50 ($110 =$2.20 per plug)
*Whole Native Six Pack Tray of 48 plugs ($105 = $2.19 per plug)

🌻 Greenhouse Notes and Updates:
✅ Each customer will receive a plug tray to keep for collecting your plug choices. PLEASE!!! HOLD ONTO THEM AND BRING THEM WITH YOU FOR EACH VISIT! Thanks so much. If I run out of old ones and donations of them, new ones cost me almost $2 a tray.
✅ Keep your plugs moist and aim to get them in the ground in the next 24 hours. It is not a bad idea to trim the greens down a bit after planting so the roots can focus on expanding rather than having to support the existing height of the plant.
✅ I encourage you to take a picture of each plant sign along with the plug, but we have also provided plant tags and markers in cups hung around the greenhouse to keep track of your choices.
✅ We provide bolts or permanent markers in cups hung around the greenhouse for you to pop the plugs out of the tray from the hole underneath the tray
🌻 UPDATE: We just donated 50 plugs of White Wood Aster to two of Delaware's best volunteer Native Plants Ambassadors to install in the raised beds in front of Greenbank Aquarium Shopping Center. We are also about to make a large donation to a public garden by Wesley/DSU College installed by members of the Kent County Master Gardeners.

We have just donated a total of 5 trays (about 350 plants) to Friends of White Clay Creek State Park and Friends of Bombay Hook State Park. We will be able to give them more in October.
PLEASE COME BY TO BUY OUR EXTREMELY INEXPENSIVE PLANTS FROM US THIS FALL. THIS IS THE BEST TIME TO PLANT NATIVE PERENNIALS! THE MORE WE SELL, THE MORE PLANTS WE CAN AFFORD TO GIVE AWAY.

🌻We are thrilled to be able to continue donating large amounts of plants to public volunteer locations such as Columbia Cares (MD) Community Group, a Girl Scout troop doing a great garden restoration at a historical spot in a beloved Wilmington Park, and the volunteers of White Clay Creek State Park/Judge Morris Estate. PLEASE Follow AND Share our Page with your friends and visit us often so we can increase our plant donations around Delaware.

🌻Pay by Cash, Check, Zell, Credit, Debit, or Venmo

🌻*The greenhouses sit in a 12 acre meadow covered with native flowers and native grasses.
🌻*Come by to see the Native Plants for sale.

🌻 EVERY PLANT IN OUR NURSERY HAS AN IMPORTANT STORY
🌻Nursery Highlight (I have so many plants that I am excited about!) The plants look so great and mature, with blooms on many.

🌻 We visited a customer's vegetable garden surrounded by our native plugs purchased this spring. They include New England Aster, other Asters, Mountain Mint, Coneflower, Anise Hyssop, Rose Coreopsis, as well as many others.
Come get your plants this Sunday!