Shoreview Natives

09/21/2026

Planning a Lawns to Legumes project for next spring? 🌱🐝 Keep us in mind!

We’ll have a wide selection of native plants, along with curated garden kits that make it easy to create a thriving pollinator habitat—whether you’re using a Lawns to Legumes grant or simply planting on your own.

Skip the stress of planning your garden from scratch! Each garden kit comes with a ready-to-use planting layout. Prefer to create your own design? We’ll also include simple instructions to help you successfully lay out your plants without using our template.

And NOW is a great time to start prepping your space for next year! Get heavy, black, woven plastic down this fall to start smothering the grass and weeds where you want your pollinator garden to go. A little prep now will make planting your garden much easier next summer.

Contact Jen our Greenhouse Manager for more information about the plastic and to arrange pickup. 218-340-6666 (text ok); [email protected].

Bookmark our garden kits for next spring!
https://www.shoreviewnatives.com/l2l

The Spring 2027 Lawns to Legumes grant application is open! 🐝🎉

🌼 Lawns to Legumes is a Minnesota-wide program that awards reimbursement-based funding of up to $400 for creating pollinator habitat in your outdoor space with native plants.

🦋 Why plant for pollinators? Minnesota is home to over 500 native bee species, along with many butterflies, moths, and other pollinators. These creatures are essential to ecosystem health — but many have faced population declines. Lawns to Legumes helps reverse this trend by creating pollinator-friendly plantings across the state.

⏰ Apply by November 30 for a chance to receive a Spring 2027 grant. Learn more and apply at https://bluethumb.org/lawns-to-legumes/apply/

Lawns to Legumes is coordinated by the Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources and Blue Thumb, the education program of Metro Blooms.

09/20/2026

Another perfect pair! Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) mixed with soft, airy Switch Grass (Panicum virgatum) adds variety and depth to a garden. When you blend different shapes, sizes, and textures, you achieve a balanced, natural look. 😍 We have both Yarrow and Switch Grass in stock—will you try this lovely, deer-resistant pairing in your landscape?

09/19/2026

Another late-season dynamic duo! 💜💛

Silky Aster (Symphyotrichum sericeum) + Gray Goldenrod (Solidago nemoralis) bring beautiful purple and yellow blooms to your garden when many other plants are winding down. Both stay around 1–2 feet tall, grow in full to part sun and in dry to medium soil conditions, and provide a crucial late-season food source for bees, butterflies, and other pollinators. Just look at the action on the goldenrod! 😍

Plus, goldenrods and asters are keystone plants—meaning they support an incredible diversity of insects that, in turn, help support birds and the rest of the food web. What a powerful pair to add to your garden this fall!

09/18/2026

Support our friends at North House Folk School—and maybe score a Shoreview Natives gift card while you’re at it! 🌱🌸💚 Check out the Points North Online Auction and all the great items up for bid!

The Points North Online Auction is here! This annual auction features one-of-a-kind craft items made by our instructors, unique North Shore experiences, timber frames, tickets to Twin Cities-based performances, and more.

https://us.givergy.com/unplugged2026/?controller=lots&category=All%20Lots

Proceeds fuel North House’s programming, including our scholarship, Work Study, and youth programs.

When you sign up to bid, you'll be entered in a drawing for a $100 North House gift certificate! Bidding closes Sunday, September 27 at 10am CT.

09/18/2026

It’s stories like this that give us hope!! Every milkweed planted, every patch of lawn converted, every native garden added to a school, business, shoreline, or backyard creates another little piece of pollinator habitat.

Minnesota Public Radio reports that monarch numbers increased this year, and researchers say that while weather plays a role, the collective work people are doing to create habitat in their own yards is helping, too.

Keep planting native. It matters. 🦋💛

In recent years there have been concerns about whether the monarch butterfly was a threatened species. Thanks to good weather, and an increase in their food, the pollinator’s numbers increased in 2026.

09/17/2026

Interested in turning even a small space into thriving native habitat? is offering a free webinar at 3:30 pm TODAY that explores “pocket forests”—densely planted communities of native trees and shrubs that can support wildlife, manage stormwater, grow quickly, and require less maintenance over time. A great watch for anyone interested in rethinking what we can do with the landscapes we are responsible for!

Join us on September 17

09/16/2026

Along with our Tree & Shrub 20% Off Sale, our Garden Kits are now 20% off through September!

Each kit is thoughtfully curated by our experts and includes up to seven native wildflowers and two native grasses, selected to thrive in your landscape and provide blooms across the growing season. These ready-to-plant collections provide color, texture, and vital habitat for pollinators. 💛🦋🐝

Garden Kit Options:
-Butterfly & Bird Garden
-Colonizers to Combat Weeds Garden
-Deer Resistant Garden
-Pollinator Powerhouse Garden
-Rain, Shoreline or Wet Yard Garden
-Shady Pollinator Garden
-Pine/Spruce Understory Garden
-Short & Well-Behaved Garden

Garden Kit Sizes:
-Mini kit (36 plants) – ideal for 36 sq. ft. (mini kits include five wildflowers and one grass species)
-Small kit (48 plants) – ideal for 48 sq. ft.
-Medium kit (96 plants) – ideal for 96 sq. ft.
-Large kit (144 plants) – ideal for 144 sq. ft.

Interested in what plants could be included in the kits? Check out our website: https://www.shoreviewnatives.com/kits

09/15/2026

Our friend, Sarah Foltz Jordan, conservation biologist and educator based in Duluth, just announced the launch of her organization, Conservation Foraging Center! Event information will now be easier to find and Sarah's hope is to "help grow a foraging community that puts stewardship at the center of harvesting practices, and to establish foraging as an effective habitat conservation tool to be utilized and celebrated by the conservation community."

Check out her fall events open for registration at conservationforaging.com
🍂 Wild Edible Intensive | Sat., 10/3
🍂 Kids Foraging Training | Sun., 10/4
🍂 Wild Food/Wild Medicine Practicum with Mel Borer Hard | Sat., 10/17
🍂 Cordage Workshops | Thurs., 11/5 and Sat., 11/7

In addition, Sarah will be teaching at a number of partner events listed on the website. She's also scheduling a couple of buckthorn work parties in October--shoot her an email if you are interested (email is listed on her website).

Wisconsin Mycological Society: Northwoods Foray September 10 - September 14 Lakewoods Resort 21540 Co Hwy M, Cable, WI Registration is open! https://www.wisconsinmycologicalsociety.org/cablenorthwoodsforay.html The annual Northwoods Foray has a reputation for being not only the greatest fungi foray....

09/13/2026

Come and get your shrubs and trees with edible berries for fall planting! 😋🍂🌳

Mentioned in the video:
-Sand Cherry (Prunus pumila): 3-4 ft.
-Black Chokeberry (Aronia melanocarpa): 6 ft.
-Common Elderberry (Sambucus canadensis): 10-12 ft.
-Smooth Sumac (Rhus glabra): 6-18 ft.
-American Plum (Prunus americana): 10-25 ft.
-Chokecherry (Prunus virginiana): 25 ft.
-Nannyberry (Viburnum lentago): 25 ft.
-Pin Cherry (Prunus pensylvanica): 20-30 ft.

We also have Thimbleberry and Serviceberry (Juneberry). 💜

1 gallon pots are on sale for $20 and seedling sizes are $4.50. We're open Thursday - Saturday 9 am - 4 pm and Sunday 11 am - 5 pm.

09/12/2026

Come see us at the Lake Superior Harvest Festival today starting at 10 am! Along with a variety of trees, shrubs, flowers, and themed, mixed 6 packs—we brought some Instant Pollinator Pocket Gardens. These are larger containers with mature plants ready to enjoy in the pot or plant right into your landscape! Check out the delightful texture and fall interest Blue Vervain (Verbena Hastata) is bringing to the table! 😍