| Acer rubrum
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Acer rubrum or Red Maple is a fast growing, medium to large, deciduous tree which has lovely fall foliage and red spring flowers. It prefers moist, acidic soils and full sun to part shade.
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PRICE: $16.00
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| Amelanchier canadensis
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Amelanchier canadensis or Shadblow Serviceberry, Canadian Serviceberry, or Shadbush is an understory tree with long petaled white flowers which appear before the leaves emerge. Fruit is highly attractive to birds and is edible.
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PRICE: $13.00
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| Aronia arbutifolia
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Aronia arbutifolia or Red Chokeberry is a multi-stemmed shrub with year-round interest. It has spring flowers, nice summer foliage, brilliant autumn color, and berries that persist into winter. It can also be pruned into a hedge.
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PRICE: $14.00
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| Aronia melanocarpa
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Aronia melanocarpa - Black Chokeberry is a multi-stemmed shrub with year-round interest. It has spring flowers, nice summer foliage, brilliant autumn color, and berries that persist into winter. It can also be pruned into a hedge and is therefore a good native substitute for invasive Privet hedge. The fruit are of little importance to wildlife though they are occasionally eaten by game birds, song birds, and bear, particularly if little food is available.
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PRICE: $11.00
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| Asclepias tuberosa
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Butterfly Milkweed is a native, perennial which is a great butterfly nectar plant.
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PRICE: $6.00
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| Asimina triloba
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Asimina triloba - Paw Paw is a small tree or largish shrub which can spread by root suckering to form large colonies. It is naturally found in bottomlands and floodplains and is easily recognized by its large leaves, which can be up to 12 inches long and are odorous when bruised. Easily grown in average, medium to wet, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade. Paw Paw prefers moist, acidic, fertile soils. The fruits are sweet-flavored and have the flavor and fleshy consistency resembling bananas.
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PRICE: $19.00
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| Asplenium platyneuron
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PRICE: $6.00
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| Betula nigra
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River Birch is a tree with shaggy, exfoliating bark usually found along streams and wetlands. It is adaptable to drier sites and the bark makes a lovely winterscape.
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PRICE: $17.00
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| Black-capped Chickadee House
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Recycled Bird Houses made from recycled wood. Made from either recycled barns or houses, or from sawmill leftovers. Even the cleanout is recycled, made from reused rainspouts, aluminum siding, or venting. Each birdhouse is different and unique. Handmade by our craftsman in Cass, West Virginia.
Black-capped Chickadee House
Place in trees 5-15 feet high. Hole is 1-1/8 inch. Because Chickadees commonly nest in natural or abandoned cavities, or excavate their own cavities, a few wood chips on the nest box floor are suitable. Remove the nest after the brood rearing seasons are over. Black-capped Chichadees are year round residents in many areas and might take advantage of northern winter warming roosts. Birdhouse easily opens on the bottom to clean out old nests at the end of the season.
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PRICE: $20.00
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| Calycanthus floridus
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Calycanthus floridus - Eastern Sweetshrub, also called Carolina Allspice is a deciduous shrub with aromatic, dark green foliage. Blooms in the late spring/early summer are dark red and strap-like and usually very fragrant. 'Athens' variety also available with yellow-green flowers.
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PRICE: $15.00
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| Campsis radicans
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Campsis radicans or Trumpet Vine or Trumpet Creeper is an easily grown vine that will quickly cover fences, trees and other structures. It is one of the best plants for attracting hummingbirds to your yard.
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PRICE: $16.00
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| Carex pensylvanica
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Carex pensylvanica - Pennsylvania Sedge or Yellow Sedge is a native, low-growing grasslike perennial. It reproduces vegetatively, meaning with underground rhizomes and is turf-forming with green, arching leaves. Yellow sedge makes a good groundcover in Oak, Pine, Sugar Maple, or Basswood forests. Its noninvasive, creeping foliage forms dense mats of medium green, fine-textured foliage growing 6 to 8 inches unmowed.
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PRICE: $6.00
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| Cephalanthus occidentalis
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Cephalanthus occidentalis or Buttonbush is a lovely native shrub, good for wet and sunny to part shady areas. It tolerates drought and flooding after it is established.
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PRICE: $14.00
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| Cercis canadensis
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Cercis canadensis or Eastern Redbud is one of our most beautiful native understory trees. A highly ornamental deciduous tree with heart-shaped leaves. They prefer dry to average soil moisture, and full sun to part shade to full shade.
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PRICE: $13.00
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| Chionanthus virginicus
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White Fringetree or "Old-man's-beard" (Chionanthus virginicus) is a small, understory tree with showy masses of fragrant, lacy, white flowers that appear in drooping clusters in late spring.
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PRICE: $15.00
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| Cornus amomum
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Cornus amomum or Silky Dogwood is a deciduous, multi-stemmed shrub with 2" diameter, white, flat-topped flowers appearing in May-June. A good shrub for moist to wet sites.
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PRICE: $13.00
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| Cornus florida
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Cornus florida or Flowering Dogwood is an understory tree of eastern forests and one of the United States most popular ornamental but native plants.
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PRICE: $15.00
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| Cornus sericea
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Red Osier Dogwood or Red Twig Dogwood (Cornus sericea) is a shrub with red branches that spreads by underground stems and will produce large clumps. It has flat-topped clusters of white flowers in spring and gorgeous red fall color, in addition to the red stems which provide winter interest to the garden.
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PRICE: $13.00
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| Corylus americana
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American Hazelnut or Filbert (Corylus americana) is a large shrub with edible nuts that will tolerate part to deep shade. It is easy to grow and will form thickets, so it is best for naturalized plantings and where there is plenty of room to spread. Removing suckers will prevent formation of thickets. Nuts attracts songbirds as well as larger birds like bobwhite and ruffed grouse and small mammals. The leaves, twigs, and catkins are browsed by deer.
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PRICE: $15.00
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| Diospyros virginiana
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Diospyros virginiana - Persimmon is a medium-sized tree which grows in deciduous woods and has tasty edible fruit. This tree has high wildlife value, providing food for fruit-eating birds, foxes, opossums, raccoons, skunks, and coyote. Twigs are food source for deer in winter.
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PRICE: $15.00
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| Goldfinch House
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Recycled Bird Houses made from either recycled barns or houses, or from sawmill leftovers. Each birdhouse is different and unique. Handmade by our craftsman in Cass, West Virginia.
Goldfinch House
Place at feeder height, 4-12 feet high. Goldfinches eat dandelions, sunflowers, coreopsis, purple coneflower, serviceberry, birch, hornbeam, sweet gum, mulberry, hemlock, elm, and alder. Goldfinches also nest later in the season, late June to September, preferring to raise their young on the ripening thistle. Birdhouse hole is 1-1/2 inch. House easily opens on the bottom to clean out old nests at the end of the season.
Note: Birdhouses are made from solid wood and are therefore heavy. This requires extra shipping charge.
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PRICE: $20.00
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| Hamamelis virginiana
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Hamamelis virginiana or Witch Hazel is a deciduous, understory large shrub or small tree of woodlands of eastern North America. The latest blooming of woody plants, the yellow spidery flowers appear in October-December. The twigs were used in colonial times as divining rods (water-witching), thus giving the common name to the plant.
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PRICE: $15.00
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| Hydrangea arborescens
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Wild Hydrangea or Smooth Hydrangea (Hydrangea arborescens) is a nice 3-6 foot shrub for part shade. Currently we have a cultivar of this native shrub called "Annabelle". It produces large round clusters of white, sterile flowers. The photo is of this cultivar in summer 2006.
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PRICE: $18.00
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| Ilex opaca
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Ilex opaca - American Holly is a familiar evergreen tree with dark-green, spiky leaf tips. New growth pushes off the old leaves in spring. Songbirds, gamebirds and mammals eat the berries. Used as cover and nesting sites for wildlife.
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PRICE: $20.00
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| Lindera benzoin
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Lindera benzoin - Spicebush
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PRICE: $13.00
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