Native Plants Sales in Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York

Upcoming Native Plant Sales in New York Tri-State 2019

• April 27: Native Plant Sale at Westchester Community College, Valhalla, Westchester County, NY
• May 4-5: New Jersey Botancial Garden Plant Sale, Ringwood, Passaic County, NJ
• May 18 & 19: Lasdon Park Plant Sale and Garden Show, Katonah
• May 10 & 11: Teatown PlantFest
• May 11: Bartlett Arboretum, Stamford, Fairfield County, CT
• May 18 & 19: Audubon Greenwhich, Greenwhich, Fairfield County, CT

I have turned my front and back lawns into habitats for native insects. American lawns are modled after British manor homes. Trying to achieve this archaic ideal has become so standard it’s cliche.

Tall native grasses of the Northeast were decimated to make way for smaller tropical and genetically modified smaller species which are easy to cut.

I’ve learned from untold research that trees, native plants and tall grasses that are allowed to flower provide the most food for native and migrating pollinators like bees and butterflies. Birds that do not migrate also benefit from seeds of mature grasses during the lean winter months when food is scarce.

My yard is a combination of food garden while the remaining is a native and non-native plants. Since I’ve changed from a manor house grass lawn I’ve had so many visitors to my lawn!

So basically, as stated in 1989’s Field of Dreams, “If you build it, they will come.”

Visit the Lady Bird Johnson Native Plant Center for native plants in your part of the United States.