Sneak Peek: NPSF Spring’19 Plant Sale Is Three Weeks Away

Here’s some eye candy to look forward to!

*This blog was originally posted on 4/16/19. I am sharing again today (5/7/2020) to excite our community for the 2020 Online Spring Plant Sale, going LIVE this Mother’s Day (5/10/2020).

Sign up on our 2020 Online Plant Sale list and be first to hear when the sale goes LIVE

Spring Plant Sale will open online soon. Supplies are limited, be ready with your wishlist when the sale opens!

Sale will include a diversity of native prairie perennials, wetland and upland woody plants, berries and other edibles, plus water-wise cultivars. Get inspired this spring to transform your landscape into a pollinator haven, foraging paradise or water-wise wonderland!

NPSF can supply the plants and some nifty ideas from our community of Green Thumbs. Keep up with our calendar and join us at a workshop or Plant ID Walk. The Spring Plant Sale is just the beginning to a great season of learning in the PNW.

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Giant Camas - Camassia leichtlinii

Full sun to part shade. Blooms of blue/purple star shaped flowers grace 2.5-4 stems from April to may. tolerant of dry clay soils.

Lomatium utriculatum - Spring Gold

Sun loving (cannot live in shade) perennial in the carrot family; Native to prairies and other open often rocky places west of the Cascades.

Ribes divaricatum - Black Coastal Gooseberry

Sun to partial shade; shrub reaching 3m; armed at nodes; beautiful fuchsia-like flowers that group in 2 or 3; fruit is a sweet-tasting berry up to 1cm wide which is black when ripe.

Achillea Moonshine - Moonshine Yarrow

Full sun; silver-grey foliage with with lemon-yellow flower clusters that cover the plant all summer long; highly adaptable to water and soil needs. Great perennial border plant.

Ribes sanguineum - Red-flowering Currant

Full to partial sun; 6' tall; carmine red flowers in spring; thrives in rocky, well drained soil in sunny locations and less well in heavy soils and shade; certainly one of the most beloved and showy PNW Native shrubs.

Rubus leucodermis - Black-cap Raspberry

Sun to part shade. One of our most prized native berries! Canes grow to about 6-ft tall over time; striking blue-white bark stands out in the part-shade landscape.

Trillium parviflorum - Small-flowered Trillium

Moist soil and shade dependent; perennial herb; spreads by underground rhizomes. Differs from more common T. ovatum by size and timing of flowers and modeled pattern on leaves.

Symphoricarpos albus & S. mollis- Snowberry

Sun to shade; 3-6'; PNW native great for many sites, revegetation, slope stability. Tiny pink flowers provide months of nectar to pollinators, showy white berries enhance the winter landscape!

Polystichum munitum - Sword Fern

Part shade-shade; 3'-5' tall; likes humus rich soil, but tolerant of variety. Hardy king of NW native ferns!

Rubus spectabilis - Salmonberry

Part shade to full shade; 6-12'; PNW native with an early nectar source for rufous hummingbirds: magenta flowers, turning to edible salmonberries by midsummer.

Rosa gymnocarpa - Baldhip Rose

Part sun to partial shade. The most delicate and least aggressive of our PNW native roses. Small, lightly fragrant pink flowers in spring, followed by red-orange fruits lacking the "crown" (sepals). Tiny, needle-like prickles. Typically grows 4-6 feet tall.

Trillium ovatum- Western Trillium

Shade-loving perennial herb; spreads by underground rhizomes. Each plant has 1 or 2 flowering stalks, each up to 50 cm tall. Flowers are white or pink, the color sometimes becoming darker as they get older. 

Amelanchier alnifolia - Serviceberry

Partial to full sun; deciduous shrub or small tree that grows to 1–8 m. Growth form spans from suckering to clumped. The fruit is a small purple pome ripening in early summer.

Oemleria cerasiformis - Osoberry

Partial shade to shade; up to 15' tall; This deciduous shrub does fine in poor soil conditions. First to bud its bright green leaves in the spring, this shrub develops dangling white clusters of flowers. As one of the first species to flower in the spring, it is an important plant for pollinators, and its late summer fruits are favored by many birds!

Athyrium filix-femina - Lady Fern

Feathery species of fern which grows well in shady, damp woodland environments, though it does tolerate dry situations better than most ferns; deciduous.

Order online, then pick-up at the NPSF Nursery!

Native Plant Salvage Foundation is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) charitable organization with the goals of providing hands on education to protect and conserve water resources and habitat from the South Sound prairies to the shores of the Salish Sea. Support NPSF and our environment by making sustainable changes to your landscape and purchasing low-maintenance water-wise or native plants from our Spring Plant Sale.