In the Capital Region and neighboring counties, many businesses can help enhance your garden with beautiful and beneficial native plants. Below you’ll find alphabetical listings of plant sources identified by members. Some native-focused nurseries operate seasonally or by appointment; others do business only via online orders or special events. So please call, email or check the websites to confirm hours and plant inventories before visiting. (Read our shopping tips for 2025)
Remember that Wild Ones does not endorse any individual businesses.
Share your feedback or recommend new plant sources here: [email protected]. By choosing to go native, you can help wildlife and natural landscapes thrive in your community. Happy shopping!
THACHER NATIVE PLANT SALE: MAY 17, 2025
Capital Region NY Wild Ones joins forces with Friends of Thacher State Park and the Emma Treadwell Nature Center to host a sale of native seedlings at the Thacher Overlook. Learn more.
LOCAL NURSERIES
Barkaboom Native Plants
This Margaretville nursery specializes in New York State indigenous plants. Nearly all plants are grown from local ecotype or New York provenance seed, using organic methods. Plants are available each spring through customizable plug trays or throughout the season at events. Order plugs or find the schedule for farmers’ markets and pop-up sales on the website.
Capital Native Plants
Located in Troy, this nursery offers online ordering with free pickup and local delivery of in-stock plants. During growing season, their website features dates for upcoming sales at farmers markets and pop-up locations.
Catskill Native Nursery
Open since 1999, the nursery inspires gardeners to create biodiverse and ornamental gardens using plants native to eastern North America. They sell native plant straight species as well as cultivars and nativars. Check the site for hours. No online orders. (607 Samsonville Rd., Kerhonkson NY 12446)
Flower Power Native Plant Nursery
This Dutchess County nursery focuses on native species with no insecticides, no herbicides and no weed killers. Check the site for updated hours and plant inventory. (144-148 Pritcher Lane, Red Hook, NY 12571)
Gade Farm
A long-established family business with plants, produce and garden supplies, Gade Farm grows everything locally, without neonicotinoids. The nursery manager will help you identify straight species and avoid cultivars. (2479 Western Ave. Guilderland, NY)
Greene Bees Greenhouse Ltd.
Greene Bees offers a rotating list of trees, shrubs, and fruits, along with vegetable varieties and perennials. Their inventory includes native and non-native plants, but they strive to grow plants that complement our native flora.(2744 County Route 20, Cornwallville, NY 12418)
Helia Native Nursery
The nursery grows native perennials, trees and shrubs, preserving native genotypes through seed banking. Helia offers plants, including many rare varieties, to landscapers, homeowners and nature enthusiasts. The nursery is on a dirt road in Berkshire County, MA, so check their site for directions. (Stockbridge, MA)
IMAGINE Native Plant Farm
Launched in 2024 by Home Earth Alliance, Imagine plant farm aims to help build the supply of native plants that are from and for the ecoregions within the Capital Region. Imagine partners with Bioreserve, a nonprofit organization with land in Glenmont. Visits by appointment.
Nasami Farm
Nasami Farm is the nursery center for the 100-year-old Native Plant Trust. The farm grows New England native plants from seed harvested sustainably from healthy, well-established wild populations. The goal is to ensure genetic diversity to offset the clones sold by traditional nurseries and to build resilience into a landscape facing change. (128 North Street, Whately, MA 01373)
One Nature Plant Nursery
One Nature Plant Nursery specializes in native, edible, and medicinal plants. Its goals are to protect local plants, promote biodiversity and cultivate plants with a genetic lineage rooted in the region. The nursery is open for visits seasonally but also offers online orders for pickup and delivery to some locations. (3 Old Glenham Rd, Beacon, NY 12508)
Peacetree Organic Plants
Peace Tree Plants offers sustainable, diverse agriculture for your backyard. They sell vegetables, herbs and flowers, including natives. (219 Middle Rd., Schoharie, NY 12157)
A Promise to Gaia
This nature sactuary offers in person plants sales on certain dates and visits by appointment. They also run a plant buying collective focused on native edible medicinal pollinator host plants, in addition to other conservation efforts. (60 Thunder Hill Rd, Rensselaerville, NY)
Wild Things Rescue Nursery
This rural nursery located near the Tomhannock Reservoir presents a wide variety of native plants, shrubs and trees surrounded by native gardens and woodlands. Take some time and tour the garden, which is open long hours during the season. The proprietor will offer advice to buyers on plant selection, garden design and tips for success. (209 Brundige Road, Valley Falls NY 12185)
SALE EVENTS
Watch the calendar for periodic sales at these locations.
Landis Arboretum
Since its inception in 1951, the Landis Arboretum has been a premier “Garden of Trees and Shrubs” in the Capital Region. The arboretum offers periodic plant sales including native offerings. (174 Lape Rd, Esperance, NY 12066)
Saratoga Tree Nursery Seedling Sale
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s Saratoga Tree Nursery produces tree and shrub seedlings every spring for conservation plantings. The nursery’s annual spring seedling sale is open to residents of New York and bordering states. Seedlings are grown from native New York seed sources when available. Order by phone for spring pickup.
Wild Bird Junction
Devoted to the love of backyard birds, this business supplies bird feeding hobbyists with seeds and equipment., In warmer months, they offer occasional sales of plants that benefit the environment and the birds. (308 Delaware Ave, Delmar, New York, NY 12054)
ONLINE ORDERING
Ernst Conservation Seeds
Founded 60 years ago in Pennsylvania, Ernst Conservation Seeds grows, processes and sells hundreds of species of native and naturalized seeds and live plant materials. The family-owned company, which is the largest native seed producer and supplier in the eastern U.S., offers planting guides for native and naturalized seed projects.
Garden for Wildlife
Garden for Wildlife is a for-profit company that strives to make native plants accessible to more people, and so further the conservation mission of the National Wildlife Federation. The company sells scientifically-backed, sustainably grown native plants that beautify landscapes and also create habitats where wildlife can thrive
Hudson Valley Seed Company
This Ulster County based seed supplier’s mission is rooted in organic growing, climate resilience, and positive environmental impact. The company sells a wide variety of seeds including many natives via mail order and in retail outlets. They occasionally host in-person events. (4737 Route 209, Accord, NY 12404)
Izel Native Plants
Based in Washington, D.C., Izel Native Plants consolidates the inventories of several native plant nurseries in a user-friendly website. They give customers access to a greater selection of native plants in one website than could be found through any individual nursery. No plants are wild-collected and no neonicotinoids are using on growing plants.
Prairie Nursery, Inc.
This Wisconsin-based nursery prides itself on delivering quality native plants and seeds — along with expert information — to gardeners, landowners, landscape designers and project managers. They view native plants as an empowering choice that supports life, biodiversity, sustainability, and soil and water conservation. The website promises: “Prairie Nursery is, and always has been, neoticotinoid-free.”
Prairie Moon Nursery
The company website promises the largest native plant collection available for retail sales in the United States. Drawing from a network of growers across the Midwest, Prairie Moon Nursery supplies more than 700 North American species. They promise to only sell only authentic, wild-type native plants, not cultivated varieties bred by the horticultural industry.