Help Yourself 6th Perennial Plant Sale! ORDER ONLINE BELOW:
Each spring, we offer low-cost native fruit and nut shrubs and trees, perfect for hedges, yards and gardens, as well as herbaceous perennials. Our proceeds directly fund public planting projects. Sourced from NE nurseries, these perennials will yield abundant fresh fruit, beginning in 3-5yrs, over their long and generous lives with careful planting and good care.
Pricing: 1-5 plants = 9$ ea. | 6-10 plants = 8.50$ ea. | 11-50 plants = 7.50$ ea. | 51+ plants = 6.50$ ea.
Save with Special Bundles - 10 plants for 80$, free shipping!
Each spring, we offer low-cost native fruit and nut shrubs and trees, perfect for hedges, yards and gardens, as well as herbaceous perennials. Our proceeds directly fund public planting projects. Sourced from NE nurseries, these perennials will yield abundant fresh fruit, beginning in 3-5yrs, over their long and generous lives with careful planting and good care.
- Pick up or shipped bare root, 6-18” seedlings at the locations below in May / June.
- Details and payment info by email after placing order.
- No deadline - Spring and fall best for fulfillment, but we may be able to help out of season.
- Pick up: Free in MA and Putney, VT. Shipping available. Pay with check, PayPal or card.
Pricing: 1-5 plants = 9$ ea. | 6-10 plants = 8.50$ ea. | 11-50 plants = 7.50$ ea. | 51+ plants = 6.50$ ea.
Save with Special Bundles - 10 plants for 80$, free shipping!
- Edible hedge: 2 each - juneberry, aronia, hazelnut, beach plum, highbush cranberry
- Native orchard: 3 persimmon, 3 pawpaw, 2 American plum, 2 mulberry
- Medicinal hedge: 2 each - basket willow, nannyberry, elderberry, highbush cranberry, rugosa rose
- Starter Vineyard: 10 Concord grape vines
Persimmon– tree to 25'. Unsexed seedlings, females bear delicious fruit if a male is present, or graft self fertile variety on m/f after 2 yrs. Fruit sweet, delicious, holds through winter.
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Nannyberry – shrubby tree, delicious raisin/banana tasting fruits. 20 ft., medicinal bark. Space 10'. Wetlands tolerant.
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Beach Plum – shrub to 8', wonderful flowers, plums in summer Need 2+ for fruit. 12 ft. Space 6-8'. Does not sucker. Will pollinate other plums. Salt, sand tolerant.
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American Plum – small tree to 15', flowers, plums in summer. Need 2+ for fruit. 12 ft. Space 6-8'. Will pollinate beach/other plums. Will slowly form thicket: transplant or cut suckers.
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Chinese chestnut– to 50', spreading shade tree with sweet nuts. Need 2+ for fruit. Good timber tree. Blight resistant.
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Rugosa (beach) rose – thorny shrub, pink flowers, edible and medicinal hips and flowers. Spreading shrub to 6'. Tolerant of sand, salt. Good for roadsides.
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Paw paw – to 30'. Large, soft, tropical tasting fruit. Tolerates wet soil. Need 2+ for fruit. Fly pollinated in late spring. Long lived, and makes divisible suckers.
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Redbud– Nitrogen fixing tree to 20'. Beautiful, edible, sour red flowers in spring and tender green bean pods in the summer. Great bee forage.
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Black aronia berry – Chokeberry. Nutritious, astringent fruit used for juice. Beautiful spring flowers - pollinator favorite. Shrub to 8'.
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Juneberry – Serviceberry (A. alnifolia). Shrub to 10'. Space 5-8'. Delicious, fruity, sweet berries with cherry / almond flavor. Excellent fresh or dried.
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Black elderberry – shrub to 10'. Prefers moist soil and full sun. Edible and medicinal flowers and fruits (must be cooked.)
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Hazelnut – American species. Seedlings.Excellent hedge. Need 2+ for nuts. Space 5-10'. Good source of coppice wood for kindling, fences, tool handles.
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Chokecherry - shrubby tree to 12'. Beautiful late spring flowers, late summer sweet, tart and mildly astringent fruit. Medicinal bark.
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High-bush cranberry – shrub, flowers for pollinators, sour red nutritious fruit in fall - made into syrups and preserves. Source of cramp bark medicine. 10'
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Sunchoke – (Jerusalem artichoke) spreading, productive sunflower tuber. To 10' ('stampede' variety). Highly productive, stalks good mulch, late summer flower.
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Hops - vigorous vine to 15'. Medicinal flowers used for bittering beer, nutritious, edible shoots in spring as cooked greens.
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Concord grape - Hardy heirloom, New England native. Vine to 20', prune annually to 6-8' for best production. Leaves pickled or cooked veggie. Yields root-able cuttings as pruned.
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Black Mulberry - To 30'. Very fast growing tree. Cut low every few years for bush or hedge. Juicy sweet fruit in July. Graft-able seedlings. Leaves feed silkworms.
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M7 Apple Root-stock - Semi dwarf, hardy apple root stock. Mature tree to 12-15' with decent fruit. Graft this year or within 10. Easy and forgiving skill and root-stock.
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Basket willow - water loving fast growing shrub to 15'. Good for hedge, screening, erosion. Medicinal bark. Use growth for stakes, kindling, weaving, living fences. Roots easily, helps root cuttings.
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Washington Hawthorn- To 20'. Fast growing tree. White flowers in spring feed bees, edible, granola-like, medicinal fruit in the fall good for circulatory system. Rootstock for apple/pear.
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Golden Groundsel - Fast growing, medium high ground cover. Excellent pollinator forage, that competes well to cover large areas. Ideal for larger orchards.
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Goji Berries - Shrub to 6'. Self fertile. Nightshade family. Medicinal and neutraceutical berries full of antioxidants. Edible leaves support gut health.
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Giant Solomon's Seal - Spreading ground cover to 2' high. Subtle flowers feed bees in late spring. Edible shoots like asparagus, medicinal and edible roots taste like sweet potato, used for arthritis.
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Tansy - Clumping flowering ground cover to 3'. Excellent bee forage, fragrant leaves used to preserve fruits, medicinal. Dead stocks good kindling.
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Bee Balm - Clumping flowering ground cover to 3'. Mint family. Edible spicy leaves, sweet flowers. Used medicinally for digestive complaints and bee stings. Excellent nectary plant.
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Egyptian Walking Onion - Clumping and walking perennial onion to 3'. Edible bulbs, scallion like greens, mild tasting flowers and onion sets. Easy to establish patches. Pest confuser.
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Catnip - To 3'. Clumping mint family flower. Pollinators (and cats) love it, excellent medicine for anxiety, digestive complaints and mild sedative. Edible greens.
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Black Walnut - Fast growing, spreading tree to 100'+. Prized wood, coppice/15yrs to control size. Excellent, oil rich, nutritious nuts, medicinal husks. Suppresses other plants in root zone.
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Black currant - Very long lived, clumping shrub. Propagates easily by layering and cutting. Aromatic leaves digestive tea, and fragrant, vitamin rich, antioxidant berries delicious cooked or out of hand.
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Honey Locust - Fast growing leguminous tree. Coppice in orchard for nitrogen fertilizing. Good nectary, edible flowers, immature beans. Pods good livestock fodder and have a small amount of edible sweet paste. Hot burning wood.
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Box Elder - Ash Leafed / Blue Maple. Fast growing wetlands tolerant maple to 40'. Tap for syrup. Excellent coppice and pollard - cut and come again kindling, firewood, poles, mulch, biochar, hugel material.
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Comfrey - Clumping herb to 3'. Nutrient accumulator par excellence. Bee forage, deep medicinal roots and leaves for injury and bone healing. Tasty flowers. Compost tea, livestock food. Plant 2-3 under mature fruit trees at drip line. Tenacious taproot, planting is something of a commitment.
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Dwarf comfrey - Bee forage, clumping perennial to 18" with shorter taproot than officinalis. Easy to control. Likewise medicinal. Clusters of sweet white flowers. Good for smaller fruit trees and polycultures.
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Cup Plant / Silphium - Attractive, uncommon herbaceous wildflower to 7'. Yellow flowers feed many pollinators and cup-like leaves hold water, attracting birds and insects which drink and bathe in summer.
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Red Osier Dogwood - Native, long lived perennial shrub to 10'. White flowers feed bees, fruit loved by birds. Bark old time after-dinner smoke. Slowly suckers. New growth is attractive, smooth and red, used as coppice for wicker and basketry.
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Wetlands Rose - Clumping native perennial, brambly rose to 5'. Tolerant of wet edges. Small, modest flowers used medicinally for heart medicine as are vitamin rich, small rose hips. Spreads slowly.
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Elecampane - Perennial flowering herb to 6'. Yellow flowers attract pollinators. Fragrant, spicy root medicine for respiratory system. Small, wind-spread seeds disperse locally in garden. Easily pulled babies make good mulch.
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Chinese yam / Shan yao / Cinnamon vine. Wild yam family, herbaceous vining perennial to 10' in the NE. Edible, pea sized air potatoes, delicious and medicinal (digestive system tonic) edible taproot.
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Chinese Motherwort / Yi mu cao - Self seeding biennial to 6'. Fragrant, small blossoms are the delight of bees and many pollinators, which will form traffic jams to get to them. Used medicinally.
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Anise hyssop - Mint family nectary to 6'. Purple blossoms feed bees. Flowers and leaves have sweet, licorice flavor good in tea or salads. Medicinal digestive aid, and mild sweetener. Kid favorite.
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Giant Chickweed - Fast growing, mat forming ground cover to 2'. Climbs a little. Profoundly nutritious, good in and out for skin complaints and burns. High in vitamins with mild, cucumber like taste. Small white flowers bee fav. Dies back midsummer, profuse spring and fall.
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Apple Mint - Fast spreading, tall, hardcore mint to 3'. Fuzzy leaves and stems with mild flavor. Excellent bee forage, and amazing ground cover for mature orchards. Requires ongoing control in the garden. Dead stalks good kindling. Planting is a commitment.
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Spearmint - Rapidly spreading, tall, spicy mint to 2'. Leaves and stems edible and medicinal digestive green. Excellent bee forage, and amazing ground cover for mature orchards. Requires ongoing control along paths in the garden. Planting is a commitment.
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Salad burnett - clumping rose family perennial vegetable to 2'. Cooked greens nutritious with slightly nutty, cucumber like taste. Long history of use in Europe. Attractive, pale green compound leaves. Good around fruit trees.
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Yarrow - Spreading, ground covering feathery dark green foliage with flower stalks to 2'. White flowers feed bees, foliage and flowers good tea for fevers, blood cleansing, topical styptic and disinfectant for wounds and nosebleeds. Dried stalks used in I-Ching divination.
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Day lily - Clumping classic garden flower in NA is a commonly grown perennial vegetable in Asia - edible, mild cooked greens (under 1') look like leeks, cooked new potato-like roots, raw and cooked flowers, and cooked okra-like flower buds. Clumping, bee friendly, to 3'.
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Hackberry - Tall, wide elm family tree to 80'. Tolerant of dry sites. Makes a profusion of small fruits the size of peas in the early fall. These have a thin, dry, date-tasting flesh, and are eaten fruit, pit and seed all together, something like peanut butter and jelly.
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Sweet flag - Calamus. Arum family perennial herb tolerant of wetlands. Desires full sun. Very aromatic roots and leaves like ginger, pine and lemon all at once. Stimulating, antibacterial, mental fog clearing. Makes great candies and syrups.
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Turkish mint (Tüylü nane) - Mentha longifolia, Horsemint. Peppermint like flavor, repels rodents, antiseptic, digestive. Antiasthmatic, antispasmodic, stimulant, good for fevers and headaches. Collected wild in Turkey.
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Seaberry, Leikora - slowly spreading, nitrogen fixing thorny shrub to 10'. Leaves look like rosemary. Female plants loaded in late summer with small, tic-tac sized sour orange fruit with incredible nutritional value. Need a male to pollinate.
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Siberian pea shrub - legume family shrub to 12'. Edible, profuse yellow flowers, immature bean pods and dried (cooked) beans. Excellent chicken fodder. Good nitrogen fixer for orchards and hedges.
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NOTE: THE TREES WILL ARRIVE BARE ROOT, WITHOUT SOIL OR POTS. If you don't intend to plant them right away, please consult these resources regarding their care. They will survive some weeks without planting, but will need care! Link: How to plant bare root trees (ArborDay.org) Link: Caring for bare root stock (Lawyer Nursery) |
For inquiries and to order by email: helpyourselfnoho@gmail.com