Help Yourself 7th 'Perennial' Plant Sale! 2020 ORDER ONLINE BELOW:
Each spring, we offer over 55 species of low-cost fruit and nut shrubs and trees, perfect for hedges, yards and gardens, as well as herbaceous perennials. 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.
Save with Special Bundles - 10 plants for $80, free shipping!
Each spring, we offer over 55 species of low-cost fruit and nut shrubs and trees, perfect for hedges, yards and gardens, as well as herbaceous perennials. 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 varied locations, MA. Shipping available. Pay with check, PayPal, or card (+3%).
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, schisandra berry, elderberry, highbush cranberry, rugosa rose
- Starter Vineyard: 10 Concord grape vines
TREES
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 a thicket: transplant or cut root shoots.
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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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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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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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Chinese chestnut - to 50', spreading shade tree with sweet nuts. Need 2+ for fruit. Good timber tree. Blight resistant.
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Fig - Brown Turkey variety. Grows readily in containers taken indoors in winter. Can survive winters with some protection (mulching) in zone 6, or fully thrive in Philadelphia and farther south, and coastal cities. Good figs, easy to propagate from cuttings.
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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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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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M7 Apple rootstock - Semi dwarf, hardy apple root stock. Mature tree to 12-15' with decent fruit. Graft this year or within 10. Easy, forgiving skill and good root-stock to work with.
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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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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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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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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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SHRUBS
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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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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Black aronia - Chokeberry. Nutritious, astringent fruit used for juice. Beautiful spring flowers - pollinator favorite. Shrub to 8'.
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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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Black elderberry - shrub to 10'. Prefers moist soil and full sun. Edible and medicinal flowers and fruits (must be cooked.)
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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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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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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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High-bush cranberry - Seedlings. Shrub to 10'. Opposite, maple like leaves. Large, white, umbel flowers and bunches of very tart red berries. Single seed. Decent, vitamin rich syrup in late fall.
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Honeyberry - Haskap. Honeysuckle family, early (May/June) ripening, oval fruit, tastes like a tart blueberry. Very cold hardy. Will need a pollinating partner. If getting 1+, you'll get 50/50 mix of varieties for best pollination. Exceptionally cold hardy.
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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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Nannyberry - shrubby tree, delicious raisin/banana tasting fruits. 20 ft., medicinal bark. Space 10'. Wetlands tolerant.
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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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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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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, indicate if needed.
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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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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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VINES
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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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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Hops - vigorous vine to 15'. Medicinal flowers used for bittering beer, nutritious, edible shoots in spring as cooked greens.
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Schisandra berry - Five flavor berry. Fast growing, abundantly productive climbing vine to 10'. Used as adaptogen, kidney tonic, energizing herb with all five flavors: sweet, sour, salty, bitter, spicy. Need 2+ for pollination.
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HERBS
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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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.
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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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Catnip - Bee friendly, mint family herb to 3'. Slowly clumps and spreads. Medicinal, calming, mildly sedating tea. Good for anxiety, stomach ailments, and deep, dreamy sleep.
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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.
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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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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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Day lily - Attractive orange flowers. Many parts edible: cooked greens under 8", cooked small potato like roots, cooked flower buds, raw, cooked or dry flowers. Common vegetable in China.
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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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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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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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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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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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Golden groundsel - Groundcover to 2'. Thick mats of medium sized green leaves, with dense, bushy yellow flowers. Great pollinator and thick groundcover.
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Horsetail - Scouring rush. 100 million year old group of silica rich, colony forming herbs. Amazing nutritive herb for bone and connective tissue health and repair. Best extracted with vinegar. Polishes metal. Wetland tolerant, dense groundcover.
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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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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.
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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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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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Turkish mint (Tüylü nane) - Mentha longifolia, Horsemint. Peppermint like flavor, repels rodents, antiseptic, digestive. Antiasthmatic, stimulant, good for fevers and headaches. Collected wild in Turkey.
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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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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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Discount stock from Tripple Brook Farm nursery:
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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
