Rain date: Sunday, September 27th
Looking to incorporate more native plants into your yard? Stop by our Farm Stand on Saturday, September 26 from 10am to 4pm to purchase our farm-grown native plants. Plants will be available as ready to plant plugs.
About the Native Plant Program
The Native Plant Program at Hilltop Hanover Farm is a farm-based initiative focused on strengthening and expanding local biodiversity by increasing the number of ecotype plants available in the community. Our native plant nursery specializes in seed-propagated, local ecotype species, native to our region. Starting with quality seed, grown here at the farm, and by using all organic practices, we produce healthy seedlings that foster biodiversity.
Why Plant Native Plants?
Westchester lands, including forests, wetlands, meadows on both public and private spaces, are under threat. Depleted soil, new plant diseases and invasive species are taking a tremendous toll—as are the combined pressures of climate change, pollution and development. Preserving and expanding areas where native plants are grown is a powerful way to combat these overarching environmental threats, while also supporting animal and insect populations that are essential to a healthy ecosystem. Highly biodiverse ecosystems are more resilient and adaptable; they improve the soil, prevent erosion, protect against flooding, lower temperatures at the ground, and clean the air.
Pricing
- Individual ready to plant plugs - $4 each
Build your own nursery flat (50 plugs) - $150
Species List
- Ageratina altissima - white snakeroot
- Anaphalis margaritacea - pearly everlasting
- Andropogon viginicus - broomsedge bluestem
- Antennaria neglecta - narrow leaved pussytoes
- Aquilegia canadensis - red columbine
- Asclepias incarnata - swamp milkweed
- Asclepias syriaca - common milkweed
- Carex lurida - sallow sedge
- Carex rosea - rosy sedge
- Cicata maculata - spotted cowbane
- Chamaecrista nictitans - sensitive pea
- Cryptotaenia canadensis - honewort
- Danthonia spicata - poverty oat grass
- Deschampsia flexuosa - wavy haired grass
- Dicanthelium clandestinum - deertongue
- Doellingeria umbellata - flat topped aster
- Helenium autumnale - sneezeweed
- Helianthus decapetalus - thin leaved sunflower
- Lespedeza capitata - round leaved bushclover
- Lespedeza hirta - hairy bushclover
- Lobelia cardinalis - cardinal flower
- Lobelia siphilitica - great blue lobelia
- Monarda fistulosa - wild bergamot
- Oenethera biennis - evening primrose
- Panicum virgatum - switchgrass
- Patis racemosa - black fruited mountain ricegrass
- Pycnanthemum tenuifolium - narrow leaved mountainmint
- Solidago caesia - bluestem goldenrod
- Solidago flexicaulis - zigzag goldenrod
- Solidago odora - sweet scented goldenrod
- Symphyotrichum cordifolium - heart leaved aster
- Symphyotrichum patens - spreading aster
- Verbena hastata - blue vervain
Zizia aurea - golden alexander
List is subject to change based on availability
Additional information about each species coming soon