Authentic Long Island Native Plants and Tick Prevention

We'll help you find the best plants for your outdoor living space,  explaining a plant's habits, sun/shade needs, soil requirements, deer resistance, and more.​
Please contact us before placing an online order as our inventories may not have been recently updated, and we want to help optimize your plant selection. 

Pickup at:
  • Our home grown nursery in Port Jefferson, contact us   
  • Port Jefferson Farmers Market (Sundays,9-2, HarborFront)
  • Also check upcoming Events we'll be offering and attending​
Lateflowering Thoroughwort (Eupatorium serotinum) -  a naturalized, native perennial,  needs room. Great for grasslands, fields, borders or in its own space . Maintain by spring mowing or cutting.  Great for honey bees, butterflies, and other pollinators.  

Gardening Ideas Benefit Long Island with Native Plants

​Create peace and serenity by introducing native plants into your garden. Birds, bees, butterflies, and pollinators will be attracted to your evolving landscape.  Begin with pollinator garden or drift plantings, consider how to garden for wildlife. We'll help tie in plant needs.

Theme Gardening

Pollinator gardens or rain gardens focus attention to singular aspects of a natural landscape. Their primary use of native plants qualify them as natural landscapes with additional focus on aesthetics and blooming times.  Native grasses can be added to provide additional wildlife cover and habitat, but the primary focus is on wildflowers.  Rain gardens are designed with a variety of native plants that are best suited for areas of poor drainage. ​
Drift plantings group likes minded plants together. Grouped together they form colorful arrangements.

Gardening For Wildlife

The practice of gardening for wildlife is to protect what's natural, remove invasives, and plant what is missing and wildlife friendly. Field guides will help you identify the invasives, like porcelain berry, exemplified in this video (on right). The best way to learn about invasives is to intern or volunteer with someone actively pulling weeds. 
Julie Sullivan, Go Native Long Island is using pliers to pull out invasive porcelain berry in Carpenter Farm Park, Huntington, NY. In the video she'd discussing Professor Doug Tallamy's new book on natural landscaping.
Planting Notes
  • Full Sun (6 hours or more of direct sunlight) - Partial Sun/Shade (4-6 hours of daylight)