Pre-orders for Garden Kits and Beach Grass for our 2027 Spring Native Plant Sale will open later this winter. Stay tunded for more details coming soon!
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Garden Kit Information:
**All Garden Kits include a landscape plan to cover a 4′ x 10′ area. Garden kits are only available during preorder. ** Each kit is designed to provide a range of blooms and colors to provide interest throughout the growing season, in addition providing pollinator habitat. Below are kit descriptions and anticipated 2026 plant lists for each kit. The plants in each kit vary a little bit every year, but these are some of the species you should expect for 2026 (sometimes the voles get to them first, and changes are made!). When you pick-up your garden kit, we will have updated, accurate landscape plans with the plant species provided via the nursery who grows the kits (Ottawa CD does not grow any plants!). Garden kits are $125, where 6% sales tax and card fee (if buying online) will be added.
A selection of host plants for several butterfly species found in Michigan, and features important nectar plants for adults for early Summer through Fall. This kit is best suited to a full sun location with dry to medium soils.
Example Species: Little Bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium), Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca), Butterfly Weed (Asclepias tuberosa), Wild Lupine (Lupinis perrenis), Golden Alexanders (Zizia aurea), Sweet Everlasting (Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium), Rosinweed (Silphium intergrifolium), Northern Blazing Star (Liatris scariosa), Bergamot (Monarda fistulosa), Yarrow (Achillea millefolium), Sand Coreopsis (Coreopsis lanceolata), Evening Primrose (Oenothera biennis), Smooth Blue Aster (Symphyotrichum laevis), Stiff Goldenrod (Oligioneuron rigidum).
Native Michigan warm and cool season prairie grasses for season- long interest and a low maintenance native planting. This kit is best suited to a full sun location with dry to medium soils.
Example Species: Big Bluestem (Andropogon gerardii), Indian Grass (Sorghastrum nutans), Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum), Little Bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium), Canada Wild Rye (Elymus canadensis), Side Oats Grama (Bouteloua curtipendula), Brown Fox Sedge (Carex vulpinoida), June Grass (Koeleria cristata), Purple Love Grass (Erogrostis spectabilis), Prairie Dropseed (Sporobolus heterolepsis), Plains Oval Sedge (Carex brevior).
A mix of several Michigan native milkweeds for Monarch caterpillars, as well as vital nectar plants for adult butterflies from early Summer through Fall migration. This kit is best suited to areas with full sun exposure and dry to medium soils.
Example Species: Big Bluestem (Andropogon gerardii), Butterfly Weed (Asclepias tuberosa), Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca), Bergamot (Monarda fistulosa), Purple Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea), Hoary Vervain (Verbena hastata), Early Sunflower (Heliopsis helianthoides), Rough Blazing Star (Liatris aspera), Yarrow (Achillea millefolium), Showy Coneflower (Rudbeckia fulgida), Prairie Coreopsis (Coreopsis palmata), New England Aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae), Showy Goldenrod (Solidago speciosa).
Michigan wildflower species selected to support a wide array of pollinators (wild bees, wasps, butterflies, moths and skippers) from Spring through Fall. This kit is best suited to an area with full sun exposure and dry to medium soils.
Example Species: New Jersey Tea (Ceanothus americanus), Wild Columbine (Aquilegia canadensis), Hairy Beardtongue (Penstemon hirsutus), False Boneset (Brickellia eupatorioides), Mountain Mint (Pycnanthemum virginianum), Showy Coneflower (Rudbeckia fulgida), Horsemint (Monarda punctata ), Northern Blazing Star (Liatris scariosa ), Tall Coreopsis (Coreopsis lanceolata), Rattlesnake Master (Eryngium yuccifolium), Sky Blue Aster (Symphyotrichum oolentangiense), Showy Goldenrod (Solidago speciosa), Hairy Goldenrod (Solidago hispida).
Tailored for planting in designed Rain Gardens, these species are able to tolerate flooding during spring runoff or rain events, as well as drier conditions, all while providing wildlife habitat and a vibrant mix of blooms.
Example Species: Brown Fox Sedge (Carex vulpinoidea), Swamp Milkweed (Asclepia incarnata), Mountain Mint (Pycnanthemum virginianum), Sneezeweed (Helenium autumnale), Ironweed (Vernonicastrum virginicum), Marsh Blazing Star (Liatris spicata), Black Eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta), Wild Blue Iris (Iris versicolor), Early [Oxeye] Sunflower (Heliopsis helianthoides), Purple Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea), Yellow Avens (Geum allepicum), New England Aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae), Riddell’s Goldenrod (Oligioneuron ridellii).
Perfect for planting in woodland settings featuring a mix of light sun and shade, featuring species to provide color and attract pollinators in Spring, Summer and Fall.
Example Species: Bottlebrush Grass (Elymus hystrix), Foxglove Beardtongue (Penstemon digitalis), Tall Bellflower (Campanula americana), Wild Columbine (Aquilegia canadensis), Bergamot (Monarda fistulosa), Golden Alexanders (Zizia aurea), Hairy Woodmint (Blephilia hirsuta), Wild Strawberry (Fragaria virginiana), Sweet Joe Pye Weed (Eutrochium purpureum), Black Eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta), Thimbleweed (Anenome cylindrica), Big Leaf Aster (Eurybia macrophylla), Bluestem Goldenrod (Solidago caesia).
Designed for planting near the water’s edge along Northern Michigan lakes and streams. A selection of native shoreline plants to provide erosion control, critical pollinator habitat as well as color and interest from Spring through Fall. This kit is best suited to full sun exposure and medium to wet soils. For drier shoreline slopes we recommend our Butterfly Garden kits.
Example species include: Meadowsweet (Spiraea alba), Blue Vervain (Verbena hastata), Swamp Milkweed (Asclepias incarnata), Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis), Great Blue Lobelia (Lobelia siphilitica), Wild Blue Iris (Iris versicolor ), Boneset (Eupatorium perfoliatum ), Joe Pye Weed (Eutrochium maculatum), Fireweed (Chamaenerion angustifolium), Dark Green Bulrush (Scirpus atrovirens), Purple Meadow Rue (Thalictrum dasycarpum), Swamp Aster (Symphyotricum puniceum), Bog Goldenrod (Solidago uliginosa).
A mix of taller native bunchgrasses and wildflowers to provide height, color and robust habitat throughout the growing season. This kit is best suited to a full sun exposure area with dry to medium soils.
Example species include: Big Bluestem (Andropogon gerardii), Indian Grass (Sorghastrum nutans), Foxglove Beardtongue (Penstemon digitalis), Tall Coreopsis (Coreopsis tripteris), Rosinweed (Silphium interfrifolium), Prairie Dock (Silphium terebinthinaceum), Ironweed (Veronia missurica), Culver’s Root (Vernonicastrum virginicum), Greyheaded Cone (Ratibida pinnata), Hoary Vervain (Verbena stricta), Pale Purple Coneflower (Echinacea pallida), Smooth Blue Aster (Symphyotrichum laevis), Stiff Goldenrod (Oligioneuron rigidum).
Each garden kit comes in a standard 38 plug plant flat. So they will fit in your vehicle easily! The plants themselves, using the provided landscape plan with each kit, will cover a 4’x10′ area.
Beach Grass Information:
Beach Grass is sold in 100 stems per single bundle. Beach grass is only available during preorder, is $35 per bundle, where 6% sales tax and card fee (if buying online) will also be added.
WHEN: We recommend planting from October 1st through April 30th. In temperate areas, the window can be extended by a couple of weeks earlier in the fall, and later in the spring. In general, the temperatures and rainfall amounts before or after these dates make it too dry and warm to support a bare root plant.
SPACING: We recommend spacing your Beachgrass 12” apart in rows and space those rows 12” apart from each other. Staggering the rows will help in collecting more sand and thus building the dune quicker. This spacing would give you 1 plant for every 1 square foot of the dune. If the area is very flat and protected from high winds, sometimes beachgrass is planted 18” apart, which uses fewer plants, however, it will take longer to establish the dune system. If the area is very steep and needs to establish more quickly, then the grasses can be planted on a 6” spacing.
HOW: We recommend a two-person team when planting Beachgrass. One person uses the shovel and places their foot on the step to drive it deep into the sand. They then push the handle forward and pull it backward thus creating a “V” in the sand, while keeping the shovel in the hole to hold the sand in place, the other person on the team now places a plant into the hole on the backside of the shovel. The first person now pulls the shovel from the hole and firmly packs the loose sand around the plant with their feet.
A bundle of 100 beach grass stems fits in a grocery bag! It will easily fit in your vehicle!