New River Chapter of VNPS
2025 Annual Native Plant Sale
Saturday, May 17th, from 10 am to 2 pm (Rain or Shine!)
Location: 300 Pepper Street, Christiansburg, VA (known as the Montgomery Museum garden). Park along the street, or in parking lot behind the property
First come, first served! We accept cash, credit cards, or checks.
Limit of 3 plants per species. All Plants MUST be picked up this day (have a friend or neighbor do it for you, if necessary)
Our plant sale in 2025 will include large native perennial plugs, along with potted native trees and shrubs donated from the 2025 NRV Master Gardener plant sale. For more information, contact Brenda Graff at Graff_Brenda@hotmail.com
There will also be a raffle to help fundraise for our chapter's grant program. Tickets are $5 each, or 5 for $20. The three raffle items include:
- a $50 gift certificate from Crow's Nest in Price's Fork
- a $50 gift certificate from Wood Thrush Natives in Floyd
- 8"x10" framed print of a bluebird by local photographer Joyce Sims.
Lists below updated as of 5/12/25
Native Plugs (source: North Creek Nursery, in PA)
$4 each
These will be large bare root plugs (not potted), and are ready to plant into the ground or you can pot them up to be planted out later. For detailed descriptions of these plants, visit: https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/
Sweetflag, American (Acorus americanus)
Maidenhair fern, northern (Adiantum pedatum)
Pussytoes (Antennaria plantaginifolia) - CROP FAILURE
Purple Poppy Mallow (Callirhoe involucrate) - substitute for Pussytoes
Swamp milkweed (Asclepias incarnata)
Sedge, Appalachian (Carex appalachica)
Sea Oats, northern (Chasmanthium latifolium)
Honeysuckle, coral 'Major Wheeler' (Lonicera sempervirens)
Mountain mint, Appalachian (Pycnanthemum flexuosum)
Goldenrod, zigzag (Solidago flexicaulis)
Grass, prairie dropseed (Sporobolus heterolepis)
Culver's root (Veronicastrum virginicum)
Potted Native Perennials (courtesy of Beth Umberger)
Purple clematis (Clematis occidentalis), 20 quarts for $9 ea
Starry Rosinweed (Silphilium asteriscus, local ecotype), 7 quarts for $5 ea, 10 gallons for $9 ea
Hoary Skullcap (Scutellaria incase), 5 quarts for $5 ea
Potted Native Trees and Shrubs (donated by the NRV Master Gardeners) - prices vary
Black oak (Quercus nigra) - 9 pots ($3 ea)
Chestnut Oak (Quercus montana) - 2 pots. ($3 ea)
Northern red Oak (Quercus rubra) - 2 pots. ($3 ea)
Red maple (Acer rubrum) - 1 pot ($1)
Sugar maple (Acer saccharum) - 1 pot. ($1)
Silky dogwood (Cornus amomum) - 3 pots ($2 ea)
Sourwood (Oxydendrum arboreum) - 2 pots ($2 ea)
Ash - white ash (Fraxinus americana) - 1 pot ($3)
Yellow buckeye (Aesculus flava) - 2 pots ($5 ea)
Black Willow (Salix nigra) - 9 pots ($5 ea)
American beech (Fagus grandifolia) - 1 pot ($3)
Boxelder (Acer negundo) - 1 pot ($10)
Fothergilla (species unknown) - 1 pot ($2)
Seeds $2/pack (courtesy of Beth Umberger)
Rattlesnake Master (Eryngium yuccifolium)
New York Ironweed (Vernonia noveboracensis, local ecotype)
New England Aster (Symphyotrichum novae-anglae, local ecotype)
Monarda (variety unknown)
Starry Rosinweed (Silphilium asteriscus, local ecotype)
Freshly dug native perennials
New England aster (Symphyotrichum novae-anglae) - $5 per clump
Wood poppy (Stylophorum diphyllum) - $1 ea