New River Chapter of VNPS
2026 Annual Native Plant Sale

Saturday, May 16th, 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. All proceeds (except for the Live Work Eat Grow plants) will go towards the grant programs of the New River Chapter of VNPS.

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 2026 will include native perennial plugs and pots, along with potted native trees and shrubs.  For more information, contact Brenda Graff at Graff_Brenda@hotmail.com

Our sale this year will also include plants from the Native Plant Propagation Center at the Hale Community Garden in Blacksburg.  Their plant proceeds will help fund their propagation center program, sponsored by Live Work Eat Grow.

Raffle tickets are $5 each, or 5 for $20.  The raffle items include gift certificates from 3 local native plant nurseries (including Crow's Nest, Wood Thrush Natives, and Draper Springs Nursery), a small pot of the rare Torrey's mountain mint, and a t-shirt featuring the VNPS 2026 wildflower of the year.

Lists below updated as of 5/11/26:

Native Plugs (source: North Creek Nursery, in PA)
$5 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.

Grass, broomsedge (Andropogon virginicus)

Milkweed, common (Asclepias syriaca)

Sedge, Eastern star (Carex radiata)

Cardinal flower, blue or great blue lobelia (Lobelia siphilitica)

Christmas fern (Polystichum acrostichoides)

Mountain mint, short-toothed (Pycnanthemum muticum)

Goldenrod, zigzag (Solidago flexicaulis)

Foamflower (Tiarella cordifolia)

Wild Strawberry (Fragaria virginiana) - Not a plug, donated by a member

CROP FAILURE - Tall white beardtongue or Penstemon (Penstemon digitalis)

CROP FAILURE - Boneset, American (Eupatorium perfoliatum)

 

Potted native perennials (donations)

(Limited quantities, and individually priced)

Tree and shrub seedlings from both the Virginia Dept of Forestry and donations from the Master gardeners plant sale this spring

(Limited quantities, and individually priced)

Buttonbush, Common (Cephalanthus occidentalis)

Persimmon (Diospyros virginiana)

Magnolia, Sweet Bay (Magnolia Virginian)

American Hazelnut (Corylus americana)

Arrowwood Viburnum (Viburnum dentatum)

 

FREE Native Plants (Donated by our member, Carol Schwobel)
Location: Next to checkout

Limited number of plants, available on a first-come, first-served basis
One plant per family (no purchase necessary)
Varieties include silky dogwood, cardinal flower, and more...

Live Work Eat Grow plants and seeds for sale

(Please pay for their plants at their own table)

Proceeds from their plants listed below are supporting their Native Plant Propagation Center located at the Hale Community Garden in Blacksburg. (These proceeds do not fund the New River Chapter of the Virginia Native Plant Society)

Small 2 quart pots $7
Large 1.5 gallon pots $10

Tall thimbleweed (Anemone virginiana), 8 small, 1 large
Fringed sedge (Carex crinita), 1 large
Rattlesnake master (Eryngium yuccifolium), 24 small
Yellow sneezeweed (Helenium autumnale), 2 small
Great blue lobelia (Lobelia siphilitica), 2 small, 1 large
Scarlet beebalm (Monarda didyma), 3 small, 1 large
Wild bergamot (Mondara fistulosa), 2 small, 1 large
Calico beardtongue (Penstemon calycosus), 7 small, 7 large
Obedient plant (Physostegia virginiana), 9 small, 3 large
Torrey's mountain mint (Pycnanthemum torreyi, extremely rare local ecotype), 3
small, 1 large
Starry rosinweed (Silphilium asteriscus, local ecotype), 16 small
Smooth blue aster (Symphyotrichum laeve), 15 small, 2 large

Dry seeds: $2/packet

Stratified seeds: $4/packet