Our plant selection varies throughout the year and has expanded to include over 3,000 products, including dry goods, pottery, books, and other gardening essentials. Below we have some examples of the wide variety we offer but to get the best idea, is to visit us for yourselves! If you want to inquire about a specific plant, please do call us on 828-369-9778 or use our contact form. If we don’t have it, there’s a good chance we can order it for you.

Learn more by clicking on the plant type in the list below:

Perennials
Edibles
Sun Shrubs
Shade Shrubs
Annuals
Ornamental Grasses
House Plants & Orchids
Trees

Perennials

By far our most diverse collection, we have tables and tables full of sun and shade-loving perennials in quart pot sizes and gallons, and occasionally larger. Perennials are a great choice if you only want to plant one time but enjoy returning plants every year. You can plant a perennial garden to provide different spots of color throughout the year, as well as designing it to attract pollinators and to feed birds. Staple perennials are listed below:

Sun-lovers:

Tickseed / Coreopsis
Coneflower / Echinacea
Geranium / Cranesbill
Crocosmia / Montbretia
Daylilies
Phlox
Aster
Golden Rod
Honeysuckle
Iris
Joe Pye Weed
Lilies
Milkweed
Rose Mallow
Rudbeckia
Salvia
Stoke’s Aster
Wandflower / Gaura lindheimeri
Spurge / Euphorbia
Yarrow
Groundcover plants, including stonecrop (sedum), low creeping plants, toe-ticklers, ivy and more
Grasses and Sedges

Shade:

Coral Bells
Hostas
Foamflowers
Foxgloves
Lupines
Ferns
Hellebore / Lenten Rose

Edibles

Although our farm can provide many fresh vegetables and herbs via our CSA or at the weekly Franklin Farmer’s Market, there’s nothing quite like tasting your own fruits, vegetables, and culinary herbs picked fresh from the garden.

The plants we typically have on-hand are: apples and crabapples, pears, raspberries, blackberries, strawberries, grapes, elderberries, quince, asparagus, rhubarb, and culinary herbs. Grow your own gourmet vegetables and edible flowers. All of our vegetable and flower seeds are non-GMO, and we offer a wide selection of heirloom and open-pollinated varieties.

Our selections will vary throughout the year so please pop by any time to see our current range and to ask one of our plant experts the best time of year and plants most well suited to your garden.

Sun Shrubs

A great way to fill your landscape is by using shrubs – they come in a variety of shapes, sizes and colors and can offer seasonal beauty both with their foliage, blooms and berries. If you have an area of your garden with full sun, a great plant to consider is sun shrub. Some of our common sun-loving shrubs are:

Hydrangea – wide variety including Anabelle, Invincibelle, Bloomstruck, Glowing Embers, Star Gazer, Twist-n-Shout,Endless Summer, Bobo, Tuff/Tiny Tuff Stuff, White Diamond and more
Abelia
Serviceberry
Beautyberry
Chokeberry
Butterfly Bush
Honeysuckle
Hibiscus
John’s Wort
Ninebark
Cinquefoil / Potentilla
Spirea
Lilac
Viburnum
Weigela

Shade Shrubs

Much like sun shrubs, shade shrubs can offer a lot of diversity your garden, from short bushes to tall hedges, bloom-producers or interesting foliage, evergreen or deciduous. So, for your part shade or full shade spots, we have a variety of plants to fit your specific needs.

Bottlebrush Buckeye
Beautyberry
Sweetshrub / Calycanthus
Rhododendron
Pepperbush / Clethra
Fothergilla
Oakleaf Hydrangea
Sweetspire / Itea
Dog Hobble / Leucothoe
Pieris
Laurels
Azaleas
Viburnum

Annuals

Annuals, plants which complete their life cycle in one growing season, are all about adding bright colors, which not only add visual interest to your gardens but also attract pollinators. They typically have a long blooming period and are often in bloom at the time of purchase, which means instant satisfaction! We love perennials but it’s hard to argue that having a different pop of color in your garden every year makes for an ever-changing scene, year to year.

Depending on the season, we typically offer the following plants and more:

Hanging Baskets
Marigold
Geranium
Vinca
Zinnia
Impatiens
Begonia
Petunia
Nasturtium
Celosia
Snapdragon
Pansy
Chrysanthemum (aka Mums)
Dahlia
Potato Vine

Ornamental Grasses

We love ornamental grasses – they’re elegant and add an amazing clump of texture to your garden scape. Grasses grow in all shapes and sizes, below is a list of the many varieties of grasses, sedges and rushes that we typically carry:

Feather Reed Grass / Calamagrostis brachytricha
Gray’s Sedge / Carex greyi
Pennsylvania Sedge / Carex pennsylvanica
Appalachian Sedge / Carex appalachica
Everillo Sedge / Carex oshimensis
Northern Sea Oats / Chasmanthium latifolium
Dwarf Maiden Grass / Miscanthus sinensis
Pink Muhly Grass / Muhlenbergia capillaris
Mondo Grass / Ophiopogon Japonicus
Switchgrass Panicum virgatum – various cultivars
Blue Eyed Grass / Sisyrinchium angustifolium

Houseplants and Orchids

We are happy to have a local house plant expert delivery some of the finest house plants direct to our door. Houseplants are great for everyone but we have found people who rent or have small outside spaces particularly enjoy the benefits of house plants. Just some of the commonly related benefits are: reduction in carbon dioxide (makes breathing easier) , an increase in humidity levels (which also helps with respiration), air purification, a general increase in good health. But there’s also the happiness factor that having a little living plant in your space can bring.

Visit the nursery retail shed to see who we have staying over with us until you take them home. You can expect a selection of:

Ferns (various sizes, including minis)
Succulents
Ficus
Fiddle Leaf Figs
Sansevieria
Tillandsia
Hanging plants – including pitcher plants and ferns
Orchids: oncidium, mounted, multi-spike, dendrochilum, more
Ladies Slippers

Trees

Such a broad topic for such an amazing plant with so many uses, not least of which is just to take a moment to appreciate its very existence. Trees have many uses in our garden landscapes, including a wonderful supply of shade, canopy and habitat for wildlife, food for insects, birds and larger animals, to prevent erosion control, and to provide a beautiful ornamental structure. Our tree selection focuses on: blooming trees; trees with great foliage and fall color; trees that provide winter interest, including peeling bark and beautiful stem sculpture; low-maintenance trees and improved cultivars; and native trees and native cultivars:

Maple – many options including Full Moon, Freeman, Paperbark, Red maples (various), sugar, etc
Japanese Maple – from 1 GAL to 25 GAL size, many cultivars, including Bloodgood, Burgundy Lace, Crimson Queen, Emperor One, Tamukeyama, and more
Birch – River birch, heritage, weeping
Hornbeam – European, American
Redbud – Forest Pansy, Ruby Falls, Rising Sun, more
Fringe Tree / Chionanthus virginicus
Dogwood – Cherokee Brave, Cherokee Chief, Cherokee Princess, Rubra, Kousa, Stellar Pink ,Pagoda (Alternifolia)
Hazelnut
Beech – Pendula, Purple Fountain
Franklin Tree / Franklinia Alatamaha
Gingko Biloba
Silverbell
Witch Hazel
Crape Myrtle
Sweet Gum
Tulip Tree
Magnolia – Butterflies, Little Gem Sweetbay
Dawn Redwood
Ironwood
Cherry – Kwanzan, Weeping, Yoshino, Higan
Willow – Babylonian Weeping, Corkscrew
Japanese Stewartia
Bald Cypress – weeping, Shawnee Brave