GARDEN UNDERSTORIES

SPRING PLANT SALES 2026!

                                                                                                                                                                                 

1. Sunday May 10, 11am-3pm               

Mother's Day Market & Plant Sale @ KP Park, Salmo

                                                                                                                  

2. Saturday May 16, 9am-2pm

Kinseed Ecologies Spring Plant Sale @ 524 Innes St, Nelson

*Kinseed is where I learned most of what I know about native plants and growing them! I have volunteered with, worked for, and purchased from them for years. I am so grateful to consider the wonderful people behind Kinseed both mentors and friends. They have graciously shared their wisdom (successes, failures, and mysteries...) and supported Garden Understories to go forth and grow! These sales are always bustling with incredible people and plants!

                                                                                                                                                       

3. Sunday May 24, 11-2pm

Garden Understories Nursery @ 808 Carney Bridge Rd, Salmo

*Cash only

                                                                                                                 

 PLANT AVAILABILITY

FORBS:

Brown Eyed Susan Gaillardia aristata

Curly Cup Gumweed Grindelia squarrosa

Golden Aster Heterotheca villosa (limited supply)  sold out

Golden Tickseed Coreopsis tinctoria

Great Northern Aster Canadanthus modestus

Old Man’s Whiskers Geum triflorum

Paintbrush Castilleja sp. (with an assortment of host plant companions)

Pearly Everlasting Anaphalis margaritacea (limited supply) sold out

Philadelphia Fleabane Erigeron philadelphicus

Pretty Shooting Star Dodecatheon pulchellum (limited supply) sold out

Rosy Pussytoes Antennaria rosea/microphylla (limited supply) sold out

Round-Leaved Alumroot Heuchera cylindrica 

Scarlet Gilia Ipomopsis aggregata (limited supply) sold out

Showy Daisy Erigeron speciosus

Nodding Onion Allium cernuum (limited supply)

Smooth Aster Symphyotrichum laeve

Western Canada Goldenrod Solidago lepida

Wild Bergamot Monarda fistulosa

Wooly Sunflower Eriophyllum lanatum

Worm-leaved stonecrop Sedum stenopelatum

Yarrow Achillea millefolium

Yellow Penstemon Penstemon confertus

GRASSES:

Bluebunch Wheatgrass Agropyron spicatum

Idaho Fescue Festuca idahoensis

Poverty Oatgrass Danthonia spicata 

SHRUBS:

Black Hawthorn Crataegus douglasii

Hardhack/Pink Spirea Spirea douglasii spp. menziesii

Mallow Ninebark Physocarpus malvaceus

Red Osier Dogwood Cornus stolonifera

Shrubby Penstemon Penstemon fruticosus sold out

Forbs:

Nodding Onion / Allium cernuum 

Pearly Everlasting / Anaphalis margaritacea 

Philadelphia Fleabane / Erigeron philadelphicus 

Wooly Sunflower / Eriophyllum lanatum

Brown Eyed Susan / Gaillardia aristata

Round-Leaved Alumroot / Heuchera cylindrica 

Golden Aster / Heterotheca villosa

Scarlet Gilia / Ipomopsis aggregata (2nd year biennial, should bloom this year!)

Wild Bergamot / Monarda fistuliosa (not for restoration)

Western Canada Goldenrod / Solidago lepida

Great Northen Aster / Canadanthus modestus 

Smooth Aster / Symphyotrichum laeve

Arrow-leaved Balsamroot / Balsamorhiza sagittata

Wild Blue Flax / Linum perenne ssp. lewisii

Yarrow / Achillea millefolium SOLD OUT

Old Man’s Whiskers / Geum triflorum

Mountain Hollyhock / Iliamna rivularis SOLD OUT

Paintbrush / Castilleja sp.

Grasses:

Bluebunch Wheatgrass / Agropyron spicatum

Idaho Fescue / Festuca idahoensis

Poverty Oatgrass / Danthonia spicata

Shrubs:

Black Hawthorn / Crataegus douglasii

Mallow Ninebark Physocarpus malvaceus

 

Welcome to the

Garden Understories Alphabet of Native Plants

From now until the plant sales I will be sharing fun tidbits of information regarding native plants. 

Plant Sales:

Sunday May 11: Mother’s Day Market, KP Park, Salmo BC

Sunday May 18: Garden Understories Native Plant Nursery, Salmo (email gardenunderstories@gmail.com with "SALE" in subject line for address!)

      10 - 11am Native Plant Speed Dating

      11am - 3pm Plant Sale

All plants sold in 4” pots, $10 each.