Go Native! Plant & Tree Sale
It's easy to get started! Go ahead and pick a "problem spot"—a spot where the ground stays soggy, the sun burns hot or there is deep shade most of the day. You can dig out an invasive species, roots and all, and start over. After clearing your spot and planting some native plants, shrubs or trees, pretty soon, you'll find your yard boasts beautiful attributes while serving as important sources of food in local food chains.
Pre-orders will be available for pick up on Saturday, May 22 between 8:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. at Mellody Farm Nature Preserve, 350 North Waukegan Road, Lake Forest.
Garden kits and a selection of trees and shrubs are available for pre-order below.
Pre-order is available through May 18. Quantities are limited so please order early!
Please note that addtional plant species will be available the day of the sale. A full list will be available by April 26.
NEW THIS YEAR: LFOLA is offering free deliveries on all orders of $600 or more in Lake Forest or Lake Bluff. Our staff will be in contact with you if your order totals $600 or more.
Please note that Wright Landscaping is also offering their services for delivery along the North Shore and/or installation for trees and shrubs purchased at the Go Native! Plant & Tree Sale. Please contact Wright Landscaping if you are interested in or have questions about these services.
Want to learn more? Read this recent article from The New York Times, "What You May Not Know About Those April Flowers."
PRE-ORDER YOUR GARDEN KITS, SHRUBS & TREES THROUGH TUESDAY, MAY 18!
* Noted species with an asterisk are offered, but are not native to NE Illinois.
Starter Kits
Price: $45 (add to cart)
For gardens with 6+ hours of sun per day; soil may go dry during dry periods, but never saturated for long periods. This kit includes a total of 10 pints (3,3 and 4) that includes: Nodding onion (Allium cernuum), Prairie alumroot (Heuchera richardsonii) and Purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea).
Price: $45 (add to cart)
For gardens with 6+ hours of sun per day; soil remains moist most of the time, can be irrigated when needed, rarely saturated for long periods. This kit includes a total of 10 pints (3,3 and 4) that includes: Prairie dropseed (Sporobolus heterolepis), Little Goldstar Black-eyed Susan (Rudebeckia fulgida var. sullivantii) and Prairie blazing star (Liatris pycnostachya).
Price: $45 (add to cart)
For gardens with 6+ hours of sun per day; poorly drained clay, which may remain wet for days at a time. This kit includes a total of 10 pints (3,3 and 4) that includes: Obedient plant (Physostegia virginiana), Marsh blazing star (Liatris spicata) and Swamp milkweed (Asclepias incarnata).
SOLD OUT
Please email us how many you are interested in as we are trying to replenish our inventory on this item.
For gardeners looking to attract Monarch butterflies. Monarchs need milweed to survive. Milkweed is the only plant for the Monarch to lay eggs for the hatched caterpillars to feed on before chaging into a chrysalis. This kit includes a total of 12 pints (4 of each) that includes: Butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa), Swamp milkweed (Asclepias incarnata) and Whorled milkweed (Asclepias verticillate).
Price: $45 (add to cart)
For gardens with less than 6 hours of sun per day; no standing water or saturated soil, can be irrigated during long, dry periods. This kit includes a total of 10 pints (3,3 and 4) that includes: Wild geranium (Geranium maculatum), Foxglove beardtongue(Penstemon digitalis) and Long-beaked sedge (Carex sprengelii).
Price: $45 (add to cart)
For gardeners looking to attract a wide diversity of pollinators including butterflies, bumblebees, honeybees and other pollinators who require flowers throughout the seasons to survive and reproduce.. This kit includes a total of 12 pints (3 of each) that includes: Foxglove bearded tongue (Penstemon digitalis), Wild bergamot (Monarda fistulosa), Marsh Blazing Star (Liatris spicata) and New England Aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae).
Price: $45 (add to cart)
For gardens with full to partial shade most of the day; moist, but not excessively wet or dry for long periods; can be irrigated during long, dry periods. This kit includes a total of 10 pints (3,3 and 4) that includes: Long beaked sedge (Carex sprengelii), Common oak sedge (Carex pensylvanica) and Large-flowered bellwort (Uvularia grandiflora).
Price: $45 (add to cart)
For gardens with full to partial shade most of the day; wet for long periods, there may be standing water for several hours or a few days after heavy precipitation/snow melt; poorly drained. This kit includes a total of 10 pints (3,3 and 4) that includes: Star sedge (Carex radiata), Great blue lobelia (Lobelia siphilitica) and Blue flag iris (Iris virginica shrevei).
Trees
Price: $185 (add to cart)
Size: 2" balled and burlapped
Height x Spread: 20'-35' x 20'-35'
Bloom Time: May
Bloom Description: White
Sun: Full Sun
Price: $185 (add to cart)
Size: 1.75" balled and burlapped
Height x Spread: 15'-40' x 15'-40'
Bloom Time: April
Bloom Description: White
Sun: Full sun to Part shade
Price: $185 (add to cart)
Size: 2" balled and burlapped
Height x Spread: 50'-80' x 40'-80'
Bloom Time: April to May
Bloom Description: Yellowish-green
Sun: Full sun to part shade
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Height x Spread: 30'-50' x 20'-30'
Bloom Time: May to June
Bloom Description: Greenish-white
Sun: Full sun to Part shade
Price: $125 (add to cart)
Size: 10 gallon
Height x Spread: 50'-60' x 50'-60'
Bloom Time: April to May
Bloom Description: Yellowish-green
Sun: Full sun
Price: $35 (add to cart)
Size: 3 gallon
Height x Spread: 35'-60' x 25'-35'
Bloom Time: May to June
Bloom Description: White to greenish-yellow
Sun: Full sun to part shade
Price: $185 (add to cart)
Size: 2" balled and burlapped
Height x Spread: 25'-40' x 20'-30'
Bloom Time: April
Bloom Description: Red-brown (male); light green (female)
Sun: Full sun to part shade
Price: $35 (add to cart)
Size: 3 gallon
Height x Spread: 40'-60' x 40'-60'
Bloom Time: March to April
Bloom Description: Yellow catkins (male); Red spikes (female)
Sun: Full sun
Price: $200 (add to cart)
Size: 5'-6' balled and burlapped
Height x Spread: 20'-30' x 25'-35'
Bloom Time: April
Bloom Description: Pink
Sun: Full sun to part shade
Price: $125 (add to cart)
Size: 3'-4' balled and burlapped
Height x Spread: 20'-30' x 25'-35'
Bloom Time: April
Bloom Description: Pink
Sun: Full sun to part shade
Price: $185 (add to cart)
Size: 2.5"-3" balled and burlapped
Height x Spread: 40'-70' x 40'-70'
Bloom Time: April to May
Bloom Description: Brown (male); green (female)
Sun: Full sun to part shade
Price: $125 (add to cart)
Size: 10 gallon
Height x Spread: 50'-60' x 50'-60'
Bloom Time: April
Bloom Description: Yellowish-green
Sun: Full sun
Price: $125 (add to cart)
Size: 10 gallon
Height x Spread: 50'-80' x 50'-80'
Bloom Time: May
Bloom Description: Yellowish-green
Sun: Full sun
Price: $35 (add to cart)
Size: 3 gallon
Height x Spread: 50'-80' x 50'-80'
Bloom Time: May
Bloom Description: Yellowish-green
Sun: Full sun
Price: $185 (add to cart)
Size: 7' balled and burlapped
Height x Spread: 50'-80' x 20'-40'
Bloom Time: Non-flowering
Bloom Description: Non-flowering
Sun: Full sun to part shade
Price: $35 (add to cart)
Size: 3 gallon
Height x Spread: 60'-75' x 60'-75'
Bloom Time: April to May
Bloom Description: Brown (male); green (female)
Sun: Full sun to part shade
Price: $185 (add to cart)
Size: 2" balled and burlapped
Height x Spread: 30'-50' x 40'-55'
Bloom Time: May
Bloom Description: White
Sun: Full sun
Shrubs
Price: $35 (add to cart)
Size: 5 gallon
Height x Spread: 10'-16' x 8'-13'
Bloom Time: March to April
Bloom Description: Male-brown, Female-red
Sun: Full sun to part shade
SOLD OUT
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Height x Spread: 3'-6' x 3'-6'
Bloom Time: May
Bloom Description: White
Sun: Full sun to part shade
Price: $35 (add to cart)
Size: 5 gallon
Height x Spread: 5'-12' x 4'-8'
Bloom Time: June
Bloom Description: White
Sun: Full Sun to part shade
Price: $35 (add to cart)
Size: 5 gallon
Height x Spread: 1'-3'
Bloom Time: Summer flowers and fruit in fall
Bloom Description: Pink flowers and hip turns from dark green to bright red
Sun: Full sun to part shade
Price: $35 (add to cart)
Size: 3 gallon
Height x Spread: 3'-4' x 3'-4'
Bloom Time: June to August
Bloom Description: White
Sun: Full Sun to part shade
Price: $35 (add to cart)
Size: 5 gallon
Height x Spread: 14'-16' x 6'-12'
Bloom Time: May
Bloom Description: White
Sun: Full sun to part shade
Price: $35 (add to cart)
Size: 5 gallon
Height x Spread: 3'-4' x 3'-5'
Bloom Time: May to July
Bloom Description: White
Sun: Full sun to part shade
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Height x Spread: 6'-12' x 6'-12'
Bloom Time: May to June
Bloom Description: Yellowish-white
Sun: Full Sun to part shade
Price: $35 (add to cart)
Size: 5 gallon
Height x Spread: 3'-5' x 3'-5'
Bloom Time: June to September
Bloom Description: White
Sun: Part shade
Price: $35 (add to cart)
Size: 5 gallon
Height x Spread: 15'-25' x 20'-30'
Bloom Time: June to July
Bloom Description: Greenish-yellow
Sun: Full sun to part shade
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Height x Spread: 6'-10' x 8'-15'
Bloom Time: January to April
Bloom Description: Yellow with red inner calyx
Sun: Full Sun to part shade
Price: $35 (add to cart)
Size: 5 gallon
Height x Spread: 5'-12' x 5'-12'
Bloom Time: May to June
Bloom Description: Creamy white
Sun: Full sun to part shade
If you cannot find a native species above please explore one of these other local resources:
- Breezy Hill Nursery, WI, breezyhillnursery.com
- Possibility Place, IL, possibilityplace.com
- Prairie Moon Nursery, MN, (Mail order) prairiemoon.com
- Prairie Nursery, WI, prairienursery.com
- Taylor Creek Nursery, WI, taylorcreeknurseries.com
For additional help whith native landscape design or maintenance:
- Davey Resource Group, davey.com/environmental-consulting-services
- Eubanks Environmental, eubanksenvironmental.com
- Integrated Lakes Management, ilmenvironments.com
- Kinnucan Tree Experts, kinnucan.com
- LandServe, johnlmariani.com
- Mariani Landscape, marianilandscape.com
- Tallgrass Restoration, tallgrassrestoration.com
- Wright Landscape, wrightlandscape.net