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NATIVE PLANT NURSERIES
Where to Buy Plants
As a rule, avoid box stores and ask about pesticide and fungicide use if you shop at a nursery that doesn’t specialize in native plants.
Local Nurseries Closest to the Utica Area
- Wild Ginger Farm–West Winfield 10% discount for dues-paying WOMV members, open Friday, Saturdays, and Sundays, 1-5pm and by appointment. Specializing in straight species, local ecotype plants, their selection is diverse, with something for every yard or garden, and Alyssa and Elizabeth are knowledgeable plantswomen who can advise on your selection. Check them out at 211 County Road 21, West Winfield.
- Common Thread CSA–Lake Moraine. This is Common Thread’s second year of growing and selling a variety of flowering native perennials along with their food farm.
- Grant’s Native Plants – A new backyard business in Durhamville. Plants are grown from locally locally sourced seed or from Prairie Moon Nursery. Open Saturday, May 9th and Sunday, May 10th from 9am to 3pm. Also by appointment.
Native Nurseries with a Wide Variety of Trees and Shrubs
- Olneys– Rome, no online inventory. Good supply of native trees and shrubs mixed with non-natives. Does not use neonicotinoids, does use fungicides at times.
- The Plantsmen Nursery-Ithaca
- White Oak Nursery– Rochester-Will ship
For more nurseries and their plants lists, see the Native Plant Shopping Guide-HGCNY’s free guide to additional native plant nurseries in CNY and the plants they sell. Updated every year.