Native Plants for Everyone.
No order minimums. Beginner-friendly & challenging species aplenty. Our plant sales bring sustainable landscapes, wildlife support, and climate resilience home for gardeners of every level.
No order minimums. Beginner-friendly & challenging species aplenty. Our plant sales bring sustainable landscapes, wildlife support, and climate resilience home for gardeners of every level.
To ensure wildlife support, NPU only offers wildtype species. No trademarked varieties here- share starts and seed with friends!
Easily shop foundation plants during preorders, then pickup and shop sale-exclusive species in-person!
Expect spring herbaceous species, fall woody species, and winter bare roots. NPU makes 300+ native species available to Central Indiana every year!
During this final week, purchasing is in-person only. Listings now include real time inventory.
Next event is August 8, Hummingbird Migration Celebration at Mary Gray Bird Sanctuary! This is a FREE event this year!
Find which species we carry each season and conditions they require on our Species and Growing Requirements page.Â
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A star member of the milkweed family with a short stature and lovely orange blooms that attract a variety of pollinators! Does not tolerate wet soi...
View full detailsA.k.a. bergamot or beebalm. A lovely, easily grown monarda that attracts equally flashy pollinators including skippers, butterflies, hummingbird mo...
View full detailsThe native wild species of the well known genus, with red flowers! Adaptable, readily forms colonies, and a favorite of hummingbirds- columbine mak...
View full detailsA blue blooming native lobelia that takes a wide range of light conditions! Particularly at home on woodland edges, but easily adapts to garden bed...
View full detailsThe classic common milkweed- an adaptable host to monarch butterflies with fragrant flowers for you and your pollinators! Will form a colony, and r...
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