Northern Neck Native Plant Co

Northern Neck Native Plant Co Wholesale & Retail Native Plants And Installations Serving Fredericksburg to Deltaville.

Specializations in salt tolerant, drought tolerant, flood prone, and riprap/seawall protection planting.

Open 3p-7p today!Oh man are we excited plus some late additions to the party in addition to our previous lists!Oversized...
09/05/2025

Open 3p-7p today!

Oh man are we excited plus some late additions to the party in addition to our previous lists!

Oversized Plugs (LP32): Wild Bergamot, Blue Vervain, Purple Coneflower, and Pink Muhly Grass - all are $5/ea.

Small Plugs (LP72): Pennsylvania Sedge ($3.50/ea). yy

American Strawberry Bush or “hearts-a-busting” is such a cool fruiting native shrub! Other fun additions to our Friday (...
09/04/2025

American Strawberry Bush or “hearts-a-busting” is such a cool fruiting native shrub!

Other fun additions to our Friday (3p-7p) sale and Saturday (11a - 5p) sale:

Full and healthy Butterfly W**d Quarts ($7), Blue Lobelia Quarts ($7), and Low Bush Blueberry seedlings ($8).

Have you wanted to purchase plants, can’t make it to Hague, and never seem to have time to visit the store in Irvington ...
09/04/2025

Have you wanted to purchase plants, can’t make it to Hague, and never seem to have time to visit the store in Irvington when we’re open?

Good news! You can order your plants and pick them up in Irvington during the week or on Sundays!

Judge a book by its cover at your own peril! This is a pot about 10” deep where I planted 5 Calico Aster plugs. It was a...
09/03/2025

Judge a book by its cover at your own peril!

This is a pot about 10” deep where I planted 5 Calico Aster plugs. It was an experiment in letting plugs grow out in community rather than each one being in its own pot.

They have been in there for at least 3-4 months and the stems/leaves never got much bigger. Truthfully, I also forgot to water this plant a lot.

Anyways, today was the day to divide them and put them into smaller pots. Lo and behold, the root system!

Additions and lower prices to Friday Afternoon and Saturday plant sales in Irvington. Moss Phlox, Blue False Indigo, and...
09/03/2025

Additions and lower prices to Friday Afternoon and Saturday plant sales in Irvington. Moss Phlox, Blue False Indigo, and Blue Mist Flower plugs!

For those wondering about the plugs available for plug sale weekend, here you go!We will be trying to bring as many as w...
09/02/2025

For those wondering about the plugs available for plug sale weekend, here you go!

We will be trying to bring as many as we can, but leftovers have to get up-potted which can be a lot of work for us SO to help us bring the ones we need, let us know what you'd like to see for sale.

Alternatively, you can also pre-order/reserve quantities with a 50% downpayment.

09/01/2025

Did you know big bluestem isn’t always...big?

Both of these photos were taken on the same day in August.

The photo on the left shows big bluestem at a remnant prairie state natural area. Remnant prairies are a rare piece of Wisconsin’s original wilderness from when the last glaciers left over 10,000 years ago.

The photo on the right shows big bluestem in a planted prairie. In these settings, big bluestem embraces its name and may grow up to 8 feet tall!

In many planted prairies, soil and plant communities are just beginning to recover, and there are fewer soil microbes, prairie plants and grasses (like prairie dropseed, panic grasses, side oats grama, little bluestem, etc.). Restored prairies are also often on deeper, more fertile soil of former agricultural fields, causing big bluestem to grow taller.

This is just one example of how the same plant in two places can look different.

Join the State Natural Areas Volunteer Program and see for yourself: https://dnr.wisconsin.gov/topic/StateNaturalAreas/volunteer

09/01/2025

Are you ready for PLUG SALE WEEKEND??

September 13th in Irvington and 14th in Colonial Beach we’ll have a massive selection of plugs that are all hand collected seed grown natives!

Will post the list in the coming days but if you’d like to have the list sent directly to you’d comment below!

A few more shots from our Northumberland County project. Big shout out to Vessels Landscaping LLC for providing the musc...
08/31/2025

A few more shots from our Northumberland County project. Big shout out to Vessels Landscaping LLC for providing the muscle to plant 14(!) 15-gallon large trees.

In addition to Fridays plantings today we put in:
20 Lanceleaf Coreopsis plugs, 3 more Purple Lovegrass Gallons, 18 Seaside Goldenrod, 14 Little Blue Stem plugs, and an additional 7 shrubs to bring us to 25/30 shrubs needed.

Tomorrow we will hopefully wrap up the remaining plantings and then focus on getting them watered through this dry stretch!

Everyone asks for before and afters of our work so here goes! In one picture you’ll see a mostly barren sand dune. The n...
08/30/2025

Everyone asks for before and afters of our work so here goes! In one picture you’ll see a mostly barren sand dune. The next a row of green Bitter Panic Grass. After that, a second row. After that, close ups of the Bitter Panic Grass seed head.

The first row of Bitter Panic Grass was planted in mid June and the second in mid-July. No watering, fertilizing, and no major soil amendment. These grasses survived the high tides, drought, and storms and the sand they kept in place shows!

Goldenrod should be putting on a show for them over the next few weeks!

Note: while most native plants can be planted year round, the tidal grass Spartina alterniflora really should only be pl...
08/29/2025

Note: while most native plants can be planted year round, the tidal grass Spartina alterniflora really should only be planted from late Apri to late September. If you have a tidal area in need, we still have slots and plants available

Another day, another shoreline. This homeowner had dozens of sick trees that were leaning and uprooting out of a steep bank. After the county and professional arborists did their work, we were brought in to replace the downed trees with 15 large understory trees, 30 shrubs, and - not mandated by the county but chosen by the client - erosion control plantings around the property.

This picture reflects 45 Spartina alterniflora plugs. Not pictured (but will later) are the 75 Spartina patens plugs, 25 Wild Strawberry plugs, 40 Broomsedge plugs, 22 Sorghastrum nutans plugs, 11 Big Blue Stem plugs, 15 River Oats quarts, 7 Pink Muhly grass quarts, and that’s just the beginning! 💪

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4537 Irvington Road
Irvington, VA

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Sunday 12pm - 5pm

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