Earth Sangha's Native Plants Sale at Park Florist

 My aunt Lisa and uncle Chris are well known ecologists and activists in Fairfax Virginia. They've running a non-profit organization called Earth Sangha for a long time(as long as I remember I guess).
Chris is a scholar and a brain for the organization and Lisa is the hands and feet, and heart of it. She leads meditation and organizing all the volunteers. She and her hundreds of volunteers go out every fall and collect the seeds from the wild forest of Metro DC area. They categorize them and study them and grow them in their wild plant nursery in Fairfax VA(See the picture below).
Then they replant their baby trees back to the Northern VA and other DC area parks to restore their native environments.

I got her eco-type plants planted in my garden from about three years ago after I did my home addition. As you know any construction interrupts your garden, after all you need to do it again from the scratch. We bought lots of shrubs and small trees and flowers from local nurseries as well as her nursery. After the first winter, about half of the commercial nursery plants made through, while her plants came back 100% and still thrive! I just want to share this wonderful source of natural habitat garden plants with my community. I know my shop is not a garden shop. It's kind of stretch for me. However, at least for the spring and fall planting season, I want to share this anyone who's looking for a way to start their eco-friendly natural habitat garden. These plants and adopted to our environment, meaning that they will be your survival and attract more butterflies and birds to your garden!

Since this is our first attempt and also the season is a bit early(despite this crazy hot weather), we brought few limited species and numbers of them: Flowering dogwood, Eastern redbud, Common elderberry, Spicebush, Arrowood viburnum, Pawpaw, Black chokeberry, Strawberry bush (all these shrubs are sold for $15/each)
Golden ragwort, christmas fern, green-headed coneflower, white wood aster, late goldenrod (all of these herbaceous are sold for $5/each).

Stop by and get your garden ready for this spring!

For more info,
Earth Sangha http://www.earthsangha.org/