The Nursery

Our ethos

We just love growing native plants. When you take home a plant from our nursery, you know that every step of the process - sourcing seeds, waiting months for stratification, watching for tiny green leaves to appear in the spring, transplanting, and SO MUCH watering - was done by someone who truly cares about the plants and their potential to do good in the world. We can’t wait to show you what we can do!

Delightfully yours,

Miranda, Jeff, & Deb

~The Plants~

Plants are in small plugs, deep plugs, and/or quart pots.

~The Process~

It all starts with responsible seed collecting - from our gardens, natural areas, or reputable online sources.

Most native seeds need to go through a transformation called stratification - which happens naturally over the winter, but at a nursery happens in bags of vermiculite in the refrigerator!

Our seeds are all started in our beautiful custom greenhouse.

Seedlings are carefully transplanted by expertly-trained employees (aka us) honed by many hours of volunteering at the USGS Bee Lab & trial-and-error.

Seedlings make their way to our outdoor growing space, the Pen, (a converted chicken yard) to get ready to go into your garden!

Have questions about our nursery? We have answers!

  • At our home! Because of this, we do not offer regular hours for browsing our plant inventory.

  • Since we don’t allow casual browsing, the best way to buy our plants is to become a client! Our plants are available to our design & install clients at excellent prices.

    Otherwise, you can contact us via email (earthlydelightsgardening@gmail.com) to request an appointment OR come to one of our public plant sales! Check the “Events” tab for our next sale. We hope to see you there!

  • We are currently working on the permits and logistics for customers to order online and pick up at the nursery!

  • Let’s just say that since you are buying directly from the grower, sans middleman, you’re guaranteed to get a better price than your average retail nursery ;)

  • Plant inventory will be updated on this page as often as necessary. Scroll up to ~The Plants~ section to check out which species we currently have in stock!

  • When you buy from us, not only are you getting healthy, beautiful plants but you also support a new, very small family business. This business is our dream and we want to do everything possible to make it work!

    With us you can also get personalized advice on plant selection while you shop. We’re more than happy to talk plants (like, all the time)!

Our gorgeous greenhouse!
Stratifying seeds in December 2025
Boo Boo inspects the work being done in the greenhouse.
Joe Pye Weed plugs
The wildlife is already enjoying our native plants!
Jeff transplants some of our first seedlings.
The greenhouse filled up instantly with germination trays!
We are obsessed with how adorable the Iris seedlings are :)
Jeff and Toby take it all in on our first day in the greenhouse.
Jeff has gotten really good at transplanting!
Deb picks seed packets out of Miranda's seed binder for stratification.
There's nothing more exciting than seeing a carpet of green appear on the germination trays.
Jeff takes vermiculite duty on stratification day - a dirty job but someone's gotta do it!
A finished germination tray.
Our outdoor growing space, the Pen, named after the growing pens at the USGS Bee Lab.
Freshly transplanted Threadleaf bluestar seedlings
Peanut naps by some transplanted seedlings.
Jeff plans out the shade cloth coverings for the Pen.
The Pen is a converted chicken yard where chickens can still run through a tunnel along the barn!
A summer sunset at the nursery.