Go Native! Plant & Tree Sale
This event is held in partnership with the City of Lake Forest
Mellody Farm Nature Preserve
Saturday, May 20, 2023
8:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
It's easy to get started! Go ahead and pick a "problem spot"—a spot where the ground stays soggy, the sun burns hot or there is deep shade most of the day. You can dig out an invasive species, roots and all, and start over. After clearing your spot and planting some native plants, shrubs or trees, pretty soon, you'll find your yard boasts beautiful attributes while serving as important sources of food in local food chains.
Pre-orders will be available for pick up on Friday, May 19 from 2:00-5:00 p.m. and the day of the sale, Saturday, May 20 between 8:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. at Mellody Farm Nature Preserve, 350 North Waukegan Road, Lake Forest.
Garden kits and a selection of trees and shrubs will be available for pre-order on Saturday, April 1.
Quantities are limited so please order early!
Garden kits and a selection of trees and shrubs are available for pre-order below. Pre-order is available through Friday, May 12. Quantities are limited so please order early!
Pre-Order is closed
Please join us on Saturday, May 20 from 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Click here for a full list of trees, shrubs and plants available for pre-order and on the day of the sale.
PRE-ORDER YOUR GARDEN KITS, SHRUBS & TREES THROUGH FRIDAY, MAY 12!
Starter Kits
Price: $45 (add to cart)
For gardens with 6+ hours of sun per day; soil may go dry during dry periods, but never saturated for long periods. This kit includes a total of at least 10 pints that includes: Alumroot (Heuchera richardsonii), Pale Coneflower (Echinacea pallida), Purple Prairie Clover (Dalea purpurea), Rough Blazing Star (Liatris aspera) and White Prairie Clover (Dalea candida).
Price: $45 (add to cart)
For gardens with 6+ hours of sun per day; soil remains moist most of the time, can be irrigated when needed, rarely saturated for long periods. This kit includes a total of at least 10 plants (pints and plugs) that include: Obedient Plant (Physostegia virginiana), Ohio Goldenrod (Oligoneuron ohioense), Prairie Blazing Star (Liatris pycnostachya), Prairie dropseed (Sporobolus heterolepis) and Royal Catchfly (Silene regia).
Price: $45 (add to cart)
For gardens with 6+ hours of sun per day; poorly drained clay, which may remain wet for days at a time. This kit includes a total of at least 10 pints that include: Blue Flag Iris (Iris virginica shrevei), Sweet Flag (Acorus calamus), Winged Loosestrife (Lythrum alatatum), Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis) and Great Blue Lobelia (Lobelia siphilitica).
Price: $45 (add to cart)
For gardeners looking to attract Monarch butterflies. Monarchs need milweed to survive! Milkweed is the only plant for the Monarch to lay eggs for the hatched caterpillars to feed on before chaging into a chrysalis. This kit includes a total of at least 10 plants (pints and plugs) that include: Swamp milkweed (Asclepias incarnata), Prairie Milkweed (Asclepias sullivantii), Butterflyweed (Asclepias tuberosa) and Whorled milkweed (Asclepias verticillate).
Price: $45 (add to cart)
This garden kit has a variety of plants which do well in partial shade. This mix of flowering perennials is perfect for a woodland edge or open forest area. The semi-shade garden kit includes at least 10 plants (pints and plugs) that include: Downy Wood Mint (Blephilia ciliata), Hairy Wood Mint (Blephilia hirsuta), Shooting Star (Dodecatheon meadia), Tall Cinquefoil (Potentilla arguta), Wild Petunia (Ruellia humilis) and Starry Campion (Silene stellata).
Price: $45 (add to cart)
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For gardens with full to partial shade most of the day; wet for long periods, there may be standing water for several hours or a few days after heavy precipitation/snow melt; poorly drained. This kit includes a total of at least 10 pints that include: Prairie Coreopsis (Coreopsis palmata), Purple Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea), Rattlesnake Maser (Erynigium yuccifolium), Prickly Pear Cactus (Opuntia humifusa), Foxglove Beardtongue (Penstemon digitalis), Virginia Mountain Mint Prairie (Pychnanthemum virginianum), Prairie Coneflower (Ratibida pinnata), Black Eyed Susan (Rudbeckia fulgida var speciosa), Showy Goldenrod (Solidago speciosa), Aromatic Aster (Symphiotrichium oblongifolium), Sky Blue Aster (Symphiotrichium oolentangiense) and Ohio Spiderwort (Tradescantia ohioensis).
Price: $45 (add to cart)
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For gardens with full to partial shade most of the day; moist, but not excessively wet or dry for long periods; can be irrigated during long, dry periods. This kit includes at least a total of 10 pints that include: Whitetinge Sedge (Carex albicans), Oak Sedge (Carex pennsylvanica), Seersucker Sedge (Carex plantaginea), Curly-Styled Wood Sedge (Carex rosea) and Eastern Star Sedge (Carex radiata).
Price: $45 (add to cart)
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For gardens with full to partial shade most of the day; moist, but not excessively wet or dry for long periods; can be irrigated during long, dry periods. This kit includes at least a total of 10 pints that include: Wild Columbine (Aquilegia candensis), Wild Ginger (Asarum canadense), Wild Geranium (Geranium maculatum), Wild Blue Phlox (Pholx divaricata) and Large-flowered Bellwort (Uvularia grandiflora).
Price: $45 (add to cart)
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For gardens with full to partial shade most of the day; wet for long periods, there may be standing water for several hours or a few days after heavy precipitation/snow melt; poorly drained. This kit includes a total of at least 10 plants (pints and plugs) that include: Blue flag iris (Iris virginica shrevei), White Turtlehead (Chelone glabra), Golden Alexanders (Zizia aurea), Palm Sedge (Carex muskingumensis) and Monkey Flower (Mimulus ringens).
Trees
Price: $125 (add to cart)
Size: 1" caliper, 10-15 gallon
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Height x Spread: 50'-70' x 20'-45'
Bloom Time: Non-flowering
Bloom Description: Brown
Sun: Full sun
Price: $125 (add to cart)
Size: 1.5" caliper, 10 gallon
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Height x Spread: 60'-80' x 60'-80'
Bloom Time: April
Bloom Description: Yellow
Sun: Full sun
Price: $125 (add to cart)
Size: 1" caliper, 10 gallon
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Height x Spread: 40'-60' x 40'-60'
Bloom Time: April to May
Bloom Description: Green
Sun: Full sun to part shade
Price: $125 (add to cart)
Size: 1.25" caliper, 10 gallon
Hybrid between white and swamp white oak
Height x Spread: 50'-60' x 50'-60'
Bloom Time: April
Bloom Description: Dark green to bluish green leaves in spring/summer, reddish to dark red-purple in fall
Sun: Full sun to light shade
Price: $55 (add to cart)
Size: 5 gallon, 3-4' tall
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Height x Spread: 15'-25' x 15'-25'
Bloom Time: April
Bloom Description: White
Sun: Full sun to part shade
Price: $125 (add to cart)
Size: 1" caliper, 10 gallon
Height x Spread: 50'-60' x 50'-60'
Bloom Time: April
Bloom Description: Yellowish-green
Sun: Full sun
Price: $55 (add to cart)
Size: .5" caliper, 5 gallon
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Height x Spread: 60'-90' x 30'-50'
Bloom Time: May to June
Bloom Description: Yellow with orange band at petal bases
Sun: Full Sun
Price: $125 (add to cart)
Size: 1" caliper, 10 gallon
Height x Spread: 50'-80' x 50'-80'
Bloom Time: May
Bloom Description: Yellowish-green
Sun: Full sun
Shrubs
Price: $45 (add to cart)
Size: 3 gallon
Height x Spread: 10'-15' x 10'-20'
Bloom Time: April to May
Bloom Description: White
Sun: Part shade to full shade
Price: $30 (add to cart)
Size: 3 gallon
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Height x Spread: 2'-3' x 2'-3'
Bloom Time: June to July
Bloom Description: Creamy white to pink
Sun: Full Sun to part shade
Price: $35 (add to cart)
Size: 5 gallon
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Height x Spread: 6'-12' x 8'-10'
Bloom Time: June
Bloom Description: Pink fading to whitish
Sun: Full sun to part shade
Price: $30 (add to cart)
Size: 3 gallon
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Height x Spread: 3'-4' x 3'-4'
Bloom Time: June to August
Bloom Description: White
Sun: Full Sun to part shade
Price: $30 (add to cart)
Size: 3 gallon
Height x Spread: 5'-8' x 4'-6'
Bloom Time: May to June
Bloom Description: White or pink
Sun: Full sun to part shade
Price: $35 (add to cart)
Size: 5 gallon
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Height x Spread: 6'-8' x 5'-10'
Bloom Time: Late spring to summer
Bloom Description: Red-orange
Sun: Full sun
Price: $30 (add to cart)
Size: 3 gallon
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Height x Spread: 6'-12' x 6'-12'
Bloom Time: May to June
Bloom Description: Yellowish-white
Sun: Full Sun to part shade
Price: $35 (add to cart)
Size: 5 gallon
Height x Spread: 9'-15' x 9'-15'
Bloom Time: June
Bloom Description: Yellowish-green
Sun: Full Sun to part shade
Price: $30 (add to cart)
Size: 3 gallon
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Height x Spread: 2'-4' x 2'-3'
Bloom Time: August to September
Bloom Description: Pink
Sun: Full to partial sun
Price: $35 (add to cart)
Size: 5 gallon
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Height x Spread: 3'-6' x 3'-6'
Bloom Time: June to July
Bloom Description: Pink
Sun: Full sun
Price: $25 (add to cart)
Size: 2 gallon
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Height x Spread: 30'-50' x 5'-10'
Bloom Time: May to August
Bloom Description: Greenish white
Sun: Full Sun to part shade
Price: $185 (add to cart)
Size: 25 gallon
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Height x Spread: 6'-10' x 8'-15'
Bloom Time: January to April
Bloom Description: Yellow with red inner calyx
Sun: Full Sun to part shade
Wright Landscaping is offering their services for delivery along the North Shore and/or installation for trees and shrubs purchased at the Go Native! Plant & Tree Sale. Please purchase below. If you need help with this purchase please call 847.234.3880 x11.
Wright Landscaping is offering delivery of trees and shrubs to the Lake Forest/Lake Bluff area. There is a $50 surcharge per item outside of Lake Forest/Lake Bluff limited to Chicago's North Shore as noted.
Please note:
- These prices do not include maintenance of plant material from LFOLA Plant & Tree Sale to the time of delivery.
- Trees are delivered to the Driveway.
- Wright Landscaping does not guarantee the viability of the plantmaterial.
- Additional requested work will be billed as 'Time and Material' at the rate of $55 per man hour.
Wright Landscaping is offering delivery AND installation of trees and shrubs to the Lake Forest/Lake Bluff area. There is a $50 surcharge per item outside of Lake Forest/Lake Bluff limited to Chicago's North Shore as noted.
Install price includes: JULIE call, delivery to residence, planting labor, one application of fertilizer and top with hardwood mulch
Please note:
- Our cost is for labor ONLY.
- Wright Landscape does not guarantee the viability of the plant material.
- Additional requested work will be billed as Time and Material at the rate of $55 per man hour.
Not included:
- Removal of existing plants or turf.
- Removal of any roots or stumps.
- Removal of any gates, fence, other objects for access.
If you cannot find a native species above please explore one of these other local resources:
- Breezy Hill Nursery, WI, breezyhillnursery.com
- Possibility Place, IL, possibilityplace.com
- Prairie Moon Nursery, MN, (Mail order) prairiemoon.com
- Prairie Nursery, WI, prairienursery.com
- Taylor Creek Nursery, WI, taylorcreeknurseries.com
For additional help whith native landscape design or maintenance:
- Davey Resource Group, davey.com/environmental-consulting-services
- Eubanks Environmental, eubanksenvironmental.com
- Integrated Lakes Management, ilmenvironments.com
- Kinnucan Tree Experts, kinnucan.com
- LandServe, johnlmariani.com
- Mariani Landscape, marianilandscape.com
- Tallgrass Restoration, tallgrassrestoration.com
- Wright Landscape, wrightlandscape.net