Nebraska Statewide Arboretum Plant Sale
Plants from This Place, for This Place
9:00 am –
12:00 pm
Greenhouse, East Campus
Nebraska Statewide Arboretum is hosting a plant sale Saturday, June 7 from 9 a.m. till noon at UNL’s east campus.
Regionally native plants are some of the best to tolerate landscape challenges like poor soils, limited space, dry shade, extremely variable moisture and diseases, said Horticulture Program Coordinator Bob Henrickson. “That means gardeners are also planting for pollinators, which can increase garden production in their own yards while benefitting the larger environment.”
There will be many edible landscape plants for gardeners wanting to grow more of their own food and some under-planted beauties for a more interesting and sustainable landscape. Nut trees include hickory, walnut, pecan and hazelnut. Persimmon and pawpaw trees will be available and fruits like raspberry, currant, serviceberry and grape.
Wildflower-lovers will be pleased with a wide selection of prairie plants: aster, coneflower, false indigo, primrose, gayfeather and penstemon. There are woodland plants for shady areas—Bradbury beebalm, woodland phlox, wild columbine, jack-in-the-pulpit, etc.
For difficult spots like dry shade and rain gardens, Henrickson recommends sedges. “They’ve proven very hardy and have a variety of ornamental characteristics.” A newer one is seersucker sedge, with deeply ridged veins as the name implies.
There will be a great selection of trees native to the region and some unusual trees for the collector that have proven hardy but are not widely available: sweet birch, sassafras, Turkish filbert blackgum and ironwood to name a few. One of the smaller trees Henrickson recommends is Shantung maple, a small ornamental tree with beautiful sweetgum-like foliage and good fall color.
There will be a great selection of trees native to the region and some unusual trees for the collector that have proven hardy but are not widely available: Katsura tree, blackgum and Liotung oak to name a few. One of the smaller trees Henrickson recommends is Shantung maple, a small ornamental tree with beautiful sweetgum-like foliage and good fall color.
Regionally native plants are some of the best to tolerate landscape challenges like poor soils, limited space, dry shade, extremely variable moisture and diseases, said Horticulture Program Coordinator Bob Henrickson. “That means gardeners are also planting for pollinators, which can increase garden production in their own yards while benefitting the larger environment.”
There will be many edible landscape plants for gardeners wanting to grow more of their own food and some under-planted beauties for a more interesting and sustainable landscape. Nut trees include hickory, walnut, pecan and hazelnut. Persimmon and pawpaw trees will be available and fruits like raspberry, currant, serviceberry and grape.
Wildflower-lovers will be pleased with a wide selection of prairie plants: aster, coneflower, false indigo, primrose, gayfeather and penstemon. There are woodland plants for shady areas—Bradbury beebalm, woodland phlox, wild columbine, jack-in-the-pulpit, etc.
For difficult spots like dry shade and rain gardens, Henrickson recommends sedges. “They’ve proven very hardy and have a variety of ornamental characteristics.” A newer one is seersucker sedge, with deeply ridged veins as the name implies.
There will be a great selection of trees native to the region and some unusual trees for the collector that have proven hardy but are not widely available: sweet birch, sassafras, Turkish filbert blackgum and ironwood to name a few. One of the smaller trees Henrickson recommends is Shantung maple, a small ornamental tree with beautiful sweetgum-like foliage and good fall color.
There will be a great selection of trees native to the region and some unusual trees for the collector that have proven hardy but are not widely available: Katsura tree, blackgum and Liotung oak to name a few. One of the smaller trees Henrickson recommends is Shantung maple, a small ornamental tree with beautiful sweetgum-like foliage and good fall color.
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