Sources For Native Plants in Southeast Michigan

Support the growers who supply true native plants!  Buy from them to increase their market.  Ask for native plants at traditional garden centers, too, so they will stock them. 

WildTypes

Propagators of over 300 species of Michigan native plants.  Container grown wildflowers, grasses, trees, and shrubs from Michigan genotypes. Wildtype is primarily a wholesale producer.  We hold a limited number of public sale days each season.  Shopping on those days is by appointment only.  Also provides ecological services including invasive species control, botanical surveys, native plant installation, ecological restoration and native landscape maintenance.
900 N Every Rd. Mason, MI 48854
517-244-1140
info@wildtypeplants.com

Detroit Abloom

Offers an on-line native plant store with plant pick-ups scheduled in May. Some of the plants they grow themselves, some they buy from the Wildtypes nursery. Detroit Abloom’s garden is wonderful to visit, to see these plants full-grown.
Located in Detroit near the Alter Road boundary with Grosse Pointe Park.  The two locations are just a few blocks apart.
Headquarters and Hoop House – 313 Newport Street Detroit, MI 48215
Garden and Pavilion – 248 Manistique Street Detroit, MI 48215
313 434-5121
https://www.detroitabloom.com/

Yardeners of St. Clair Shores

An all-volunteer club of gardeners. They will have a native plant sale in June at the Selinsky-Green Farmhouse Museum, at the parking lot behind the St. Clair Shores Public Library and municipal building at the foot of 11 Mile Road. Yardeners has an annual Yardeners Garden Tour in August; offers a plant exchange (not all native plants) in September; and has occasional lectures and a newsletter.

Feral Flora

Feral Flora creates living landscapes with a sense of place using native and nearly native plants in a naturalistic style. From a small urban garden to installing 25 acres of native seed, we can help you select the right plants for long-lived, low maintenance, low input garden that is beautiful and alive with life. Feral Flora principally grows Michigan-native plants from wild collected seed. Additionally, we offer some ‘nearly native’ plants.
You can order plants online and arrange for pick-up dates in May. Check their website for other dates and locations where they offer plants for sale.
www.feral-flora.com
3825 Nixon Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 48105
Phone: (734) 224-2080
info@feral-flora.com

New Leaf Natives and Creating Sustainable Landscapes, LLC

Offers wholesale but also retail, good source for 38 plug flats to buy plants in the large numbers needed for dense natural plantings. Very efficient online ordering system. Creating Sustainable Landscapes, LLC is a Southeast Michigan company dedicated to helping landowners who want landscapes that utilize sound ecological principles, the foundation of which uses native plants.
Contact: Chris Oesterling
(734) 330-7175
newleafplantnursery@gmail.com
New Leaf Natives, Nurseries & Greenhouses
304 Jarvis St.
Ypsilanti, MI
In 2022 they expanded to a larger nursery located in Manchester, southwest of Ann Arbor, which is now the pick-up location.

Ray Weigands

https://raywiegandsnursery.com
47747 Romeo Plank Road
Macomb, MI 48044
(586) 286-3655 FAX: (586) 286-7299
Monday – Saturday 9AM TO 5PM
Sunday 11AM TO 5PM

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