Online Plant Sale

Celebrating our Colonial Roots

Order Online Apr 17 - 24 | Pick up on May 1

Our team is hard at work planning for next spring’s online plant sale. This year’s theme, Celebrating Our Colonial Roots, honors Brunswick County’s rich history through the plants that shaped early life along the Cape Fear River. Shoppers will find herbs, flowers, vines, shrubs, and small trees that thrive in our coastal climate—many native species familiar to our Colonial ancestors and vital to today’s pollinators.

We’ll also feature plants brought from Europe by early settlers and selections that recognize the gardening traditions of the Gullah Geechee people, whose knowledge and culture deeply influenced Southern horticulture. Join us in celebrating the plants, people, and stories that continue to grow in our coastal gardens!

November Update

Now that our 2026 theme is set and the hoop house has been scrubbed, washed, and refreshed, we’re diving into the next phase: researching plants, selecting vendors, and identifying the seeds and plugs we’ll need for spring. The sale will be bigger this year, with more varieties and a continued emphasis on native and pollinator-friendly plants.

Our Plant Sale Chair, Jean Klein, has already assembled a preliminary list of more than 75 varieties of flowers, herbs, bulbs, vines, grasses, trees, and shrubs. She is also exploring plants indigenous to our region that were encountered by early colonists or brought to America by explorers and by enslaved West African folk—people whose agricultural knowledge was essential to the 17th- and 18th-century rice trade in Brunswick County.

Next month, we’ll finalize the list, begin ordering seeds, and get ready to propagate!

If you’d like to learn alongside us, here are some of the sources guiding our research:

  • Southern Plant Lists, Southern Garden History Project (in collaboration with The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation), 2000

  • Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation, Andrea Wulf, Alfred A. Knopf, 2011

  • Plants of Colonial Days, Raymond L. Taylor, Colonial Williamsburg, 1952

  • Flowers and Herbs of Early America, Lawrence D. Griffith, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation & Yale University Press, 2008

Enjoy the Thanksgiving holiday!