# The MagiK Garden

> Add A Little MagiK To Your Garden


## Posts

- [The Secret Garden (Week 31)](https://themagikgarden.com/the-secret-garden/): The Secret Garden (1993) is one of my favorite films of all time from my childhood. A film which likely had the greatest influence on my trajectory in life.
- [Garden Journal Week 30, 2026](https://themagikgarden.com/garden-journal-week-30-2026/): FTC Disclosure: Please note that some of the links in this post are affiliate or referral links (full disclosure here), and if you make a purchase or sign up for a service within a certain timeframe after clicking on one of those links, I may earn a small commission paid by the retailer at no extra cost to you.
- [Garden Journal Week 29, 2026](https://themagikgarden.com/garden-journal-week-29-2026/): My plans for this week were meant to be the usual, aside from the exams I'd scheduled on Tuesday morning.
- [Garden Journal Week 28, 2026](https://themagikgarden.com/garden-journal-week-28-2026/): This topic is a bit unusual for my garden journal posts, since they're meant to be more of a review of the previous week; however, this is relevant to this week's post and rarely (if ever) covered in gardening posts—and it's something I have a good bit of experience with.
- [Garden Journal Week 27, 2026](https://themagikgarden.com/garden-journal-week-27-2026/): surviving the heatwave, studying for pesticide applicator certification, bumping up plants, slow down
- [Garden Journal 2026, Week 26](https://themagikgarden.com/garden-journal-2026-26/): Topics this week include volunteer plants, new plants added to the shop, summer market break, what's in bloom, prepping for a heatwave.
- [Garden Journal 2026, Week 25](https://themagikgarden.com/garden-journal-2026-week-25/): Summary of week 25, 2026: Russell Gardens, nursery organization, summer solstice blooms, thoughts on preserves
- [Seeds Underground Zine 7 - NISAW](https://themagikgarden.com/seeds-underground-zine-7-nisaw/): Seeds Underground Zine #7 is a little story about invasive species. I think you'll like it. I promise, it's not preachy (unlike the blog).
- [Seeds Underground Zine 6 - Monocarps](https://themagikgarden.com/seeds-underground-zine-6-monocarps/): What's an annual, a biennial, and a perennial all at the same time? A monocarp! Learn more with Seeds Underground Zine #6
- [Seeds Underground Zine No. 5 - Pteridomania!](https://themagikgarden.com/seeds-underground-zine-no-5-pteridomania/): Learn about Pteridomania, and then print and follow the zine guide to How To Sow The Ferns.
- [Seeds Underground 4 - Seed Detective Part 2](https://themagikgarden.com/su4-seed-detective-2/): This zine addresses the oddball seeds, and the associated post goes off on a slight tangent about the ramifications of cloning plants.
- [Seeds Underground - The Seed Detective Part 1](https://themagikgarden.com/seeds-underground-the-seed-detective-part-1/): This is a mini spin-off from the usual Seeds Underground zines, which gets into the mystery of seed germination.
- [Seeds Underground Zine - No. 2](https://themagikgarden.com/seeds-underground-zine-no-2/): The second issue of SEEDS Underground, my little native gardening zine, is up! The feature in this one is "A Dirtbag's Guide to DIY Seed Starting Mix."
- [Seeds Underground Zine - No. 1](https://themagikgarden.com/seeds-underground-zine-no-1/): Seeds Underground Zine #1, the first zine by Magi at The MagiK Garden focused on native gardening.
- [Elaiosome Ants Sow Your Seeds](https://themagikgarden.com/elaiosome-ants-sow-your-seeds/): Ok, maybe it's a stretch, but the idea isn't. You should let some ants sow your seeds, especially when they have elaisomes.
- [Native Fairy Garden - Can It Be Done?](https://themagikgarden.com/grow-a-native-fairy-garden/): Just about anything people love doing in the garden can be done with native plants. That includes native fairy gardens. Today, I'm sharing mine.
- [Map Your Garden Using What3Words](https://themagikgarden.com/map-your-garden-using-what3words/): How do you find an exact location on a map using only three words? What three words, do you ask? Read more to find out.
- [Water Conservation: When It Rains, I Pour](https://themagikgarden.com/when-it-rains-i-pour/): I make every effort to harvest rainwater for use on my plants anytime it rains, but I do not have any rain barrels set up. I have a different method for collecting and utilizing rainwater.

## Pages

- [Customer Cabinet](https://themagikgarden.com/customer-cabinet/)
- [Pesticides FAQ](https://themagikgarden.com/pesticides-faq/): The word pesticides refers to the entire group of chemicals used to repel, control or eradicate any pest.
- [Voucher Balance Check](https://themagikgarden.com/voucher-balance-check/)
- [Stripe Payment Success Page](https://themagikgarden.com/stripe-payment-success-page/)
- [Gift Cards](https://themagikgarden.com/gift-cards/)
- [Voucher Payment Cancel](https://themagikgarden.com/voucher-payment-cancel/)
- [Voucher Payment Successful](https://themagikgarden.com/voucher-payment-successful/)
- [Gift Item PDF Preview](https://themagikgarden.com/gift-item-pdf-preview/)
- [Voucher PDF Preview](https://themagikgarden.com/voucher-pdf-preview/)
- [Gift Items](https://themagikgarden.com/gift-items/)
- [Gift Voucher](https://themagikgarden.com/gift-voucher/)
- [The MagiK Link-in-Bio](https://themagikgarden.com/linkinbio/): Resource: WTF Did I Sow?
- [Waitlist](https://themagikgarden.com/waitlist/)
- [Multi-list](https://themagikgarden.com/lists/)
- [All My Lists](https://themagikgarden.com/all-my-lists/)
- [2026 Pop-Up Shops, Events, Market Dates](https://themagikgarden.com/event-calendar/): 200 E. Hancock St.
- [WTF Did I Sow?](https://themagikgarden.com/wtf-did-i-sow/): If you saw my other page "WTF Did I Plant?" but you're dealing with first-year seedlings, you'll notice that seedlings don't look like that.
- [WTF Did I Plant?](https://themagikgarden.com/wtf-did-i-plant/): Here are photos from my nursery of plants as they emerge after winter. Some of these are difficult to tell apart down to species.
- [The Magic of Native Plants](https://themagikgarden.com/): as well as the ecosystem which we all inhabit.
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- [Shipping Inquiry](https://themagikgarden.com/shipping-inquiry/): * Shipping is available to most states east of the rockies.
- [Glossary](https://themagikgarden.com/glossary/)
- [Organizations I Support](https://themagikgarden.com/organizations/): These organizations are ones I have personally interacted with, even befriended, whose values align with those of myself/The MagiK Garden.
- [Nursery Ordering Table](https://themagikgarden.com/shop-table/): If you already know what you're looking for, this is a quick and easy way to order from the shop.
- [Client Portal](https://themagikgarden.com/clients/)
- [Nursery Plants FAQ](https://themagikgarden.com/plants-faq/): Where I answer all your questions about the plants I grow and sell.
- [Wishlist](https://themagikgarden.com/wishlist/)
- [Sun, Shade And Everything In-Between](https://themagikgarden.com/sun-shade-and-everything-in-between/): How much light is enough? How much is too much, or not enough? These are the four primary categories that you need to remember.
- [Order FAQ](https://themagikgarden.com/order-faq/): Fill your cart with the plants you're interested in purchasing and place the order. You do not need to fill in your payment information at this time.
- [Community Efforts To Promote Native Plants](https://themagikgarden.com/community-efforts-to-promote-native-plants/): If there is anything that native plants can teach us, it's that for an ecosystem to thrive, it takes a community. That includes real human connections.
- [Send Me A Message](https://themagikgarden.com/contact/): Are you here because you'd like to drop off some pots?
- [Sustainability as a Native Plant Nursery](https://themagikgarden.com/sustainability-focused-nursery/): Plastic in the nursery trade is unavoidable, especially with limited resources.
- [Seed and Spore Hold The Future In Store](https://themagikgarden.com/seed-and-spore-are-the-future/): "Flowers and fruit are only the beginning.
- [Cultivars, Nativars, Love or Hativars?](https://themagikgarden.com/cultivars-nativars-love-or-hativars/): There is a lot of confusion surrounding nativars. This article hopes to dispel some of those misconceptions.
- [A Garden Of Thoughts](https://themagikgarden.com/blog/): Seeds Underground Zine #7 is a little story about invasive species. I think you'll like...
- [What is The MagiK Garden?](https://themagikgarden.com/about/): A journey. Dream come true. Lot of work. What I've always wanted.
- [My account](https://themagikgarden.com/account/)
- [Checkout](https://themagikgarden.com/checkout/): Please do not order plants if you cannot schedule an appointment to come to my house in Blue Bell, PA, or meet me at a drop point in the surrounding area.
- [Cart](https://themagikgarden.com/cart/)
- [Store](https://themagikgarden.com/store/)
- [Privacy Policy](https://themagikgarden.com/privacy-policy/): The MagiK Garden is a backyard nursery operated by one person based out of Blue Bell, PA, which utilizes a drop point system for delivering orders to customers.

## Products

- [Jumpseed](https://themagikgarden.com/store/virginia-jumpseed/)
- [Ozark Witchhazel](https://themagikgarden.com/store/ozark-witchhazel/): endemic to Ozarks, late-winter blooming US native witchhazel. Seed grown. Only a few because I grew these for myself and don't need this many.
- [Great Bay Laurel](https://themagikgarden.com/store/rosebay-rhododendron/): Our native Rhododendron, seed grown. Available 2026 at the earliest.
- [False Aloe](https://themagikgarden.com/store/false-aloe/): Southeastern species, near native. Really cool drought-tolerant cold hardy agave-like plant with tall flower spikes.
- [White Rattlesnake Root](https://themagikgarden.com/store/white-rattlesnake-root/): All but one are about to flower, otherwise you'll want to wait until next year when I have them in stock again.
- [Thimbleweed](https://themagikgarden.com/store/thimbleweed-anemone-virginiana/): This is not the aggressive groundcover one; that would be Canada anemone. Native in southeastern PA.
- [Northern Wood Oats](https://themagikgarden.com/store/northern-wood-oats-chasmanthium-latifolium/)
- [Woodland Agrimony](https://themagikgarden.com/store/woodland-agrimony-agrimonia-striata/)
- [Autumn Goldenrod](https://themagikgarden.com/store/autumn-goldenrod/)
- [Puffballs](https://themagikgarden.com/store/puffballs/)
- [Western Sunflower](https://themagikgarden.com/store/western-sunflower/)
- [American Plum](https://themagikgarden.com/store/american-plum/)
- [Red Chokeberry](https://themagikgarden.com/store/red-chokeberry-aronia-arbutifolia/)
- [Golden Alexanders](https://themagikgarden.com/store/variegated-zizia-aurea/): This is a species that goes by many names, most commonly golden alexanders.
- [Goldenseal](https://themagikgarden.com/store/goldenseal/)
- [Upland Broadleaf Ironweed](https://themagikgarden.com/store/upland-broadleaf-ironweed/)
- [Mohr's Rosinweed](https://themagikgarden.com/store/mohrs-rosinweed/)
- [Lucy Braun's Rosinweed](https://themagikgarden.com/store/lucy-brauns-rosinweed/)
- [Purple Mountain Bluets](https://themagikgarden.com/store/purple-woodland-bluets/)
- [Georgia Aster](https://themagikgarden.com/store/georgia-aster/): I don't pick favorites. I can't. There are too many amazing native plants for me to pick a single favorite. I'm like a kid in a candy store.
- [Shale-Barren Smooth Sunflower](https://themagikgarden.com/store/shale-barren-smooth-sunflower/): Some sunflowers are fairly common and widespread, while others are less-so. This perennial sunflower is not native to southeastern PA.
- [Starry Campion](https://themagikgarden.com/store/starry-campion/): "You might learn a secret, among the garden borders, Something never guessed at, that no one knows or thinks: Snip, snip, snip, go busy fairy scissors, Pinking out the edges of the petals of the Pinks!" - Cicely Mary Barker
- [Indian Pink](https://themagikgarden.com/store/indian-pink/): This near-native hummingbird magnet gets going in June, at the same time as other hummingbird magnets, when they need them most.
- [White Meadowsweet](https://themagikgarden.com/store/white-meadowsweet/): If you need a highly adaptable low-growing shrub to fill in as a short hedge, white meadowsweet fits the bill.
- [Swamp Pink](https://themagikgarden.com/store/swamp-pink/): The sale of swamp pinks is limited to no more than two per customer.
- [Flowering Spurge](https://themagikgarden.com/store/flowering-spurge/): You're probably familiar with the common annual weed that grows in dry, disturbed soil called spotted spurge (Euphorbia maculata).
- [Chickasaw Plum](https://themagikgarden.com/store/prunus-angustifolia-chickasaw-plum/): You may have heard of American plums, but there's another plum native to Pennsylvania that is reported to have even better tasting fruit.
- [Swamp Sunflower](https://themagikgarden.com/store/narrow-leaf-swamp-sunflower/): There are so many sunflower species native to North America, it's hard to keep track of them all.
- [Star Tickseed](https://themagikgarden.com/store/star-tickseed-coreopsis-pubescens/): This drought-tolerant near-native perennial is non-aggressive and ideal for dry gardens, especially if you're looking to add a little diversity.
- [American Ipecac](https://themagikgarden.com/store/american-ipecac/): If you're familiar with Boman's root, this is a very closely related species, and indeed, looks very similar.
- [Trilobed Wood Violet](https://themagikgarden.com/store/trilobed-wood-violet/): Most people think that if they've seen one violet, they've seen them all.
- [Virginia Dayflower](https://themagikgarden.com/store/virginia-dayflower-commelina-virginica/): The Virginia dayflower looks very similar to both the introduced (and for some locations invasive) species, but this one is native.
- [Hackberry](https://themagikgarden.com/store/common-hackberry-celtis-occidentalis/): I primarily grew these for myself, because I really need to focus on adding other canopy trees to my tiny remnant of what little remains of an oak-hickory forest.
- [Eastern Ninebark](https://themagikgarden.com/store/eastern-ninebark/): Sky pilots bend on mountain side Dark as the black hawthorn— A horned lark rests on the ninebark— Between the two we’re torn. - Glen Enloe
- [New Jersey Tea](https://themagikgarden.com/store/new-jersey-tea-ceanothus-americanus/): Ceanothus is a vast genus, the species of which pretty much all are native to the west coast, except for this one.
- [Coral Honeysuckle](https://themagikgarden.com/store/coral-honeysuckle/): "The lane is deep, the bank is steep, The tangled hedge is high; And clinging, twisting, up I creep, And climb towards the sky. O Honeysuckle, mounting high! O Woodbine, climbing to the sky!" - Cicely Mary Barker
- [Climbing Boneset](https://themagikgarden.com/store/climbing-boneset-hempvine/): Do you have a dead hedge, habitat pile, or similar that you would like to make pretty or even more beneficial for habitat?
- [Downy Lobelia](https://themagikgarden.com/store/downy-lobelia/): This is a new one to me, so we'll learn about it together. Grow it to know it, right?
- [Great Blue Lobelia](https://themagikgarden.com/store/great-blue-lobelia/): This is the blue flowering native perennial counterpart to the cardinal flower, Lobelia cardinalis.
- [Cardinal Flower](https://themagikgarden.com/store/cardinal-flower/): "As if some wounded eagle's breast Slow throbbing o'er the plain, Had left its airy path impressed In drops of scarlet rain." - Oliver Wendell Holmes
- [Maid-Of-The-Mist](https://themagikgarden.com/store/thalictrum-coriaceum-maid-of-the-mist-thick-leaved-meadow-rue/): Maid of the Mist is like early meadow rue, but with thicker leaves and pinkish or maroon flowers. It is also widespread but uncommon throughout its range.
- [Allegheny Stonecrop](https://themagikgarden.com/store/hylotelephium-telephioides-allegheny-stonecrop/): The Allegheny stonecrop or live-forever is a tough, drought, heat tolerant mounding plant that grows quickly and puts on a show of blooms in the fall.
- [Eastern Columbine 'Little Lanterns'](https://themagikgarden.com/store/aquilegia-canadensis-eastern-columbine/): Eastern columbines of all kinds! Little Lanterns is dwarf and compact, standard (available later 2025) is what you're used to seeing.
- [Appalachian Fameflower](https://themagikgarden.com/store/phemeranthus-teretifolius-appalachian-fameflower/): Don't let the ephemeral nature of the individual flowers fool you - this succulent blooms from spring through fall.
- [Large-Flowered American Field Chickweed](https://themagikgarden.com/store/large-flowered-meadow-chickweed-cerastium-strictum/): This native chickweed has showy fragrant blooms in spring and is drought tolerant once established.
- [Meehan's Mint](https://themagikgarden.com/store/meehania-cordata-meehans-mint/): This little-known woodland creeping mint is endemic only to a small number of states (including Pennsylvania, but to the west of our area).
- [Yellow Giant Hyssop, Catnip Giant Hyssop](https://themagikgarden.com/store/agastache-nepetoides-yellow-giant-hyssop/): Unlike anise hyssop, a popular near-native, yellow giant hyssop is one of two native hyssops in Pennsylvania, displaying creamy yellow flowers.
- [Purple Giant Hyssop](https://themagikgarden.com/store/agastache-scrophulariifolia-purple-giant-hyssop/): Both Agastache scrophulariifolia and Agastache nepetoides are in the same genus as the popular near-native anise hyssop.
- [Scarlet Beebalm](https://themagikgarden.com/store/monarda-didyma-panorama-red-scarlet-beebalm/): This is a popular seed strain of scarlet beebalm that is known to produce those scarlet red blooms that hummingbirds love.
- [Poke Milkweed](https://themagikgarden.com/store/asclepias-exaltata-poke-milkweed/): If you thought that common milkweed was confusing enough to discern from pokeweed, meet poke milkweed.
- [Whorled Milkweed](https://themagikgarden.com/store/asclepias-verticillata-whorled-milkweed/): Who could believe in the prophecies ... that the world would end this summer, while one milkweed with faith matured its seeds. — Henry David Thoreau
- [Golden Groundsel](https://themagikgarden.com/store/packera-aurea-golden-ragwort/): I only pricked out a few seedlings this year since this is a very popular native plant that every native nursery seems to sell, so I wasn't sure if it would be worth it to add this year.
- [Purple Marsh Cinquefoil](https://themagikgarden.com/store/comarum-palustre-marsh-cinquefoil/): Formerly known as Potentilla palustris, this cinquefoil loves to grow in wet, marshy soil.
- [Eastern Smooth Beardtongue](https://themagikgarden.com/store/penstemon-laevigatus-eastern-smooth-beardtongue/): Highly adaptable beardtongue with white to lavender flowers, very similar to foxglove beardtongue, blooms in summer.
- [Redwhisker Clammyweed](https://themagikgarden.com/store/polanisia-dodecandra-redwhisker-clammyweed/): This unusual annual is the only plant related to Cleomes native to the east coast. Deer don't want anything to do with the sticky, sesame-smelling leaves.
- [Wild Strawberry](https://themagikgarden.com/store/fragaria-virginiana-wild-strawberry/): The native wild strawberry provides delicious, edible fruit, and its dense spreading growth helps to suppress weeds as a living mulch.
- [Wild Basil](https://themagikgarden.com/store/clinopodium-vulgare-wild-basil/): Sam Thayer is not a fan of this one for some reason, claiming the taste is better than the unpleasant, bitter aftertaste.
- [Rock Harlequin](https://themagikgarden.com/store/capnoides-sempervirens-rock-harlequin/): As an annual, rock harlequin will grow quickly and put out blooms in the first year, re-seeding into your garden to come back year after year.
- [Lyre-Leaf Sage](https://themagikgarden.com/store/salvia-lyrata-lyreleaf-sage/): Lyreleaf sage is the only sage known to be native to southeastern Pennsylvania. This evergreen attracts pollinators and does well in a native lawn.
- [Canada Anemone](https://themagikgarden.com/store/anemonastrum-canadensis-canada-anemone/): This is one of those plants that I personally love but people are often warned against planting because it's aggressive.
- [Eastern Yellow Star Grass](https://themagikgarden.com/store/hypoxis-hirsuta-eastern-yellow-star-grass/): Blue-eyed grass's golden-flowered cousin, the eastern yellow star grass is a welcome volunteer in gardens with grass-like leaves and bright blooms.
- [Prairie Flax](https://themagikgarden.com/store/linum-lewisii-perennial-prairie-flax/): These are sold in true quart pots with three plants per pot. Split them up to spread in your garden or plant closer together for a mass planting effect.
- [Common Blue Violet](https://themagikgarden.com/store/viola-sororia-common-blue-violet/): "But it's not blue..."
- [Garden Phlox](https://themagikgarden.com/store/phlox-paniculata-garden-phlox/): "August in the garden! Now the cheerful Phlox Makes one think of country-girls Fresh in summer frocks." - Cicely Mary Barker
- [Orange Butterfly Weed](https://themagikgarden.com/store/asclepias-tuberosa-orange-butterfly-milkweed/): There are multiple milkweeds native to our area, some more commonly available as others.
- [Maidenhair Fern](https://themagikgarden.com/store/adiantum-pedatum-maidenhair-fern/): The northern maidenhair is one of my favorite native, perennial ferns.
- [Virginia Bluebells](https://themagikgarden.com/store/mertensia-virginica-virginia-bluebells/): Virginia bluebells are among the easiest spring ephemerals to get established in a backyard shade garden, and are very popular as an early spring food source for our native bees and butterflies.
- [Skunk Cabbage](https://themagikgarden.com/store/symplocarpus-foetidus-eastern-skunk-cabbage/): The eastern skunk cabbage is the earliest spring ephemeral to bloom in southeastern PA.
- [Blue Sedge](https://themagikgarden.com/store/carex-glaucodea-blue-sedge/): Bunny Blue Hobb isn't the only blue sedge in town. Carex glaucodea, actually called blue sedge, commonly grows in damp shady eastern woodlands.
- [American Holly](https://themagikgarden.com/store/ilex-opaca-american-holly/): "O, I am green in Winter-time, When other trees are brown; Of all the trees (So saith the rhyme) The holly bears the crown." - Cicely Mary Barker
- [Sundial Lupine](https://themagikgarden.com/store/lupinus-perennis-sundial-lupines/): Sundial lupines are the only lupines native to the mid-atlantic and northeastern region. These are the host plants for the endangered Karner Blue butterfly.
- [Whiteleaf Leatherflower](https://themagikgarden.com/store/clematis-glaucophylla-whiteleaf-leatherflower/): Although whiteleaf leatherflower looks very similar to vasevine, the two are not as closely related within the Viorna clematis group.
- [Vasevine](https://themagikgarden.com/store/clematis-viorna-vasevine/): If you're curious why the vasevine looks so different from every other clematis you've seen, it's because there are nearly 300 different species of Clematis.
- [Amethyst Shooting Star](https://themagikgarden.com/store/dodecatheon-amethystinum-amethyst-shooting-star/): Your wish for a beautiful native garden is granted with this amethyst shooting star!
- [New Engalnd Aster](https://themagikgarden.com/store/symphyotrichum-novae-angliae-new-england-aster/): “Friend butterfly, friend butterfly, go fetch them one and all! I’m waiting here to welcome every guest; And tell them it is Michaelmas, and soon the leaves will fall, But I think Autumn sunshine is the best!” - Cicely Mary Barker
- [Bloodroot](https://themagikgarden.com/store/sanguinaria-canadensis-bloodroot/): I have a wonderful wild PA population of bloodroot on my property, with a variety of leaf shapes and genetic variation in color.
- [Poverty Oatgrass](https://themagikgarden.com/store/danthonia-spicata-poverty-oatgrass/): One of the top performing grasses in Cornell's native lawn demonstration area, try replacing your exotic turf with our native Danthonia spicata.
- [Purple-Stem Meadowrue](https://themagikgarden.com/store/thalictrum-dasycarpum-purple-meadow-rue/): Purple meadow-rue is one of the tallest of the meadow-rues with its purple stems, hosts 15 species of caterpillars, and isn't particularly favored by deer.
- [Common Cinquefoil](https://themagikgarden.com/store/potentilla-canadensis-running-five-fingers/): Cute yellow-flowering ground cover that doubles a native lawn alternative that can grow in a wide variety of conditions, including full sun and drought.
- [Whitetinge Sedge](https://themagikgarden.com/store/carex-albicans-white-tinted-sedge/): It would seem that no matter what you throw at it, this tough little sedge can handle it.
- [Mayapple](https://themagikgarden.com/store/podophyllum-peltatum-mayapple/): This spring ephemeral groundcover has a close association with the state-vulnerable eastern box turtle, which favors its fruit and disperses it in the wild.
- [Sweetgrass](https://themagikgarden.com/store/hierochloe-odorata-sweetgrass/): In the book Grasses of the Northern Forest, Jerry Jenkins and Brett Engstrom listed sweetgrass as Anthoxanthum hirtum.
- [Spring Beauty](https://themagikgarden.com/store/claytonia-virginica-spring-beauty/): Edible spring ephemeral that provides an early food source for pollinators, including the specialist spring beauty miner.
- [Red Hills Azalea](https://themagikgarden.com/store/rhododendron-colemanii-red-hills-azalea/): This native azalea is endemic to upper coastal plain areas of southern Alabama and western Georgia, and one of the most recent additions to our list of native species.
- [Eastern Shooting Star](https://themagikgarden.com/store/dodecatheon-media-midland-shooting-star/): Your wish for a beautiful native garden is granted with this midland shooting star!
- [Meadow Beauty](https://themagikgarden.com/store/rhexia-virginica-meadow-beauty/): "The scarlet leaves and stem of the rhexia, some time out of flower, make almost as bright a patch in the meadow now as the flowers did. Its seed vessels are perfect little cream pitchers of graceful form." - Thoreau
- [Eastern Redbud](https://themagikgarden.com/store/cercis-canadensis-eastern-redbud/): Showy, easy-to-grow, spring blooming shrub that hosts 24 diverse species of caterpillars, provides nesting material for leaf-cutter bees, and feeds wildlife with its numerous seed pods.
- [American Hazelnut](https://themagikgarden.com/store/corylus-americana-american-hazelnut/): "Like little tails of little lambs, On leafless twigs my catkins swing; They dingle-dangle merrily Before the wakening of Spring." - Cicely Mary Barker
- [Star Tickseed Seed](https://themagikgarden.com/store/tickseed-coreopsis-pubescens-seed/): This drought-tolerant near-native perennial is non-aggressive and ideal for dry gardens, especially if you're looking to add a little diversity.
- [Rose Tickseed Seed](https://themagikgarden.com/store/tickseed-coreopsis-rosea-seed/): You might think it's just another threadleaf coreopsis... until it blooms!
- [Sweetscent Seed](https://themagikgarden.com/store/sweetscent-pluchea-odorata-succulenta-seed/): This is a lovely annual species that is very lightly fragrant with flowers which look like a pink pearly everlasting or sweet everlasting (two very different species that look similar to one another).
- [Alabama Warbonnet](https://themagikgarden.com/store/alabama-warbonnet/): A rare (G3) southern endemic and the only species in its genus that blooms in October!
- [Giant Rivercane Seed](https://themagikgarden.com/store/giant-rivercane-seed/): This is one of only three native bamboo species in the US, all of which belong to the same genus.
- [Thimbleweed Seed](https://themagikgarden.com/store/thimbleweed-anemone-virginiana-seed/): This is not the aggressive groundcover one; that would be Canada anemone. Native in southeastern PA.
- [Smooth Purple Coneflower Seed](https://themagikgarden.com/store/coneflower-echinacea-laevigata-seed/): The purple coneflowers that everyone's been planting in their gardens are not native to the east coast. This species, Echinacea laevigata, is native.
- [Large-Flowered American Field Chickweed Seeds](https://themagikgarden.com/store/chickweed-cerastium-strictum-seed/): This native chickweed has showy fragrant blooms in spring and is drought tolerant once established.
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- [Scouring Rush](https://themagikgarden.com/store/scouring-rush/): This species is not even closely related to a rush, but rather is known as a fern-ally.
- ['Dale's Strain' Coral Bells](https://themagikgarden.com/store/dales-strain-coralbells/): Everyone is familiar with coral bells, and many don't even realize that the majority of them are native.
- [Creeping Aster](https://themagikgarden.com/store/creeping-aster/): This aster's name is a bit of a misnomer.
- [Crooked-Stem Aster](https://themagikgarden.com/store/crooked-stem-aster/): Early-fall blooming woodland aster with pale lavender to purple flowers.
- [Spicebush](https://themagikgarden.com/store/spicebush-lindera-benzoin/): These are local PA ecotype seedlings from an impressive, vigorous shrub in my woodland remnant, one of the best I've ever seen in the wild.
- [Smaller Forget-Me-Not](https://themagikgarden.com/store/forgetmenot-myosotis-laxa/): Yes, we do have a native forget-me-not. There are several species, in fact, but this is the better looking one for gardens in my opinion.
- [American Climbing Fern](https://themagikgarden.com/store/climbingfern-lygodium-palmatum/): An extremely unusual fern that was once overharvested for Christmas wreaths.
- [Woodland Lettuce](https://themagikgarden.com/store/lettuce-lactuca-floridana/): Biennial or short-lived perennial (monocarpic) forb common to eastern woodlands. It's a bit bitter for human consumption, but the wildlife love it.
- [American Ginseng](https://themagikgarden.com/store/ginseng-panax-quinquefolius/): This is the notoriously poached and overharvested species sold for herbal medicine. Cultivated responsibly from seed. Need to also be protected from herbivory.
- [American Cranberry Hanging Basket](https://themagikgarden.com/store/cranberry-vaccinium-macrocarpon/): This is the same cranberry we eat in jellies and enjoy as juice, especially around the holidays!
- [Largeflower Fameflower](https://themagikgarden.com/store/fameflower-phemeranthus-calycinus/): Appalachian quill fameflower's near-native cousin. This species has a more sprawled-out habit and, as the saying goes, "everything's bigger in Texas."
- [Illinois Bundleflower](https://themagikgarden.com/store/bundleflower-desmanthus-illinoensis/): Extremely fine texture similar to the closely related mimosas, with seed pods resembling desert rose (gypsum).
- [Anglepod](https://themagikgarden.com/store/anglepod-gonolobus-suberosus/): Asclepias aren't the only milkweed capable of hosting monarchs.
- [Common Milkweed](https://themagikgarden.com/store/milkweed-asclepias-syriaca/): I don't normally carry this, but occasionally I have ones which seed into a less-than-ideal location.
- ['Pink Temptation' Turtlehead](https://themagikgarden.com/store/turtleheadpt-chelone-lyonii/): Pink turtlehead seed strain produces a dwarf & compact version of this late-summer blooming groundcover.
- [Hairy Wood Mint](https://themagikgarden.com/store/woodmint-blephilia-hirsuta/)
- [Whitemouth Dayflower](https://themagikgarden.com/store/dayflower-commelina-erecta/): Native edible look-alike of the introduced dayflower with medicinal properties.
- [Parlin's Toebeans](https://themagikgarden.com/store/pussytoes-antennaria-parliniifallax/)
- [American Dittany](https://themagikgarden.com/store/dittany-cunila-origanoides/): Culinary and medicinal herb that smells like fresh oregano.
- [Blue Sage](https://themagikgarden.com/store/sage-salvia-azurea/)
- [Blue Stem Goldenrod](https://themagikgarden.com/store/goldenrod-solidago-caesia/): Non-aggressive goldenrod which grows in northeastern woodlands.
- [Azure Bluets](https://themagikgarden.com/store/azure-bluets/): Frequently hide among the moss, until tiny blue four-petaled flowers with yellow centers hover above them in spring.
- [Rattlesnake Hawkweed](https://themagikgarden.com/store/rattlesnake-hawkweed/): Tiny native hawkweed with beautiful venation and dandelion-like flowers.
- [Jacob's Ladder](https://themagikgarden.com/store/jacobs-ladder/): Cheerful blue bell-shaped flowers will reseed into a groundcover once happily established.
- [Wavyleaf Aster](https://themagikgarden.com/store/wavyleaf-aster/): Woodland aster with wavy leaves and light blue flowers.
- [Frost Aster / Heath Aster](https://themagikgarden.com/store/frost-aster-heath-aster/)
- [Northern Blazing Star](https://themagikgarden.com/store/northern-blazing-star/)
- [Purple Avens](https://themagikgarden.com/store/purple-avens/)
- [American Harebell](https://themagikgarden.com/store/american-harebell/)
- [Plugs-Of-The-Week](https://themagikgarden.com/store/plugs-of-the-week/): every week I offer different plugs for $5 apiece, depending on availability.
- [Appalachian sedge](https://themagikgarden.com/store/appalachian-sedge/)
- [Leatherwood](https://themagikgarden.com/store/leatherwood/)
- [Jack-In-The-Pulpit](https://themagikgarden.com/store/jack-in-the-pulpit/): Only a tiny batch of jack-in-the-pulpits this year (2nd-3rd year seedlings) of ones that seeded into less-than-ideal-locations.
- [Robin's Plantain](https://themagikgarden.com/store/robins-plantain/): This is the sweetheart of the eastern native fleabanes, thanks to its soft, downy leaves, deer and rabbit tolerance, short stature and large flowers.
- [Flat-Topped White Aster](https://themagikgarden.com/store/flat-topped-white-aster/): I believe the common name of this is a bit of a misbomer, since I think this one is more closely related to goldenrods than other asters.
- [Liatris spicata 'Kobold'](https://themagikgarden.com/store/liatris-spicata-kobold/): This is a seed strain for a dwarf selection of Liatris spicata, growing to only around 2ft tall.
- [Cumberland Rosemary](https://themagikgarden.com/store/cumberland-rosemary/): This rare shrubby mint endemic to the Cumberland Valley really does resemble its namesake - yes, you can use it in place of rosemary.
- [Bluestar](https://themagikgarden.com/store/bluestar/): These were grown from seed I collected from Jenkins Arboretum when I was a horticulture intern there in 2024.
- [Blue Flag Iris](https://themagikgarden.com/store/blue-flag-iris/): I saw this species growing in the wild in full bloom when visiting the Tannersville Bog Preserve mid-June of 2025.
- [Copper Iris](https://themagikgarden.com/store/copper-iris/): This wetland species is easily adapted to average garden soils, especially ones with heavy clay and prone to seasonal ponding.
- [Oak-Leaf Hydrangea](https://themagikgarden.com/store/oak-leaf-hydrangea/): Seed-grown in 2025, not from any cultivar in particular. All will have slightly different characteristics and growth habits.
- [Aromatic Aster](https://themagikgarden.com/store/aromatic-aster/)
- [Trailing Fuzzybean](https://themagikgarden.com/store/trailing-fuzzybean/)
- [Spotted Bee Balm](https://themagikgarden.com/store/spotted-bee-balm/)
- [Bradbury's Monarda](https://themagikgarden.com/store/bradburys-monarda/)
- [Spiralis' Corkscrew Rush](https://themagikgarden.com/store/spiralis-corkscrew-rush/)
- [White Bergamot](https://themagikgarden.com/store/white-bergamot/)
- [Allegheny Monkey Flower](https://themagikgarden.com/store/allegheny-monkey-flower/)
- [Giant St. John's Wort](https://themagikgarden.com/store/giant-st-johns-wort/)
- [Buffalo Clover](https://themagikgarden.com/store/buffalo-clover-trifolium-reflexum/)
- [Yellow Fumewort](https://themagikgarden.com/store/yellow-fumewort-corydalis-flavula/)
- [Fairy Wand](https://themagikgarden.com/store/fairy-wand-chamaelirium-luteum/)
- [Broom Sedge](https://themagikgarden.com/store/broom-sedge-carex-scoparia/)
- [Plains Oval Sedge](https://themagikgarden.com/store/plains-oval-sedge-carex-brevior/)
- [American Tall Bellfower](https://themagikgarden.com/store/american-tall-bellfower-campanulastrum-americanum/)
- [Blue False Indigo](https://themagikgarden.com/store/blue-false-indigo-baptisia-australis/)
- [Groundnut](https://themagikgarden.com/store/groundnut-apios-americana/)
- [American Hogpeanut](https://themagikgarden.com/store/american-hogpeanut-amphicarpea-bracteata/): These are seed-grown groundnuts! Most groundnuts sold on the market today are clonal divisions of tubers. This does not benefit genetic diversity.
- [Hyssopleaf Thoroughwort](https://themagikgarden.com/store/hyssopleaf-thoroughwort/)
- [Flyr's Brickelbush](https://themagikgarden.com/store/flyrs-brickelbush-brickellia-cordifolia/)
- [Green Comet Milkweed](https://themagikgarden.com/store/green-comet-milkweed-asclepias-viridiflora/)
- [Redring Milkweed](https://themagikgarden.com/store/redring-milkweed-asclepias-variegata/): I don't know when I will have these available, if it's even this year (2026) or next.
- [Purple Milkweed](https://themagikgarden.com/store/purple-milkweed-asclepias-purpurascens/)
- [Clasping Sand Milkweed](https://themagikgarden.com/store/clasping-sand-milkweed/)
- [Green Dragon](https://themagikgarden.com/store/green-dragon/)
- [Neglected Toebeans (Pussytoes)](https://themagikgarden.com/store/prairie-everlasting-antennaria-neglecta/)
- [Pearly Everlasting](https://themagikgarden.com/store/pearly-everlasting-anaphalis-margaritacea/)
- [Climbing Aster](https://themagikgarden.com/store/climbing-aster-ampelaster-carolinianus/)
- [Allegheny Vine](https://themagikgarden.com/store/allegheny-vine-adlumia-fungosa/)
- [Sweetflag](https://themagikgarden.com/store/sweetflag-acorus-americanus/)
- [Southern Blue Monkshood](https://themagikgarden.com/store/southern-blue-monkshood-aconitum-uncinatum/)
- [Kalm's St. John's Wort](https://themagikgarden.com/store/kalms-st-johns-wort/): Shrubby St. John's wort is reasonably popular among native gardeners for a good reason - it's an easy-going shrub that fills that niche where people want a yellow flowering shrub.
- [Calico Aster](https://themagikgarden.com/store/calico-aster/): Wild calico aster, southeastern PA ecotype, shade adapted with September blooms.
- [Palespike Lobelia](https://themagikgarden.com/store/pale-spike-lobelia/): This is a lesser known but not uncommon lobelia that some may confuse with Lobelia inflata due to the pale color of the flowers.
- [Winged Loosestrife](https://themagikgarden.com/store/winged-loosestrife/): Long-season blooming shrub with light, pink-lavender flowers. Flowering size.
- [Early Meadow-Rue](https://themagikgarden.com/store/early-meadow-rue/)
- [Dwarf Spiraea](https://themagikgarden.com/store/dwarf-spiraea/): Taxonomists disagree on whether or not this is a variety of Spiraea betulifolia or should be considered its own species.
- [Blue Mistflower](https://themagikgarden.com/store/blue-mistflower-conoclinium-coelestinum/)
- [Smooth Blue Aster](https://themagikgarden.com/store/smooth-blue-aster/): This gorgeous lavender purple aster is native in southeastern PA and a favorite of deer because smoooooth. This is delish. Protect it when you plant it.
- [Red Turtlehead](https://themagikgarden.com/store/red-turtlehead-chelone-obliqua/): This G4 apparently secure but rare/uncommon throughout most of its range is near-native to PA.
- [Purple Bergamot](https://themagikgarden.com/store/purple-bergamot/): This naturally occurring hybrid between Monarda didyma and Monarda fistulosa is native in southeastern PA.
- [Purple-Headed Sneezeweed](https://themagikgarden.com/store/purple-headed-sneezeweed/): questionably native and adventive in southeastern PA (they just knew where Pennsylvania was going to be and decided not to grow there, but Maryland, Delaware and NJ it's native...
- [Closed Gentian](https://themagikgarden.com/store/bottle-gentian/)
- [Stiff Gentian](https://themagikgarden.com/store/stiff-gentian-agueweed/): native in southeastern PA As biennials, you'd want to plant these this fall for blooms next year.
- [Downy Wood Mint](https://themagikgarden.com/store/downy-wood-mint-blephilia-ciliata/)
- [Rattlebox](https://themagikgarden.com/store/rattlebox/): native to southeastern PA This is one of the species I feel is highly underrated.
- [September Glory Blazing Star](https://themagikgarden.com/store/september-glory-blazing-star/)
- [Canada Germander](https://themagikgarden.com/store/canada-germander/)
- [Rough Blazing Star](https://themagikgarden.com/store/rough-blazing-star/)
- [Mad-Dog Skullcap](https://themagikgarden.com/store/mad-dog-skullcap/)
- [Showy Tick-Trefoil](https://themagikgarden.com/store/showy-tick-trefoil-desmodium-canadense/)


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