WNC's Permaculture Nursery

Specializing in Useful, Phytonutrient, Food, and Medicinal Plants

Plants we have in abundance!

Useful Plants Nursery has the following plants available for immediate sale:

Goumis - 2 gallon pots, 16" - 32" tall @ $43 each
The two varieties we have Sweet Scarlet and Red Jim. Nitrogen-fixing plants: good to plant between or around other plants as the provide nitrogen to the soil and other plants.

Apples - various sizes and prices.
varieties: Arkansas Black, Yates, Honeycrisp and Liberty. Soon to have Goldrush.

Raspberries - 1 & 2 gallon pots - approx. 25 available.
Varieties: Fall Gold, Caroline and Heritage.

Pawpaws - 1 & 2 gallon pots - approx. 16 available.
Seedlings from local trees, requires two or more seedlings to cross-polinate. A good partial-shade plant.

Elderberries - 1 gallon pots @ $25 each, approx. 25 available.
Varieties: Bobgorden, Wildwood, Adams, Ranch.

Blueberries - 1-gallon @ $25, 2-gallon @ $30, 3-gal @ $35
Varieties: Northern, Southern and Rabbiteye.

Figs - 1-gallon @ $25, 2-gallon @ $30, 3-gal @ $35
Varieties: Celeste, Brown Turkey, Louisiana Purple.

New plants at the nursery we haven't had in a while:

Shadblow Serviceberry
* 10 in 1 gallon pots; ready November 20th or sooner; 3-4 feet high now, their roots need a little more growth
* 10-15 in 2 gallon pots; ready November 20th - 30th; 3-4 feet high now, their roots need a little more growth
* 5 in 3 gallon pots; ready December 10th - 15th

American Plums - their roots need a little more growth
* 1 gallon pots; ready November 20th or sooner
* 2 gallon pots; ready November 30th
* 3 gallon pots; 2 ready December 15th

Concord grapes * 2 gallon pots; ready now
* 3 gallon pots; ready now

American Hazlenuts - 2 in 7 gallon pots

Hearty Citrus
* Yuzu - 13 in 2-gallon pots
* Flying Dragon - 14 in 2-gallon pots

Pawpaws - ready approximately February 1st
* Sunflower Grafted - 4 in 3-gallon pots
* Susquahana - 6 in 3-gallon pots
* Overlease - 7 in 3-gallon pots

Bush Cherry - ready approximately February 15st
* Joy - 15 in 1-gallon pots
* Jan - 15 in 1-gallon pots
* Joel - 15 in 1-gallon pots

Wintergreen - ready approximately March 1st - 15 in 1-gallon pots

Mulberry - ready now
* Hicks - 2 in 4-gallon pots
* Illinois Everybearing - 5 in 1-gallon pots
* Illinois Everybearing - 3 in 2-gallon pots
* Illinois Everybearing - 1 in 3-gallon pots

Comfrey - a great dynamic accumulator of many minerals, good for gardens, orchards, etc. Approx 10 in 1-gal, 5 in 2-gal, 5 in 3-gal

About Useful Plants Nursery

Useful Plants Nursery is a permaculture-based nursery specializing in useful, phytonutritional, food, and medicine plants well-adapted to our Southern Appalachian mountains and surrounding bioregions. Our plants are grown without the use of synthetic pesticides at our nursery located at Earthaven Ecovillage.

We believe that growing your own food and medicine plants is a vitally important strategy and practice for regaining control over our collective and personal lives, our health, and our individual and bioregional economic well being. Our nursery is dedicated to putting those beliefs into practice and truly creating "Liberation through Abundance" as we serve your needs for healthy, useful landscape plants, and work together to reweave the web of life.

Current Hours

The last day UPN will be open this Fall is November 22nd, 2025. Until then we will be open for our regular hours from 10:00 am to 3:30 pm on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.

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111 Another Way
Black Mountain, NC 28711

The last day UPN will be open this Fall is November 22nd, 2025. Until then we will be open for our regular hours from 10:00 am to 3:30 pm on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.

Contact Us

(828) 669-6517

We are always open by appointment! Please call any time, any day of the week.

If you have special plant requests, get in touch! Send us an email or call us at 828-669-6517.