WNC's Permaculture Nursery

Specializing in Useful, Phytonutrient, Food, and Medicinal Plants

Saturday, May 30th will be our last day this Spring for regular hours. We will be open that day from 10:00 am - 3:30 pm. We will sell plants by appointment all Summer. Send us an email or call us at 828-669-6517. Thanks for a great season.

Don't forget to water your plants, especially during dry spells!

Plants we have in abundance!

Useful Plants Nursery has the following plants available for immediate sale. We have many other plants available as well.

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, Liberty and 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. Hurry! They're going fast!

Elderberries - 1 gallon pots @ $26 each, approx. 25 available.
Varieties: Bobgorden, Wildwood, Adams, Ranch.

Blueberries - 1-gallon @ $26, 2-gallon @ $31, 3-gal @ $36
Varieties: Northern, Southern and Rabbiteye.

Figs - 1-gallon @ $26, 2-gallon @ $31, 3-gal @ $36
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; 3-4 feet high, some larger
* 10-15 in 2 gallon pots; 3-4 feet high, some larger
* 5 in 3 gallon pots

American Plums
* 1 gallon pots
* 2 gallon pots

Bruce & Methley Plums - 5 of each
* 5 gallon pots

Concord grapes
* 2 gallon pots
* 3 gallon pots

American Hazlenuts - 2 in 7 gallon pots

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

Pawpaws
* Sunflower Grafted - 3-gallon pots
* Susquahana - 3-gallon pots
* Overlease - 3-gallon pots
* Non-Grafted Varieties

Bush Cherry
* Joy - 6 in 1-gallon pots
* Jan - 6 in 1-gallon pots
* Joel - 6 in 1-gallon pots

Wintergreen - not available yet

Mulberry
* 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.