WNC's Permaculture Nursery
Specializing in Useful, Phytonutrient, Food, and Medicinal Plants
Useful Plants Nursery will have plants available at the following events!
The weekend of May 1-3 our staff will be at the Growing in the Mountains event at the Asheville Farmers Market on Brevard Rd. Come find us there Friday and Saturday 9:00am - 5:00pm, and Sunday from 9:00am til 2:00pm. Therefore, our nursery at Earthaven will be closed Saturday, May 2nd, and we will resume our normal business hours next Wednesday, May 6th, from 10:00 till 3:30 as usual. Thank you!
Growing in the Mountains Spring Plant Sale
May 1-3, 2026
Friday and Saturday 9am-5pm
Sunday 10am-2pm
At: WNC Farmer’s Market
For Growing in the Mountains and Herbfest, stay tuned for more information and plants available from the UPN at this event!
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.
Current Hours
Our hours for Spring 2026 will be starting March 4th. Our hours are from 10:00 am to 3:30 pm on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
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