We are attending the Herb and Garden Faire at Landis Valley Museum! We have disabled online orders. We have much of our inventory at the event and if we sell it, we don’t want disappointed online shoppers. We will take stock after the event enable online orders with up to date inventory.
Come see us at spot #4 on the map and pick up some native plants for your backyard habitat! Along with our quart sized pots, we will be offering plugs of Cinnamon Willow Herb. This is High-Five Farms ecotype, it does not get much more local than that, so grab some while they last!
In addition to our natives, we will be offering a limited selection of rare and hard to find tomato and pepper plants, because growing your own food is not only fun, but also environmentally responsible. See below for a list!
High-Five Farms Native Nursery is a budding backyard native plant nursery in Lancaster County Pennsylvania. We are focused on native plants of the Northern Piedmont and larger Mid-Atlantic Region. You can read more about us here.
We do not ship plants. All orders are for pickup only. Plants can be picked up by scheduling an appointment.
Before a visit you can review our in-stock plants or place an order.
We have local Pennsylvania native plants ready to go in the ground!
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“We have allowed alien plants to replace natives all over the country. Our native animals and plants cannot adapt to this gross and completely unnatural manipulation of their environment in time to negate the consequences. Their only hope for a sustainable future is for us to intervene to right the wrongs that we have perpetrated.”
Douglas W. Tallamy, Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants
“Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal.”
Aldo Leopold
Only you can prevent habitat loss! Plant native plants.
“Butterflies used to reproduce on the native plants that grew in our yards before the plants were bulldozed and replaced with lawn. To have butterflies in our future, we need to replace those lost host plants, no if’s, and’s or but’s. If we do not, butterfly populations will continue to decline with every new house that is built.”
Douglas W. Tallamy
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“Gardening is like cooking. It is tempting to cook only with the goal of achieving great taste, with no thought of healthy eating, but that often results in tasty concoctions so full of fat, sugar, and salt that they are deadly in the long run. Similarly, it is tempting to garden only for beauty, without regard to the many ecological roles our landscapes must perform. All too often, such narrow gardening goals result in a landscape so low in ecological function that it drains the vitality from the surrounding ecosystem.”
Douglas W. Tallamy, Nature’s Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard
“Species have the potential to sink or save the ecosystem, depending on the circumstances. Knowing that we must preserve ecosystems with as many of their interacting species as possible defines our challenge in no uncertain terms. It helps us to focus on the ecosystem as an integrated functioning unit, and it deemphasizes the conservation of single species. Surely this more comprehensive approach is the way to go.”
Douglas W. Tallamy, Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants
“Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.”
Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
“Aldo Leopold had a dream. He dreamt of a time when people accepted their roles as citizens of the natural world rather than its conquerors, a time when the land was not viewed as a commodity to be exploited but as the source of our continued existence. He longed for a time when people appreciated and respected wilderness, not just as a hunting ground or a recreational playground, but as a truly awesome and unimaginably complex machine that required all of its parts to function well.”
Douglas W. Tallamy, Nature’s Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard