Our Empowerment Strategy Involves Four Key Approaches:
- Supplying our partners with the essential building blocks of ecosystems: native seed, native plants, and native trees & shrubs.
- Providing partners with expert guidance on ecosystem restoration.
- Build lasting partnerships with our customers to address the intricate challenges of our ecosystems
- We have a deep commitment to the environment, we donate 25% of profits to conservation efforts.
Wholesale Customers
Leading Supplier Of Wholesale Native Plant Materials
Largest selection of wholesale native plants, seeds, and trees. Also, take advantage of our extensive collaboration throughout the entire journey, spanning from initial design to final implementation and continuous maintenance.
Please send wholesale quote requests to: Wholesale@NaturalCommunities.net
Flywheel Ecology - Ecological Restoration Consulting
Are you frustrated with slow or no progress on you ecological restoration projects? Do you feel like you just can't win against invasive species? Do you feel like you are using way too much herbicide?
My name is Nick Fuller, I Am the Chief Ecologic Officer here at Natural Communities and I know how you feel. I am a restoration ecologist myself, and I felt the same way for many years. I was struggling to find a way to effectively control invasive species without resorting to mass amounts of herbicides year after year. That's why I developed Flywheel Ecology. Flywheel Ecology is a new framework for ecological restoration that leverages the power of native plants and resilient ecosystems.
Flywheel Ecology will help you build a resilient ecosystem that is resistant to invasive species.
We will use our 4-step framework to select the right native plants for your site and develop a maintenance strategy that will keep your ecosystem healthy and thriving. Flywheel Ecology can save you time, frustration, and money. Spend less time fighting invasive species, Reduce your reliance on herbicides, Enjoy a healthier, more resilient ecosystem, Free your time to tackle more ecological restoration projects.
Retail Customers
Find our huge selection of retail offerings below
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Buy Native Plants
Click Here - Retail Native PlantsWe have an amazing selection of single species plug flats and dormant bare root plants available at incredibly discounted prices. For our retail customers, this is an opportunity you don't want to miss!
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Native Garden Kits
Click Here - Native Garden KitsShop for Predesigned or Customize Your Own Native Garden Kits
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Buy Native Seed Mixes
Click Here - Retail Native Seed MixesWe offer ecologist-designed seed mixes for various community types on larger properties. Our team prioritizes cost-effectiveness while ensuring the habitat value of these mixes.
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Native Seed Packets
Click Here - Native Seed PacketsEmbark on an inspiring urban restoration journey with our 1,000 sq.ft. native seed mixes for yards - a perfect fusion of species that will bring both beauty and wildlife to life!
Ask An Ecological Restoration Question
Have a "burning" question about ecological restoration for our Chief Ecological Officer, Nick Fuller? How does something work? How to get the most out of your ecosystem with Flywheel Ecology? How to control invasive species with less herbicide? How can I use native plants to combat invasive specie? Controlled burning? Any ecological restoration question.
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Let customers speak for us
So many places you can use this plant - it looks great in combinations, or in masses all by itself!
You did a great job getting me my order in time for the village's native garden tour. I gave out 32 of the plugs. One of the native plant groups has a mission of Repairing the environment one plant at a time. I did my part by giving away a plant to each visitor to my garden.
Thanks
I’ve ordered many plants from them…always been pleases
I was expecting echinacea plugs to be much smaller but these were fairly large with a nice healthy root system. A couple of them had small blooms the day after I planted them in mid-June.
the plugs were welll developed and, after a few days acclimating to southern new england, ready to plant in their forever home! thank you!!!
I'm so pleased I found Uvularia grandiflora (Bellwort) available when I couldn't find them anywhere else. They were delivered healthy and packed well. They went in the ground and began to grow right away. What a beautiful plant and beneficial to early spring bees.
I always receive top notch service at Natural Communities. The plants are healthy and pricing is great. Large selection of native plants to choose from.
Impressed with the very developed bare root plants. They were huge!
The geraniums arrived yesterday, and their roots are already starting to settle. These are great plants, received when requested and packaged well. Thank you.
I love Asarum canadense, and these are the finest young plants I have ever received. Thank you.
The Carex are beautiful, and arrived well-packaged.
I was pleased to buy a flat of 50 hard-to-find plants. The plants shipped fairly quickly and arrived in excellent shape.
The plants arrived in some of the best packaging I have seen. These are very slow-to-develop plans in a nursery and in nature. I have received pints with smaller growth than the 32 plug flat I received. Thanks! very happy!
The Common Mountain Mint plants arrived in excellent opportunity condition and are healthy. I give Natural Communities a thumbs up!
When the Virginia Bluebell plants arrived, they were huge and already blooming! I have not planted them yet. That is today's project.
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