Gowen Gardens & Nursery

Seeds are eaten by songbirds, wild turkeys and small mammals. Attractive pink-red fruit opens to reveal orange berries.

Native plant sale at PEC's Fall Festival and Arts & Crafts Show. Sales support education and restoration at the center.

Butterflies nectar at the blooms. Other insects also feed at the flowers, especially beetles.

Echinacea (ek-in-AY-shee-ah) Learn more from NC State Extension. .

Easy, low-growing, and spreading plant with abundant flowers throughout the summer.

Use this plant in open shade gardens, woodland areas, native, pollinator, or cottage gardens. Notable for attracting wildlife.

Ripened maypops can be eaten fresh off the vine or made into jelly. Showy flowers are edible, best used as a garnish.

Attracts butterflies & other pollinators. Perfect for a rain garden; has a strong presence in garden.

Provides excellent cover year round. This is a larval host plant for various Skipper butterflies and the Common Wood-Nymph. (NC Ext)

In late summer to early fall, pawpaw produces an edible, sweet-tasting, and custard like fruit. (NC Ext.)

Attract bees, butterflies, and other pollinators; truly a pollinator favorite. Spreads in sunny garden. Leaves and flowers used for tea.

Solidago sphacelata (so-li-DAY-go spass-el-LAH-tuh) Learn more from the NC State Extension.

Phlox stolonifera, or creeping phlox, is a spreading, mat-forming phlox which is native to wooded areas and stream banks.

Native perennial pink or red summer blooms that attract pollinators, and can be used as tea.

Native perennial with yellow mid-summer blooms that are fast spreading for meadow, naturalized areas.

Native perennial with yellow mid-summer blooms that reach five to eight feet tall.

Native Perennial with red summer blooms that hummingbirds love.