Flower Power
Native Plant Nursery & Garden Center
Opening April 2024
It is my honor to share with you that starting this spring, we will be opening up the former Grandiflora Nursery & Garden Center, as Flower Power. After 25 years in business, Katie & Carol have decided to start new chapters in their horticultural careers & conclude their retail venture. Their garden center has long been a wonderful business within our community, filled with hard-to-find plant offerings, a wealth of knowledge & a serene environment. I have been coming to Grandiflora since a young age, and have always been drawn to its tranquil atmosphere aside the koi pond, with the south facing windows and beautiful shade structure providing respite from the summer sun. I hope to continue to bring this essence to the space as I move forward this spring. Thank you Katie & Carol for holding such a special place for us over all of these years.
As for Flower Power, we will be growing & selling indigenous plants of this local region. Scroll down for a full list of the plants we will be offering! We are working on sourcing our plants from as many local growers as possible, who are germinating plant material using local ecotype, or locally sourced, seeds. The reason this is important, is because we want to create habitat for as many at-risk pollinators as we can. Since pollinators have evolved aside their plant host friends over a thousands-year-long process, we need to be sure they have these plants available in order to complete their, as well as our, food web.
We will also be selling edible and medicinal plants, such as fruit & veggie starts, herbs, and an assortment of unique flowering annuals. We'll have custom bulk restorative seed mixes 🌼, gardening tools ⛏, books 📚, bird houses 🐦, pots, planters & more!
We are planning to open on April 10th, with a
Grand Opening Celebration on Saturday, April 20th.
Lastly, I want to share the mission of Flower Power. It is our hope that by providing our community with alternative options, not often found in today's garden retail environment, we can begin to rethink how we plant our home gardens. The gardening industry has far too long been encouraging practices that are far from "green." You won't find insecticides, herbicides, or "weed killers" at Flower Power. You won't find virgin plastic either. We will only be reusing existing plastic pots, before transitioning to 100% compostable, coconut coir pots. Our compost & mulch will only be available in bulk, which we'll load up for you in returnable bulk bins that we are making out of 55-gallon drums from The O Zone's bulk market. No more single-use plastic bags full of soil! Wahoo!
I am very excited about this next venture, and I hope you are too! Thank you as always for your support & I look forward to cultivating lots & lots of plants this spring. 🌿
Sincerely,
Amelia
2024 Plant List
Shrubs & Trees
Allegheny Serviceberry
American Hazelnut
American Persimmon
American Plum
Black Currant
Black Cherry
Black Chokeberry
Black Walnut
Black Willow
Blackcap Raspberry
Blackhaw Viburnum
Bur Oak
Button Bush
Chinquapin Oak
Elderberry
Hackberry
Hawthorn
Mapleleaf Viburnum
Meadow Rose
Meadowsweet Spirea
Nannyberry
Pagoda Dogwood
Paw Paw
Pussy Willow
Red Chokeberry
Red Maple
Red Mulberry
Red Oak
Red Osier Dogwood
Red Raspberry
River Birch
Spicebush
Steeplebush Spirea
Sugar Maple
Swamp Rose
Sweet Fern
Sycamore
Winterberry
Perennials
Acorus americanus (Sweetflag)
Actaea racemosa (Black Cohosh)
Adiantum pedatum (Northern Maidenhair Fern)
Allium cernuum (Nodding Onion)
Anaphalis margaritacea (Pearly Everlasting)
Aquilegia canadensis (Red Columbine)
Arisaema triphyllum (Jack in the Pulpit)
Asarum canadense (Wild Ginger)
Cardamine concatenata (Cutleaf Toothwort)
Carex pensylvanica
Carex vulpinoidea
Claytonia caroliniana (Carolina Springbeauty)
Coreopsis rosea (Pink Tickseed)
Deschampsia cespitosa (Tufted Hairgrass)
Dicentra canadensis (Squirrelcorn)
Eupatorium fistulosum (Joepye Weed)
Geranium maculatum (Wild Geranium)
Hepatica nobilis acuta (Sharp-lobed Hepatica)
Heuchera americana
Hydrastis canadensis (Goldenseal)
Hypericum prolificum (Shrubby St. John’s Wort)
Iris versicolor (Blueflag Iris)
Lilium superbum (Turk’s Cap Lily)
Liatris scariosa (Blazing Star)
Lonicera sempervirens (Honeysuckle)
Lupinus perennis
Mertensia virginica (Virginia Bluebells)
Mitchella repens (Partridgeberry)
Onoclea sensibilis (Sensitive Fern)
Osmunda cinnamomea (Cinnamon Fern)
Packera obovata (Roundleaf Ragwort)
Panicum virgatum
Phlox maculata (Phlox)
Platanthera flava (Pale Green Orchid)
Polygonatum biflorum (Solomon's Seal)
Polystichum acrostichoides (Christmas Fern)
Sanguinaria canadensis (Bloodroot)
Sisyrinchium angustifolium (Blue-eyed Grass)
Solidago speciosa (Showy Goldenrod)
Tiarella cordifolia (Foamflower)
Trillium cuneatum (Little Sweet Betsy)
Trillium grandiflorum (White Trillium)
Trillium luteum (Yellow Trillium)
Uvularia grandiflora (Large Flowering Bellwort)
Fruits & Veggies
Arugula
Beets
Bell Peppers
Broccoli
Butterhead Lettuce
Butternut Squash
Cabbage
Cauliflower
Chard
Fennel
Honeydew Melon
Hot Peppers
Husk Cherry
Kale
Lagoda Zucchini
Leeks
Lettuce Blends
Marketmore Slicing Cucumbers
Mustards
New England Pie Pumpkins
Pac Choi
Paste Tomatoes
Red Summer Onion
Romaine Lettuce
Small-Fruited Tomatoes
Slicing Tomatoes
Sugarbaby Watermelon
Sweet Peppers
Yellow Storage Onion
+ more!
Annual Flowers:
Bachelor Buttons
Calendula
Cosmos
Nigella
Nicotiana
Sweet Peas
+more!
Culinary Herbs:
Lemon Balm
Genovese Basil
Thai Basil
Chamomile
Chives
Moroccan Mint
Italian Oregano
Italian Parsley
Rosemary
Garden Sage
Winter Savory
French Thyme
Lemon Verbena
Shiso
+more!
Fruit Trees
Coming Soon…
Agastache scrophulariifolia
Baptisia tinctoria
Blephilia ciliata
Borage
Canadian Anemone
Chestnut Trees
Chelone glabra
Clematis virginiana
Echinacea purpurea
Eastern Larch
Eragrostis spectablis
Eupatorium perfoliatum
Eutrochium fistulosum
Gentiana andrewsii
Geum triflorum
Giant Marigold
Helenium autumnale
Lobelia cardinalis
Lobelia siphilitica
Monarda fistulosa
Monarda punctata
Packera aurea
Penstemon digitalis
Penstemon hirsutus
Physostegia virginiana
Poppy Giant Rattle
Poppy Hungarian Blue
Pycanthemum muticum
Rhubarb
Rudbeckia laciniata
Scarlet Oak
Shellbark Hickory
Silver Maple
Snap Dragon Mix
Sorghastrum nutans
Sporobolus heterolepis
Strawflower Mix
Swamp Marigold
Sweet Chestnut Trees
Swamp Marigold
Trout Lily
Tulip Tree
Verbena hastata
Veronicastrum virginicum
Vernonia noveboracensis
Yellow Birch
Zizia aurea