Announcing 5th Annual Spring Perennial Plant Sale!

Help Yourself 5th Annual Perennial Plant Sale!
Each spring, we offer low-cost native fruit and nut shrubs and trees, perfect for hedges, yards and gardens each spring, our proceeds directly funding the year's public planting projects. Over their long lives, they will yield bushels of fresh fruit, beginning in 3-5yrs. Sourced from NE nurseries, they will grow rapidly with good care.

Pick up bare root, 6-18” seedlings, with instructions in Northampton, Greenfield or Holyoke early June, details to come.

All plants 8$ each, 5 = 30$, 10 = 50$, 50 = 250$, 100 = 350$

Order by cash, card, PayPal or check. We're seeking volunteers, stewards and yards to host seedlings as they grow large enough for public plantings.

To order, email helpyourselfnoho@gmail.com with desired species and quantity, preferred pick up location and method of payment.

---

Shrubs:

• Nannyberry – shrubby tree, delicious raisin fruits. 20 ft., medicinal bark. Space 10'
• Rugosa (beach) rose – thorny shrub, pink flowers, edible & medicinal hips and flowers. 6''
• High-bush cranberry – shrub, flowers, sour red fruit in fall, source of cramp bark. 10'
• Beach plum: small shrub', nice flowers and fruit, need 2+ for fruit, sand/salt/sun ok. 8'
• Hazelnut – American. Excellent hedge. Need 2+ for nuts. Space 5-10'.
• Juneberry – Serviceberry (A. alnifolia). Shrub to 10'. Space 5-8'. Delicious berries.
• Black aronia berry – Chokeberry. Nutritious, astringent fruit used for juice. Shrub to 8'.
• Black Elderberry – shrub to 10'. prefers moist soil. Edible/med. Berries.

---

Trees:

• American Plum – small tree, flowers, plums in summer Need 2+ for fruit. 12 ft. Space 6-8'
• Persimmon– med. tree to 50'. Unsexed, females bear delicious fruit, need males nearby.
• Chinese chestnut– to 50', spreading shade tree with sweet nuts. Need 2+ for fruit.
• Redbud– Nitrogen fixing tree to 20'. Pretty, edible, sour pink flowers in spring. Bee forage.
• Paw paw – to 30'. Large, soft tropical tasting fruit. Tolerates wet soil. Need 2+ for fruit.
  
• Shinko & Bubblegum plums (Japanese) - to 15'. 25$ Each, limited qty.
  

Other:

• Sunchoke – (Jerusalem artichoke) spreading, productive sunflower tuber. To 10'
• Hops – (english) fast climbing vine to 20', med. flowers used as sedative and bitter beer.