Second Order being Placed:

Get your Native Plants Order in.

Order by Monday April 8 (Sorry bout the short time frame.)

Hey Native Plant lovers, due to strong response, we are putting another bulk order together.  This is a short time frame, I know but that’s the way it has to be, spring is upon us!  See catalog and order forms below.  You will have to print order form out, fill it out and either photograph it and email it in to our email account or hand deliver it to myself (Andrew) or Zephyr.  Our phone numbers are listed below and we will be as available as we can be.

Our native flowers provide needed nectar and pollen, a food for our bees and butterflies. The photo to the left shows two popular native perennials, butterfly weed and purple coneflower, as well as some pesky non native Asian honeysuckle. (Photo of Bill and Elaine Ahren’s front yard pocket garden.)

This Spring, we're doing our part to support the HOMEGROWN NATIONAL PARK®.  To support this project and beautify your garden place your order now.  You can email it in, or call it in.  We are asking for a 50% down payment. The plants in the catalog and on the order form are a curated list from Steve Taylor, a local horticulturalist. These plants were selected for their ecosystem function, but also have attractive flowers, are generally easy to grow, and most are just the right size for home landscapes.

Get your Spring order in by Monday April 8.  Please!!!

Can Do Attitude

For tree trimming and removals, mulch, firewood, local milled wood, wood drying, rain catchment, native plant sourcing, planting, protection and watering as well as basic garden design and landscaping and…… things related, Sweet Green Arbor and Native Landscaping has a ………

Can Do Attitude!

Potting up Trees for our Future

Because of your local support last year, and because of Doug Tallamy’s talk (Feb of 2023) at the Fairfield library about the importance of native plants which feed native insects which are feed for native birds.  And because Steve Taylor convened a series of these meetings at the library on this topic and was open to teaching me about native plants and a little about how to start a native plant nursery.  Because of the help of Steve and now others, Avi Pogel, Zephyr, Dan Sterk, Patricia Coit, Bob Fergussen, and because of certain very supportive customers in the community, I can say, we will move forward with the confidence that enough of the community is behind me to make this a worthwhile endeavor. Please help support my (our) native plant business here in Fairfield Iowa, and help bring the buzz back to Fairfield.

I want to thank the SE Iowa Sierra Club.  Last year they invited me to table next to them at the Farmers market and the synergy was beautiful.  They seem to be supportive of working with me and Sweet Green Natives again this year.  Thank you!!!!

I also want to call out a few of the most strong customer supporters from last year.  Thank you so much: Margaret Bodle, Carrol Hillis, Mary King, N Jade Lane HOA, Mary Roche and Gregory, Lark Svenson and Beth Alonso.

Steve has put a great list of plants (with pictures) together for us all.  The plants listed are perennials.  They will grow and give for years.  They may spread.  They may need care.  But they are pretty easy.  They like it here.  They are native!  Order up a few and get to know them.  

We will be starting to grow plants here too.  But everything takes time.  We hope to have native annuals and some fruit tree and vines available later this year.  We have a garden shop space but it is rough.  It may become a real garden shop and native plant nursery if the community and energetics support it.  Right now its an old warehouse to house tools, plants, wood, mulch and other odds and ends.  But better and better.  The only way out is through.  Can’t avoid our issues.   We localize and come together to solve our problems.

The warehouse nursery shop is at 612 W Kirkwood ave. in Fairfield. Hours by appointment and as listed on signage.  We are looking at sunday afternoon and one other day per week.

I invite you, to join me, Andrew Nash, on the journey of Re-Wilding the Midwest, one garden at a time and meanwhile we learn to care for ourselves and each other better!!

Doug Tallamy and his organization ‘Home Grown National Park!’ are a big part of the knowledge and inspiration behind our native plant business.  Below is a link to a talk Doug gives on the importance of bringing native plants into our gardens.  Check it out!! Lots of pictures!!