COLLECTIONS

Browse curated collections of native plants and gardening products. Organized by habitat, plant traits, and ecological function for easy discovery.

Product Type

Native Plants

Grower's Choice Garden Kits

Rain Garden Kit

Dig a giant hole in your yard, run a downspout and plant some plants—if only it were that simple?

Obsessively Short Kit

Are you restricted by ordinances or H.O.A. rules? We got the perfect solutions for you!

Butterfly on a flower with green leaves in the background

Butterfly Village Kit

Inspire your inner child by chasing butterflies on a sunny day. Host plants and nectar options.

Hellstrip Kit

Challenge accepted! We pick the toughest plants for you.

Bee on a purple flower with yellow flowers in the background

Pollinator Powerhouse Kit

When you plant Figwort and False Boneset, you do it for the biosphere—not for vanity

Butterfly on a green leaf with a blurred background

Birds and Bugs Kit

Plants eat light, bugs eat plants, birds eat bugs, these are the building blocks of life.

Buckthorn Repair Kit

Stop the cycle by planting woodland rye grasses, sedges and fast-growing forbs after you remove a buckthorn patch.

Tree branches reaching towards the sky with a grassy field below

Oak Savanna Special Kit

Inspired by the rolling hills of Burnsville this kit shines a spotlight on a forgotten ecosystem--The Oak Savanna.

Woodland Edge Kit

This space is ripe to be the most diverse ecotone on your property by accommodating sun-loving flowers and shade tolerant sedges.

Forest scene with a rocky outcrop and trees

Shady Superheroes Kit

Don’t be fooled by 150 years of horticulture, more than Hostas can grow under a tree. Plants in Minnesota have been doing it for 10,000 years.

Brick house with a garden in front on a sunny day

Business in the Front Kit

Native plants get a bad reputation for being tall, feral and untamable but this hockey-hair inspired kit defies those assumptions.

Tangle of green plants and trees with a house partially visible in the background

Party in the Back Kit

Hang a sign on your side gate that reads “Party round back” and plant the most aggressive, gregarious and exuberant plants we have to offer.

Spiky plant with purple flowers in a natural setting

Sand Box Kit

The Pleistocene lasted created gigantic ancient lakes and massive roving glaciers that turned much of our soil into sand. Deal with it.

Sun Blasted Kit

The plants in this kit will pull up a lawn chair with a lemonade on a 99-degree day to watch traffic roll by under a full blast sun.

Toxic Avengers Kit

Do you have a septic system? Use native plants to make this space pull double dooty.

Beach Party Kit

Do you live near a creek, pond, lake or retention basin? No shoes, no problem.

Native Status

Plantain-leaved Pussytoes (Antennaria Plantaginifolia)

Dakota County

Ecosystem Archetypes

Prairie

Plant Solutions

Herbivore Resistant

Ecosystem Services

Keystone Plants

Plant Features

Beginner-Friendly

Bloom Time

Spring Blooms

Flower Color

Red Blooms

Sun Exposure

Full Sun

Soil Moisture

Dry

Soil Types

Clay

Plant Height

Toes-High Plants

Life Cycle

Partridge Pea (Chamaecrista Fasciculata)

Annuals

Graminoids

Rushes

Woodies

Trees

Gifts For Gardeners

Apparel