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Our mission is to make native tree, shrubs, and perennials available to the Salem community, encouraging the use of native plants both at home and in the public community, in order to raise awareness and support our native biodiversity.
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Established in 2021, Salem Native Nursery is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting the environment through native plant sales and native plant education. We donate 100% of our sale proceeds to local nonprofit environmental projects. We are looking forward to more great native plant conversations and to supporting the North Shore’s local ecology by helping the community add more hard to find native plants to their gardens. Our New England-sourced, grown-from-seed native plants robustly support all kinds of native pollinators found in New England! On top of this, these plants offer a variety of colors to add interest and beauty to your yard or garden.
Salem Native Nursery grows plants at Splaine Park, Salem, Massachusetts, in cooperation with (Salem Community Gardens) and with the City of Salem. Please feel free to reach out with questions or comments about native plants or about gardening. We hope you will visit us at our annual Native Tree, Shrub, and Perennial sales!
All plants belong somewhere. Not all plants belong here.
Native plants are naturally occurring members of a particular region’s ecosystems. These plants evolved and adapted to local environmental conditions – native plants are best suited for growth in the special characteristics that make a particular region’s ecosystems unique. Native fauna co-evolve with native plants over time and form functional biological communities, where each plant and animal species fulfills a role in the community. Where they co-evolved, native plants provide better food and shelter resources for native fauna than ornamental or invasive plants do.
When non-native ornamental or invasive plants establish in our landscapes, they disrupt role fulfillment in biological communities and disrupt the living and non-living balance in ecologically healthy ecosystems. Excess consumption of resources, such as water or soil nutrients, decreases the growth potential of other species that share those same resources. Non-native plants may out-compete and replace native plants, resulting in a lost or altered role in the biological community. Losing native plants to competition decreases natural biodiversity, thereby making ecosystems more uniform and less durable to future disturbances, such as another invasive species’ establishment.
When you grow native plants in your garden, you are providing resources for native fauna in your neighborhood that are lost to land development and ecosystem degradation. Native plant gardens are naturally diverse, are attractive to pollinators, and are more resistant to natural wet and dry weather periods – they support local biological communities and require less maintenance than non-native garden plants.
