The N.C. House is considering an important native plants bill that would ensure native trees, shrubs, and flowers are used for landscaping on state property. Senate Bill 628, which passed the Senate last year, will help create more pollinator habitat and grow the market for native plants so that small business owners can plant and sell more of North Carolina's amazing flora.
If you run a local nursery, garden store, or landscaping company, add your company name to our business sign-on letter today.
If you want to recruit local businesses in your community to sign the letter, here's a how-to guide.
We will deliver signatures and business names to lawmakers during the upcoming legislative session.
Here's the list of supporting local businesses thus far:
- Above the Briery LLC, Kinston
- Ann Gayek Landscapes, Chapel Hill
- Bashavia Gardens, Pfafftown
- Birch Meadow Garden Care, Hillsborough
- Calvary Baptist Church, King
- Carolina Heritage Nursery, Waxhaw
- Chicahauk brokers, Kitty Hawk
- Cure Nursery, Pittsboro
- Deep Roots Natives, Durham
- Duke Gardens, Durham
- Elderberry Creek Farm and Nursery, Pfafftown
- Field to Cottage Nursery, Raleigh
- Fifth Season Gardening Co., Carrboro
- Flowering Earth Natives. Rougemont
- Frank's Perennial Border Inc, Winston-Salem
- Gardener by Nature LLC, Raleigh
- GGD Inc, Apex
- Going Native Gardens, Wilmington
- Guilford Garden Center, Greensboro
- Higgins & Owens, Charlotte
- Hope Springs Mountain Farm, West Jefferson
- Lands and Waters South, Carrboro
- Leaf and Limb, Raleigh
- Marlowe Insurance, Greensboro
- Mellow Marsh Farm, Siler City
- North Carolina Botanical Garden Foundation, Chapel Hill
- Opto Alighment Technology, Charlotte
- P&T's Native Plants, Cary
- Parmele Properties, Canton
- Piedmont Environmental Planning and Design, Carrboro
- Piedmont Plants Nursery, LLC, Rural Hall
- Raleigh Pawpaw, Raleigh
- Root & Branch Gardens LLC, Greensboro
- Rooted in Nature Designs, Raleigh
- Seay Partners, Greensboro
- Shelton Herb Farm, Leland
- Six Runs Plantation, Rose Hill/Duplin County
- Southern States Cooperative Inc., Carrboro
- Soviero's Tri-County Garden Center, High Point
- Super Sod and Soil, Charlotte
- The F.A. Bartlett Tree Expert Company, Charlotte
- Transformative Gardens, Durham
- Wegland Plants, Inc, Edenton
