Grow Native Plant Sale
Our biannual Grow Native Plant Sale is an event that celebrates the native Arizona landscape. This event encourages the community to landscape with native and regionally native, low water use plants. THANK YOU to the our Presenting Sponsors the City of Prescott and Prescott Landscape Professionals!
All proceeds support the Highlands Center’s educational programming.
Plant Sale Details
Our spring and fall Grow Native Plant Sales encourage the public to plant native trees, shrubs, flowers and grasses for the variety of benefits that they afford our ecological community. As in the past, we encourage our member community to landscape with native and regionally native, low water use plants. Highlands Center staff and naturalists will be available to answer any questions you may have by email, plantsale@highlandscenter.org, when purchasing native plants.
Participants can expect
- For this sale HCNH staff will select your plants from the assortment prior to pick-up. Have faith!
- For this sale, we will be selling a reduced number of plants, subject to availability.
- Due to the limited capacity of the sale, participants will be asked to limit their orders to what will fit in their vehicle.
The sale will begin on August 16th, 2021, and ends on September 9th.
Drive-through pick-up September 10th and 11th at the Highlands Center. Friday and Saturday 8 am-4 pm.
Members click here to log in to receive a 10% discount
Payment will be completed in advance during online order submissions. All orders are subject to availability. If an order cannot be completed as submitted, an alternative will be proposed or payment will be adjusted.
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Fall 2021 Online Plant Sale
Fall is a good time to plant – with cooler temperatures, warm soil, and winter precipitation on its way. Hardy trees and shrubs will not have to contest with the extreme heat of summer. Perennials can get established and started for the next growing season. And pollinators still need food! As in the past, we encourage our community to landscape with native and regionally native, low water use plants. Look below to see the plants we are selling.
Click the buttons below to identify your USDA Zone.
Butterfly Milkweed (tube)
Asclepius Tuberosa
- Type: Forb
- Zone: 4-9
- Elevation: 3,000-8,000 ft
- Exposure: Full Sun
- Water Needs: Low
- Size: 1-2.5′ Hx1-1.5’D
- Attracts: Butterflies and Bees
Beneficial for bees and butterflies
Arizona Milkweed (tube)
Asclepius angustifolia
- Type: Forb
- Zone: 8-10
- Elevation: 4,000-5,000 ft
- Exposure: Part Sun
- Water Needs: Low
- Size: 2-3’H
- Attracts: Butterflies and Bees
Only found in Arizona
Horsetail Milkweed (tube)
Asclepius subverticulata
- Type: Forb
- Zone: 5-8
- Elevation: 2,500-8,000 ft
- Exposure: Full Sun
- Water Needs: Low
- Size: 2’H
- Attracts: Butterflies and Bees
Food source and host plant for Monarchs
Pinyon Pine (3 gal.)
Pinus edulis
- Type: Evergreen Tree
- Zone: 4-8
- Elevation: 4,500-7,500 ft
- Exposure: Full Sun
- Water Needs: Low
- Size: 10-20’H
- Attracts: Birds and mammals
Arizona Ash (15 gal.)
Fraxinus velutina
- Type: Deciduous Tree
- Zone: 7-11
- Elevation: 2,000-6,000 ft
- Exposure: Full Sun-Part Shade
- Water Needs: Low
- Size: 30-40’H
- Attracts: Birds, butterflies, and moths
Leaves turn yellow in fall
Ponderosa Pine (1 gal.)
Pinus ponderosa
- Type: Evergreen Tree
- Zone: 3-7
- Elevation: 5,500-8,500 ft
- Exposure: Full Sun
- Water Needs: Low
- Size: 60- 230’H
- Attracts: Birds and mammals
Gambel Oak (15 gal.)
Quercus gambelli
- Type: Deciduous Tree
- Zone: 7-8
- Elevation: 4,000-8,000 ft
- Exposure: Full Sun
- Water Needs: Low
- Size: 20-30’H
- Attracts: Birds and mammals
Arizona Mesquite (3 gal.)
Prosopis velutina
- Type: Tree
- Zone: 7-10
- Elevation: below 5,500 ft
- Exposure: Full Sun
- Water Needs: Low
- Size: 25-35’H
- Attracts: bees, birds, and mammals
Yellow-cream bottlebrush flowers
New Mexico Locust (5 gal.)
Robinia neomexicana
- Type: Deciduous Tree
- Zone: 4-8
- Elevation: 4,000-8,500 ft
- Exposure: Full Sun- Partial Shade
- Water Needs: Low-moderate
- Size: 15-20’H
- Attracts: birds and mammals
Netleaf Hackberry (5 gal.)
Celtis reticulata
- Type: Deciduous Tree
- Zone: 5-9
- Elevation: 1,000-7,500 ft
- Exposure: Full Sun-Part Shade
- Water Needs: Moderate
- Size: 30-60’H
- Attracts: Birds, bees, and mammals
Uneaten seeds stay through winter
New Mexico Olive (10 gal.)
Forestiera neomexicana
- Type: Tree
- Zone: 4-9
- Elevation: 4,500-6,500 ft
- Exposure: Full Sun-Part Shade
- Water Needs: Low- Moderate
- Size: 12-18’H
- Attracts: Birds, mammals, and insects
Utah Serviceberry (5 gal.)
Amelanchier utahensis
- Type: Shrub/Tree
- Zone: 3-7
- Elevation: 2,000-7,500 ft
- Exposure: Full Sun-Part Shade
- Water Needs: Low- Moderate
- Size: 2-15’H
- Attracts: Birds and mammals
Parry’s Penstemon (1 gal.)
Penstemon parryi
- Type: Perrenial
- Zone: 8-10
- Elevation: 1,500-5,000 ft
- Exposure: Full Sun-Part Shade
- Water Needs: Low
- Size: 1’H
- Attracts: Hummingbirds and bees
- Resists: Deer and rabbits
Pineleaf Penstemon (1 gal.)
Penstemon pinifolius
- Type: Evergreen Perrenial
- Zone: 5-9
- Elevation: above 5,000 ft
- Exposure: Full Sun-Part Shade
- Water Needs: Low
- Size: 1-2’H
- Attracts: Hummingbirds
- Resists: Rabbits
Desert Penstemon (1 gal.)
Penstemon pseudospectabilis
- Type: Evergreen Perrenial
- Zone: 5-8
- Elevation: 2,000- 7,000 ft
- Exposure: Full Sun
- Water Needs: Low
- Size: 1-3’H
- Attracts: Hummingbirds and insects
Prairie Zinnia (1 gal.)
Zinnia grandiflora
- Type: Perennial shrub
- Zone: 4-9
- Elevation: 2,000-5,500 ft
- Exposure: Part Shade
- Water Needs: Low
- Size: 1’H
- Attracts: Butterflies and bees
- Resists: Deer
Alligator Juniper (15 gal.)
Juniperus deppeana
- Type: Evergreen Tree
- Zone: 7-9
- Elevation: 2,500-8,000 ft
- Exposure: Full Sun
- Water Needs: Low
- Size: 20-40’H
- Attracts: Birds and Mammals
Arizona Cypress (15 gal.)
Cupressus arizonica
- Type: Evergreen Tree
- Zone: 6-10
- Elevation: 3,000-7,500 ft
- Exposure: Full Sun
- Water Needs: Low- Moderate
- Size: 30-40’H
Pink Cloud Gaura (1 gal.)
Gaura lindeheimeri ‘pink cloud’
- Type: Shrub
- Zone: 5-9
- Elevation: 500-5,000 ft
- Exposure: Full Sun – Part Shade
- Water Needs: Moderate – High
- Size: 3’x3′
- Growth Rate: Fast
Wispy, beautiful pink flowers. Hummingbird attractant. Native to Texas
Fourwing Saltbush (1 gal.)
Atriplex canescens
- Type: Shrub
- Zone: 3-11
- Elevation: 300-6,500 ft
- Exposure: Full Sun
- Water Needs: Low
- Size: 3-10’x3-10′
- Growth Rate: Variable
- Attracts: Small and large mammals
Has deep roots that help with erosion control.
Blonde Ambition Blue Gramma (1 gal.)
Bouteloua gracilis blonde
- Type: Grass
- Zone: 4
- Elevation: around 6,800 ft
- Exposure: Full Sun
- Water Needs: Low
- Size: 3’x3′
- Growth Rate: Fast
- Attracts: Birds
Older clumps may die in center leaving a ring of active growth.
Deer Grass (1 gal.)
Muhlenbergia rigens
- Type: Grass
- Zone: 6-9
- Elevation: 3,000-8,500 ft
- Exposure: Full Sun- Partial Shade
- Water Needs: Low
- Size: 4-5’x4-5′
- Growth Rate: Fast
- Attracts: Song birds, butterflies, deer
Desert Willow (15 gal.)
Chilopsis linearis
- Type: Deciduous Tree
- Zone: 5-9
- Elevation: below 5,500 ft
- Exposure: Full Sun- Partial Shade
- Water Needs: Low-Moderate
- Size: 25’x25′
- Growth Rate: Moderate-Fast
- Attracts: Hummingbirds, bees
Flowers are attractive, orchid-like, fragrant and showy.
Grey Sotol (5 gal.)
Anisacanthus quad
- Type: Succulent
- Zone: 6-10
- Elevation: 3,000-6,000 ft
- Exposure: Full Sun
- Water Needs: Low
- Size: 5-6′ x 5-6′
- Growth Rate: Slow-Moderate
- Resists: Deer
- Attracts: Hummingbirds
Southern Arizona, Chihuahuan Desert
Rabbitbrush (5 gal.)
Ericameria nauseosa
- Type: Shrub
- Zone: 4-9
- Elevation: 2,000-8,000 ft
- Exposure: Full Sun
- Water Needs: Low
- Size: 6′-6′
- Growth Rate: Moderate- Fast
Stunning bloom of dense masses of golden clusters of flower heads consisting of 4 to 6 disc flowers. Strongly scented.
Golden Currant (5 gal.)
Ribes aureum
- Type: Shrub
- Zone: 3-8
- Elevation: 4,000-7,000 ft
- Exposure: Full Sun-Partial Shade
- Water Needs: Moderate
- Size: 6-10’x5-10′
- Growth Rate: Fast
- Attracts: Mammals, birds, insects
Marble-sized fruits vary in color, ranging from yellow to orange when fresh and red to black to purplish-black when ripe.
Blanket Flower (1 gal.)
Gaillardia ‘Arizona Sun’
- Type: Perennial
- Zone: 3-10
- Elevation: below 9,500 ft
- Exposure: Full Sun
- Water Needs: Low to Moderate
- Size: 1’x1′
- Growth Rate: Moderate-Fast
- Resists: Deer, rabbit
- Attracts: Butterflies, bees
Chocolate Flower (1 gal.)
Berlandiera lyrata
- Type: Perennial
- Zone: 4-10
- Elevation: 4,000-7,000 ft
- Exposure: Full Sun
- Water Needs: Low
- Size: 1-2’x1-2′
- Growth Rate: Moderate
- Resists: Deer
- Attracts: Butterflies, birds, bees
Smells like chocolate, beautiful
Pineneedle Milkweed (1 tube)
Asclepius lineria
- Type: Forb
- Zone: 9-11
- Elevation: 1,500-6,000 ft
- Exposure: Full Sun
- Water Needs: Low
- Size: 2′-3’H
- Attracts: Butterflies and Bees
Food source for the Queen and Monarch Butterflies
Three Leaf Sumac (5 gal.)
Rhus trilobata
- Type: Shrub/tree
- Zone: 4-6
- Elevation: 2,500-7,500 ft
- Exposure: Full Sun-Part Shade
- Water Needs: Low to Moderate
- Size: 3-5’x8-10′
- Growth Rate: Fast
- Attracts: Birds, bees
Foliage will release pungent resinous odor when crushed or rubbed against.
Arizona Rosewood (5 gal.)
Vauquelinia californica
- Type: Shrub/tree
- Zone: 1-6
- Elevation: 2,500-5,000 ft
- Exposure: Full Sun
- Water Needs: Low
- Size: 15-20’x10-15′
- Growth Rate: Slow
- Attracts: Butterflies, birds, bees
Native to Sonoran Desert; hardy to 15°
Sand Sage (5 gal.)
Artemisia filifolia
- Type: Evergreen Shrub
- Zone: 3-7
- Elevation: 4,000-6,000 ft
- Exposure: Full Sun
- Water Needs: Low then None
- Size: 3-4’x3-4′
- Growth Rate: Moderate
- Resists: Deer, Rabbit
- Attracts: Birds
Rounded shrubs with faintly aromatic herbage
Mormon Tea (3 gal.)
Ephedra trifurca
- Type: Perrennial Shrub
- Zone: 6-10
- Elevation: Low elevation
- Exposure: Full Sun
- Water Needs: Low
- Size: 3-6′
- Attracts: Quail
Rigid evergreen stems
Firecracker Penstemon (1 gal.)
Penstemon eatoni
- Type: Perennial
- Zone: 4-9
- Elevation: 3,000-7,500 ft
- Exposure: Full Sun
- Water Needs: Low
- Size:1’x1′
- Attracts: Hummingbirds
Slender wand-shaped stems, red flower songbirds
Canyon Grape (1 gal.)
Vitis arizonica
- Type: Deciduous Vine
- Zone: 5-9
- Elevation: 2,000-7,500 ft
- Exposure: Full Sun-Partial Shade
- Water Needs: Moderate
- Size: 5-50’H
- Attracts: Birds, mammals
1/4″ black grapes, critical food for songbirds
Red Yucca (1 gal.)
Hesperaloe parviflora
- Type: Succulent
- Zone: 5 – 10
- Elevation: 500-5,500 ft
- Exposure: Full Sun-Partial Shade
- Water Needs: Low
- Size: 3-4’x4-5′
- Growth Rate: Slow-Moderate
- Resists: Deer
Attracts: Butterflies, birds, bees
Yellow Yucca (5 gal.)
Hesperaloe parviflora yellow
- Type: Succulent
- Zone: 5 – 10
- Elevation: 500-5,500 ft
- Exposure: Full Sun-Partial Shade
- Water Needs: Low
- Size: 3-4’x4-5′
- Growth Rate: Slow-Moderate
- Resists: Deer
- Attracts: Butterflies, birds, bees
