Indianapolis Area Nurseries Offer Native Plants
Following up on a successful pilot program in the Bloomington area, INPS Central Chapter is initiating the Go Green, Grow Native program in the Indianapolis area. The program helps consumers locate native plants at local retail nurseries by providing promotional materials to the nurseries who sign up for the program. The promotional materials prominently display the Go Green, Go Native logo where the native plants are sold.
Although INPS encourages the use of standard native plant species in residential and commercial landscaping, variants of these native plants, called cultivars or nativars, are allowed to be included in the native offerings by the nurseries.
Retailers in the Indianapolis area participating in the program this year are:
Allisonville Nursery 11405 Allisonville Road, Fishers, IN 46038 www.allisonvillenursery.com
Madeline F. Elder Greenhouse Indianapolis Museum of Art, 4000 Michigan Road, Indianapolis, IN 46208 www.imamuseum.org
Native Plants Unlimited (annual spring plant sale at Geist Nursery) 9890 Mollenkopf Road, Fishers, IN 46037 www.nativeplantsunlimited.com
Sullivan Hardware & Garden 6955 N. Keystone Avenue, Indianapolis, IN 46220 www.sullivanhardware.com
White’s Ace Hardware Carmel—731 S. Rangeline Road, Carmel, IN 46032; Geist—10941 E. 79th Street, Indianapolis, IN 46236; Nora—8502 Westfield Boulevard, Indianapolis, IN 46240 www.whitesacehardware.com
Please support this program and the merchants participating, so that we can increase the numbers of native plants in greater Indianapolis area landscapes.