CW Native Plant Farm

CW Native Plant Farm The CW Native Plant Farm is a family-owned farm focused on native plants for restoration, environmental sustainability and resiliency in a changing climate.

The farm offers trees, bushes and perennials native to the WNY area.

Purple coneflower is pretty but give me pale purple coneflower any day Pale purple coneflower Echinacea pallida Stout st...
06/20/2026

Purple coneflower is pretty but give me pale purple coneflower any day

Pale purple coneflower
Echinacea pallida

Stout stems, usually 2-4 ft. tall, bear flower heads having lavender, or rarely white, rays drooping from a large, spiny, cone-shaped center. The ray flowers vary in length and width. Coarse-haired, narrowly lance-shaped leaves are attached to the plant near its base.

A sometimes aggressive plant that shows off best and benefits from mixing with grasses. The only Echinacea native to Ontario. (Ontario Native Plants 2002)

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Plant Characteristics

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb
Leaf Retention: Semi-evergreen
Inflorescence: Head
Size Notes: Up to about 4-1/2 feet tall, often shorter.
Leaf: Green
Flower: Flowers 3 to 5 inches across.
Fruit: Dark. Fruit is a cypsela (pl. cypselae). Though technically incorrect, the fruit is often referred to as an achene.

https://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=ECPA

Beeb’s sedge is on sale 20% off for this weekend. Beeb’s sedge, Carex bebbii, is a great sedge. Low to the ground and bl...
06/20/2026

Beeb’s sedge is on sale 20% off for this weekend. Beeb’s sedge, Carex bebbii, is a great sedge. Low to the ground and blooming now, Beeb’s sedge is flexible where it lives and is interesting season long.

Growing Conditions

Water Use: High
Light Requirement: Sun , Part Shade , Shade
Soil Moisture: Moist
Soil pH: Alkaline (pH>7.2)
CaCO3 Tolerance: High

https://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=CABE2

Northern catalpa - the last to flower and shed its leaves in the fall
06/18/2026

Northern catalpa - the last to flower and shed its leaves in the fall

We still have lupine plugs, as well as, a few 1 gal trees. Throughout the summer we will have a variety of plugs - some ...
06/14/2026

We still have lupine plugs, as well as, a few 1 gal trees. Throughout the summer we will have a variety of plugs - some winter sown - so come by regularly for great deals.

Last year, in fall, we found lots of hickory tussock moth caterpillars. We have found a couple of the moths around the h...
06/14/2026

Last year, in fall, we found lots of hickory tussock moth caterpillars. We have found a couple of the moths around the house.

More on Basswood “When fertilized, each flower forms a hard grey-green nutlet covered in fine hairs and containing a sin...
06/13/2026

More on Basswood
“When fertilized, each flower forms a hard grey-green nutlet covered in fine hairs and containing a single seed. The mature nutlets may drop to the ground in early fall or persist over the winter and last for several years. When released, the bract acts like a helicopter wing and carries the seeds away in the breeze. Nutlets are eaten by squirrels, mice, and chipmunks. A few days ago, an eager chipmunk that had climbed a basswood tree was was messily eating nutlets and dropping nut chips on my head below.

The Basswood—also known as the Linden tree in Europe—is a long-lived deciduous tree with a dense rounded crown and drooping lower branches. The root of the name—bass—is a corruption of ‘bast’, which is a type of fibre—associated with the use of the tree’s fibrous inner bark for twine and cordage by indigenous peoples and early settlers”

https://themeaningofwater.com/2021/10/02/finding-magic-in-the-basswood-tree-foraging/

We released Fernando today. ❤️ we have been rescuing these little toads all day. They are so SMALL. Adorable
06/12/2026

We released Fernando today. ❤️ we have been rescuing these little toads all day. They are so SMALL. Adorable

Address

12288 Tonawanda Creek Road
Akron, NY
14001

Opening Hours

Thursday 4pm - 8pm
Friday 10am - 5pm
Saturday 10am - 5pm
Sunday 1pm - 5pm

Telephone

+17164172626

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