Southport in Bloom – Native Plant Sale 2024
When: Saturday, June 22nd. 9am until plants sell out!
Where: Southport Plaza along the Lakeview Low-Line (3410 N Southport Ave, Chicago)
What: Over 40 species of native wildflowers, sedges, and ferns!
- All plants are sold as pints and cost $7-8
- Native plant gardeners available for design consult at the event
- Plants will be available first come, first serve
- Please BYO box or other container to carry your plants home
The plant sale will feature native flowers, sedges, and ferns that are suited to our local ecosystem and especially selected for their ability to support pollinators, birds, and other wildlife. This sale aims to empower the Lakeview community to transform our neighborhood with thriving native flora. There will be a flowering perennial, sedge, or fern to fit your landscape—whether it’s sunny, shady or in between.
Please click here to view full details on the plants that will be available, and learn about their attributes.
- Anise Hyssop Agastache foeniculum $7
- Black Eyed Susan Rudbeckia hirta $7
- Blue Flag Iris Iris versicolor $7
- Blue-Eyed Grass Sisyrinchium albidum $7.5
- Blue Wild Indigo Baptisia Australis $7
- Butterfly Milkweed Asclepias tuberosa $7
- Canada Anemone Anemone canadensis $7.5
- Christmas Fern Polystichum acrostichoides $8
- Curly Wood Sedge Carex Rosea $7
- Eastern Prickly Pear Opuntia Humifusa $8
- Foxglove Beardtongue Penstemon digitalis $7
- Fire Pink Silene Virginia $8
- Golden Alexanders Zizia aurea $7
- Great Blue Lobelia Lobelia siphilitica $7
- Jacob’s Ladder Polemonium reptans $7.5
- Lady Fern Athyrium filix-femina $8
- Lanceleaf (Sand) Coreopsis Coreopsis lanceolata $7
- Little Bluestem Schizachyrium scoparium $7
- Maidenhair Fern Adiantum Pedatum $8
- Missouri Evening Primrose Oenothera Macrocarpa $7
- New England Aster Symphyotrichum novae-angliae $7
- Nodding Wild (Pink) Onion Allium cernuum $7
- Northern (Prairie) Dropseed Sporobolus heterolepsis $7
- Ostrich Fern Matteuccia Struthiopeteris $8
- Pale Purple Coneflower Echinacea pallida $7
- Pasque Flower Pulsatilla Patens Multifida $7.5
- Prairie Blazing Star Liatris pycnostachya $7
- Purple Coneflower Echinacea purpurea $7
- Purple Milkweed Asclepias purpurascens $7.5
- Purple Prairie Clover Dalea purpurea $7
- Royal Catchfly Silene Regia $8
- Rough Blazing Star Liatris aspera $7
- Swamp Milkweed Asclepias incarnata $7
- White Prairie Clover Dalea Candida $7
- Whorled Milkweed Asclepias verticillata $7
- Wild Bergamot Monarda fistulosa $7
- Woodland / Wild Blue Phlox Phlox divaricata $8
- Wild Geranium Geranium maculatum $7
- Wild Petunia Ruellia humilis $7
- Yellow Wild Indigo Baptisia Tinctoria $7
- Zigzag Goldenrod Solidago flexicaulis $7
Do you still have questions? Need a plant recommendation? Send us an email events@southportneighbors.com
Proceeds to benefit the Southport Neighbors Association’s Native Corner Plot Initiative.
Proud recipient of the SSA#27 Community Events & Placemaking Grant. This sale aims to empower the Lakeview community to transform our neighborhood with thriving native flora.