Constructive Plant Rescue

10/13/2026

Muck sunflower (Helianthus simulans) showing up strong and providing for wildlife at the CPR Sprouts pollinator garden.

10/12/2026

Over the weekend CPR participated in a joint venture with CWS/NCWF to install a native shade garden at Sedgefield Elementary. We donated approximtely 70 specimens of 20 different native species! Big thanks to one very special girl scout for selecting such an excellent Silver Award project.

10/10/2026

Open hours for October:
Mon 9-10:30 am
Wed 5-6:30 pm
Fri 10:30-12
Sat 10-2
Sun 1-3

*The nursery is not open when it is raining—we have no shelter for our volunteers! 😳

10/09/2026

Hey, y”all. Thanks to some very special volunteers, our nursery will be open for a while every Saturday and Sunday for the rest of October— 10 am to 2 pm on Saturdays
— 1 to 3 pm on Sundays.

Come on by and get some plants for your fall projects.

We’ve got a bunch of small beautyberries, shrubby St John’s wort, brown-eyed susans, Carolina petunia, blue mistflower (a favorite of monarchs and other butterflies this time of year!) and lots more.

We’d love for them all to find new homes and get in the ground before they go dormant for the winter!

10/08/2026

Shout out to the Catawba County Master Gardeners in Newton for hosting a talk from Dr. Carrie DeJaco today about Constructive Plant Rescue! Thank you! We hope you'll join us to rescue native plants in harm's way near you!

Send a message to learn more

10/02/2026

As the inspiration to start CPR came from others doing plant rescues, we have witnessed how working for the common good is something that continues to swell in the world and it gives me so much hope.

Last fall, CPR Co-founder Carrie DeJaco reached out for help to get CPR through the 501(C)(3) process. The need for such help inspired others to create the Leadership Development Program for Social Impact (LDP-SI). It is offered through the Catawba College Ketner School of Business's Social Entrepreneurship Lab in partnership with Rowan County United Way and The HUB.

Check out this great program and apply by October 5.

Program details:

Leadership Development Program for Social Impact Presented By Catawba College’s Ketner School of Business In Partnership With Hosted At Develop the Skills to Lead Meaningful Change. Today’s communities need leaders who can turn good ideas into meaningful results. The Leadership Development Progr...

10/02/2026

Okay, y’all. Here’s a list of what we’re planning to bring for the plant adoption event at Backyard Birds this Saturday. We will only have one to a few of most of these. It will take us a while to set everything out. We will “open” at 11.

Achillea gracilis
Agrimonia parviflora
Anemone virginiana
Apocynum cannabinum
Aquilegia canadensis
Asimina triloba
Asplenium platyneuron
Botrypus virginianum
Callicarpa americana
Carex albicans
Carex amphibola
Chelone lyonii
Conoclinium coelestinum
Diospyrus virginiana
Eryngium yuccifolium
Eupatorium serotinum
Fagus grandifolia
Geum canadense
Helianthus tuberosa
Hypericum prolificum
Lobelia siphilitica
Lindera benzoin
Muhlenbergia capillaris
Packera anonyma
Penstemon calycosus
Persicaria virginiana
Physostegia virginiana
Prunus caroliniana
Pycnanthemum muticum
Quercus alba
Quercus coccinea
Quercus phellos
Rudbeckia laciniata
Rudbeckia triloba
Ruellia caroliniana
Sambucus canadensis
Solidago rigida
Solidago speciosa
Vaccinium stamineum
Vernonia noveborecensis
Viburnum prunifolium
Viola sororia
Wisteria fructescens
Yucca filamentosa

10/01/2026

👀 CPR is partnering with the City of Charlotte's Landscape Management Division and Wild Ones to create a rescued native plant garden at Tuckaseegee Arboretum and Gardens.

Sign up here to volunteer to help with planting at 9:00 am on Saturday 10/24!

Join the City of Charlotte Landscape Management, Wild Ones, and Constructive Plant Rescue for a fun day creating pollinator habitat at TAG (Tuckaseegee Arboretum & Gardens) with RESCUED NATIVE PLANTS (how cool is that?!?). We will be creating a shady woodland garden space for pollinators, wildlife,....

09/30/2026

Lots of birds coming through right now!

09/30/2026

We will be taking carloads of native plants in need of new homes from our nursery to Backyard Birds this Saturday from 11-1.
Many of our plants are “rescues”, dug up from places where they would soon have lost their lives.
Many others were generously donated to CPR by those who grew them from seed.

We expect to bring plants of a few dozen native species, including beautyberry, St John’s wort, brown-eyed susan, calico penstemon, ebony spleenwort, and blue mistflower.