Native Plants for Cape Cod Gardens

10/04/2026

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🌿🪴The Cape Cod Native Plant Growers Cooperative offers expert education, reduced-cost starter materials to help you grow native perennials, and selling under the brand means ready-made marketing, promotion and publicity, and a connection with buyers.

Coming up--two opportunities to learn! Meet & Greets are now scheduled for
🐝 Wednesday, Oct 7 or
🦋 Friday, Oct 16
10am-12pm at APCC headquarters, 482 Main Street, Dennis (same info at both sessions).

This program is for local growers on Cape Cod | Barnstable County to help meet the demand for native perennials in the Cape Cod marketplace, and to provide a greater diversity of available species.

The first 10 for-market growers to commit to the program's green growing standards get an Early Adopter Starter Kit.

Learn more and register at https://GrowersCo-op.org

This program is powered by APCC with funding from Barnstable County and its Economic Development Council License Plate Grant Program through the Cape Cod Commission, the Kelley Foundation, and private donors.

Cape Cod Cooperative Extension Farming Falmouth Sustainable CAPE - Center for Agricultural Preservation & Education

10/01/2026

A native ANNUAL!

09/26/2026

If there is anyone out there in a Cape Cod town who wants to expand their business model to include growing native perennials, this is a great opportunity. APCC provides the promotion, marketing strategy, training, savings on bulk purchases. To sell under the brand, the grower agrees to comply with green growing standards that seek to improve upon typical horticultural practices. The aim is to grow native plants locally to meet the demand and to support the Cape's ecology and biodiversity.

Learn more by attending one of these Meet & Greets and read more here: https://GrowersCoop.ORG

Attention farmers and entrepreneurs: Grow Native Plants with APCC! 🌿 🌿

The new Cape Cod Native Plant Growers Cooperative offers expert education, reduced-cost starter materials and ready-made marketing to help you grow native perennials and connect with buyers.

The first 10 for-market growers to commit to our green growing standards get an Early Adopter Starter Kit!

Meet & Greet: Wed, Oct 7 or Fri, Oct 16, 10am-12pm APCC, 482 Main Street, Dennis, MA (same info at both sessions).

Registration required. Link in bio or email [email protected]

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09/16/2026

Groundsel Bush, Baccharis halimifolia, commonly seen this month and next along the edges of marshes. But it can easily grow in your landscape and is drought resistant! We never appreciated as much as we did this year. A volunteer is now about 7 feet tall, pollinators are loving it (it's in the aster family). We have a new appreciation for this native!

08/25/2026

Despite the urge each spring to buy and plant in May, it is fall that is the BEST time to plant perennials - especially natives.

It's just a relaxed come-and-peruse native plant sale next week starting Monday, Aug 24th at APCC's headquarters in Dennis.

🚶‍➡️🚶‍♀️‍➡️Visit our grounds.

🏡Tour the renovated barn, now the Koppel Center.

🌧️🌼See our rain garden with special art installation by Steve Swain.

🌱Learn why fall planting is really the best for plants.

08/23/2026

Monarda punctata and Oenothera biennis - spotted bee balm and evening primrose

08/23/2026

Monarda punctata and Vervain hastata - spotted bee balm and blue vervain.

08/09/2026

Butterfly w**d (Asclepias tuberosa) and wild bergamot (Monarda fistulosa).

08/08/2026

We promote native plants for a reason.

The impact of introduced plants on native biodiversity has emerged as a hot-button issue in ecology. But recent research provides new evidence that the displacement of native plant communities is a key cause of a collapse in insect populations and is affecting birds as well.

08/07/2026

Great native annual! Bumble bees love it. It's in the pea family, so it fixes nitrogen. Pioneer plant that it can take hold in the toughest of disturbed soils. Something to have in your meadow seed mix so there's cover the first year.