Edge of the Woods Native Plant Nursery

What they do

• Retail native-plant nursery — perennials, grasses, ferns, shrubs, trees, all native to the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast ecosystems
• Landscape consultation and design — using native-plant palettes
• Woodland restoration — invasive removal, understory replanting
• Meadow restoration — seed-mix design, multi-year establishment
• Plant health care — ongoing maintenance, integrated approaches
• Plant shipping — for customers outside the immediate region
• Workshops, tours, and educational events

Seasonal hours; closed Sundays. Open Mon–Fri 9am–5pm, Sat 9am–4pm.

Why it’s listed

Edge of the Woods is on the Pennsylvania DCNR’s recognized native-plant source list and the Lehigh Gap Nature Center’s regional directory — both forms of third-party recognition that distinguish a serious native operation from a garden center that happens to stock some natives. A woman-owned business doing this work since 2003 is also institutional load-bearing: by the time someone has run a native-plants-only retail nursery for two decades, the catalog has had time to deepen, the staff knowledge has compounded, and the operation knows what survives a Lehigh Valley winter.

The combination of retail + landscape services + restoration work is what we want to see in this tier. A homeowner who walks in for a butterfly weed leaves with the plant; an institution that needs a riparian buffer planted gets the planting. The same operation supports both ends of the demand curve, which is how the native-plant supply chain matures.

Bioregional fit

Route 100 runs north from Allentown through Lehigh County into the Blue Mountain foothills — a corridor of farmland, woodland, and small-town development right in the heart of the Lehigh Valley. Orefield sits at the northern end of the Lehigh Valley’s denser-development zone, with the Kittatinny Ridge climbing visibly to the north. A native-plant nursery sited here has direct line-of-sight to both the Valley’s suburban-residential demand for ecological landscaping and the upland-restoration work happening in the ridges and gaps to the north.

See also

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• Enables: rewilding
• Member of: business
• Contained by: lehigh-valley
• Practices: native-plant-nursery

Sources

• Edge of the Woods Native Plant Nursery public materials (edgeofthewoodsnursery.com)
• Pennsylvania DCNR “Where to Buy Native Plants” recognized-source list
• Lehigh Gap Nature Center — Lehigh Valley Native Plant Directory
• PA Native Plant Society source list (Green Seal certified)
• Brandywine Conservancy — 2024 Native Plant Sources for Mid-Atlantic

A listing in the 0mn1.one directory.