The Brandywine Native Garden Hub is a free, user-friendly website that serves as both an educational guide and an interactive database for anyone interested in incorporating native plants into their landscapes.
Naturally occurring in a specific region without human intervention, native plants have adapted to the climate and soil over time, making them easier to grow and maintain, plus they directly benefit pollinators, wildlife, and the local ecology.
With the Brandywine Native Garden Hub, users can search for and learn more about native plants specific to Pennsylvania and northern Delaware, save their favorites to personalized “Garden Boards,” and browse through a suite of educational resources to help enhance their gardening success.
"We are so excited to share the Brandywine Native Garden Hub with our broader community," said Stephanie Armpriester, Director of Conservation and Stewardship at the Brandywine Conservancy. "Our main goal with this new website is to break down barriers for those interested in getting started with native plants and to provide them with all the tools they need to begin their garden journeys.
“With this accessible online resource, we hope to inspire beginners to join us in our important mission-related work in their own backyards and landscapes.
“It's also a perfect companion tool to the slate of educational programs the Brandywine Conservancy offers around native plants throughout the year, as well as our annual Native Plant Sales, both here on our campus in Chadds Ford [Delaware County] and in Western Pennsylvania at our Penguin Court Preserve [Westmoreland County]."
How It Works
The Brandywine Native Garden Hub contains information on more than 250 native plant species found in our region.
Each plant profile contains everything you need to know about the plant—from growing conditions to key attributes and wildlife benefits—along with photos that show different growth stages.
Users can also personalize their searches by filtering for plants according to their garden’s specific growing conditions, including sunlight exposure, soil type, and soil moisture.
Plants can even be sorted by the user’s preferred attributes and benefits, including plant type, height/width, peak bloom time, bloom color, deer resistance, fragrance, and more.
Garden Boards
To help visualize and plan their dream gardens, users can create a free account to build personalized “Garden Boards” that are customized to their unique growing spaces.
Boards can be curated for the spaces users currently have, the type of gardens they are looking to start—such as a container garden for smaller spaces or one designed to attract specific pollinators—or even boards for future garden inspiration.
Once users set up their boards, they can “pin” their favorite plants while browsing to save them for building out their garden plans.
Users can also add, edit, and create as many Garden Boards as they’d like, which can be referenced at any time on both desktop and mobile devices.
Educational Resources
To equip users with even more tools for success during their gardening journeys, the Brandywine Native Garden Hub also features a wealth of educational resources.
Users can dive into our beginner’s guide for getting started with native plants or browse through other articles, including topics on how to prep a container garden, tackling invasive species, and seasonal gardening tips.
Additional articles will be published throughout the year for continued learning.
For more than five decades, the Brandywine Conservancy has been a trusted leader in growing and promoting the use, preservation, and appreciation of native plants.
The Brandywine Native Garden Hub is the latest extension of this work, providing a digital platform to help gardeners bring the benefits of native plants to their own landscapes.
Native Plant Sales
The launch of this new online resource also comes at the perfect time, right before the return of the Brandywine Conservancy’s annual Wildflower, Native Plant & Seed Sale on May 10-11, 2025 (with early member access available on May 9).
There is also an online native plant sale being held at Penguin Court Preserve where orders for over 100 species of native plants are being taken until April 30.
The Brandywine Museum of Art’s plant sale is held in the courtyard in Chadds Ford [Delaware County]. The sale includes a wide variety of native wildflowers, grasses, ferns, vines, shrubs and trees.
The Brandywine Native Garden Hub is a great resource to reference in advance of the sale and can be used to create a “shopping list” with a custom Garden Board to bring to the event.
Created by the Brandywine Conservancy, the Brandywine Native Garden Hub was designed and developed by Infantree—a creative agency based in Lancaster, PA—and made possible through a generous grant from the Allegheny Foundation.
The Brandywine Conservancy protects water, conserves land, and engages communities.
The Conservancy uses a multi-faceted approach to conservation. Staff work with private landowners who wish to see their lands protected forever and provide innovative community planning services to municipalities and other governmental agencies.
The Conservancy currently holds more than 510 conservation and agricultural easements and has facilitated the permanent preservation of over 70,200 acres of land.
The Conservancy is a program of the Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art.
Resource Links:
-- WHYY: New Book By Doug Tallamy Urges Everyone To Put Native Plants In Their Yards
-- Pollinator Gardens: Help Encourage Ecological Diversity In Your Own Backyard [PaEN]
-- Penn State Master Gardeners Certification As Pollinator Friendly Garden
-- Pollinator Vehicle License Plate Now Available From PennDOT To Support Pollinator Habitat Fund [PaEN]
Related Articles This Week:
-- Brandywine Conservancy Launches New Website For Getting Started With Native Plants; Native Plant Sales In Delaware, Westmoreland Counties [PaEN]
-- North Branch Land Trust Hosts May 10 Event In Luzerne County On Exploring The Beauty And Importance Of Native Plants [PaEN]
-- CBF: Pollen Explosion Sometimes Creates Strange Green/Yellow Slicks On Waters In Chesapeake Bay Watershed [PaEN]
[Posted: April 14, 2025] PA Environment Digest
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