Constructive Plant Rescue now has
a native plant nursery!
Most of the plants at the CPR nursery have been rescued by volunteers from sites that are going to be cleared for development.
Starting on Monday, June 1, the CPR nursery, will have a handful of hours each week that we are open to the public:
Address: 8755 Poplar Tent Rd, Concord, NC 28027
Saturday — 10:00 am to 2:00 pm
Sunday — 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
When the nursery is open to the public, anyone may stop by to adopt some of the native plants we are taking care of. When adopting plants, you may donate to CPR via cash, Paypal, and/or Venmo.
When you come for a visit, please be aware that there is an “enter” gate and an “exit” gate. When the outdoor school with which we share the site is having classes, the traffic should go one-way only to ensure the safety of the children. When coming in through the “enter” gate, the nursery is off to the left. After school hours and on weekends, only the “exit” gate will be open, and we are directly in front of it.
Additionally, we are beginning a program through which native plant gardeners who have “extra” plants, such as black-eyed susans that are growing in the middle of their walkway and need to be weeded out or beautyberries that are simply *too* reproductively successful, can bring the extra native plants to donate to us during our “open” nursery hours. We will care for them until we can find them new homes. To ensure success with finding new homes for your extras, we do require that at least one of each plant type that you bring us be labelled with its proper scientific name. (We can only take plants that are native to the piedmont region of the southeastern U.S.; you can learn whether a plant is native to this region on the website http://bonap.org. If you are ever in doubt, just send us a note and we can help you with this.)
Please note this exception— the nursery will not be open when it is a rainy day— our volunteers will be there for “open hours” when they are there doing other tasks, the most important of which is watering, which need not be done in the rain.