Celebrating 125 Years: Native Plant Trust

Celebrate Native Plants

From the Wild to Your Backyard

It's Trillium Week!

Garden in the Woods hosts Trillium Week, our annual celebration of this iconic spring wildflower, from Sunday, May 3, through Saturday, May 9. Don't miss our drop-in Trillium Tours (see Trillium Week for times), The Native Plant Trust Trillium Collection: An Inside Look (Tuesday, May 5, 5:30–7:30 PM), and our signature Twilight Trilliums event (Friday, May 8, 6–8 PM).

Photo: White trillium (Trillium grandiflorum) © Ngoc Minh Ngo

A Year of Abundance

A strong spring fuels a year of impact—so now is the time to show your support. Make an early gift to our annual fund this spring and help power a year of abundance.

While we are off to a strong start, we need your help to keep the momentum going.

Make a gift today to ensure that we have the resources we need to power our exceptional Conservation and Horticulture programs for the benefit of nature and nature lovers alike.

Photo: Trillium grandiflorum, Uli Lorimer © Native Plant Trust

Garden in the Woods Hours

Come and enjoy the 2026 season at Garden in the Woods, open daily, 10 AM–5 PM daily, through October 18.

Become a Native Plant Trust member to get discounts on Garden admission, plants and merchandise at our Garden Shops (open during Garden hours), classes, and more.

Photo: Curtis Woodland Garden, Dan Jaffe Wilder © Native Plant Trust

Growing Season Is Learning Season

With our relatively short growing season in the Northeast, spring and summer are precious to gardeners. Speed up your learning curve or keep your knowledge green with our expert-led classes—pollinator gardening, soils, bird-friendly gardening, designing with natives, and soil composition are among the many options we offer.

Photo: Spicebush swallowtail larvae (Papilio troilus) on host spicebush (Lindera benzoin) seedlings, Alexis Doshas © Native Plant Trust

Volunteer in Our Garden Shops

Our Garden Shop at Nasami Farm in western Massachusetts needs volunteers to help in our plant-sales yard. Helpers receive a 25% discount on plants during the 2026 season. Drop a line to nasaminatives@NativePlantTrust.org, or sign up here.

If you live closer to Garden in the Woods, in Framingham, MA, and want to help out in the Garden Shop there, sign up here, or email gardennatives@NativePlantTrust.org.

Photo: Nasami Farm plant sales yard, Jane Roy Brown © Native Plant Trust

We're Making News

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Photo: WBUR checks out Skooby Laposky sound event, Garden in the Woods, Giffen Maupin © Native Plant Trust