Hello from Sunlight Gardens, your premier
mail order source for wildflowers, ferns, vines, perennials, and shrubs of eastern North America.

We grow hardy, robust plants that will beautify your gardens and support a diversity of wildlife. We can help you succeed in this by providing you with solid information, a great selection, and high quality plants. Our plants grow! And rest assured that all our plants are entirely nursery propagated and are grown with sustainability in mind.

Our web site is secure. You can order on-line. Or, if you prefer, you can download a pdf version of our print catalog here to the right and print the order form in it, and send us your order via snail mail . Read, enjoy, and happy browsing.

June

June means summer here in east Tennessee. Schools are out. The grass is still green. Our forests are a green jungle. The perennial garden is full of color, and our roadside and meadow plants are coming into flower. This spring was long, cool, and wet, so everything is lush and overflowing. We anticipate good seed set on our spring bloomers. And about now, June’s featured plant, dutchmans pipevine, is winding its way up through the forest understory, searching for a bit of sunlight. Soon its curious yellow/brown, pipe-like flowers will open, and a bit later, pipevine swallowtail caterpillars will find it and devour its leaves. This is a nice vine for a shaded spot with good soil. It could wind through your trees or grow over a shaded trellis. Both the big heart-shaped leaves and the flowers are attractive.