Nashville nurseries that carry native plants.

National native plant orgs:

  • Founded by Doug Tallamy, an entomologist and originator of the native plant movement, a national initiative to get hundreds of thousands of native trees and plants in millions of yards across America.

  • Protecting pollinators, conserving endangered species, reducing pesticide use and impacts, and advocating for change.

  • Citizen monarch tagging, a milkweed market, free milkweed seeds, and many resources on gardening for butterflies.

Nashville native tree resources:

  • Actively working to save many existing old trees in the city, this is also a great source for spring and fall tree sales, and they will deliver straight to your address.

  • Free trees for your yard and neighborhoods. Get involved by becoming a Tree Captain for your area, and help them achieve their goal of 500,000 trees planted by 2050.

  • Free tree giveaways, nominate a tree for their Big Old Tree contest, and/or help them plant more trees around Nashville.

  • Tree sales, educational & volunteer events, and a program to submit your composting totals to!

  • If you have more than 10 tree species on your residential property, you can become a certified Tree Sanctuary!

Other Nashville-based conservation resources:

  • Invitations to native plant workshops, garden tours, seed exchanges, plants sales, and stewardship projects.

  • An affordable, personalized, two hour onsite native plant consultation, an in-depth recommendations report, and ongoing support to help you complete a Bird Sanctuary Certification for your own yard!

  • Certify your native plant yard with UT Extension to show how you are helping to keep our Tennessee communities healthy, naturally.

  • Nashville's only natives-only nursery!

  • A Nashville landscaping firm using native plants.

  • Grow food, not landfills! Turn your food scraps into compost.

  • A blog dedicated to Nashville nature observations by naturalist Jo Brichetto.

  • Beautiful New York Times essays on nurturing nature in a biodiverse, wildlife-friendly Nashville backyard by Margaret Renkl.

  • Vic Scoggin, a native Tennessean, swam the entire Cumberland in the mid-90s to draw attention to its intense pollution. A 2023 documentary is making the film festival rounds about his 25 year journey as a water protector.

  • Cute online episodes and downloadable coloring books to educate children about the process of pollination, and free milkweed seeds for your yard,

  • A Facebook group devoted to helping locals create naturally safe living spaces, not only for our families but also for the native plants, animals and insects that must thrive in order to keep our planet habitable.

  • Increase your gardening know-how through the mentorship of the Davidson County Master Gardeners!

  • Get involved in waterway cleanups, native plant rain garden builds, tree plantings, and invasive species removal!

  • Purchase a compost bin, volunteer to adopt a stream, or join in Nashville's Zero Waste efforts.

  • Join a diverse group of women throughout the city of Nashville and state of Tennessee who work to empower each other and learn about environmental sustainability together.

  • A glass recycling service to keep glass out of our area landfills, while also employing some of our city’s most marginalized people.

  • A zero waste store in East & West Nashville whose mission is to help provide alternatives to the disposable items we use every day.

  • Visit this 300-acre nature sanctuary in Brentwood, a protected home for more than 2,000 species of local flora and fauna.

  • Get inspired by the many native plants on display at Cheekwood's Botanical Garden's Bracken Foundation Children's Garden.

  • Field trips, seminars, conferences, and courses on native plants.

  • If you get really into native plants, become a certified Tennessee naturalist through the TN Naturalist Program!