Garden Shop - North Carolina Botanical Garden

Burke & Judy Davis Garden Shop

The James & Delight Allen Education Center houses the Burke and Judy Davis Garden Shop, where you will find gardening, natural history, botany, and children’s books for purchase, as well as plants, jewelry, t-shirts, educational toys, NCBG logo items, stationary, greeting cards, pottery, and handicrafts by local artists. The Shop is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Sundays.

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Gifts

Share your love for nature with our t-shirts, table linens sewn by local artists, jewelry, stationery, fine art prints, animal puppets, art for the garden, and more.

Gift Certificates

Available in any increment you wish. Gift certificates can be used for all shop merchandise and plants sold online or through the daily plant sale. They cannot be used toward event or classroom registration, gallery or sculpture purchase, or ticket sales. Gift certificates can be mailed to recipients on request.

Plants and Seeds

We carry wildflower seeds, and an extensive selection of potted perennial wildflowers, trees, shrubs, ferns, and vines grown here in our own nursery. More information on our daily and bi-annual plant sales here.

View current availability in our Daily Plant Sale

Click here for growing instructions and germination codes for the seeds sold in our shop.

Books

Some of our favorite titles? “Bringing Nature Home” by Doug Tallamy, Wildflowers of the Southeast Atlantic, and, for beginners, Native Plants of the Southeast. Be sure to check out our books on nature journaling, carnivorous plants, horticulture therapy, introducing children to nature and more. To view our selection of books for sale online, please click here.

For a list of NCBG highly recommended books (curated by our own horticulture staff) click here.

Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast

Published by Timber Press in partnership with the North Carolina Botanical Garden, Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast is for hikers, naturalists, gardeners, and anyone wishing to learn more about the region’s diverse flora.

Describes and illustrates more than 1,200 species commonly encountered in Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Washington D.C., North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.
Easy-to-use and organized by flower color, this guide includes perennials, annuals, and bulbs, both native and naturalized.
Introductory information on natural communities of the region and how and where to explore for wildflowers.
More than 1,300 color photographs and over 1,200 range maps.

by Laura Cotterman, Damon Waitt, and Alan Weakley

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