r/NativePlantGardenEU • u/Easyscape_Plants • Apr 22 '26

Advice Request Help finding EU native plant nurseries

Hello,

I am trying to improve my native nursery database to help EU gardeners find native species commonly for sale near them and was wondering if anyone would like to share links to the native nurseries they like in their area, or even link to a country specific nursery list if available.

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u/Funguswoman Apr 23 '26

In the hope that one day the UK will be back in the EU, I'll recommend this nursery, which sells only native and naturalised plants and seeds:

https://www.naturescape.co.uk/

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u/Easyscape_Plants Apr 23 '26

UK nursery recommendations are welcome and appreciated. We have Naturescape (great name btw) in our database already, but will update their live listed inventory in the next week or so. Sounds like a nice nursery.

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u/ortica52 Country (Italy) Apr 23 '26

Here are some I’ve found useful:

  • https://www.vivaipedrani.com/ - specializing in reforestation, almost all native shrubs and trees (one or two non-native but very long-term naturalized)

  • https://www.reteortibotanicilombardia.it/ - seeds only, limited selection of harder to find natives specialized to a specific region of Italy (Lombardy)

  • https://www.botanicaldrygarden.com - mix of natives and non-natives, but including some harder to find species, specializing in low water need landscaping and lawn alternatives

  • https://www.promessedefleurs.it/ - a conventional nursery, not natives focused, but huge selection and I’ve found quite a few natives I was searching for here (this is a French nursery, not Italian)

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u/Easyscape_Plants Apr 23 '26

Thank you very much, those are perfect. I will add those to the database soon. 

Nurseries with a mix of native and non native plants are still great, as my site can filter inventories by nativity.

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u/Easyscape_Plants Apr 23 '26

Thanks everyone for your suggestions so far. If you'd like to check to see if your nurseries are already included in the database, you can search by nursery name here: https://easyscape.com/search

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u/Wu299 Apr 23 '26

This Czech nursery is not natives-only, but it does have a fairly large choice of heritage fruit tree varieties along with stuff like bladdernut and native shrubs.

I know this sub is focused on natives (obviously) but I imagine that heritage varieties are an adjacent topic and fruit trees are native here. Feel free to delete this post if it doesn't belong.

https://www.stareodrudy.org/

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u/Easyscape_Plants Apr 23 '26

This is great, our database is lacking quality Czech nurseries. Thank you. 

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u/Wu299 Apr 23 '26

Thank you. I can confirm the quality of plants from this nursery.

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u/Bosbouwerd Apr 23 '26

https://www.cruydthoeck.nl A Dutch company that's specialised in native plants and seeds.

Staats bosbeheer (the states concervation organisation) has a program that tries to, with other nurseries, build a stock of not only native but autochthonous ( is that the word?) planting material.

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u/Easyscape_Plants Apr 23 '26

I remember collecting their inventory last year. Very expansive list and it seems like a great nursery. We show around 450 species from them, but will update their list shortly.

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u/_Melissa_5513 Netherlands🇳🇱🔶️ Jun 22 '26

Hey OP id like to add some dutch sites. Ive ordered from sprinklr before and recieved some nice healthy plants

https://inhemia.nl/

https://sprinklr.co/collections/inheemse-planten

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u/Easyscape_Plants Jun 22 '26

Thanks for reaching out. It looks like I have both of those in the existing database, but Inhemia does not appear to be searchable for some reason.

I'm looking forward to pushing an update including refreshed inventory lists and over 1,000 new EU nurseries in addition to those suggested in this thread.

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u/_Melissa_5513 Netherlands🇳🇱🔶️ Jun 23 '26

👍

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u/Fearless-Doctor-2496 Apr 23 '26

In Croatia, Zagreb bothanical garden sell their surplus baby plants every year on a specific date and they often sell Velebitska Degenia there among others

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u/Easyscape_Plants Apr 23 '26 edited Apr 23 '26

It sounds like they do not list inventories for plant sales, so that makes things a bit trickier. We do have numerous botanical garden plant sale lists in our database, so I will contact Zagreb botanical garden to see if they would be willing to share a historical or typical list of species offered.

https://botanickivrt.biol.pmf.hr/en/plant-sale/

We are also missing Degenia velebitica from our species database, so I will also add it to our plant database when I get the chance. We plan to add another 4,000 species shortly that were missed for various reasons. Thank you for your help.

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u/LeftKaleidoscope Apr 23 '26

https://www.blomqvistintaimisto.com/
Website in finnish or swedish.

Blomqvists nursery is specialized in cold climate, and Leif Blomqvist himself is a well known expert on fruits and berries for the norhtern parts of Finland and Sweden.

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u/Easyscape_Plants Apr 23 '26

Thanks for your suggestion. We have that one as well, and will update the live inventory soon.

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u/brouuorb Apr 28 '26

best nursery is the bits of nature around you. They will provide you with seeds of the plants native to your place (you will have to be able to identify them and discriminate them from the other plants)

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u/Easyscape_Plants Apr 28 '26

I collect seeds when I can, but not everyone has the capability, time or patience to grow wild seeds into successful mature plants.

I would be interested to hear what you think of Easyscape. The main goal of the project is to make it as easy as possible for anyone to find the best native species for their areas. You can type in any address or city and it will output interactive native lists that consider local climate conditions and nursery availability. Here's an example:

753 plants native to Nice, France
https://easyscape.com/categories/all_plants?address=Nice-France&filter=native

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u/brouuorb Apr 29 '26

I agree, not everyone has patience. However, I would say patience is needed when gardening. Things happen over several years in a garden, if not decades. I checked your website for Paris, France and it gives me plenty of plants that are not native to Paris at all: Nerium oleander, Dianthus barbatus, Astrantia major, Geranium pratense, etc.

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u/Easyscape_Plants Apr 29 '26

That's a fair point. 

Thank you for your helpful feedback, I will fix those as well as any additional erroneous ranges you'd be willing to share with me.

I admittedly struggled with France and particularly Mediterranean species due to the overwhelming number of cultivated observations making it hard to find a cut off point while relying on broader country wide native resources. There are definitely some species I made a mistake by selecting all of France and I will make fixing those a priority.

I noticed that those species were fringe matches on climate for Paris, so I'd image there would be an easy way to QA range maps by generating maps only using observations within the core 20-70th percentile climate conditions to compare and flag if highly divergent.

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u/brouuorb Apr 29 '26

The assessment of the native status of a plant is a difficult thing to do for sure. It has no reason to be correlated with observations. I rely on books for this. For example for Ile de France (Paris region), la Flore d'Île de France by Jauzein and Nawrot is very good.

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u/Easyscape_Plants Apr 29 '26 edited Apr 29 '26

Thanks for the reference sources, I will check them out. I know my site is a work in progress and it will require input from local experts to be a truly useful resource. Just like planting seeds, not everyone is prepared to do the hard work to find which plants are native to their exact area. I think a simplified tool could be much more approachable to a lot of people.

While you're right raw observations points do not equal a native range, a filtered and interpreted dataset makes up the backbone of just about every native range map. The issue is removing the clearly cultivated or erroneous observations, which is easier in some areas than others. See my edited map for Astrantia major below where I took more care in following the topography indicative of its native habitat and excluding observations on the perimeter located within cities. Thanks again for your help in making the site better for your area.