Northeast Indiana’s Oldest Native Plant Nursery
We offer a wide variety of resilient, healthy native plants for all conditions, helping you support local wildlife and increase the biodiversity in your yard.
Grown from responsibly harvested, local seeds • Fed with local compost, organic fertilizers, and NO pesticides • Perennials, grasses, shrubs, & trees • Suitable for home landscaping•
Grow native!
How to Buy
Shop Online
Shop our selection of staple perennials and grasses, or preorder trees, shrubs, and edible plants.
Visit the Nursery
Keep an eye out for retail hours during the growing season, or contact us to set up an appointment.
Special Events
Visit our booth at events around town, or come to our open houses to shop our limited time plants.
If nurturing biodiversity, care, and connection in your yard is important to you, you’ve come to the right place
Humans and wildlife alike are dependent on their local environment for their well-being and quality of life, but lawns and non-native plants don’t support the biodiversity our ecosystem needs to survive.
As a result, the natural systems of support closest to us are struggling to provide what we all need for our health and well-being.
- 50M acres of lawn in the US, 3x the amount used to grow corn
- 90M tons of chemicals, including 90,000 tons of pesticides, applied to lawns annually
- 80% of plants in typical home landscaping are non-native
- Insect, pollinator, and bird populations in decline due to chemical use, exotic plants, and habitat fragmentation
With urbanization increasing, we need a way to restore our neighborhoods to function as habitats for the diversity of wildlife that keep our ecosystem alive while still allowing for human use.
That’s where you come in
By planting native plants in your yard, you can help support our ecosystem and begin to restore nature.
The power of native plants
By every standard, native plants outperform turf grass and non-native plants when it comes to increasing biodiversity and improving the local ecosystem.
Ease of Growth
By evolving alongside local wildlife and being specifically adapted to the soil and climate of our region, native plants are easier to grow than many non-natives.
Resource Usage
Due to their specific, localized adaptations, native plants require far less water and maintenance to thrive, especially compared to resource-hungry turf grass.
Wildlife Support
By providing proper nutrition and habitat, native plants support the complex web of interactions that make up our ecosystem, from microbes to insects to mammals, reptiles, and birds.
Climate & Soil Improvement
By sequestering carbon with their deep, extensive root systems and eliminating the need for excess watering and chemical applications, native plants begin to improve air and soil quality as they’re allowed to grow and thrive.
To put it simply, by adding even small pockets of native plants to your landscaping, you can restore islands of vibrancy and life to your yard and do your part to push back against climate change and the loss of biodiversity.
Introducing
DIY Plant Kits
Choosing, arranging, and installing plants can be a challenge. Our DIY Plant Kits take the guesswork out of landscaping, with a design, plant list, and videos to help you build a beautiful, more biodiverse yard like a pro.
Plant kits coming soon. Sign up for our newsletter to be the first to know when they’re available.
Our partnership with
Rozelle Lawn & Landscape
Landscape Design & Installation
For those who want to leave the aesthetics and labor of landscaping to the pros, our friends at Rozelle offer design, installation, and maintenance, specializing in native plant landscaping and natural stone hardscaping.
Environmentally-Friendly Lawn Care
Rozelle’s Eco-Lawn Fertilizing program emphasizes organic fertilizers, soil amendments, and naturally-derived weed control to achieve a healthy lawn by strengthening roots and repairing soil, not by drenching it with chemicals.
Growing together
Our Property
The land on which we live and operate is not a resource to exploit. We want to have a deeper, reciprocal relationship with this place, learning how to nourish it while it nourishes us. Our property serves as a model for a new way of thinking about landscaping, inspiring and teaching visitors so they can feel equipped to care for their own yards in a more fulfilling way.
Connections
If you find yourself spending too much time endlessly caring for your grass and wondering if there’s something more meaningful you can do with that space, you’re in good company. We want to cultivate connections with like-minded people, encouraging each other in our journey to better care for the natural world and enjoying its beauty together.
Experiences
Immersing ourselves in nature helps to heal the parts of us that are burned out from the frenetic pace of modern life. Our property isn’t just a retail nursery, it’s a place where you can experience the beauty of restorative landscaping in both a home landscape and natural settings. Join us for a tour, workshop, or event to be inspired and rejuvenated.
Education
As we’ve worked to bring health and beauty to our property, it has become a model to show how native plant landscaping is intentional, beautiful, and attainable for anyone who wants to do this in their own yard. Whether you’re planting 5 plants or 50, we can offer recommendations and guidance on how you can start regenerating nature, one plant at a time.
Beyond the nursery
Building Community
At Riverview, our desire is to be more than just a plant vendor. We’re passionate about native plants and want to help connect like-minded individuals, encourage important conversations, and facilitate meaningful experiences between people, plants, and place.
Community is vital for the personal, cultural, and environmental changes we all desire. If that sounds appealing to you, stick around! We’re just getting started.
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