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Cache Valley Native Plants is a currently a home-based family business we started because we are passionate about native plants and gardening! While we do not currently offer a retail storefront, our plants can be purchased in person at the Good4Life Market Dates posted on our social media and on the website. We have been overwhelmed with the positive feedback and excitement for our business and hope a full retail location will be a possibility in the near future. Thank you for your support!

If you live in the Cache Valley area, all plants are picked up at our business location. For areas outside of Cache Valley plants may be picked up at the Good4Life Market in Herriman or Saratoga Springs at the dates listed on our website and social media. Deliveries are currently only offered for large orders outside of the Cache Valley area. Reach out to us with any delivery enquiries at katie@cachevalleynativeplants.com

All of our policies can be found under the "policies" tab on our website. We do not offer returns or exchanges on plants that have left our site. We are passionate about providing only the best plant stock and it is impossible for us to know what care the plants received (or didn't) after leaving us. We check plants as soon as they arrive from our growers and again when we set aside orders for pickup, so you can be sure you are getting a healthy plant! Any problems gardeners usually experience when planting or establishing result from trying to plant in unfavorable conditions (too little or too much water or sun, wrong soil conditions, etc.) or improper planting or maintenance practices. These problems can usually be avoided by planning beds and garden spaces thoroughly, using the information from our website to find plants favorable to your conditions, and following the establishment practices detailed in our website under the "info" tab. Unfortunately, there's no way to learn gardening better than killing a few plants! If any of your plants are struggling, please feel free to reach out to us and we will help you try to solve the problem.

Yes we do! We wash and reuse plastic nursery pots in good condition. Once they are past the point of use, we send them to a company that recycles them into new products used by the nursery industry.

When you receive your email that your plants are ready to pickup, you will receive a link to sign up for a pickup time. Coming to pickup your plants during your time slot is important! Since we do not have store employees or a parking lot, we cannot accomodate extra customers and vehicles during other times.

Since we do not have a parking lot at our home, please park along the front of the home. We will check your order at the back of the driveway and then transport it with wagons or plant shelves to your car.

The goal of the garden consult is to help choose native plants for your site and give you ideas on how to design a yard that is beautiful and functional for your family AND provides the best support for your local ecosystem and pollinators. I am not a landscape architect and not qualified to draw up landscape plans. However, if you are working with a landscape company, I am happy to use the consult to choose plants that will go into their design, or I can recommend a few landscape architects that can give you a full design if you want to install on your own.

Native plants are important to our local environment and ecosystems for several reasons, and provide gardeners a variety of benefits! They are low maintenance, better for the environment, and support critical relationships with pollinators and other plants and animals in local ecosystems that nonnative plants cannot. For more information about the importance of native plants, check out our article all about them here!

In the pictures for each plant we carry you will find a native range map provided by data from the Biota of North America Program (BONAP). Dark green means the plant is native in that state. Bright green shows which counties that plant is specifically native to. Some maps will also show pink and blue areas. Blue is for naturalized plants that have moved or been introduced outside of their native ranges. Pink means invasive in that county.

A plant plug is simply an individual plant seedling that was grown in its own cell of potting soil. Plugs are smaller versions of the plants that typically become the plants you buy in larger pot sizes at nurseries. They are thin, but several inches long, which gives them lovely, deep roots that are ready to establish quickly in your soil. Plugs are a great option for larger landscape jobs where buying pots would be cost prohibitive, planting around other established plants to avoid hurting root systems, or planting on slopes or banks to avoid disturbing large amounts of soil. We only offer plugs in the spring and, sometimes, in the fall with a large enough order. This is because it gets too hot in the summer to ship them from our grower and there is a risk of them drying out in transit.

We use several growers, most of them in Utah and Idaho.

All of our growers strive to use organic practices for pest control, including beneficial insects and organic pesticide products when necessary. While their policy is that they reserve the right to use other pesticides if an outbreak should happen that they cannot control another way, this is an extremely uncommon occurence. Since native plants are more resilient to local diseases and pests, they tend to need less interventions overall.

We are committed to offering a wide selection of native Utah plants and making native plants more accessible to gardeners. Most of the plants we offer are straight species and have not been artificially cultivated. Our local ecosystems also reap the most benefits when we choose locally native plants for our gardens that maintain genetic diversity. However, we acknowledge that some native plants that provide important ecological functions may contain traits that make them difficult for some gardens (large size, vigorous spread by rhizomes, etc.). For these reasons, we do carry certain cultivars of specifically chosen native species, but have avoided any cultivars that will affect larval host and pollinator relationships, or greatly risk the genetic diversity of locally native plant populations.

We have pictures for all of the plants on our website, and hope to expand them over the next few years to give you an idea of what they look like at maturity and during different seasons. Many of our plants can also be viewed at the Conservation Garden Park's website, which features a photo of the plant during multiple seasons. Follow us on Instagram to see these plants in gardens and their natural settings throughout the year!