COVID-19 Response

Carolina Native Nursery was and still is prepared to respond to the ever-changing challenges we face due to Covid-19. We have opened for retail take-out and applied for both the PPP (approved but no money yet) and the EIDL (received the first installment) programs, kept everyone employed and hired a few more. Through weekly webinars involving our EAGL compatriots, paying attention to N.C. Governor Cooper’s (doing a great job) state as well as local guidelines, and CDC recommendations, we think we have kept both our team members and our wonderfully understanding and cooperative clients safe. Thanks so much to everyone who has stepped up: our team, our clients, our EAGL friends, our community, and our Carolina Native families.

Spring has been beautiful in western N.C. Business has been particularly good too. Although we have put some major expansion plans of hold for now (we had begun), adjustments in space utilization and SKU optimization will still allow us to expand our native azalea production. We are also expanding our perennial and fern lists and numbers in production to better meet demand. More to come.

RETAIL:

While our ‘Bee Native Plant Shop’ is closed for shopping, plants can be ordered and picked up. It is working great so far.  Here is how we do it.

• Check availability and choose your plants: Retail Plant List
• Call (828)-682-1471 or email: sales@carolinanativenursery.com
• We will confirm your list, get a credit card, and set a time for you to come and pick it up
• Come pick up and load your plants
• Take plants home and plant them in your garden

WHOLESALE:

Keep calling or emailing us to order plants.  We try to have someone always in the office to answer your calls and emails. We look forward to hearing from you soon.

• Our availability is up to date: Wholesale Availability
• Pick-up: Order will be pulled and staged for you to load
• We deliver: Please have staff to unload
• Still digging B&B plants to order

GARDEN CENTERS:

All routes sales on hold for now – makes us sad! For the past 2 years, we made calls on garden centers all over western NC, upstate SC, and eastern TN.  We load our trucks with what looks great, stop by garden centers, and let them pick out what they can use. Our garden center friends loved it, we had fun, and sales were good. We even hired 2 new young ladies (Taylor and Natalie) that were very excited to get going, expand our footprint, and spread the good word about native plants. They look forward to being on the road again soon. In the meantime, they will be calling and making sure all our garden center friends have all the natives they need. Some of them need a lot!

Our business is strong, we were prepared financially (made it through floods, spring freezes, and the great recession), and will be in good shape when this trying time is over. All our staff can’t wait for the day we can welcome all our clients back, have lunch together, get a hug or high five. That day will be here before you know it!