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Seven Bends Nursery
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Native Plants! 100% straight species, PhD owned, guided by science, integrity, and a love of life. 🌱💚
Berryville, VA.
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Our Tree Crush Tuesday is on Northern Red Oak!

🌳Fast growing oak

🌳Male and female flowers appear in spring

🌳Large rounded acorns in fall feed wildlife

🌳Important food source for squirrels, deer and birds

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March 4, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Our Tree Crush Tuesday is on our state flower- the Flowering Dogwood!

🌳Flowers emerge before leaves in spring

🌳Flowers attract butterflies and bees

🌳Support specialized bees in the Andrena genus

🌳Host plant for Spring Azure (Celastrina ladon) butterfly!

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February 26, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Our Shrub Crush Saturday is on Black Chokeberry!

🍃Deciduous shrub in the Rose Family!

🍃Spreads through suckering

🍃White clusters of flowers in late spring

🍃Bitter edible fruits that can be turned into pudding and jams

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February 23, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Our Shrub Crush Saturday is one of our local ecotypes found at the nursery! Bladdernut is an attractive, unique shrub that many of our customers are delightfully surprised to find!

🌿White bell shaped flowers are prolific during hot summers

🌿In fall leaves are a bright yellow

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February 15, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Our Tree Crush Tuesday is the sweetest!

Sweetbay Magnolia is a favorite for many of our clients.😍❤️

🌳Wide stretching semi evergreen tree

🌳Glossy dark green leaves

🌳Large creamy white fragrant blossoms in late spring to early summer

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February 11, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Ever wonder what leaf is on our Seven Bends Nursery logo? It's today’s Shrub Crush Saturday- Arrowwood Viburnum! Don't tell the other shrubs but this species might just be a Seven Bends Nursery Favorite.

💘Blooms small white flowers in flat-topped clusters in spring

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February 8, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Our Tree Crush Tuesday is the cowboy of native trees- Fringe Tree!

🌳 Deciduous tree in the Olive Family

🌳Typically Dioecious (separate male and female plants)

🌳Fragrant fringe-like flowers in late spring

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February 4, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Shrub crush Saturday: Buttonbush

Our Shrub Crush Saturday is as cute as a button!

💧White tubular flowers bloom in round pin-cussionlike clusters from June until late summer

💧Reddish-brown showy fruits last into winter

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February 2, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Our Tree Crush Tuesday is Serviceberry!!

🦋Small tree in the Rose family

🦋Showy, fragrant flowers bloom in early spring

🦋Edible red to purple drupes in summer can be made into jams and jellies

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January 28, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Our Shrub Crush Saturday is Spicebush! 🌼🌳

🌼Spicebush explodes to life in early spring with bright yellow blooms that become pollinator magnets

🌼Host plant for the show stopping Spicebush Swallowtail (Papilio troilus).

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January 25, 2025 at 6:56 PM
In observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day we would like to remind all those that follow us the power that love has on justice. Love yourself, love eachother, love each being and love the earth. Great things grow from love🌱💚
January 21, 2025 at 12:45 AM