Holiday Sale and New Products

KSNS seed packets and Red elderberry seeds

We are thankful to all our loyal customers and all the kindred spirits that share our love of native plants! To show our gratitude we are bringing back our highly popular holiday sale. Thank you, and thanks to everyone who grows native plants and works to protect intact native plant communities!

Black Friday and Cyber Monday are some of the biggest shopping days of the year. The celebration of consumerism results in a huge environmental impact, as most of the “bargain” products are created in ways that harm the environment, and most will eventually end up in the landfill. Whether you boycott Black Friday and Cyber Monday altogether, or commit to purchasing from only reputable sustainable or eco-friendly businesses, there are ways protect the environment and lessen the impacts to our climate during the holiday gift giving season.

In order to promote an alternative to plastic, electronic, or other unsustainable holiday gifts, we are offering a 10% discount (Enter Coupon Code: KSNSholidaysale2025 at checkout) on all our native seed packets for orders $30 and up, from now through December 1st. And on Giving Tuesday we encourage you to donate to your local, grassroots non-profit working to protect native ecosystems.

Happy Holidays from KSNS!

Suzie and Luke cleaning seeds in the seed cleaning barn, using our Dybvig seed cleaning machine and antique Clipper seed cleaning machine.

New Products

Red elderberry is known for it’s knockout, flashy red berries in late summer to early fall. It is an eye-catching shrub that has long been grown as an ornamental plant in native plant and wildlife gardens. Although the red berries steal the show, the white to cream colored flowers are fragrant and highly attractive to various pollinators, including hoverflies, hummingbirds and butterflies.

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Torrent sedge grows along rocky or sandy stream banks, below the high water mark, of creeks and rivers in Oregon, California, and southern Washington. It is a very tough plant that can tolerate the ‘torrent’ of water during high water and floods. It tolerates being submerged under water for part of the winter. It has a gorgeous fountain of green foliage that grows on raised, dense clumps that are approximately 1-2 feet tall and up to 2 feet wide. It is winter deciduous, dying back in the winter. Torrent sedge is a member of the Cyperaceae plant family. It can tolerate a wide variety of soils and habitats, as long as plenty of water is available.

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We always look forward to finding gummy gooseberries in late summer! We squeeze the pulp from the half-inch, reddish-brown to purple fruit into our mouths, discarding the sticky, “gummy” skin. It’s always a treat! Gummy gooseberry is a deciduous, spreading shrub that not only has edible fruit, it also has amazing red to magenta flowers that give rise to its additional common name, fuchsia-flowered gooseberry, because the pendant, solitary flower is reminiscent of a fuchsia flower.