Find plants for your home or community garden plot, right in the heart of Boston.
Plan Your Visit
- Overview
- Ideas for Your Visit
- Admission & Hours
- Directions & Contact Info
- What You'll Find
- Facilities & Accessibility
- Venue Rental
- Regulations & Advisories
Overview
City Natives serves as The Trustees’ native plant nursery and horticultural learning center for the people of Boston and beyond. The roughly half-acre site holds a greenhouse and nursery where we raise vegetable seedlings, as well as plants native to our local climate for sales, community garden common areas, and restoration projects throughout the city. Seasonal plant sales are open to all; please visit our website for details. The greenhouse doubles as a gardening classroom for our educational programs and for training volunteers.
City Natives is also home to our Learning Garden—with interpretive garden beds that demonstrate intensive gardening techniques unique to urban and community gardens—as well as an apiary, native plant display gardens, a wildflower meadow, and a small orchard. Volunteers help us care for and maintain City Natives. Please contact us if you’d like to lend a hand.
City Natives is open during set hours or by appointment for plant sales, educational field trips, volunteer opportunities, and workshops.
Shop
City Natives is offering its annual spring plant sale, with plants available for pickup after being pre-ordered. View our online catalog HERE.
Pick-Up Dates are Thursdays and Saturdays in May, from 9AM-3PM. There will be no in-person sales without pre-ordering.
We offer:
· Pollinator-friendly native perennials, shrubs & trees
· An amazing selection of heirloom and hybrid veggies, herbs, and annual flowers
· Garden supplies: organic fertilizers, straw mulch, season extension kits, and more
City Natives is located at 30 Edgewater Drive, Mattapan, MA, near the Mattapan Center bus and trolley stops.
For questions and to pick up your cold crops prior to the dates listed, email: citynatives@thetrustees.org
Ideas for Your Visit
Shop
City Natives is offering its annual spring plant sale, with pre order and in-person shopping options. View our online catalog HERE.
Pick-Up Dates are Thursdays and Saturdays, May 6-22 from 9AM-3PM. In-person shopping will also be available during these pick up dates.
Customers are encouraged to pre-order online and schedule a pick-up time in person. This guarantees that you will get the plants you want and helps us to maintain a safe shopping experience.
We offer:
- Pollinator-friendly native perennials, shrubs & trees
- An amazing selection of heirloom and hybrid veggies, herbs, and annual flowers
- Garden supplies: organic fertilizers, straw mulch, season extension kits, and more
City Natives is located at 30 Edgewater Drive, Mattapan, MA, near the Mattapan Center bus and trolley stops.
For questions and to pick up your cold crops prior to the dates listed, email: citynatives@thetrustees.org
Workshops
Attend a workshop in our Seed, Sow & Grow series.
Field Trips
Schedule a field trip for your school or organization to learn about native plants and pollinators.
Admission & Hours
It is free to enter but is only open by appointment or during nursery retail hours.
Directions & Contact Info
30 Edgewater Drive
Mattapan, MA 02126
Get directions on Google Maps.
Public Transportation: We’re located a short walk from the Mattapan Square Trolley Station and Blue Hill Avenue bus lines. Parking is available along Edgewater Drive.
What You'll Find
Make sure we’re open! Nursery retail hours vary seasonally. If you aren’t coming for a specific event, contact citynatives@thetrustees.org before coming.
Plant Sales
City Natives is offering its annual spring plant sale, with pre order and in-person shopping options. View our online catalog here.
Pick-Up Dates are Thursdays and Saturdays, May 6-22 from 9AM-3PM. In-person shopping will also be available during these pick up dates.
Customers are encouraged to pre-order online and schedule a pick-up time in person. This guarantees that you will get the plants you want and helps us to maintain a safe shopping experience.
We offer:
- Pollinator-friendly native perennials, shrubs & trees
- An amazing selection of heirloom and hybrid veggies, herbs, and annual flowers
- Garden supplies: organic fertilizers, straw mulch, season extension kits, and more
City Natives is located at 30 Edgewater Drive, Mattapan, MA, near the Mattapan Center bus and trolley stops.
For questions and to pick up your cold crops prior to the dates listed, email: citynatives@thetrustees.org
Facilities & Accessibility
There is running water and a portable toilet facility.
Venue Rental
Contact citynatives@thetrustees.org to discuss rentals.
Regulations & Advisories
PHOTOGRAPHY: We ask that photographers or their clients become Supporting Level Members before conducting portrait sessions at this property. Click here for more information, and to request permission for any portrait sessions. The Trustees of Reservations reserves the right, and may give permission to its designated photographers and videographers, or to outside media, to photograph or video visitors and program participants at all its facilities and properties.
