Bona Terra

Native Plant Growers | Conservation Landscaping

Expert-grown natives and Chesapeake Bay-friendly landscaping design + installation

Swamp Milkweed (Asclepias incarnata) photographed by Andrew Cannizzaro, image licensed under CC BY 2.0

Apply for a Bona Terra Plant Grant

We are attempting to give over 1,000,000 seedlings of native plants to local groups and organizations! Check out our Plant Grant page for more information and to fill out an application form for your group. Help us meet our goal by applying for seedlings today!

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Our Bona Terra Tilling Guide

Are you prepping a garden, but don’t know where to start? Want to learn a little more about till and no-till methods with native plant gardens? Check out the Bona Terra Tilling Guide!

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Or you can download and print the guide using the button below

Bona Terra Till Guide Download

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These plants are all in seeding trays. Some can be divided and planted in the ground right away and others will need to be divided and put in individual pots. If you are within 100 mile of dc, that sounds like something you want to do and it’s going towards a good not-for-profit-cause, like a restoration project or a school planting, then you are eligible. Write us an email and explain in 200 words or less why your project should get these free plants. Email plantsales@bonaterradc.com to submit your application. I’ll choose a winner febuary 10, 2023. applications are due by February 8,2023. #restoration #freeplants #nativeplants #bonaterradc

We’ve added a tilling guide that’s tailored for urban and suburban restoration projects. Click the link to our tilling guide on the Bona Terra home page for step by step instructions on maximizing the ecological benefits your soil can provide. It includes walkthroughs of various garden prep methods, compost calculations and the reasoning for each step along the way. This guide can be useful for do it yourselfers or it can give you the information necessary to get the best work from a contractor you hire. #soilhealthmatters #savethebay #ecologicalgardening #restorativegardening #preventerosion #nativeplants #savethebees #saveourecosystems #plantnative #nativeplantnursery #slowtheflow #savethepollinators #restoreourearth #restoreourplanet

We counted, Bona Terra has the DC area’s largest selection of strictly native plants. You’re sure to find plants to restore your ecosystem with one stop here! On top of that, there is only one grower here so you know from seed collection to soil making to potting plants to minimizing fertilizer run off; every decision was made by a passionate expert who’s dedicated their life’s work to providing the DC area with as many native plants as possible!

Organize a native plant sale with Bona Terra for your neighborhood, friends, or garden club! Take advantage of special discounts with a group order and a free question-and-answer session with Jeremy Tidd, Bona Terra owner and lead grower, to learn more about gardening with native plants and sustainable practices. We can either bring native plants to your location or you can come to our nursery in Friendship, Maryland.

At Bona Terra our restoration work doesn’t stop just because it’s winter. All of our plants are available and ready to be planted in the ground year round. There’s no reason to avoid planting unless the ground is frozen solid; in fact putting your plants in the ground while they’re dormant means that the very first day that they break dormancy in the spring they can start growing in their new homes yielding a high success rate in your plantings.

The mill isn’t just for large logs, there’s so much more it can do. Even small pieces of trees can have great wood cut out of them. By bringing your log to our nursery or dropping it off at our DC office you can save on the expenses of us coming to you with the mill. You can have surprisingly small pieces of wood cut for your next project.

Native Plant Sales

Expert-grown natives delivered to your project site

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Portable Milling

On-site tree removal and lumber milling

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Native Plant Sales

Our native plant nursery is carefully maintained by experts using sustainable practices. We focus on growing local ecotypes within 100 miles of our nursery in Anne Arundel County, Maryland using minimal fertilizer and no pesticides, herbicides or growth hormones.

We have native plants available for sale to homeowners, landscape professionals, and conservation and restoration non-profits. We offer delivery and pick-up on orders, either at our nursery in Friendship, Maryland or at our office in DC. Our goal is to provide stewards of the Chesapeake Bay with native plants, whose lack of availability has historically been a challenge in conservation efforts. See our inventory by clicking below.

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Portable Sawmilling

Have a tree that needs to be converted into usable boards? Our portable saw mill can help! We cut dying or diseased trees that need to be felled into dimensional lumber as well as unique slabs and live-edge boards that are not widely available.

Portable sawmilling is an affordable way to get expensive cuts of wood with a much smaller carbon footprint than their counterparts at the lumber yard: the lumber we produce is air dried, and requires no transport (or packaging) from a mill to a store to your home. As a bonus, we remove remaining branches and cast aways to be repurposed into soil at our native plant nursery. Finally, many of our clients appreciate being able to hold onto a memento from a beloved tree.

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Bona Terra, LLC

bonaterra@bonaterradc.com

(202) 507-9648

We are a small family-run landscaping business and native plant nursery located in Washington, DC. Our urban landscape design, growing practice, and installation business specializes in artistic installations, bay-friendly native gardens and sustainable practices.

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