Welcome to Your Favorite Native, Endangered, and Rare Gardening Destination

We are NEAR Gardens. A small nursery focused on educating people on the beauty and flavor of rare fruit plants that can be grown in cold climates. Typical northern gardening focuses on quick growing annuals and a small collection of berries. We want to change things up by showing the amazing variety of plants that not only can grow in cold-climates, but prefer it!

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Available Now!!

  • Rugen’s Improved Alpine Strawberry ($10ea)

  • Pepino Melon ($10ea)

  • Tzimbalo Melon ($10ea)

  • Pineapple Crush White Alpine Strawberry ($10ea)

  • White Carolina Strawberry ($10ea)

  • Goji Berry ($20ea)

  • Elderberry ($10ea)

  • Yellow Currant ($20ea)

  • Prolific Hardy Kiwi ($25ea)

  • Otricoli Orange berry ($10ea)

  • Ground Cherry ($10ea)

To order, please reach out below! Orders will be available for pickup at one of our events (see events page). If those events do not work for you, we can arrange another time for pick up!

Sold out for 2026

  • Chicago Hardy Fig

  • Beer’s Black Fig

  • White Marseilles Fig

  • Kajari Melon

  • Dwarf Pomegranate

2027 Hopefuls

  • Che

  • Goumi Berry

  • Large cranberry

  • Small cranberry

  • Northern gooseberry

  • Cloudberry

  • Pink currant

  • White currant

  • Highbush blueberry

  • Thornless red raspberry

  • White blackberry

  • Sherbet berry

Have any suggestions or plants you’re looking for? Let us know and you just might see it available next year!

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Interested in our inventory?

Have interest in our hopefuls/watch lists?

Have questions on how to care for our plants?

Have any requests for plants you are looking for?

Please reach out here or email us at orders@neargardens.com