Chesapeake Natives is excited to share our new Fall Shopping Hours—mark your calendars for more opportunities to explore, shop, and connect with nature at our nursery in Rosaryville State Park!

Fall is a great time to plant as it allows roots to get establish, resulting in early spring blooms, providing essential food for pollinators emerging from winter.

Mark your calendars for these dates

🗓️ September:

– Open: 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, 21

– Closed: Week of September 22

🗓️ October:

– Open: 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19

– Closed: Week of October 20

Thursdays and Fridays: 10 AM – 5 PM

Saturdays: 10 AM – 2 PM

IMPORTANT: We will be open only during the first three weeks of each month (September & October). We will be closed the week before each Open House Sale to prepare for the festivities. We can’t wait to see you at the nursery during our new hours!

Our address is 9640 Rosaryville Rd., Upper Marlboro. We are located within Rosaryville State Park on the grounds of the historic Mount Airy Mansion. The entrance to our park is located on Rosaryville Road, not RT. 301. (Google maps will sometimes lead you to the 301 entrance so be sure to enter the Rosaryville Road address.) You’ll know you’re in the right place if you are facing a black wrought iron gate with the words Mount Airy on it, beside a pretty pond. Once through the gate, follow the park road for about half a mile until you see a white frame house on the left.  Just after the house, the road divides, stay to the right and just over the rise you’ll see the greenhouse. 
 
Chesapeake Natives’ mission is to propagate. promote and protect native plants of the coastal plains and piedmont that form the Chesapeake Bay watershed. We aim to restore home and public landscapes and park lands in this region with local ecotype native species (LENS) to best contribute to the regionalized biodiversity critical to healthy food webs. Local ecotypes are grown from seed with local provenance, wild seed that we seek out to gather and protect. We grow and distribute to the public a wide diversity of local ecotypes from our volunteer-powered nursery in Rosaryville State Park in Prince George’s County, MD.