Specialty
Specialty plants offer unique colors, textures, and rare varieties that make every landscape stand out. We grow hardy specialty plants for all climate zones and ship mature, landscape-ready plants. Our plants are carefully maintained in cold storage, making them safe to ship and plant year-round. Fast shipping to all 50 states, grower-direct prices.
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Saplings & SeedlingsAt TN Nursery, we carry a variety of specialty plants and trees that can be used for practical or aesthetic purposes. Some of our flowers repel mosquitoes, ants, or other unwanted insects. Others attract cross-pollinators like butterflies or hummingbirds. We even have some specialties that will make the local deer population think twice before taking a bite out of your garden.
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Planning or creating a garden or landscaping can be a fun project to bring natural beauty to your yard and the neighborhood. While many flowers work well in various climates and can add visual appeal to your yard, it might be worth considering adding flowers to help maintain the best overall health of your garden and keep it looking the best it can for as long as possible. Pollination is one of the most essential things that helps maintain the healthiest garden or yard. Specialty plants such as pollinator or butterfly flowers can add bright colors to your yard while attracting bees, butterflies, and moths.
These important insects help spread pollen from plant to plant around your yard and help create the brightest flowers or highest yields of fruiting flowers. Other flowers, such as ornamental grasses, add local flowers to your yard while filling in gaps between showier flowers. Along with often being native to your area, ornamental grasses are great at helping with erosion control and overall soil health.
Our Specialty Plants Attract Butterflies & Hummingbirds
Another critical group of flowers can help you enjoy your garden or yard better without nuisance insects. Mosquito-repellant flowers can help control or reduce mosquito populations in your yard. Many rare flowers also help increase the number and variety of pollinators in your yard and can even help with water and erosion control.
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Food plot flowers are a group that can bring a lot of fun and enjoyment to your garden, along with bright colors or fragrant blooms. Many Specialty flowers are pretty hardy and grow well in many climates. Many of these flowers can produce edible fruits and berries, adding local flavor to your kitchen. Adding other flowers to food plot flowers in your garden can help increase the amount of fruit and berries you collect naturally and without pesticides or other chemicals.
Buying specialty online: what to know
Start with your zone. Every plant on this page shows the zones it thrives in, so one marked for your zone is ready for your winters and summers.
Plan for the grown-up plant
Check the mature height on each card before you choose a spot, so every plant has room to stretch as it grows.
Bare root, ready to plant
Bare root plants arrive freshly dug and packed ready for planting. Soak the roots, set the plant at the depth it grew, and water it in well. Most thrive in well-drained soil and a few inches of mulch.
Ask a grower
Want a second opinion? Call our growers at 931-692-4252, or read the warranty page to see how our live-arrival guarantee works.
Specialty for sale: questions
Do you ship specialty outside Tennessee?
Yes. We grow in Tennessee and ship nationwide.
How do the specialty arrive?
Each product page says how it ships. Bare root plants arrive freshly dug and packed ready for planting.
Is there a guarantee?
Every order comes with our live-arrival guarantee. See the warranty page for the details.
How do I pick a plant for my zone?
Set your zone at the top of the page and turn on the zone switch. Every card shows the zones the plant thrives in.
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Talk to a grower at our Tennessee nursery. Tell us your zone and your yard, and we will help you choose a plant that thrives there.
Why buy specialty from TN Nursery
Grown since 1959
A family-owned Tennessee nursery, growing plants for generations of gardeners.
Freshly dug, bare root
Dug and packed ready for planting, so roots settle in fast.
Shipped nationwide
We grow in Tennessee and ship nationwide.
Live-arrival guarantee
Every order comes with our live-arrival guarantee.
