WWARDWELLS/nursery
Coming 2026

Florida native plants, for the trade.

A family-owned wholesale nursery on Black Hammock Island, Jacksonville — coming 2026.

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What we grow

North Florida natives

Coming soon. No pricing and no availability.

Pink Muhly
Pink MuhlyMuhlenbergia capillaris

A pink haze every October; unfazed by frost, back stronger each spring.

sun · grass · freeze-hardy
Coontie
CoontieZamia integrifolia

Florida’s native cycad — tough, tidy, evergreen through a hard freeze.

evergreen · hoa-friendly
Dwarf Yaupon
Dwarf YauponIlex vomitoria ‘Schillings’

The native answer to boxwood; shears clean, ignores winter.

hedge · hoa-friendly
Walter’s Viburnum
Walter’s ViburnumViburnum obovatum

Early white bloom and a dense evergreen screen, hardy well past 9a.

screen · freeze-hardy
Saw Palmetto
Saw PalmettoSerenoa repens

Native Florida toughness — cold, salt, drought, all of it.

evergreen · salt-tolerant
Needle Palm
Needle PalmRhapidophyllum hystrix

The cold-hardiest palm there is — takes temperatures far below any Florida winter.

palm · freeze-hardy
Fakahatchee Grass
Fakahatchee GrassTripsacum dactyloides

Big, soft structure that returns from the crown after a freeze.

grass · part-shade
Beautyberry
BeautyberryCallicarpa americana

Violet berries on arching canes each fall; hardy far north of here.

wildlife · freeze-hardy
Sweetbay Magnolia
Sweetbay MagnoliaMagnolia virginiana

Lemon-scented bloom over wet feet; hardy to the Carolinas and beyond.

tree · wet-tolerant
Native Azaleas
Native AzaleasRhododendron austrinum

Honeysuckle-sweet spring bloom; cold is no concern.

spring · freeze-hardy
Our focus

Right plant, right place

Florida natives

Less water, less fertilizer, more for the birds and bees.

Right plant, right place

Species matched to North Florida yards — and HOA approval.

Wholesale only

For contractors, garden centers, and HOA managers.

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An occasional email as we prepare to launch. Nothing else.
Notes from the land

Monthly notes on the land and the build-out

Colored-pencil sketch of a cutting tray under August rain next to a rooted plant in a one-gallon nursery potAugust 2026From Clipping to Pot

Afternoon storms keep the growing yard wet. Cuttings that would have dried out in April sit there and root, then move into a pot.

Colored-pencil sketch of a potted coontie with an open cone of bright orange seeds and handwritten text that says beware poisonous seedsAugust 2026Coontie in the Parking Lot

Coontie is so pretty, and it does so well, that you see it in parking lots all over Florida. The seeds are poisonous. Here is how we handle that.

Colored-pencil sketch of a tall slash pine with rows of container plants growing in its shadeJuly 2026Clearing the First Growing Yard

Why the pines stay, and what gets planted in their shade.