Buzz Fest Plant Pre-Sales

Cultivate wild at home. Learn about native plants and how you can engage in habitat restoration in your yard one seedling at a time. We will have some plants available for sale during the event, but to ensure you get the plants you want, we offer this pre-sale. 

Orders need to be placed by September 10th. 

Pickup Information:

Order pickup will take place on September 16th, 2023 from 10am-1pm at Moir Park, Bloomington, MN.


Planting Guide Designs are available for the following Kits thanks to ReWild Native Gardens LLC. 

  • Bumble Bee & Bird Kit
  • Shady Pollinator Garden Kit
  • Short & Well Behaved Kit
  • Butterfly Host Garden Kit
  • Soft Landings Kit


Available Plant Kits

Below you will find several kits with their descriptions and special pricing below. Fill out the form at the bottom of this page to place your order. Please note that you can only select one type of kit per order, so if you would like to purchase more than one type of kit you will need to place more than one order.  

Short & Well Behaved Kit
Planting Guide & Design Available!

$99 48 plants (8) 6-packs 

This kit is wonderful for sites with full sun and well drained soil. 


  • Prairie onion (Allium stellatum)
  • Butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa)
  • Side oats grama (Bouteloua curtipendula)
  • Harebell (Campanula rotundifolia)
  • Purple prairie clover (Dale purpurea)
  • Blanket flower (Gaillardia aristate)
  • Long leaved bluets (Houstonia longifolia)
  • Blue grama (Bouteloua gracilis) 
Butterfly Host Garden Kit
Planting Guide & Design Available!

$99 48 plants (8) 6-packs 

This kit tolerates light shade and likes fertile soils with medium moisture.

  • Swamp milkweed (Asclepias incarnata)
  • Meadow blazing star (Liatris ligulistylis)
  • Black-eyed susan (Rudbeckia hirta)
  • Stiff goldenrod (Solidago rigida)
  • Smooth aster (Symphyotrichum laeve)
  • Blue vervain (Verbena hastata)
  • Golden alexander (Zizia aurea)
  • Little bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium)
Bumble Bee & Bird Kit
Planting Guide & Design Available!

$99 48 plants (8) 6-packs 

This kit is best for mesic soils and full sun exposure. 

  • Fragrant giant hyssop (Agastache foeniculum)
  • Bee balm (Monarda fistulosa)
  • Showy penstemon (Penstemon grandiflorus)
  • Yellow coneflower (Ratibida pinnata)
  • Showy goldenrod (Solidago speciosa)
  • Prairie dropseed (Sporobolus heterolepis)
  • Smooth aster (Symphiotrichum laeve)
  • Western spiderwort (Tradescantia occidentals)
Shady Pollinator Garden Kit
Planting Guide & Design Available!

$99 48 plants (8) 6-packs 

This kit is best for dappled to full shade.

  • Hairy wood mint (Blephilia hirsuta)
  • Wood sedge (Carex rosea)
  • Large-leaved aster (Eurybia macrophylla)
  • Virginia waterleaf (Hydrophullum virginianum)
  • Woodland phlox (Phlox divaricata)
  • Downy blue violet (Viola sororia)
  • Bishop's cap (Mitella diphylla)
  • Zig zag goldenrod (Solidago flexicaulis) 
Forager's Delight Kit

$78 a mix of 4" and 1-gal. potted plants

This kit is a mix of plants that produce fruit or are edible. 

  • Wild strawberry (Fragaria virginiana)
  • Wild Bergamot (Monarda fistulosa)
  • Wild leek (Allium tricoccum)
  • Ostrich fern (Matteucia struthiopteris) 
Hummingbird Feeder Kit

$82 twelve 4" potted plants 

This kit is ideal for those who would like to attract more hummingbirds to their native garden. 

  • Columbine (Aquilegia canadensis)
  • Turtlehead (Chelone glabra)
  • Cardinal flower (Lobelia cardinalis)
  • Great blue lobelia (Lobelia siphalitica) 
Rainbow Meadow Kit

$99 plants (8) 6-packs 

This kit includes a colorful assortment of pollinator friendly plants that do best in medium to wet soils and full to partial sun. 

  • Sprengel's sedge (Carex sprengelli)
  • Great Blue lobelia (Lobelia siphilitica)
  • Cardinal flower (Lobelia cardinalis)
  • Prairie phlox (Phlox pilosa)
  • Mountain mint (Pycnanthemum virginianum)
  • Golden alexander (Zizia aurea) 
  • Michigan lily (Lillium michaganense) 
  • Fox sedge (Carex vulpinoidea)
Sunny Mini Kit

$55 24 plants (4) 6-packs and seed mix 

This affordable kit is a medium height mix that enjoys full sun and dry to mesic soil. 

  • Little bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium)
  • Yellow coneflower (Ratibida pinnata)
  • Showy Penstemon (Penstemon grandiflorus)
  • Rough blazing star (Liatris aspera) 
  • ​Simple seed mix
Sunny Bee Lawn Kit

$50 24 plants (4) 6-packs 

This native bee lawn kit is perfect for sunny and dry conditions. 

  • Pussytoes (Antennaria neglecta)
  • Blue grama (Bouteloua gracilis)
  • Long leaved bluets (Houstonia longifolia)
  • Wild strawberry (Fragaria virginiana) 
Shady Bee Lawn Kit

$50 24 plants (4) 6-packs 

This native bee lawn kit is perfect for partial to full shade and medium moisture soil. 

  • Wood sedge (Carex rosea)
  • Downy blue violet (Viola sororia)
  • Canada white violet (Viola rugulosa)
  • Virginia waterleaf (Hydrophyllum virginianum) 
Wildlife Tree & Shrub Kit

$90 4 plants in APB sized pots

These Trees & Shrubs will add diversity to your landscape and produce fruit or are popular with pollinators. 

  • Black chokeberry (Arena melanocarpa)
  • Juneberries (Amelanchier spp.)
  • Nannyberry (Viburnum lento)
  • Elderberry - American or Red (Sambucus canadensis or racemosa) 
Soft Landings Kit
Planting Guide & Design Available!

$99 48 plants (8) 6-packs

These plants have been selected to provide a pollinator habitat in the unique space around the base of trees. 

  • Sprengel’s Sedge (Carex sprengelii)
  • Bottlebrush Grass (Elymus hystrix)
  • Wild Geranium (Geranium maculatum)
  • Alumroot (Heuchera richardsonii)
  • Zig-zag Goldenrod (Solidago flexicaulis)
  • Calico Aster (Symphyotrichum lateriflorum)
  • Sky blue Aster (Symphyotrichum oolentangiense)
  • Early meadow rue (Thalictrum dioicum)
Wildflowers of The Midwest   

$29.95 Book by Scott Namestnik & Michael A. Homoya 

Wildflowers of the Midwest is a comprehensive field guide for anyone wishing to learn about the amazingly diverse wildflowers of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri and Iowa. This must-have book describes and illustrates 1000 commonly encountered species, including perennials, annuals, and shrubs, both native and nonnative. With more than 1,000 superb color photographs and a user-friendly organization by flower color and shape, this is a must-have guide for birders, hikers, foragers, and natural history buffs.
The Gardener's Guide to Prairie Plants

$35 Book by Neil Diboll 

The Gardener’s Guide to Prairie Plants is the one-stop compendium for all gardeners aspiring to use native prairie plants in their gardens. Neil Diboll and Hilary Cox—two renowned prairie gardeners—compile more than four decades’ worth of research to offer a wide-ranging and definitive reference for starting and maintaining prairie and meadow gardens and restorations.

Bees: An Identification and Native Plant Forage Guide

$29.95 Book by Heather Holm

This well-illustrated guide captures the beauty, diversity, and engaging world of bees that occur in north-central and eastern United States and southern Canada, and the native plants that support them. Superbly designed and organized, this is an indispensable source of information with extensive profiles for twenty-seven bee genera, plus twelve summary profiles for uncommon genera, and approximately one hundred native trees, shrubs, and perennials for the Midwest, Great Lakes, and Northeast regions. 

Pollinators of Native Plants

$29.95 Book by Heather Holm

This is the first comprehensive book to illustrate the specific relationships between native pollinators and native plants. Organized by plant communities, the book profiles over 65 perennial native plants of the Midwest, Great Lakes region, Northeast and southern Canada and the pollinators, beneficial insects and flower visitors the plants attract.

Winged Wonders: Solving the Monarch Migration Mystery

$17.99 Book by Meet Pincus

For decades, as the monarch butterflies swooped through every year like clockwork, people from Canada to the United States to Mexico wondered, "Where do they go?" In 1976 the world learned the answer: after migrating thousands of miles, the monarchs roost by the millions in an oyamel grove in Central Mexico's mountains. But who solved this mystery? Was it the scientist or the American adventurer? The citizen scientists or the teacher or his students?
The Mystery of the Monarchs

$18.99 Book by Barb Rosenstock

A gorgeous picture book based on the true story of a scientist who solves the mysteries of monarch butterfly migration—with the help of schoolchildren! A perfect story for nature lovers of all ages from the Caldecott Honor winning author of The Noisy Paint Box

Bicycling with Butterflies

$27.95 Book by Sara Dykman

Sara Dykman made history when she became the first person to bicycle alongside monarch butterflies on their storied annual migration—a round-trip adventure that included three countries and more than 10,000 miles. Equally remarkable, she did it solo, on a bike cobbled together from used parts.

100 Plants to Feed The Monarch

$16.95 Book by The Xerces Society

The plight of the monarch butterfly has captured public attention and sparked widespread interest in helping to save their dwindling populations. In this in-depth portrait of the monarch butterfly—covering its life cycle, its remarkable relationship with milkweed, its extraordinary migration, and the threats it now faces due to habitat loss and climate change—detailed instructions on how to design and create monarch-friendly landscapes are enriched by guidance on observing and understanding butterfly behavior and habits.
Butterflies of the North Woods

$18.95 Book by Larry Weber

This is your guide to all 120 species of butterflies of the North Woods. Features include easy-to-use red bar phenograms, a phenology flight chart, habitat guide and binocular buying guide. The innovative format makes field identification a snap!

Bringing Nature Home

$19.99 Book by Douglas Tallamy

As development and habitat destruction accelerate, there are increasing pressures on wildlife populations. In Bringing Nature Home, Douglas W. Tallamy reveals the unbreakable link between native plant species and native wildlife—native insects cannot, or will not, eat alien plants. When native plants disappear, the insects disappear, impoverishing the food source for birds and other animals.

Monarch Wings & Mask 

$19.95 Costume Monarch Wings

Orange Monarch Butterfly wings in gauzy chiffon with colorful sparkly prints. Soft elastic shoulder straps and finger loops allow wings to come on and off with ease. Perfect for dress-up, play, and dance! An amazing gift. - Includes mask too
Monarch Wings & Mask XL

$19.95 Costume Monarch Wings

Orange Monarch Butterfly wings in gauzy chiffon with colorful sparkly prints. Soft elastic shoulder straps and finger loops allow wings to come on and off with ease. Perfect for dress-up, play, and dance! An amazing gift. - Includes mask too
Swallowtail Wings & Mask

$19.95 Costume Swallowtail Wings

these Swallowtail wings in gauzy chiffon with colorful sparkly prints. Soft elastic shoulder straps and finger loops allow wings to come on and off with ease. Perfect for dress-up, play, and dance! An amazing gift - Includes mask too. 

Substitutions

We do our best to provide each order with the listed plants, however, due to availability, we may substitute some plants in your order with similar species that will fit well in your select kit. 

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