Purchase Plants, Chat With Fellow Gardeners At Bel Air Garden Mart

BEL AIR, MD ? Peruse aisles of plants and learn from local master gardeners during the 2025 Bel Air Garden Mart.

The garden mart will be May 9 from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Bel Air Armory, located at 37 N. Main Street in downtown Bel Air.

During the event, gardeners can buy annuals, perennials and native plants that support pollinators and other garden-friendly insects while chatting with members of Harford County garden clubs and Harford County Master Gardeners, according to event organizers.

All proceeds from plant sales will go to support scholarships and charitable donations from the garden clubs. Other organizations and clubs also will be present. There also will be gardening activities for kids and a food truck.

In case you were wondering what plants, shrubs and trees are native to Maryland, here is a list from the University of Maryland Extension:

Groundcovers and ferns

• Christmas Fern
• Foamflower
• Golden Groundsel
• Green and Gold
• Lady Fern
• Moss Phlox
• Pussytoes
• Sensitive Fern
• Wild Ginger
• Native wildflowers
• Alumroot
• Black-Eyed Susan
• Blue Wood Aster
• Butterfly Weed
• Cardinal Flower
• Eastern Columbine
• False Blue Indigo
• Foxglove Beardtongue
• Great Blue Lobelia
• Golden Groundsel
• Joe Pye Weed
• New York Ironweed
• Rosemallow
• Turk's Cap Lily
• Wild Bergamot

Native grasses, sedges and rushes

• Blue Sedge
• Wool Rush or Wool Grass
• Little Bluestem
• Yellow Indiangrass

Shrubs

• Black Chokeberry
• Black Huckleberry
• Common Witchhazel
• Hillside Blueberry
• Inkberry Holly
• Mapleleaf Viburnum
• Northern Bayberry
• Red Chokeberry
• Smooth Hydrangea
• Spicebush
• Summersweet
• Virginia Sweetspire
• Winterberry Holly

Trees

• American Hornbeam
• Blackgum
• Eastern Redbud
• Eastern Redcedar
• Flowering Dogwood
• Green Hawthorn
• Serviceberry
• White Oak