Be sure to leave time -- and room in your car --  for extraordinary shopping with New England Wild Flower Society. Gardeners can go green with the best selection of native plants for sale anywhere in the northeast. Let our BIG BUGS gifts and plant-related books tempt you.

Native Plants – Plan a Butterfly Garden. Stock up on plants that attract Monarch Butterflies. Make sure your garden is in bloom all season for bees. Don’t miss the largest selection in New England of native plants, shrubs, and trees at the Society’s nursery on the premises. Experts are on hand to help you get started in selecting the right plants for your garden.

The Museum Store offers gifts, books, and toys with BIG BUGS excitement. Select from the most remarkable "swarm" of bug-inspired books, toys, and gifts for every age.

Wooden collection boxes full of specimen bugs are great gifts. Butterflies are stunning as art. Insect Planet makes amazing multi-piece wooden models of bugs to assemble. Rounding out the gift line is BUG-OPOLY, a creeping, crawling, property-trading game for 2 to 6 players, ages 8 and up.

Award-winning educator and author Bonnie Drexler has written New England Wild Flower Society's Bugology, A Guide to Bug Discoveries through the Seasons, which is available in the Museum Store. This 48 page book invites children, families, and teachers to explore the world of bugs through the seasons, using all of your senses except maybe taste! Each season offers a fresh chance to make observations and record your findings. There are also six pages of activities focusing on the bugs that are most active and accessible during each season.

The Museum Store has many other books on butterflies and bugs. The Ecology and Evolution of Ant-Plant Interactions, by Victor Rico-Gray and Paulo S. Oliveira, brings together findings from the scientific literature on the co-evolution of ants and plants to provide a better understanding of the unparalleled success of these two remarkable groups. Amazing Insects, Images of Fascinating Creatures, by Michael Chinery, has over 250 stunning color images, offering a remarkable view of the world's most numerous and astonishing creatures.

Best of all, your purchases support the health of New England’s natural habitats.