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Native Plants

Native plants are a great addition to any garden. They produce flowers, fruits, and seeds throughout the year that can create a beautiful, natural look and attract wildlife such as birds, butterflies and other pollinators to your yard.

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Amsonia - Eastern Bluestar

Amsonia - Eastern Bluestar

Open clusters of star-shaped, white throated pale blue flowers

in late spring to early summer.  Graceful willow shaped bright

green leaves are very slender and take on a golden hue in fall.

Aster - New England

Aster - New England

Abundant  blooms consist of large rose-purple petals around a central golden cone in late summer into fall. Leaves have a spicy aroma when crushed. 

Baneberry - White

Baneberry - White

The branched stems bear two or three large compound leaves, each thrice divided.

Beard Tongue - Foxglove

Beard Tongue - Foxglove

The white to pink tubular sharped blooms attract long-tongued bees and humming birds. Deep green leaves on upright stems hold aloft the showy flower panicles.

Birch, Paper

Birch, Paper

Features chalk white peeling bark and golden fall colour; a great accent tree, and one of the best for winter value. On young trees, bark is reddish brown but turns to its characteristic white colour as the tree gets older. 

Butterfly Weed

Butterfly Weed

Bright orange fragrant flower clusters attract Monarch butterflies, which depend on this plant for their total food supply.

Carolina Allspice

Carolina Allspice

Unusual shrub with distinct small reddish-brown Magnolia like flowers in May. Flowers are highly aromatic and smell llike chocolate.

Cedar - White

Cedar - White

Native white cedar often called hedging or swamp cedar, although prefers dry sites! Makes an excellent hedging plant that holds its colour well through winter and tolerates shearing well.

Columbine - Eastern Red

Columbine - Eastern Red

Nodding, red and yellow flowers with upward spurred petals alternating with spreading, colored sepals and numerous yellow stamens hanging below the petals. 

Coneflower - Purple

Coneflower - Purple

An impressive addition to the late summer garden. Bold clumps of erect stems are topped for long periods of time with large flowers. Showy dark purple cone-like centres are skirted by purple petals.

Anemone - Thimbleweed

Anemone - Thimbleweed

Cup-shaped, greenish-white anemone flowers, each having five petal-like sepals and a thimble-like center with yellow anther.

Aster - Shining

Aster - Shining

Flowers from August to October

with clusters of pale blue

blossoms

Barren Strawberry

Barren Strawberry

Small yellow flowers grow where there are woods, thickets, and clearings. Perennial, evergreen wildflower that can be used as groundcover and is native to Eastern Canada and United States. 

Bee Balm - Spotted

Bee Balm - Spotted

Narrow aromatic leaves on purplish stems are topped with showy rounded clusters of creamy purple-spotted tubular flowers. Leaf-like pink, lavender or creamy bracts form beneath each flower cluster.

Birch, Sweet

Birch, Sweet

Aromatic tree with a rounded crown of spreading branches and odor of wintergreen in crushed twigs and leaves. Brownish black, cherry like scaly bark and reddish brown leaf stems. Golden yellow fall colour.  Also known as Cherry Birch and Black Birch, the fermented sap can be used to make birch beer. Native to Ontario.

Butterfly Weed - Swamp

Butterfly Weed - Swamp

Beautiful clusters of mauve-pink flowers that smell like vanilla. Swamp milkweeds are choice nectar plants for numerous butterfly species, especially the Monarch which depends on ascelpias for their total food supply.

Catalpa, Northern

Catalpa, Northern

Dark green heart shaped leaves are accompanied by distinct white blooms featuring yellow stripes and purple spots inside. Flowers in late Spring with narrow fruit pods ripening in Fall.

Chokeberry, Black

Chokeberry, Black

Clusters of small white flowers in May followed by purple black berries that are retained throughout the winter. Berries are edible and are extremely high in antioxidants. Native to Ontario & Quebec.

Coneflower - Grey Headed

Coneflower - Grey Headed

Strong slender stems are topped by showy daisy like flowers featuring drooping yellow petals around a rich chocolate coloured cone.

Coneflower - Upright Prairie

Coneflower - Upright Prairie

Profuse, golden yellow and/or rust red daisy style blooms surround a large central cone from late spring into fall.


Aster - Frost

Aster - Frost

Daisy-like flowers have yellow centers, that may become  reddish with age, are surrounded by white ray florets that may be tinged with blue or violet.

Aster - White Heath

Aster - White Heath

A bushy, grayish, perennial with densely clustered, miniature, daisy-like, white flowers.

Bearberry

Bearberry

Dainty nodding shell pink, bell shaped flowers adorn the ends of the branches in mid spring. Abundance of magnificent red berries from late summer to late fall. Evergreen. Also known as Kinninnick. Native to Ontario and most of Canada.

Bee Balm - Wild Bergamot

Bee Balm - Wild Bergamot

Masses of fragrant lilac-purple tubular flowers borne in dense globular heads from mid summer to early fall

Bladdernut - American

Bladdernut - American

White, bell-shaped flowers in drooping clusters appear in spring. Flowers give way to inflated, bladder-like, eggshaped,

papery seed capsules.

Butterfly Weed - Whorled

Butterfly Weed - Whorled

Upright, unbranched perennial that rambles to form colonies. Needlelike, fine textured foliage is whorled around the stem in clusters. Greenish white flowers in summer.

Cedar - Eastern Red

Cedar - Eastern Red

Pyramidal in form. Brown bark exfoliates in strips adding interest to the landscape. Makes an excellent windbreak and is easily sheared. Extremely tough juniper that grows well in rocky dry areas. Native to Ontario & Quebec.

Cinnamon Fern

Cinnamon Fern

Brilliant lacy green fronds gracefully arch outward in stately vaseshaped clumps. In early summer narrow fronds emerge as vertical cinnamon red brown spikes in the centre of the clump. Fronds turn a beautiful apricot-peach colour in fall. Native to Ontario.

Coneflower - Prairie Red Midget

Coneflower - Prairie Red Midget

Long, prominent cones that give way to wide, reflexed petals in shades of deep reddish-brown, orange, and yellow.

Culver's Root

Culver's Root

Dense, slender, 9" long spikes of tiny, tube-like, white to pale blue flowers open from the top down in late spring to early summer atop strong, upright stems.

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