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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 - Showy

Aster - Showy

Bright blue-violet rays surround golden button center from August until October.

Bellflower - Harebell

Bellflower - Harebell

A clump-forming perennial wildflower, bearing pretty bell-shaped blooms on tall, erect stems from summer to autumn.

Big Blue Stem

Big Blue Stem

Flat leaves emerge gray to blue green in spring, mature to green with red tinges in summer & turn reddish bronze with lavender tones in autumn after frost. In late summer flowering stems arise bearing purplish 3-parted, finger-like flower clusters. Native to Ontario, Manitoba, Quebec & Saskatchewan.

Bloodroot

Bloodroot

Stunning white blossoms appear for a very short time early spring, emitting a wonderful fragrance that attracts many kinds of early-flying pollinators such as Mason bees and Carpenter bees

Buffaloberry, Canada

Buffaloberry, Canada

Small, and loosely branched with thick, leathery, gray-green to russet-green foliage. Small, inconspicuous, yellow flowers are followed by yellowish-red, oval-shaped fruits. The orange dotted white bark give the branches a rusty appearance. Native to all of Canada.

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.

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.


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 - Smooth Blue (Symphyotrichum laeve)

Aster - Smooth Blue (Symphyotrichum laeve)

A profusion of lavender-blue flowers. The yellow center turns reddish with age.

Bellwort - Perfoliate

Bellwort - Perfoliate

Delightful woodland perennial that in spring produces single pale yellow drooping flowers at the top of 6-12 stems.

Birch, River

Birch, River

Prized for its incredible peeling bark! Salmon-cream to brown at first it exfoliates to reveal a creamy-white inner bark. Diamond shaped bright green leaves with serrated edges deepen to dark

green before turning pale yellow in fall.

Blue Ash

Blue Ash

Unique for its 4 sided twigs and loose, scaly maturing bark. Rare species of ash tree. 

Bush Honeysuckle, Dwarf

Bush Honeysuckle, Dwarf

Compact & densely branched it is noted for its yellow trumpet-shaped flowers that bloom in panicles, dark green leaves.  Dark glossy green leaves turn shades of yellow to orange and sometimes red in the fall.

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.

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.

Aster - Oblong Leaved

Aster - Oblong Leaved

The showy small purple flowers have a long bloom season lasting from late summer until the first frost.

Aster - White Heath

Aster - White Heath

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

Bellwort - Sessile-Leaved

Bellwort - Sessile-Leaved

Delicate, cream-colored flowers may be single or paired and hang bell-like on short axillary stems.

Black Gum

Black Gum

Forest green, glossy, pointy leaves turn an outstanding crimson in the fall. Furrowed black bark adds an interesting dimension to the landscape. One of the most spectacular and reliable fall coloring trees, turning brilliant shades of red and orange, and a very neat, pyramidal habit of growth. Native to Ontario.

Blue Bells - Virginia

Blue Bells - Virginia

Sapphire blue flowers on tall stems that gleam from shady spots in April and May, making them an ideal underplanting for shrubs and trees. 

Butterfly Weed

Butterfly Weed

Bright orange fragrant flower clusters attract Monarch butterflies, which depend on this plant 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.

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 (Echinacea Purpurea)

Coneflower - Purple (Echinacea Purpurea)

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.

Cup Plant

Cup Plant

Daisy like yellow flowers on erect square stems. The triangular leaves feature jagged edges and come in pairs forming ‘cups’.

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