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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Spicebush
A wonderful multi-stemmed shrub covered with fragrant yellow flowers in early spring. Highly aromatic leaves and twigs turn golden yellow in the fall. Host plant for spicebush and swallowtail butterflies. Native to Ontario.
Wild Ginger
Tough and undemanding perennial featuring downy, heart to kidney shaped matte green leaves. In spring attractive, purplish brown cup shaped flowers hide on short stems amongst the leaves.
Sweet Fern
Forms a mound of elongated, shiny olive green leaves, reminiscent of narrow fern fronds. Inconspicuous yellow green flowers in late spring-summer. Foliage is highly aromatic when crushed
Wood Fern - Goldie's Giant
Backward-arching, dark green to golden green fronds appear to taper abruptly near the tip. Very strudy and stately. Native to Ontario.
Violet, Bird's Foot
Clump forming perennial boasting fragrant flowers adorned with large, pale to dark purple, almost pansy-sized flowers.