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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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Dutchman's Breeches

Dutchman's Breeches

Dense, deeply cut, fern-like leaves surround flower stalks bearing clusters of fragrant, white, pantaloon-shaped flowers

Geranium, Wild

Geranium, Wild

Pink to lilac, saucershaped, upward facing, 5-petaled flowers in spring on this clump-forming, native woodland perennial which typically occurs in woods, thickets and shaded roadside areas. 

Hazelnut - Beaked

Hazelnut - Beaked

Dense thicket-forming shrub with fuzzy, oval bright green

leaves that turn yellow in fall.

Hibiscus, Hardy

Hibiscus, Hardy

Produces large showy blooms in  shades of pink or white, sometimes with a sharply contrasting burgundy eye, during summer.  Flowers are attractive to pollinators and is the host plant to the caterpillars of over 25 species of butterflies & moths

Hyssop - Purple Giant

Hyssop - Purple Giant

Flowers are very pale purple & open slowly over a period of weeks. The long bloom time & their being nectar-rich makes them highly attractive to butterflies and other pollinators. Birds also feed on the seeds that follow.

Little Bluestem

Little Bluestem

Neat clump forming perennial grass noted for its blue summer foliage and bright fall colours. Excellent for massing or naturalizing as a ground cover. Native from Ontario west to British Columbia and east to Nova Scotia.

Mountain Mint - Hairy

Mountain Mint - Hairy

White flowers on top of hairy gray foliage. Honeybees love this minty perennial so much that they sometimes sleep on the blossoms at night. A pollinator magnet.

Northern Sea Oats

Northern Sea Oats

Flat green spiklets on slender stems hang like dangling jewels. Flowers are dark green in summer changing to reddish bronze during winter.

Pawpaw Tree

Pawpaw Tree

Dark green summer foliage tends to droop and gives the tree a sleepy appearance. Unmistakable purplish flowers in mid April are followed by delicious edible fruit in fall that’s high in vitamins A and C.

Sedge, Pennsylvania

Sedge, Pennsylvania

Forms a nice ground cover of soft clumps, making it suitable for use as a drought tolerant lawn in shady areas. Greens up early in the spring and grows very well in open woods and woodland margins. Native to Ontario, Quebec & Manitoba.

Fir - Balsam

Fir - Balsam

Symmetrical spire-like crown, shining dark green color, and spicy fragrance have make it a favorite for Christmas trees.

Goat's Beard

Goat's Beard

Monstrous border plant, spectacular in flower with its enormous creamy plumes the size of your head. Elegant lacy leaves form a very dense and bushy clump. This plant demands space.

Hemlock, Eastern

Hemlock, Eastern

Dense, pyramidal evergreen noted for having the small needles and cones. Flat sprays of lacy evergreen foliage give this tree a graceful form. Lower branches often dip toward the ground. Thick and ridged bark on mature trees is red-brown to gray-brown.

Highbush Cranberry

Highbush Cranberry

White flowers adorn this specimen in May, with dark green leaves providing privacy throughout the summer. Leaf colour turns to red in the fall, and bright red berries emerge for use in home preserves and jellies. Native shrub known for its multi-seasonal characteristics. 

Hyssop - Yellow Giant

Hyssop - Yellow Giant

Bee & butterfly magnet that consists of dense spikes of tiny tubular two lipped greenish to yellow , crushed leaves smell like licorice and used to make tea and cold remedies.

Merry Bells

Merry Bells

Clusters of nodding, narrowly bell shaped pale yellow flowers in mid to late spring that are slightly twisted. Flowers are followed by a three-lobed fruit that rests on the leaves.

Mountain Mint - Virginia

Mountain Mint - Virginia

Delicate in both flower & leaf. Covered in dense flattened clusters of small white flowers dotted with lavender tones. Erect, many branched aromatic perennial adorned with narrow toothless gray-green leaves that exude a minty fragrance when crushed.

Obedient Plant- Aka False Dragonhead

Obedient Plant- Aka False Dragonhead

Long-lasting flowers have five triangular lobes. The flowers in the spikes will stay wherever you move them, hence the name obedient plant.

Pine -  Eastern White

Pine - Eastern White

Noted for its beauty, height, and historical significance. This soft, five needled pine is extremely hardy, and will tolerate fully exposed conditions.

Sensitive Fern

Sensitive Fern

Long soft green fronds up to 3 foot in length with deeply grooved wavytoothed leaves. Sensitive fern gets its name from the tendency of the fronds to wither at the first slight frost. Native to Ontario. 

Flag, Blue

Flag, Blue

Clump forming iris that is native to marshes, swamps, wet meadows, ditches and shorelines from Manitoba to Nova Scotia. Blue Flag Iris has masses of beautiful blue flag-like

flowers with yellow falls  at the ends of the stems in mid spring

Goldenrod - Blue Stemmed

Goldenrod - Blue Stemmed

Clumps of arching blue-green stems clad with lanced shaped green leaves bearing loose clusters of tiny, bright yellow flowers in late summer to fall.

Hepatica, Sharp - Lobed

Hepatica, Sharp - Lobed

Forms sem-evergreen clumps are adorned with adorable bowl shaped flowers, that while usually white may also be pale pink or lavender.

Hyssop - Giant Blue

Hyssop - Giant Blue

Dense spikes of tiny tubular two lipped purple blooms, crushed leaves smell like licorice and used to make tea and cold remedies. Butterfly, hummingbird and bee magnet that is also deer resistant.

Liatris, Gayfeather - Eastern Blazing Star

Liatris, Gayfeather - Eastern Blazing Star

Upright spikes bearing pinkishpurple tassels in July and August. One of the best garden performers! An excellent cut flower and a magnet for butterflies, bees, rare moths and hummingbirds. Deer resistant!

Milk weed - Poke

Milk weed - Poke

Nodding Onion

Nodding Onion

Flower scapes tower above the grass-like green foliage & bear an umbrella shaped clusters of starry pink pendant flowers during summer.

Partridgeberry

Partridgeberry

A trailing, evergreen herb with white, fragrant, tubular flowers in pairs.

Ramps, Wild

Ramps, Wild

Long, glossy, oval leaves appear in early spring and wither away before the flowering stalk matures. Small white flowers. Plant has a mild onion taste

Silverbell, Carolina

Silverbell, Carolina

Pretty white bell-shaped flowers hang in clusters in April and early May. The leaves turn shades of yellow in fall.

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