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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Snowberry - White
A low native shrub with greygreen leaves and small pink flowers. In winter it has distinctive white berries that add interest to the winter landscape.
Thimbleweed
Cup-shaped, greenish-white anemone flowers, each having five petallike sepals and a thimble-like center with yellow anther.
Violet, Bird's Foot
Clump forming perennial boasting fragrant flowers adorned with large, pale to dark purple, almost pansy-sized flowers.
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.
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.
Vervain, Blue
Stiff erect squarish stems topped by narrow spikey panicles of small tubular purple flowers in summer.
Violet, Canada
Clump forming perennial boasting fragrant flowers adorned with 5 white petals and purple tinged backs from summer into fall. Great for woodland and wildflower gardens as well as for naturalizing
Wood Fern - Eastern
Woodland fern that adapts well to shady gardens. Non invasive and foliage remains evergreen in most regions but may benefit from clipping back in late winter. Easy and reliable. Native to Ontario.
Sycamore, American
Fast growing large native tree that can live for 400 years. its mottled, whitewashed bark and the golf ball shaped seed formations which hang from its branches all winter provide additional interest
Vervain, Hoary
Beautiful lavender spires make a distinctive statement in the late summer landscape. Forms attractive vertical clumps with groups of long, narrow flowering spikes. Blooms for weeks.
Virgins Bower
Long twining vines are covered in stunning dainty, star-like creamy white flowers from summer into fall that are lightly fragrant. Native from Ontario to Newfoundland.
Wood Mint - Hairy
Central stems are covered with long white hairs and end in several whorls of flowers. The leaves will give off a mint smell/aroma when crushed. . Great source of nectar and pollen
for bees and pollinators.