Select Plants for Your Garden
Selection Criteria
Colour
Blooms in
Sun or Shade
Soil
Zone
Height
Pollinators
Red Maple
The red maple bears brilliant coloured foliage and nutrition for many types of animals. Read more on the iconic red maple tree.
White Trillium, an Official Emblem.
Learn to care for Ontario's floral emblem, the White Trillium (Trillium Grandiflorum). This beautiful, shade-loving wildflower is ideal for home gardens, and requires moist, humus-rich soil for optimal growth. Plant in fall for the best results.
White Spruce
White spruce provides nesting sites, shelter, as well as food for many kinds of wildlife. If you love seeing wildlife, its a good choice.
Eastern White Pine Uses
Experience the warmth, comfort, and stimulation of white pine uses, including clearing airways, boosting immunity, and treating common ailments with its rich vitamin C content.
Common Boneset Care and Use
Common boneset has medicinal uses. It also has a lovely, recognizable appearance. Discover how to care for and use Common Boneset.
Ohio Goldenrod
Ohio Goldenrod has a compact form that belies its large, exuberant, and long floral display late in the season, attracting many pollinators.
Pilea Plant Grows Rapidly and Pleases
The pilea is a beautiful treasure. It is cheerful and aesthetically appealing, and quite easy to care for. It grows rapidly.
Grey Headed Coneflower
Grey headed Coneflower has eye-catching yellow flowers that entice birds and pollinators. It is ideal for natural plantings and meadows.
Spotted Beebalm
The Spotted Beebalm has eye-catching clusters of creamy purple-spotted tubular blooms sitting on pink, lavender, or ivory bracts.
Awesome Astilbe – Shade, Sun and Moisture
Even though Astilbe is typically known as a shade perennial, it tolerates full sun, as long as there is enough moisture.
American Beech
American Beech likes full sun at maturity and tolerates shade when young. Large space is necessary for wide-spreading root system.
Golden Alexander Is an Early Bloomer
Golden Alexanders (Zizia aurea) is an early spring bloomer and its yellow colours can be stunning in clusters.
Red Columbine is a Wonderful Woodland Flower
Red columbine is a beautiful woodland wildflower that has showy, drooping, bell-like flowers which attract pollinators.
Pipsissewa is a Rare Evergreen
Pipsissewa, Chimaphyla umbellata, is rare and remarkable for having leaves all year round; it is an evergreen. It has had medicinal uses.
Tropical Hibiscus and Hardy Hibiscus
Hibiscus are hardy perennials, while others are annuals, shrubs, or tropical plants. Hibiscus plants are grown for a variety of uses.