Select Plants for Your Garden
Selection Criteria
Colour
Blooms in
Sun or Shade
Soil
Zone
Height
Pollinators
Sunflowers are Nutritional, Long Summer Bloomers
Sunflowers are versatile plants that provide a long summer bloom for the perennial border or cutting garden.
Wild Ginger is a Good Groundcover
Wild ginger is an effective ground cover. Its roots and stems have a powerful lemon-ginger scent when crushed. Read how to care and grow.
How to Grow the Delicate Harebell
Admire the delicate and graceful harebell wildflower with its deep bluish-purple flowers, native to North America and Europe, that are eaten raw, used to make dye, and believed to give witches the power of transformation. A perfect addition to the rock garden that grows through summer and fall, and pollinated by hummingbirds, butterflies and bees.
Geraniums are Easy Care Summer Darlings
Geraniums are a plant that is easy to care for and will produce flowers from spring until fall. In most zones, geraniums are an annual plant.
Canadian Serviceberry, an Important Food Source
Canadian Serviceberry’s stunning white spring flowers turn an outstanding orange in the fall. It’s blackberries are a valued source of food.
Red Maple
The red maple bears brilliant coloured foliage and nutrition for many types of animals. Read more on the iconic red maple tree.
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.
Discover the White Turtlehead
Discover White Turtlehead, a beautiful & perennially blooming wetland plant. Attractive to hummingbirds & bees, it's used in shade, rain, wildflower, & native plant gardens. Perfect for cutting & its leaves are deer-resistant. Medicinal properties & uses by Native Americans, too!
Starflower
Starflower is a plant that grows in the forest understory or as a groundcover in damp, shaded soils, occasionally on the banks of rivers and ponds.
Spotted Beebalm
The Spotted Beebalm has eye-catching clusters of creamy purple-spotted tubular blooms sitting on pink, lavender, or ivory bracts.
Yellow Giant Hyssop Quick Growth Guide
Yellow Giant Hyssop grows quickly and Its blooms are thriving nectar for bumblebees, sweat bees, and butterflies. Discover more.
White Heath Aster
Meta description: Enjoy a late-season burst of color in your garden with White Heath Aster: a bushy, compact plant with many small daisy-like white flowers that can turn your garden completely white. Blooming into fall, it's a great choice for a butterfly, pollinator, or cut flower garden!
Saskatoon Berry Bush Adapts
Discover the unique Saskatoon Berry Bush, a native of the Canadian Prairies. It withstands temperatures ranging -50° C to -60° C and yields sweet and nutty fruit with multiple health benefits. Learn more about planting and using this Rose family member in food and brewing!
Swamp Rose Mallow
Swamp Rose mallow has exotic, oversized flowers that are very striking. New flowers can open every day from July to September.
Red Baneberry For Shade Gardens
Red Baneberry (Actaea rubra) is a good choice for cool shade gardens due to its lovely leaves, blooms, and vivid red berries.
Rose of Sharon
Rose of Sharon are often planted to provide fresh flush of late season colour after other trees and shrubs have finished blooming.