Select Plants for Your Garden
Selection Criteria
Colour
Blooms in
Sun or Shade
Soil
Zone
Height
Pollinators
Dense Blazing Star
Dense Blazing Star has purple wands of packed blooms that face all directions and bloom from the top of the stem down from midsummer to fall.
Cup Plant Care, Versatile and Stunning
Add stunning beauty with this unique, low-maintenance native Cup Plant. This perennial adds backdrop, privacy, and is an ideal colourful wildflower for native gardens.
How to Grow Highbush Blueberries
Learn how to grow highbush blueberries in your garden, from choosing the right soil to ensuring proper watering, for juicy and delicious berries.
Dutchman’s Breeches Care and Growth
Learn about Dutchman’s Breeches care and growth from seed, an ephemeral spring wildflower with unique blooming habits and care tips for your garden.
Dog Violet
Dog Violet can be used as a ground cover. It grows well in native plant gardens, shade gardens, or in shady areas of rock gardens.
Foxglove Beardtongue
Penstemon digitalis bell-shaped flowers are nectar-rich, which makes them one of the best plants to attract hummingbirds.
Zaatar Climbing Herb
Zaatar is an interesting herb and kind of acts like a climbing sage. The leaves are good to eat fresh, and they are quite spicy when dried.
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.
Passion Flower: Growing The Passiflora Vine
Are you growing Passion Flower Vine? Come learn its needs for soil, water, pruning, fertilizer, pests, growing problems, benefits and more.
Flat-Topped Aster
The flat-topped aster attracts a range of pollinators, many bees, wasps, beetles, flies, and butterflies. We present a quick growing guide.
Rough Blazing Star Attracts Pollinators
Rough Blazing Star's drought-tolerant nature makes it ideal for well-drained dry to medium soils, sandy soils, or rocky terrain.
Balsam Fir is a Popular Christmas Tree
The Balsam Fir is widely used as a Christmas tree and for wreaths. It’s a good fir as an ornamental yard tree, and it smells great!.
Hoary Vervain
the hoary vervain bee, or Evylaeus villosulus. Likewise, it has been recorded that there are over 60 species of butterflies and moths, including the Northern Broken Dash, Sachem Skipper, and large orange sulphur, actively feeding on its flowers. Verbena stricta, or hoary vervain, is a wildflower native to most states in the US. It's known for its beautiful flowers and attracts a variety of bees and butterflies such as honeybees and the Northern Broken Dash. Learn more about this special flower and its features.
Ironwood Quick Growing Guide
The Ironwood makes a great backyard tree as it is resistant to many diseases and insect problems. Read the quick growing guide.
Canadian Burnet
Canadian Burnet features airy spikes of white flowers at the ends of the stems from mid summer to early fall. It attracts bees.
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!