Select Plants for Your Garden

Native Plants and Adaptive Plants
Ritchie Feed and Seed Ad

Selection Criteria

Colour

Colour
  • White
  • Yellow
  • Purple
  • Pink
  • Red
  • Blue
  • Lavender
  • Orange
  • Green
  • Maroon

Blooms in

Blooms in
  • All
  • Summer (98)
  • Spring (58)
  • Fall (41)
  • Winter (1)

Sun or Shade

Sun or Shade
  • All
  • Full Sun (116)
  • Partial Sun (108)
  • Partial Shade (51)
  • Shade (33)

Soil

Soil
  • All
  • Acidic (10)
  • Adaptable (59)
  • Dry (14)
  • Fertile loam (9)
  • Moist (63)

Zone

Zone
  • All
  • 10
  • 11
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4

Height

Height
  • All
  • Less than 1 foot (30 cms or less)
  • Over 35 feet (10 meters)
  • Up to 1.5 feet (50 cms)
  • Up to 2 feet (60 cm)
  • Up to 3 feet (1 meter)

Pollinators

Pollinators
  • All
  • Bees (87)
  • Birds (53)
  • Bumble bees (37)
  • Butterflies (79)
  • Hummingbird (20)
Search

Lavender

Discover the secrets of growing, caring for, and propagating lavender plants in your garden. Learn the best practices for sunlight, soil, watering, pruning, and more!

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.

Bottle Gentian is a Garden Darling!

Discover the beautiful Bottle Gentian flower, with its dark blue closed petals that never open. Found in North America, this perennial will bloom in late summer and thrive with minimal care. Pollinated exclusively by bumblebees, it can handle cold weather and become a unique addition to any garden!

Staghorn Sumac Is Dioecious

See a stunning display of color in the fall with Staghorn Sumac! These dioecious shrubs bloom with both male & female flowers, and produce showy pyramidal fruiting clusters. Enjoy its velvety, antler-like branches and hard-to-cover areas with poorer soils or naturalize your area with this adaptable and low-maintenance shrub.

Borage Has Many Uses

Experience a beautiful, self-seeding perennial, Borago officinalis, with bright blue star-shaped edible flowers for your herb or wild garden. Its cucumber-flavored flowers and dark green leaves have various medicinal and culinary uses, such as in salads, fruit salads, and as cooked greens. Borage also attracts pollinators, improves the taste of tomatoes, relieves asthmatic symptoms and more. Learn more about the easy-going benefits of Borage!