Select Plants for Your Garden
Selection Criteria
Colour
Blooms in
Sun or Shade
Soil
Zone
Height
Pollinators
Red Columbine is a Wonderful Woodland Flower
Red columbine is a beautiful woodland wildflower that has showy, drooping, bell-like flowers which attract pollinators.
Hostas and other Shady Characters!
Hostas are lush, leafy perennials that thrive in shade to part sun. Sought after for their leaves and their ability to thrive in shade.
How to Grow and Care for Wintergreen
Give your garden an update this season with wintergreen – featuring gorgeous, white bell-shaped flowers and bright, pinkish-red berries. Its glossy, evergreen foliage adds beauty, and it makes an excellent ground cover for shady areas. Plant wintergreen to enjoy it’s vibrant ground cover and fragrant, evergreen foliage!
Lance-Leaved Figwort
Prized in native gardens and restoration projects, discover the real value and beauty of Lance-Leaved Figwort to attract bees, butterflies, and birds like the Ruby-throated Hummingbird!
Baptisia is a Sure Bet
Baptisia australis is beautiful and a sure bet to be introduced into your garden. It looks nice even after it’s done blooming.
Starry False Solomon’s Seal
Starry False Solomon's Seal has attractive foilage, flowers, and berries that form a dense groundcover once established. We discuss its care.
Dahlias Store Energy in their Tubers
Dahlia plants store food and energy on their roots and underground stems called tubers. They look like sweet potatoes.
Blackberry is Easy to Grow
Feed them 1 pound of 10-10-10 per 100 sq ft. of garden s Reward yourself with luscious blackberries – plant a Blackberry bush! Perfect for limited space, 1 bush can produce 20 white flowers and a large crop of juicy, sweet-tasting blackberries in zones 5-8 with bright sun and well-drained soil. Care & feeding instructions included.
Plant of the month: Larch
Experience the beauty of Ontario's own native deciduous conifer – the larch tree! Enjoy evergreen-like foliage in spring and summer, and buttery yellow hues in fall. Find out which small larch varieties are suited for urban gardens and how to best plant and care for them.
Canada Milk Vetch
Attract hummingbirds, birds, butterflies and bees with Canada Milk Vetch – a beautiful flower perfect for bouquets, heavy clay soils and winter flowerpots. Perfect for restoration gardens, erosion control and dry climates.
Prairie Dock
Silphium Terebinthinaceum displays its bright yellow flowers on tall stems in late summer. They attracts pollinators, birds.
Fireweed
Fireweed for pollinators: discover the wild magenta willow plant with stunning blooms & its importance for pollinators. Visit North Carolina to witness Fireweed and its unique beauty, or learn more about its edibility, and its potential toxicity to animals.
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.
Wood Lily is Elegant
The wood lily is an elegant plant that grows on a single stem and can reach 1 to 3 feet in height. We discuss how to care and propagate.