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.
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.
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!
Anise Hyssop is like Licorice in your Garden
Discover the joy of cultivating Anise Hyssop in your garden. With fragrant leaves, it's perfect for tea, salad dressings, potpourri, and attracts pollinators.
Grow Your Own Blueberries
Discover how to prepare the perfect soil for blueberries and choose the right plants to grow your own delicious berries at home.
A Quick Growing Guide for Miterwort
The Miterwort, Mitella diphylla, is the jewel of the spring shade garden. Consult our Quick Growing guide for this special shade plant.
Canada Anemone Flower
The Canada anemone flower is an easy to maintain, dependable and hardy perennial ground cover that produces lovely white buttercup flowers.
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.
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.
Bog Rosemary
Bog rosemary is an arctic-tough, garden-pretty, small evergreen shrub. See why it is easy to care for and why animals leave it alone.
Common Milkweed Host Monarch Butterflies
Milkweed is the only host plant for monarch butterflies. In summer, the female monarch lays eggs on the underside of young leaves.
Partridgeberry
Plant partridgeberry to add interest to your garden with its glossy foliage, flowers, and fruit. Native to the eastern US, it's an evergreen ground cover that thrives in woodland/shade gardens, under trees, and in part-shade border fronts or rock gardens. Learn the best tips for successful planting and growing of this plant!
Red Oak is An Important Tree
The northern red oak is one of the most important trees for timber development in North America. Discover more facts on the Red Oak.
Early Goldenrod
Grow Early Goldenrod, Solidago juncea, a resilient herbaceous perennial with bright yellow flowers. This adaptable wildflower of the Asteraceae family withstands poor, dry soils and full sun, and with minimal maintenance, can fill spaces with its profusion of flowers and slen,der shrub-like appearance. Learn when and how to care for it and how to distinguish it from its cousins!
Grey Headed Coneflower
Grey headed Coneflower has eye-catching yellow flowers that entice birds and pollinators. It is ideal for natural plantings and meadows.
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.