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Native Plants

Native plants are a great addition to any garden. They produce flowers, fruits, and seeds throughout the year that can create a beautiful, natural look and attract wildlife such as birds, butterflies and other pollinators to your yard.

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Amsonia - Eastern Bluestar

Amsonia - Eastern Bluestar

Open clusters of star-shaped, white throated pale blue flowers

in late spring to early summer.  Graceful willow shaped bright

green leaves are very slender and take on a golden hue in fall.

Bearberry

Bearberry

Dainty nodding shell pink, bell shaped flowers adorn the ends of the branches in mid spring. Abundance of magnificent red berries from late summer to late fall. Evergreen. Also known as Kinninnick. Native to Ontario and most of Canada.

Bee Balm - Wild Bergamot

Bee Balm - Wild Bergamot

Masses of fragrant lilac-purple tubular flowers borne in dense globular heads from mid summer to early fall

Black Cohosh

Black Cohosh

Striking all summer long, a beautiful native perennial with deep green, finely divided foliage enhanced by gracefully arching wands of fragrant white flowers in late summer and fall.

Blue Bells - Virginia

Blue Bells - Virginia

Sapphire blue flowers on tall stems that gleam from shady spots in April and May, making them an ideal underplanting for shrubs and trees. 

Buffaloberry, Canada

Buffaloberry, Canada

Small, and loosely branched with thick, leathery, gray-green to russet-green foliage. Small, inconspicuous, yellow flowers are followed by yellowish-red, oval-shaped fruits. The orange dotted white bark give the branches a rusty appearance. Native to all of Canada.

Butterfly Weed - Swamp

Butterfly Weed - Swamp

Beautiful clusters of mauve-pink flowers that smell like vanilla. Swamp milkweeds are choice nectar plants for numerous butterfly species, especially the Monarch which depends on ascelpias for their total food supply.

Catalpa, Northern

Catalpa, Northern

Dark green heart shaped leaves are accompanied by distinct white blooms featuring yellow stripes and purple spots inside. Flowers in late Spring with narrow fruit pods ripening in Fall.

Chokeberry, Black

Chokeberry, Black

Clusters of small white flowers in May followed by purple black berries that are retained throughout the winter. Berries are edible and are extremely high in antioxidants. Native to Ontario & Quebec.

Coneflower - Prairie Red Midget

Coneflower - Prairie Red Midget

Long, prominent cones that give way to wide, reflexed petals in shades of deep reddish-brown, orange, and yellow.

Anemone - Thimbleweed

Anemone - Thimbleweed

Cup-shaped, greenish-white anemone flowers, each having five petal-like sepals and a thimble-like center with yellow anther.

Beard Tongue- Foxglove

Beard Tongue- Foxglove

The white to pink tubular sharped blooms attract long-tongued bees and humming birds. Deep green leaves on upright stems hold aloft the showy flower panicles.

Big Blue Stem

Big Blue Stem

Flat leaves emerge gray to blue green in spring, mature to green with red tinges in summer & turn reddish bronze with lavender tones in autumn after frost. In late summer flowering stems arise bearing purplish 3-parted, finger-like flower clusters. Native to Ontario, Manitoba, Quebec & Saskatchewan.

Black Gum

Black Gum

Forest green, glossy, pointy leaves turn an outstanding crimson in the fall. Furrowed black bark adds an interesting dimension to the landscape. One of the most spectacular and reliable fall coloring trees, turning brilliant shades of red and orange, and a very neat, pyramidal habit of growth. Native to Ontario.

Blue Eyed Grass

Blue Eyed Grass

Clump forming grass with fans of narrow sword-shaped green leaves. Violet blue flowers with a yellow throat close up at night

Bush Honeysuckle, Dwarf

Bush Honeysuckle, Dwarf

Compact & densely branched it is noted for its yellow trumpet-shaped flowers that bloom in panicles, dark green leaves.  Dark glossy green leaves turn shades of yellow to orange and sometimes red in the fall.

Butterfly Weed - Whorled

Butterfly Weed - Whorled

Upright, unbranched perennial that rambles to form colonies. Needlelike, fine textured foliage is whorled around the stem in clusters. Greenish white flowers in summer.

Cedar - Eastern Red

Cedar - Eastern Red

Pyramidal in form. Brown bark exfoliates in strips adding interest to the landscape. Makes an excellent windbreak and is easily sheared. Extremely tough juniper that grows well in rocky dry areas. Native to Ontario & Quebec.

Cinnamon Fern

Cinnamon Fern

Brilliant lacy green fronds gracefully arch outward in stately vaseshaped clumps. In early summer narrow fronds emerge as vertical cinnamon red brown spikes in the centre of the clump. Fronds turn a beautiful apricot-peach colour in fall. Native to Ontario.

Coneflower - Purple (Echinacea Purpurea)

Coneflower - Purple (Echinacea Purpurea)

An impressive addition to the late summer garden. Bold clumps of erect stems are topped for long periods of time with large flowers. Showy dark purple cone-like centres are skirted by purple petals.

Aster - Showy

Aster - Showy

Bright blue-violet rays surround golden button center from August until October.

Bee Balm - Spotted

Bee Balm - Spotted

Narrow aromatic leaves on purplish stems are topped with showy rounded clusters of creamy purple-spotted tubular flowers. Leaf-like pink, lavender or creamy bracts form beneath each flower cluster.

Birch, River

Birch, River

Prized for its incredible peeling bark! Salmon-cream to brown at first it exfoliates to reveal a creamy-white inner bark. Diamond shaped bright green leaves with serrated edges deepen to dark

green before turning pale yellow in fall.

Blue Ash

Blue Ash

Unique for its 4 sided twigs and loose, scaly maturing bark. Rare species of ash tree. 

Blueberry, Wild

Blueberry, Wild

Short in stature, and spreads by underground stems. A mature planting can form a dense ground cover. Leaves are glossy blue-green in summer, turning purple in the fall. The sweet, small dark blue berries are used in preserves and pies and are high in antioxidants.

Butterfly Weed

Butterfly Weed

Bright orange fragrant flower clusters attract Monarch butterflies, which depend on this plant for their total food supply.

Carolina Allspice

Carolina Allspice

Unusual shrub with distinct small reddish-brown Magnolia like flowers in May. Flowers are highly aromatic and smell llike chocolate.

Cedar - White

Cedar - White

Native white cedar often called hedging or swamp cedar, although prefers dry sites! Makes an excellent hedging plant that holds its colour well through winter and tolerates shearing well.

Columbine - Eastern Red

Columbine - Eastern Red

Nodding, red and yellow flowers with upward spurred petals alternating with spreading, colored sepals and numerous yellow stamens hanging below the petals. 

Coneflower - Upright Prairie

Coneflower - Upright Prairie

Profuse, golden yellow and/or rust red daisy style blooms surround a large central cone from late spring into fall.


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