Beaux Arbres Native Plants will not be open Saturday, June 17th. We will be open the following week and back at the Old Chelsea Farmers Market on Thursday, June 29th. If you are interested in visiting Beaux Arbres — and we welcome visitors — please phone in advance to confirm: 819 647-2404.
Author: Trish Murphy
Artist: botanical, still life, and natural history illustration.
Garden designer: native plants and naturalistic gardens
Relentless rain a week before the Ottawa sale
The Rare and Unusual Plant Sale on Sunday, May 14th, at the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa is less than a week away and I am past hoping for a spell of warm, sunny weather to bring on some flowers. At this point, I am reduced to hoping fervently that our local ferry service will… Continue reading Relentless rain a week before the Ottawa sale
Plant list: winter 2017
We have added a PDF list of species to our new website. Now, realize, folks, that I created this list from last year’s list and my, possibly flawed, memory of what new species I had added by last fall. I will not know what I actually have until the snow melts and I can get… Continue reading Plant list: winter 2017
Making a wildflower meadow
A talk by Trish Murphy of Beaux Arbres Native Plants at Nepean Horticultural Society City View United Church Thursday, March 16, 2017, 7:30 pm All are welcome. There is great interest in creating pollinator-friendly gardens. Creating a wildflower meadow – a sunny plant community of native grasses and wildflowers — is one of the easiest and… Continue reading Making a wildflower meadow
Beaux Arbres Native Plants: New website
New website.
Beaux Arbres Plantes Indigènes / Native Plants 