Author: Trish Murphy

Artist: botanical, still life, and natural history illustration.
Garden designer: native plants and naturalistic gardens

Westboro Farmers’ Market

Beaux Arbres Native Plants will be a vendor at Westboro Farmers’ Market (Byron Linear Park, Ottawa) on Saturday, September 2nd.

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Wood Poppy (at last) and a new Plant Availability List

Wood Poppy

I finally have an ample supply of Wood Poppy. They are looking very nice and many are in flower or are in bud. Wood Poppy is unusual among native plants – its main bloom period is in late spring but it often blooms sporadically after that and, very often, has a second flush of blooms… Continue reading Wood Poppy (at last) and a new Plant Availability List

New Plant Availability List

American Groundnut

Our next delivery of plant orders to Ottawa will be July 4th, late afternoon to early evening. The distribution point will be our usual Britannia condo parking lot. If you would like to have plants for pick up on July 4, please email your selections from this Availability List by Sunday evening, July 2nd. Email:… Continue reading New Plant Availability List

Sale Specials, some big plants, and a couple of shrubs

Carolina Lupin

There will be some plants on sale at our exciting new event, Natives and Clay this coming week-end. Dwarf Arctic Iris has been lovely this relatively cool spring, but I have too much of it. Regularly $15 each, they will be offered at the sale event, 3 for the price of 2. I am discontinuing… Continue reading Sale Specials, some big plants, and a couple of shrubs

Natives & Clay

On June 24th and 25th, I will be teaming up with renowned potter Lis Allison for an innovative event we are calling Natives and Clay, a two-day sale of Lis’s beautiful hand-painted pottery and Beaux Arbres’ nursery-propagated native plants. Join us at Lis’s Pine Ridge Studio, just outside Carp, Ontario, for a terrific combination of… Continue reading Natives & Clay

New Plant Availability List

Wild Senna, Senna hebecarpa, Cassia hebecarpa

Several species are depleted from the Mothers’ Day Sale but some warm weather species are now up and on the list, notably Wild Senna (featured image), Wild Bergamot, and Culver’s Root. The Milkweeds are still very small but up enough to know which ones are alive, so they too are on the list. The Friends… Continue reading New Plant Availability List

Spring Flowers starting to bloom

The earliest spring blooms are opening in the south-facing Rock Garden and many flowers are starting to show buds in the hoop house. The earliest near-native in the Rock Garden is the lovely silvery-mauve Prairie Crocus. Most years it is much earlier than the related European Pasque Flower, but this year, with the strange fluctuations… Continue reading Spring Flowers starting to bloom