Blog

Milkweeds are ready

Butterfly Milkweed

Everybody’s favourite, orange Butterfly Milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa), is now ready to go into gardens. I have this year’s seedlings in 2 1/2″ pots and a very few year-old plants in 4″ tall pots. I also have Whorled Milkweed (A. verticilliata), with the thin leaves Monarch favour late in the season, and Dwarf Milkweed (A. ovalifolia).… Continue reading Milkweeds are ready

Natives & Clay this week-end

Bowman's Root

Are you interested in learning about ferns and other native plants for your shady garden? The Natives & Clay event at Pine Ridge Pottery Studio this week-end, June 21st and 22nd, is a fantastic opportunity to see plants growing in potter Lis Allison’s shaded garden or in her extensive woods, and also purchase plants for… Continue reading Natives & Clay this week-end

Natives & Clay this Saturday & Sunday

Browse the native plants for sale, walk through Lis Allison’s wonderful shady fern garden, rock garden, and woodland, and shop for Lis’s functional hand-painted pottery. This is your chance to shop for interesting and unusual native plants from Ottawa Valley Native Plants, without having to drive all the way to Eganville. You can pre-order from… Continue reading Natives & Clay this Saturday & Sunday

Published
Categorized as Nursery

Ferns & Sedges

Foliage texture is always going to be more important in a woodland garden than in a sunny border, where bright colour from flowers is so much easier to achieve. Ferns and sedges are lovely, natural components of the forest floor. Be sure to use lots of ferns and sedges in your shady garden for a… Continue reading Ferns & Sedges

Plant Availability for September 2024

There are several interesting plants for shade, including Barren Strawberry (Geum fragaroides although many will know it as Waldsteinia fragaroides), an evergreen ground cover with yellow flowers in the spring. Another lovely shade plant which could be used as a ground cover is Northern Beech Fern, a spreading deciduous fern, not tall, with a lovely… Continue reading Plant Availability for September 2024

May I introduce: Arkansas Calamint

This is another absolutely delightful native plant that is too little known by gardeners and completely ignored by garden centres. Arkansas calamint (Clinopodium arkansanum) is a low-growing thing with tiny leaves that will slowly make a small mat. It bears small violet-blue flowers in profusion in July. When it is not in bloom, you are… Continue reading May I introduce: Arkansas Calamint

New Availability List

Ottawa Valley Native Plants has posted a new Plant Availability List (downloadable as a PDF*). Prepaid orders will be distributed in Ottawa on Tuesday, July 30th, from a site in the Manor Park neighbourhood, and on Tuesday, August 13th, from the parking lot at Fletcher Wildlife Garden. Please email your selections from the list to… Continue reading New Availability List

Ottawa east-central pick-up location for June 20th

Ottawa Valley Native Plants will be distributing pre-paid orders from a location in Manor Park on Thursday, June 20th. Friends who live in the Manor Park neighbourhood (north end of St Laurent) offered their driveway from which to distribute plant orders. We will be there from 4 to 6:30 pm on Thursday, June 20th. If… Continue reading Ottawa east-central pick-up location for June 20th

Apologies. First delivery will be next week

My apologies to all those who were expecting the first delivery of prepaid orders to be tomorrow, Thursday. I am so far behind in the setting up of the new nursery that the first delivery will have to be next week. Thank you for your patience.

Published
Categorized as Nursery