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
Category: Garden Visits
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
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
An Urban Pollinator Garden
Berit Erickson dropped by last week to pick up some native plant seeds and talk to me about her demonstration pollinator garden, on a busy corner lot in the west end of Ottawa . Working in her yard, Berit realized how interested passers-by were in her flowers. Berit herself had noticed how much more lively… Continue reading An Urban Pollinator Garden
Spring Visit to Alpine Garden, MBG
Remembering a visit to the Montreal Botanical Garden, May, 2018. Beaux Arbres will have Shooting Star (Dodecatheon) for sale in the spring. Rock Whitlow-grass at the Montreal Botanical Garden Eastern Wild Columbine (Aquilegia canadensis) The Alpine Garden at MBG is divided into areas planted with species from different regions of the world. I was delighted… Continue reading Spring Visit to Alpine Garden, MBG
Beaux Arbres Plantes Indigènes / Native Plants 