In addition to some lovely fall bloomers — Smooth Aster, Tall Sunflower, Obedient Plant, among others –Beaux Arbres will be bringing some spring -bloomers to the Ottawa Westboro Farmers’ Market this Saturday, September 14th. Experienced gardeners know they can get a much better show next spring by planting now, rather than by waiting until next… Continue reading Plant Now for Spring Flowers
Category: Nursery
Closing early this Sunday
Beaux Arbres will be closing at 3 pm this coming Sunday, September 8th.
Great Plants for Shade
I love Spikenard (Aralia racemosa), a big shrub sized perennial. The flowers are not much, small and greenish white, but the bold leaves and dark purple stems are handsome enough throughout the summer. It is in the autumn that the plant shines. The little white flowers develop into red berries that turn black when fully… Continue reading Great Plants for Shade
Plants To Buy In August
It is not only possible to add perennials to your garden in August, some great native plants are going to be available as potted plants only in late summer. Case in point: Poke or American Pokeweed (Phytolacca americana). This tall purple-stemmed perennial is a warm-season plant that doesn’t get going until the soil warms. It… Continue reading Plants To Buy In August
Returning to Westboro Farmers’ Market
Beaux Arbres will be back at Westboro Farmers’ Market on Saturday, August 10th, bringing some spectacular late-summer wildflowers. Folks sometimes ask: Is it too late to add plants? If you can bring water to your new plants with a hose (or even a bucket from the lake, at the cottage), you can continue to plant… Continue reading Returning to Westboro Farmers’ Market
A Successful Sale Day at FWG
Beaux Arbres had its best day yet at the Fletcher Wildlife Garden’s annual Native Plant Sale. Thanks to all our customers: some familiar faces and many new. We had a great time recommending plants to eager customers. Building on our experience in the past two years, this year we had laminated photo cards in place… Continue reading A Successful Sale Day at FWG
Plants for the FWG Sale, 2019
Here is the list of species Beaux Arbres will be bringing to the Fletcher Wildlife Garden Native Plant Sale this Saturday, June 1st. In order to bring you variety, some of the species will be in very small quantities, i.e. 2 or 3. We will be at the Westboro Farmers Market on June 8 and… Continue reading Plants for the FWG Sale, 2019
Butterfly Food Plants
With all the conservation concern about Monarch Butterflies, gardeners want to plant Milkweeds, the food plants for the Monarch caterpillars. Will Beaux Arbres have Milkweed plants for sale at the Rare and Unusual Plant Sale this coming Sunday? And the answer is No, not this Sunday. Milkweeds are very much heat loving plants of summer… Continue reading Butterfly Food Plants
Two Native Primroses
Back in the winter, I showed a picture of two native primroses, Dwarf Canadian Primrose and Bird’s Eye Primrose, as they got ready for winter. Well, here they are in all their spring flowering glory and it is easy to see their different characters. Bird’s Eye Primrose (Primula laurentiana) has larger flowers and broader leaves,… Continue reading Two Native Primroses
Native plants are coming to town!
Beaux Arbres is coming to Ottawa’s Westboro Farmers Market on three Saturdays this spring. We will be bringing a selection of the best of our native wildflowers, grasses, and small shrubs to the lively west-end market on Saturday, May 18th, and Saturdays June 8th and 15th. Of course, we will be at the Fletcher Wildlife… Continue reading Native plants are coming to town!
Beaux Arbres Plantes Indigènes / Native Plants 