Beaux Arbres will be bringing native plant seeds to two Ottawa area Seedy Saturdays: the Ottawa Seedy Saturday on Saturday, March 3rd, at the Ron Kolbus Centre in Britannia Park, and the Pembroke (Ottawa Valley) Seedy Sunday, March 4th. These are always great occasions to stock up on your heirloom vegetable seeds and garlic bulbs,… Continue reading New seeds for Seedy Saturday, 2018
Category: Nursery
Not too early to be planning for wildlife-enhancing gardens
In January, the gardener’s thoughts turn to seeds: browsing seed catalogues, preparing seed orders, and receiving parcels of seeds in the mail. When we are not obsessing about seed, we are reading nurseries’s lists. It gets us through the winter – dreams and plans and anticipation that next season will be the best yet. With… Continue reading Not too early to be planning for wildlife-enhancing gardens
2017: A Year in Native Plant Gardening
It was wet. We expect the swale garden and the lawn below it to be wet in April and well into May, from snow melt running down from the hills which surround us. This year it was continuously and unrelentingly wet until late July. The swale was continuously full of water, which would be lovely… Continue reading 2017: A Year in Native Plant Gardening
Gift Certificates
There is still time to get a Beaux Arbres Gift Certificate for the native plant gardeners on your lists (and all those keen gardeners you know whom you would like to nudge toward native plant gardening). The Gift Certificates can be redeemed for plants, seeds, miscellaneous thingies, and garden consultation services. You can use them… Continue reading Gift Certificates
Bedded Down for the Winter
Our plants have been tucked into the ground with a covering of insulating pine needles waiting for the snowfall. Especially vulnerable plants have been barricaded against hungry voles. Looking forward to spring.
Seeds and Gift Certificates
Looking for gift ideas for the gardeners on your list? Beaux Arbres will be bringing hand-made baskets and packets of wildflower seed to the West Carlton Arts Society $100 and Under Christmas Sale on December 1, 2, and 3. Okay, this is a small sale of mostly fine art, but it is right beside the… Continue reading Seeds and Gift Certificates
Native Plants for Rock Gardens
Charming and diminutive plants from Ottawa Valley’s natural rock gardens Species from slide show, in order shown Early Saxifrage (Micranthes virginiensis) Early Buttercup (Ranunculus fascicularis) Common Bluets (Houstonia carulia) Long-leaved Bluets (Houstonia longifolia) Hairy Beardtongue (Penstemon hirsutus) Dwarf Hairy Beardtongue (P. hirsutus var. pygmaeus) Field Pussytoes (Antennaria neglecta) Hooked-spur or Early Violet (Viola adunca) Bird’sfoot… Continue reading Native Plants for Rock Gardens
Making a Wildflower Meadow
on Monday, October 23rd, 7:30 pm Making a Wildflower Meadow a talk and slide show by Trish Murphy for the Gatineau Valley Gardeners St Mary’s Magdalene Church, 537 Highway 105 (across from the Freshmart) in Chelsea, Quebec. All are welcome. A meadow is one of the fastest and easiest ways to create a native plant… Continue reading Making a Wildflower Meadow
End of Season, Saturday, September 30th
The last day of a busy nursery season at Beaux Arbres will be Saturday, September 30th. We met many great native plant gardeners this rainy summer. Thanks to all our customers who came out to the farm for our events or just to visit. I will be in Ottawa for the seed workshop at Fletcher… Continue reading End of Season, Saturday, September 30th
Seed Collecting Workshop, Sunday Oct 1
Collecting Seeds to Grow Your Own Wildflowers Join Sandy Garland and Trish Murphy, of Beaux Arbres Native Plants, at the Fletcher Wildlife Garden, in Ottawa, for a hands-on workshop on collecting native plant seeds, cleaning and storing the seeds and using cool, moist stratification and other techniques to prepare them to germinate. Fletcher Wildlife Garden… Continue reading Seed Collecting Workshop, Sunday Oct 1
