I have finished collecting all the seeds I intend to collect this fall and have picked over and done preliminary cleaning on most of them. I will be posting a list of the available species soon. Pink Turtlehead Pink Turtlehead (Chelone lyonii) — pictured above — seeds will be available this year. I almost gave… Continue reading Seed Collecting Fall 2021
Category: Nursery
Plants into Ottawa, Saturday, September 11th
Beaux Arbres will be bringing plants into Ottawa on Saturday, September 11th. We will be distributing prepaid orders of native plants from a Britannia area parking lot on that Saturday, from 9:30 am until noon. This will probably be our last delivery of plants for the season. The nursery will still be open until the… Continue reading Plants into Ottawa, Saturday, September 11th
At Westboro Market this Saturday
A stall has opened up at Westboro Farmers’ Market this Saturday, July 24th. We will be bringing a wonderful selection of plants to the market — from Three-toothed Cinquefoil (about 2″ high) to Compass Plant (topping 10 ft, this rainy summer). We hope this presages more access to the market this summer. We will be… Continue reading At Westboro Market this Saturday
Plants coming to Britannia and to Navan
Beaux Arbres Native Plants has a new Plant Availability List out. We will be bringing pre-paid orders to our regular Britannia area parking lot on Thursday, July 8th, and then, on Monday, July 12th, we will be bringing plants to an address in Navan. Both days the plant order distribution will be in the afternoon,… Continue reading Plants coming to Britannia and to Navan
New Availability List & Pausing Deliveries
I have a new Availability List to download. The demand for native plants has been so great this spring, that many, many species are temporarily out of stock. For many species, plants seeded this year will soon start to be available. However, some of the slower growing woodland plants are not available until next year.… Continue reading New Availability List & Pausing Deliveries
May 8th – Trailer is Full
Although I had said that the cut-off for putting in orders for Saturday, May 8th, would noon on Friday, the response has been so great (Thank You, Customers!) that our trailer has no more space. We we be bringing plants into Ottawa again, for Saturday May 22 and possibly before.
Not the Westboro Market & New List
We will not be at the Westboro market this coming Saturday, May 8th. Due to COVID protocols, the booths have to be more widely spaced, and there was no space available for a Daily Vendor, such as Beaux Arbres. We will be distributing your prepaid orders from a west-end Ottawa condo parking lot, from 9:30… Continue reading Not the Westboro Market & New List
May I Introduce: Water Plantain
It is extra-ordinarily difficult to capture in a photo the charm of Water Plantain (Alisma trivale). The small, white, three-petalled flowers are widely spaced on a tall but insubstantial inflorescence, which, in a photo, is mostly just not there. In life, however, the transparent scrim of little stalks and buds and flowers, held high above… Continue reading May I Introduce: Water Plantain
May I Introduce: Sticky False Asphodel
This charming little wildflower deserves to be much better known and more often cultivated. Grassy foliage, glossy and attractive, grows about 20 cm tall and spreads by rhizomes to fill in an area. In mid summer, the flower stalks rise above the foliage. The initially pink buds open to white flowers. After flowering, the vivid… Continue reading May I Introduce: Sticky False Asphodel
May I Introduce: Fringed Sage
Soft, silvery, foliage is a desirable decorative feature in gardens. To augment the bright silver of native Pearly Everlasting and subtle silvery-grey of Parlin’s (Plantain-leaved) Pussytoes, I now offer the silky silver of Fringed Sage. It is much more hardy than the popular but notoriously finicky and short-lived Silver Mound, the standard garden centre offering.… Continue reading May I Introduce: Fringed Sage
Beaux Arbres Plantes Indigènes / Native Plants 