Category: Nursery

Slow Plants have to be More Expensive

Rooting cuttings of Twinflower in the greenhouse at Beaux Arbres.

I have kept the prices of most species constant for the past few years and I intend to keep those prices — mostly $6 for small pots and $12 for 4 1/2″ tall pots — for any of the species I can get up to salable size in one season. However, some species require more… Continue reading Slow Plants have to be More Expensive

Dropping some species

Brown-eyed Susans and fruit of Gray Dogwood

Anyone who has visited the nursery knows how little bench space I have. To make room for the new species, some less popular species are going to be dropped from the nursery. Thimbleweed is certainly locally native but it is not that showy. I tried to keep two very similar species going, Thimbleweed and Long-headed… Continue reading Dropping some species

Seeds available, Winter 2021/2022

Downy Wood Mint

Growing native plants from seed is an economical way to get more plants, whether to plant a large area or to have extras to share with friends. This winter, Beaux Arbres is offering seeds from more than 80 species of wildflowers native to eastern North America. The species in this collection are among the easiest… Continue reading Seeds available, Winter 2021/2022

Seed Collecting Fall 2021

Pink Turtlehead

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

Plants into Ottawa, Saturday, September 11th

Ironweed

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

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Plants coming to Britannia and to Navan

Fruit of Glaucous Honeysuckle.

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

Tall Sunflower at Beaux Arbres

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.

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