I will be bringing pre-paid orders to Ottawa on Tuesday, September 16th, to the Fletcher Wildlife Garden parking lot between 4:30 and 6:30 pm. Please order plants from the September Plant Availability List below. This will be the final plant pick-up date of the year. You can also order plants for pick-up at the Natives… Continue reading Ottawa plant pick-up date
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Native (& near native) legume family plants
My new garden is afflicted with weedy non-native plants in the legume family: white and yellow sweet clover, alfalfa, vetch, and black medic. Even red clover, which I used to think was, yes, non-native but mostly benign, is a problem weed here. A little way down the road is a big patch of crown vetch… Continue reading Native (& near native) legume family plants
Natives & Clay this week-end
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
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
Plant Availability for September 2024
There are several interesting plants for shade, including Barren Strawberry (Geum fragaroides although many will know it as Waldsteinia fragaroides), an evergreen ground cover with yellow flowers in the spring. Another lovely shade plant which could be used as a ground cover is Northern Beech Fern, a spreading deciduous fern, not tall, with a lovely… Continue reading Plant Availability for September 2024
New Availability List
Ottawa Valley Native Plants has posted a new Plant Availability List (downloadable as a PDF*). Prepaid orders will be distributed in Ottawa on Tuesday, July 30th, from a site in the Manor Park neighbourhood, and on Tuesday, August 13th, from the parking lot at Fletcher Wildlife Garden. Please email your selections from the list to… Continue reading New Availability List
Special Offer: Mixed Flats – Your Choice
Beaux Arbres has a special summer price on mixed flats of 32 2 1/2″ pots — your choice (from the list below) of flowers and grasses — at $160 per flat. That’s $5 per pot. (Regular price: $6 or more.) If you are looking for native plants for a meadow, community pollinator garden, or other… Continue reading Special Offer: Mixed Flats – Your Choice
Tucked in for the Winter
The plants in the hoop house are all tucked in for the winter, under floating row covers. What a visual difference from a couple of weeks ago! Freezing weather came early and fast this year. I was going to get a few more boxes of pine needles to add to the mulch around shrubs, but… Continue reading Tucked in for the Winter
Late Colour in the Hoop House
On a dreary November day, with the golden tamaracks providing the only colour in the landscape, the interior of the hoop house is only a couple of degrees warmer (still quite chilly) but colourful fall leaves still linger. The brightest colour comes from the leaves of Wild Geranium. I like the green and red carpet of… Continue reading Late Colour in the Hoop House
September Highlights
Rock Pink Rock Pink (Talinum calycinum) has been in bloom for weeks and it just got better and better, as long as the warm weather lasted. I love the bright magenta of the flowers against the natural greys of the rocks and stone mulch. I hope it proves to be hardy, here in western Quebec, but… Continue reading September Highlights
Beaux Arbres Plantes Indigènes / Native Plants 