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
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May I introduce: Arkansas Calamint
This is another absolutely delightful native plant that is too little known by gardeners and completely ignored by garden centres. Arkansas calamint (Clinopodium arkansanum) is a low-growing thing with tiny leaves that will slowly make a small mat. It bears small violet-blue flowers in profusion in July. When it is not in bloom, you are… Continue reading May I introduce: Arkansas Calamint
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
Ottawa east-central pick-up location for June 20th
Ottawa Valley Native Plants will be distributing pre-paid orders from a location in Manor Park on Thursday, June 20th. Friends who live in the Manor Park neighbourhood (north end of St Laurent) offered their driveway from which to distribute plant orders. We will be there from 4 to 6:30 pm on Thursday, June 20th. If… Continue reading Ottawa east-central pick-up location for June 20th
New Plant Availability List and Ottawa date
Finally, folks, I have a 2024 Plant Availability List. The move to Eganville set everything back, I am so sorry for the delay. I realize I was trying to do in two months, what it took me ten years to set up in Bristol, Quebec. As well, because of the move, I allowed myself to… Continue reading New Plant Availability List and Ottawa date
Seeds 2024
Over the winter, the nursery has moved from Bristol, Quebec, to Eganville, Ontario. We plan to be open for business selling plants at the new location sometime in May, 2024. What with all the kerfuffle of moving, I have been very late in packaging seeds and there are somewhat fewer species for sale than in… Continue reading Seeds 2024
Wood Poppy (at last) and a new Plant Availability List
I finally have an ample supply of Wood Poppy. They are looking very nice and many are in flower or are in bud. Wood Poppy is unusual among native plants – its main bloom period is in late spring but it often blooms sporadically after that and, very often, has a second flush of blooms… Continue reading Wood Poppy (at last) and a new Plant Availability List
New Plant Availability List
Our next delivery of plant orders to Ottawa will be July 4th, late afternoon to early evening. The distribution point will be our usual Britannia condo parking lot. If you would like to have plants for pick up on July 4, please email your selections from this Availability List by Sunday evening, July 2nd. Email:… Continue reading New Plant Availability List
A Successful Sale
Thanks to all the wonderful customers who braved the heat (on Saturday) and the smoke (on Sunday) to make our two day sale event, Natives and Clay, a resounding success. Lis and I were so pleased by the response that we plan to do it again next year. Set amid Lis’s beautiful gardens, it was… Continue reading A Successful Sale
Sale Specials, some big plants, and a couple of shrubs
There will be some plants on sale at our exciting new event, Natives and Clay this coming week-end. Dwarf Arctic Iris has been lovely this relatively cool spring, but I have too much of it. Regularly $15 each, they will be offered at the sale event, 3 for the price of 2. I am discontinuing… Continue reading Sale Specials, some big plants, and a couple of shrubs
Beaux Arbres Plantes Indigènes / Native Plants 