Tag: Ottawa Valley

Last minute addition: Cardinal Flower

I have cardinal flower now available, to order for the Ottawa pick-up date or to add to an existing order. I was really late potting up my cardinal flower seedlings this summer (heat, smoke, sick dog) and so they were not ready to go for the Natives & Clay sale. They are now well-rooted in… Continue reading Last minute addition: Cardinal Flower

Ottawa plant pick-up date

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

September Plant List

American Spikenard fruit

The September Plant Availability List is here. What’s missing? A whole bunch of shade and woodland plants that either went dormant early (or possibly died) in the heat or that look so bad I won’t offer them for sale. Let’s hope most of them come back for next spring. What’s new? American spikenard (Aralia racemosa)… Continue reading September Plant List

Fall plant sale

Our September sale of native plants and pottery is coming up: Saturday, September 6th and Sunday, September 7th. The sale takes place in the garden of Pine Ridge Pottery Studio, north of Carp. There is no pretending that this drought summer has not been very hard on Lis’s fern garden, as it has been very… Continue reading Fall plant sale

Native (& near native) legume family plants

Wild lupin growing in the wild.

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

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