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
Tag: shade gardens
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
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
Natives & Clay
On June 24th and 25th, I will be teaming up with renowned potter Lis Allison for an innovative event we are calling Natives and Clay, a two-day sale of Lis’s beautiful hand-painted pottery and Beaux Arbres’ nursery-propagated native plants. Join us at Lis’s Pine Ridge Studio, just outside Carp, Ontario, for a terrific combination of… Continue reading Natives & Clay
New Plant Availability List
Several species are depleted from the Mothers’ Day Sale but some warm weather species are now up and on the list, notably Wild Senna (featured image), Wild Bergamot, and Culver’s Root. The Milkweeds are still very small but up enough to know which ones are alive, so they too are on the list. The Friends… Continue reading New Plant Availability List
End of Season
Thanks to all the great customers who have supported us through some challenging time. I am always especially grateful to repeat customers – folks who took a chance on a prepaid order and then ordered again. This summer I worked myself to a state of heat exhaustion three times and I am going to have… Continue reading End of Season
Bringing Plants to Ottawa, Wednesday, July 13th
Beaux Arbres will be bringing plant orders to Ottawa on the evening of Wednesday, July 13th to distribute them from our Britannia area condo’s Visitor Parking Lot. I know some folks were not able to make the Saturday morning Farmers’ Market and others did not want to pick up a large order with Westboro’s potentially… Continue reading Bringing Plants to Ottawa, Wednesday, July 13th
Slow Plants have to be More Expensive
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
New for 2021: Goldthread
The very glossy, evergreen leaves of low-growing Goldthread (Coptis trifolia) are most attractive, but before you start thinking this may be the ideal shade-loving ground cover for your shady garden, be aware that this little cutie demands a cool, acidic organic soil, and is not suited for warm urban conditions. It grows in damp moss… Continue reading New for 2021: Goldthread
Beaux Arbres Plantes Indigènes / Native Plants 