Ontario flowers

What flowers grow in a woodland and what are the best spring ephemerals to grow? Spring ephemerals are an important part to any woodland garden both for their early colour and value to native wildlife. Here are 35 woodland wildflowers you will want to consider for your shade/woodland garden.

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Here in Simcoe, we’re far enough South to enjoy a wide variety of flowers and plants in our garden, including many that hail from tropical rainforests and other exotic locations. However, not all tropicals can withstand our unpredictable Canadian weather, and providing a plant with similar conditions to a rainforest…

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Today we’re visiting with Teresa Gordon. We live in Zone 6, Thornbury, Ontario, Canada. We retired here almost five years ago and have been establishing a new garden. Leaving behind […]

This mixture of Indian Paintflower and Daisies is amazing to see in huge masses early summer around Perrault Falls

Woodsorrel in Manitoba (Edibility and Identification)

Bring your shady garden to life with native flowering shrubs and perennials.

Rosy Wake Robin or Catesby’s Trillium (Trillium catesbaei)

Ground covers fare a key element in a woodland garden landscape design. They keep the soil cool, help eliminate weeds and create textures that bring interest to our back yard garden. Here are some great ideas on how to use ground covers such as ferns and other native plants in our shade, woodland an

About – Ontario Native Plants

Ontario Perennial Bloom Times - Heeman's

CanadaInfo: Images & Downloads: Fact Sheets to Download: Provincial & Territorial: By Theme: Flowers

Today we’re in Sweaburg, Ontario, visiting Alice Fleurkens and her beautiful garden. We’ve been here before; check out some previous posts: Highlights from an Ontario Garden and Fall to Winter […]

Ontario Wildflowers

Random ontario wild flower

A field of flowers near Tillsonburg, Ontario

Plants native to Ontario (sorry, Norway Maple, you invasive pest) better protect natural spaces, birds, bees, bugs and butterflies.

Forest floor with trilliums. Trilliums are a threatened species: it's illegal to pick them in Michigan and Minnesota, and certain species are protected by law in New York and Ontario.