Ontario Native plants for all growing conditions.
Explore our Plants by Categories
Sun Requirements
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Have a nice sunny spot that gets little to no break from the sun? These plants love 6 or more hours of direct sunlight. Take your pick!
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Have a spot that gets 3-6 hours of sunlight a day?
Part-Sun plants like direct sun and can handle a bit of heat.
Part Shade plants won’t enjoy midday sun, but love morning or evening direct sun, or dappled all day sun.
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Have a shady space under a tree or north facing garden that has lots of shade? Find some forest loving plants, give them less that 4 hours of direct sun.
Soil Moisture
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Have a particularly dry area where plants go to die? Find native plants to liven up the joint!
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Find plants for the average garden that’s not too wet, and not too dry, but juuuust right.
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Find plants for a wet area, water edges, rain gardens, etc.
Mature Height
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Border/Edging plants; also called base plants. These are great around the outer edges of the garden or to fill in gaps.
These will range from under 1’ - 2’
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Mid-range/intermediate plants to create height and flow in the garden. These can be colourful pops, green texture, movement or seasonal interest.
These will range from 3’ - 4’.
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Structural or Backbone plants. These will add structure in wide open spaces and background height.
These plants will be 5’ or taller.
Explore all of Our Plants
We are still developing our individual plant pages!
Keep checking back for specific plant pages, or feel free to contact us if you’d like help choose which plants might work best in your space.
A - E
Anise Hyssop | Barren Strawberry | Bellwort | Big Bluestem | Black Eyed Susan | Black Cohosh | Bloodroot | Blue Flag Iris | Blue Stemmed Goldenrod | Blue Vervain | Butterfly Milkweed | Button Blazing Star | Button Bush | Canada Anemone | Cardinal Flower | Celandine Poppy | Closed Bottle Gentian | Common Blue Eyed Grass | Culvers Root | Cup Plant | Dense Blazing Star | Downy Yellow Violet | Early Wild Rose | Eastern Pricky Pear Cactus | Elderberry
F - J
False Blue Indigo | Fleabane Daisy | Flowering Spurge | Goldenseal | Golden Alexanders | Golden Ragwort | Great Blue Lobelia | Grey Headed Coneflower | Hairy Mountain Mint | Harebell | Hoary Skullcap | Hoary Vervain | Indian Paintbrush | Jacob’s Ladder | Joe Pye Weed
K - O
Lance-Leaf Coreopsis | Little Bluestem | Mad-Dog Skullcap | Marsh Marigold | Michigan Lily | Narrow-Leaved Vervain | New England Aster | New Jersey Tea | Nodding Onion | Obedient Plant | Ohio Spiderwort
P -T
Pearly Everlasting | Prairie Dropseed | Prairie Ninebark | Prairie Sage | Prairie Smoke | Purple Coneflower | Purple Prairie Clover | Rock Harlequin | Rose Milkweed | Scarlet Bee Balm | Showy Tick Trefoil | Sneezeweed | Solomon’s Seal | Spotted Bee Balm | Sundial Lupin | Sundrops | Tall Sunflower | Toothwort | Twinleaf
U - Z
Virgin Bowers | Virginia Bluebells | Virginia Waterleaf | Wild Bergamot | Wild Blue Phlox | Wild Columbine | Wild Geranium | Wild Ginger | Wild Strawberry | White Turtlehead | Whorled Milkweed | Yarrow | Zig-Zag Goldenrod
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