Ontario Native plants for all growing conditions.
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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.
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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 | Big Bluestem | Bishop’s Cap | Black Eyed Susan | Black Cohosh | Bloodroot | Blue Flag Iris | Blue-Stemmed Goldenrod | Blue Vervain | Butterfly Milkweed | Button Blazing Star | Bottlebrush Rye | Buttonbush | Calamint | Calico Aster | Canada Anemone | Canada Goldenrod | Canada Mayflower | Canada Violet | Canada Wild Rye | Canadian Bluejoint | Cardinal Flower | Celandine Poppy | Closed Bottle Gentian | Chokecherry | Common Blue Eyed Grass | Common Milkweed | Culvers Root | Cup Plant | Dense Blazing Star | Dogtooth Daisy | Dutchman’s Breeches | Downy Wood Mint | Early Goldenrod | Early Meadow Rue | Early Wild Rose | Eastern Pricky Pear Cactus | Elderberry
F - J
False Blue Indigo | False Solomon’s Seal | Field Pussytoes | Fleabane Daisy | Flowering Spurge | Foamflower | Foxglove Beardtongue | Fringed Gentian | Frost Aster | Goldenseal | Golden Alexanders | Golden Ragwort | Graceful Sedge | Grass-leaved Goldenrod | Great Blue Lobelia | Grey Headed Coneflower | Grey Goldenrod | Hairy Beardtongue | Hairy Mountain Mint | Harebell | Heath Aster | Heart Leaved Aster | Highbush Cranberry | Hoary Vervain | Indian Grass | Indian Paintbrush | Jacob’s Ladder | June Grass
K - O
Labrador Violet | Lance-Leaf Coreopsis | Large Flowered Bellwort | Leadplant | Lindley’s Aster | Little Bluestem | Long-Beaked Sedge | Mad-Dog Skullcap | Maidenhair Fern | Marginal Wood Fern | Marsh Marigold | Meadowsweet | Michigan Lily | Monkey Flower | Morning Star Sedge | Mountain Holly | Narrow-Leaved Vervain | New England Aster | New Jersey Tea | New York Ironweed | Nodding Bulrush | Nodding Onion | Northern Lady Fern | Obedient Plant | Ohio Spiderwort | Ostrich Fern
P -T
Pearly Everlasting | Philadelphia Fleabane | Prairie Dropseed | Prairie Ninebark | Prairie Phlox | Prairie Sage | Prairie Smoke | Prairie Sundrops | Purple Coneflower | Purple Lovegrass | Purple Prairie Clover | Rattlesnake Managrass | Rattlesnake Master | Red Baneberry | Red Elderberry | Retrorse Sedge | Riddell’s Goldenrod | Rock Harlequin | Rose Milkweed | Rosey Sedge | Round Lobed Hepatica | Scarlet Bee Balm | Self Heal | Sharp Lobed Hepatica | Shining Aster | Shrubby St.John’s Wort | Showy Goldenrod | Showy Tick Trefoil | Side Oats Grama | Smooth Blue Aster | Smooth Oxeye | Smooth Wild Rose | Smooth Yellow Violet | Solomon’s Seal | Spotted Bee Balm | Spotted Joe Pye | Spring Beauty | Steeplebush | Sundial Lupin | Sweet Grass | Switchgrass | Tall Sunflower | Tall Thimbleweed | Toothwort | Trout Lily | Twinleaf
U - Z
Upland White Goldenrod | Virgin Bowers | Virginia Bluebells | Virginia Mountain Mint | Virginia Waterleaf | White Avens | White Snakeroot | White Turtlehead | White Yarrow | Whorled Milkweed | Wild Bergamot | Wild Blue Phlox | Wild Columbine | Wild Cucumber | Wild Geranium | Wild Ginger | Wild Ramps | Wild Raspberry | Wild Strawberry | Winterberry | Woodland Strawberry | Wool Grass | Zig-Zag Goldenrod
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