Native Roots Collection
The environmental reasons for gardening with native plants are positive and compelling. Native plants increase biodiversity, provide habitat for a variety of creatures including birds and butterflies, provide a home for many native plants that are becoming increasingly rare in the wild, conserve water and help to eliminate the need for extensive use of pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers. Less work and lots of beauty!
Lady in Red
Lady Fern
- Exquisite, bright, red-violet stems with the medium green, lacy foliage
- Great in mass plantings or combine with bold-textured plants
- Requires partial to full shade
- Adapts to most soil
- Height: 60 cm
- Spread: 90 cm
- Zone: 3
False
Indigo
- Bluish-green foliage covers upright stems with spikes of purple flowers
- Ornamental black seed pods ripen by late summer
- Perfect for low maintenance gardens, borders and cottage gardens
- Requires full sun
- Adapts to most soil
- Height: 90 cm
- Spread: 90 cm
- Zone: 2-9
Jim Crockett
False Aster
- Mounding blue-green leaves bear a cloud of lavender-mauve daisy-like flowers with yellow eyes
- Useful as late season colour for beds or borders and makes for an excellent cut flower
- Grows well in sun
- Requires full sun
- Adapts to most soil
- Height: 55 cm
- Spread: 75 cm
- Zone: 4
Northern Sea
Oats Grass
- Highly ornamental native grass prized for it's flat seed heads
- Beautiful addition to naturalized areas and near water features
- Adds textural contrast to mixed beds and borders
- Requires partial to full shade
- Adapts to most soil
- Height: 100 cm
- Spread: 60 cm
- Zone: 5
Northern Lights
Tufted Hair Grass
- Displays tufts of slim foliage coloured with gold/silvery stripes
- In summer, airy seed heads in various colours rise above the elegant clumps
- Great for partly shaded borders, mass or specimen plantings
- Requires partial shade
- Adapts to most soil
- Height: 30 cm
- Spread: 30 cm
- Zone: 4-9b
Rising Star
Flowering Onion
- Rounded clusters of lavender pink flowers are produced from late spring into early summer
- Grey-green, finely textured, upright foliage
- Ornamental and edible selection of Common Chives
- Requires partial shade
- Adapts to most soil
- Height: 25 cm
- Spread: 25 cm
- Zone: 3
Black-Eyed
Susan
- A stout, single stemmed, coarsely hairy plant with deep yellow petals around a central brown disk
- A drought tolerant variety that is perfect for cutting
- Requires full sun to partial shade
- Adapts to most soil
- Height: 80 cm
- Spread: 40 cm
- Zone: 4-8b
Lavender
Kickin® Aster
- Favourites for autumn colour in the perennial border
- Soft lavender blossoms, each with a tiny golden button eye
- Excellent in containers
- Requires full sun
- Adapts to most soil
- Height: 60 cm
- Spread: 60 cm
- Zone: 5
Northern
Maidenhair Fern
- Forms a medium sized mound of arching black-stemmed fronds with light green leaflets arranged in a wide fan
- Requires full shade
- Adapts to most soil
- Height: 45 cm
- Spread: 60 cm
- Zone: 2
Sweet
Woodruff
- Spreading clumps of small green leaves with clusters of tiny white flowers in spring
- Useful in borders, mass plantings, containers or rock gardens
- Makes an excellent ground cover
- Requires partial to full shade
- Adapt to most soil
- Height: 20 cm
- Spread: 60 cm
- Zone: 3
Royal
Fern
- New spring growth is purplish in colour, the stems retaining this colour all season long
- The spore-producing inflorescence at the top of the plant resembles groups of flowers
- Requires full shade
- Adapts to most soils
- Height: 125 cm
- Spread: 70 cm
- Zone: 3
Cardinal
Flower
- Produces green leaves with purplish undersides
- Bearing taller spikes of scarlet-red flowers in mid to late summer
- Requires partial shade
- Adapts to most soil
- Height: 120 cm
- Spread: 60 cm
- Zone: 4
Husker Red
BeardTongue
- Plants form a sturdy mound of leaves, beet-red during the spring and fall, greener in summer
- Upright stems of very pale-pink tubular flowers appear during the summer months
- Outstanding for foliage effect in the border, but also useful in tubs and mixed containers
- Requires full sun
- Adapts to most soil
- Height: 75 cm
- Spread: 45 cm
- Zone: 3
Nursery
American Elder
- Great shrub with medium green foliage offset by large panicles of fragrant white flowers in spring
- The flowers are followed by dark purple to black round berries
- The berries are commonly used to make jams, jellies, and wine
- Rquires full sun or full shade
- Requires moist clay soil
- Height: 3 m
- Spread: 250 cm
- Zone: 3-9
Red Osier Dogwood
- Spreads slowly by underground stems
- Burgundy-red branches provide winter interest
- Cut back hard in spring to keep this dogwood shorter and produce more vivid winter twig colour
- Requires full to partial sun
- Requires wet moist soil
- Height: 3 m
- Spread: 250 cm
- Zone: 2-9
Sugar Maple
- An excellent choice as a specimen tree in the landscape, this lovely tree has lobed leaves which will take on spectacular fall colour
- A mixture of oranges, reds and yellows is produced in spectacular fashion, all on a tree that is drought tolerant
- Requires full sun
- Requires well drained soil
- Height: 18 m
- Spread: 14 m
- Zone: 3-9
Eastern White Pine
- This easy to grow coniferous tree has been shown to reach 30 meters or more in the wild
- It is pyramidal when young, becoming more rounded with age
- Needles have a nice soft texture
- Requires full to partial sun
- Requires light sandy soil
- Height: 25 m
- Spread: 8 m
- Zone: 3-9
