Showing posts with label native Ontario plants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label native Ontario plants. Show all posts

Sunday, April 30, 2017

Toronto's High Park - Native Plant Sale: May 7th, 2017

If you live in the Toronto area and would like to know more about and to buy native plants  - please visit High Park's Native Plant Sale. Sunday May 7th, 2017



Here's their info and website:

High Park Stewards Native Plant Sale

Sale Location: In front of the High Park Greenhouses. (Plants for sale are subject to availability.) For more information go to www.highparknature.org or
email stewards@highparknature.org.  


"The plants in this sale are grown in the High Park greenhouses by volunteers as part of the High Park Stewards program. They are sold to encourage the use of native plants in home gardens and are perennial, except where noted. You can learn about the plants in the rare black oak ecosystem in High Park, and help restore its ecosystem by joining High Park Stewards events. This list is subject to plant availability."
 
What's available:

Plants for sun, shade, wet conditions....you name it!
Link ---> http://www.highparknature.org/wiki/uploads/Resources/plant_sale_brochure_2017.pdf


Where:



Some restrictions: " For fairness, the maximum number of plants available per person before 1:00 pm is restricted to small orders. After 1:00 pm, larger orders can be filled, depending on the number of plants available. " 

Sign up to volunteer!

Help our gardens and pollinators flourish! Please go!


Saturday, October 04, 2014

Green Living Roof

I don't profess to know how to install a green living roof. But I do tend to one and am completely convinced of their usefulness and sheer will to survive the toughest of environments.
The key is selecting plant material that can tolerate the extremes - making sure there is proper drainage.

Plants I can ID in the above photo: (all native)
  • Fragaria virginiana - Wild Strawberry
  • Coreopsis tripteris - Tickseed
  • Rudbeckia hirta - Black Eyed Susan
  • Gaillardia pulchella - Blanket Flower
  • Deullingeria umbellata - Flat Topped White Aster
  • Symphyotrichum ciliolatum - Blue Fringed Aster
  • Sedum acre - Stonecrop

Some plants are already dormant at this stage.

No required mowing or mulching. Leaving the seed heads is key. Self germination will determine which of the plants listed above will prosper. Making an ecosystem of its own.

The occasional intruder is what I am after. Bird droppings and the wind carry some deadly weeds, tree seedlings and grass that will unravel the balance of what works.
This is a rather large area and it's just amazing to see torrential rains get absorbed by this living roof. I would hate to see the alternative.

The best part - the VIEW! lol
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