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Today we were removing many invasives in a glorious garden restoration we have been piecing away at this summer. Here you see Jess going at the periwinkle patch. We also removed lily-of-the-valley, dog-strangling vine, European buckthorn, creeping bellflower, and garlic mustard. These will be replaced with a combination of native and non-invasive plants in the near future.
#invasivespeciesawareness #choosenativeplants #gardeningforbiodiversity #gardeningfornature #gardensmart
Loving this gorgeous combination of #nativeflora in a client`s garden that is in full bloom this week!!
#culversroot (dwarf), #butterflymilkweed
#nativeplantsofontario #fornaturegardeningandlandcare
A fruitful year here in Southern Ontario! All of our fruit trees and bushes are hanging heavy with fruit like this beautiful native #chokecherry .
#fruitfulyear #nativetreesofontario #abundance #fornaturegardening
Isn`t this flower the coolest?
This is from the native shrub #buttonbush . It has a lovely, round, compact and low form (around 4-5 feet). In the wild, buttonbush grows in shoreline areas where its feet are wet, but it grows amazingly in residential gardens with much drier soils. If you`re looking for a shrub, I recommend giving this native beauty a go!
#nativeshrubsofontario #nativeplantsofontario #grownative
Compass plant is a really gorgeous perennial, native sunflower-like plant blooming in all its glory this fine July day!
#compassplant #nativeplantsofontario
False sunflower!!!
#heliopsishelianthoides #nativeplantsofontario
The pollinator gardens are full of pollinator action on this glorious sunny day!!! These photos are from a 5 minute garden wander with camera in hand. ID to your heart`s content!
#pollinatorsofontario
#pollinatorgarden
#nativeplantsofontario
#naturalistgardens #naturalisticgardens
This sweet fat bombus doing it`s buzz pollination thing on these beauty verbascum cultivars. They go crazy for them!!
This plant beautifully seeds itself wildly throughout my gardens and is from a plant I got 25 years ago when I worked in the nursery trade. Notice how gorgeous the native wild bergamot looks with it!
#happypollinator
#bombus #buzzpollination #verbascum #monardafistulosa #nativar #pollinatorgardening
Blue vervain by the pond = perfection.
The July gardens are looking marvelous, bursting with colour and texture! What a delight for the senses!!
We got to pause and take it in while dodging rain clouds yesterday.
#rainydaygardening #fornaturegardeningandlandcare #gardeningfornature #grownative
Updated photo with 33 of the 35 flowers now open! 😲
This plant is blowing my mind and stealing the show in my garden right now, hands down.
#michiganlily #nativeplantsofontario #plantlove #grownative
Loving our job so much! Building gardens is the life! (Jess gets cozy with the plants - thanks Jess!!)
Today`s satisfying before and after. The pollinators moved in the moment we brought the plants to site! It fills my soul to build #pollinatorgardens !
#gardeningfornature #gardeningforbiodiversity #nativeplantsofontario #forthepollinators
#builditandtheywillcome
#naturalisticgardening #fornaturegardeningandlandcare #transformingyards #biodiversegarden #gardeningfornature #gardensforbiodiversity #gardenlove #bloomsifjuly
Having gems like this native #michiganlily to look forward to each year is such a treat! What a show stopper!!
Elderflower dreams are coming true in my yard this very moment.
My favorite part about this garden is that the show is constantly evolving. There is always something of interest to the humans traversing this garden, which means there`s also always something of interest for the wild ones.
This client wanted flowers, so I gave them flowers!! This design and build are from 1 and 2 years ago (two gardens shown here). It`s incredible how quickly they have filled out! What joy!!
Know who else is happy? The pollinators. Those nepeta were teaming with bees! (For those of you discouraged front native plant gardening stuff to be, consider that I had my head and arms right in them while weeding and mulching, and those busy bees were not the least bit interested in me.
#pollinatorgarden #gardensforthebees #forthebees #fornaturegardening #fornaturegardeningandlandcare
Hot days building gardens = bliss!!
#joepyeandi
#foxglovefairy
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This design and install of 150 native and nativar flora today is going to be a delight for pollinators and for the senses.
#fornaturegardeningandlandcare #fornaturegardening #naturalisticgardening #meadowgarden #nativeplantsofontario #nativeplantgardening #pollinatorgarden #gardeningfornature #gardensforbiodiversity #ontarionativeplants
"That landscaper prunes weird!!
Nope!
This is #fornaturegardening !!
While almost finished pruning this lilac, I noticed a nest with 3 beautiful little blue eggs in it. After a while, the parent Robin came by and was alarmed at my presence, so I knew the nest was active. I finished pruning the shrub but left the branches around the nest uncut so as to shelter the Robins from sun and predators. This shrub will undoubtedly look weird for a while, but after explaining to the client the importance of leaving these branches, they of course agreed to leave them until the babies hatch and fledge in just a few weeks` time.
These little adaptations can mean the difference between a landscape that is like a sterile museum of garden specimens, and a landscape that is rich in biodiversity and respects the Beings we share this planet with.
#gardeningfornature
#biodiverselandscapes
#wildlifegarden #wildlifegardening #respectmotherearth #gardensforbiodiversity #robinnest
#gardenfacelift #beforeandaftergardenpics
Obsessing over these gardens.