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I'll keep flying critter off your plants. Stick me in the ground with your plant and bugs won't be able to get away from my sticky personality.

Celebrate the first taste of spring produce with our Strawberry Rhubarb Sunshine Jam! Rhubarb + Lemon Balm from our Suburban Homestead Gardens meets Ontario strawberries in this modern take on a classic favourite.

Our products are made by hand, in small batches, in our Celiac-safe gluten-free kitchen.

INGREDIENTS: strawberry, rhubarb, lemon balm, lemon juice, pectin, sugar

This fun succulent variety is distinctive for its banana shaped leaves! Originating from rocky regions of South Africa.  Being from a dry area, they do not require a lot of watering.  Just like succulents, these guys can last through a drought. String of Bananas is a perfect plant for a hanging basket with its long trailing vines!

Scientific Name: Curio Radicans

Common Name: String of Bananas

Light: Bright indirect light 

Watering: When top soil is dry, ensure good drainage 

Growth: Can reach up to lengths of 36 inches

Pet Safe: No

Care: Intermediate

This beautiful plant has cascading vines and heart shaped leaves.  This plant stores water in its leaves and roots making it drought tolerant.  In the spring and fall the String of Hearts actually produces flowers! 

mall, tubular, pinkish-purple flowers and they have tiny hairs that trap insects helping with pollination!

Scientific Name: Ceropegia Woodii

Common Name: String of Hearts/Rosary Vine/Chain of Hearts

Light: Bright indirect light to full sun

Watering: Let dry out between waterings

Pet Safe: Yes

Care: Easy

String of Pearls. An absolute stunner and collectible!

Despite how these are shown in pop culture and traditional garden centres, String of Pearls (and their various cousins Beads, Dolphins etc) are crawlers - drape them on top of the soil and expand your pot width as they grow, as opposed to letting them drape too long down the sides.

Scientific Name: Senecio Rowleyanus

Common Name: String of Pearls

Growth: Up to 3 feet in length

Light: Bright indirect light 

Watering: When top soil is dry, ensure good drainage 

Pet Safe: No

Care: Intermediate

The String of Turtles is a cute little plant that resembles turtle shells.  It originates from the rainforests of Ecuador and Brazil. It thrives in warm, humid conditions, growing as a trailing vine.  A plant that is very easy to propagate and thrives in terrariums.

Scientific Name:  Peperomia Prostrata

Common Name: String of Turtles

Growth: Could reach 12 inches long

Light: Bright indirect light 

Watering: When top soil is dry, ensure good drainage 

Pet Safe: Yes

Care: Intermediate

Adorable succulents in a variety of pots

Sunflowers are a must-grow annual each season - their bright, cheery faces make me smile, and I absolutely love them in fall bouquets. They're always covered in bees of all sizes, even ladybugs. Then the birds, squirrels and chipmunks feast on the seeds.

I adore Ring of Fire, with their chocolate brown centres surrounded by golden yellow petals that turn to red. People ask me about them every year. I find the more sun they get, the deeper the red colour.

Ring of Fire is a basal branching variety, so you get multiple blooms off each plant. When you're tight on space, this is a bonus. Succession plant the seeds for continuous blooms.

Chipmunks and squirrels LOVE sunflower seeds and small shoots, and will relentlessly dig up the seeds and/or chop the tender plants off. My neighbours have heard my sobs and swearing in equal measure over the years. Here are my tried and tested ways to fight them:

1. Direct sow seeds in containers or pots, then completely cage them with small-holed wire mesh (forget plastic - they will eat right through it) for as long as possible
2. Start seeds indoors 4 weeks before last frost, then transplant to the garden with tall, wire mesh collars around the seedlings and DO NOT remove all season

Note: I learned the hard way that sunflowers are allelopathic, meaning they give off toxins that impede the growth of or even kill other plants. They also deplete soil of nutrients. Because I grow so much food in containers, I now grow my sunflowers in separate pots and place them near their fruit, veg and herb companions

Type: Annual

Height: 4-5 ft.

Light: full sun

Soil: heavy feeders, sunflowers need organically-rich soil that's well draining

Planting: Sow in warm soil after the danger of frost, 1/2" deep, 6" apart

Harvest: 8-12 weeks

Add these whimsical sea creature tentacles to spruce up your plant pots.

Using curated plants, foraged + coloured rocks and a selection of our adorable mini resin creatures, you'll create your very own glass jar woodland terrarium with expert Lydia Treacy! You'll learn the best plants for humid terrarium environments, how to divide + grow plants, the best tools to use + care instructions. 

This class includes all materials. Additional tools, plants + creatures available for purchase. 

Your ticket includes:

• All materials
• Private instruction
• Small class size
• Private shopping + 10% off selected items during the workshop

• A beverage

Note: Ages 8+ accompanied by an adult

These THICC propagation buddies would be an amazing and funny new addition to your propagation plant! 

Tradescantia have iridescent and striped leaves while also being great plants for propagating!

Light: Bright indirect light

Watering: keep evenly hydrated and mist occasionally 

Pet Safe: no

Care: Easy

Excellent support for climbing or unruly plants, or to add some pizzazz to your favourites!

Add this beautiful metal trellis to your climbing indoor plants. A crystal hangs at the top.