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African Violet comes in many different colours. Native to the cloud forests of East Africa. They grow in humid, sheltered, indirect lighting conditions. Often on moss-covered rocks under the shade of tall trees. Keeping the leaves dry while watering is important. If the leaves are wet and the sun shines on the leaves it can cause burn marks on the leaves.
Scientific Name: Saintpaulia Ionantha
Common Name: African Violet
Light: Bright, indirect light
Watering: Water only the soil and not the leaves. Best to bottom water when top inch is dry.
Growth: Up to 8 inches
Pet Safe: Yes
Care: Intermediate
The lowest of care plants! Air plants do not require soil to survive. Just as the name implies, they survive in air! They can be displayed in many decorative formats. With their unique look, they can be quite fun to display. They originate from Central and South America. Air Plants come in all shapes and sizes as well as multiple colours.
Scientific Name: Tillandsia
Common Name: Air Plant
Light Requirements: Bright Indirect Light, direct sun for too many hours can scorch the leaves.
Water: Once a week, submerge in water and then be sure to completely dry out.
Pet Safe: Yes
Care: Easy
The lowest of care plants! A variety of shapes and sizes add dramatic flair to any living space.
Watering: Soak in water once a week and let completely dry.
Light: Bright, indirect light.
Pet Safe: Yes
Care: Easy
Alocasia Jacklyn originates from the tropical rainforests of Indonesia. It is officially known as Alocasia Tandurusa and its local name, "Tandurusa," translates to "deer antlers" in Indonesian, referring to its unique leaf shape. The name Jacklyn comes from the fact that a woman named Jacklyn shared the plant online giving it a surge in popularity.
Scientific Name: Alocasia Sulawesi and Alocasia Tandurusa
Common Name: Alocasia Jacklyn
Light: Bright, Indirect Light
Watering: Water when the top inch of soil are dry. They thrive in high humidity. Keep evening moist but not waterlogged.
Growth: Moderate to fast depending on if it is in ideal conditions
Pet Safe: No
Care: Moderate to difficult
Easy to care for Aloe Vera are great as a window plant. Cut open one of their branches and use it to soothe sunburns and other burns. Originating from the northeastern part of the Arabian Peninsula. When this plant reaches maturity, it can produce pretty little yellow, red, and orange flowers!
Scientific Name: Aloe barbadensis miller
Common Name: Aloe Vera
Growth: Can grow 8-10 inches in four years.
Light: Bright, Indirect light
Watering: Let soil dry out before watering again.
Pet safe: No
Care: Easy
The Anthurium is known for their glossy, heart-shaped leaves with vibrant coloured waxy flowers. These "flowers" are actually called spathes. These spathes comes in all different colours such as red, pink, white and black. These plants are native to South and Central America.
Scientific Name: Anthurium Andraeanum
Common Name: Anthurium
Light: Medium-bright indirect
Growth: 1-2 feet tall
Watering: Likes a humid environment - keep evenly hydrated + mist regularly
Pet Safe: No
Care: Easy
A carnivorous plant with deep maroon pitchers. Native to Southeast Asia, this plant is so unique in the fact that they use they're pitcher leaves to catch their food. These pitchers lure, trap, and digest insects to supplement their nutrient intake in nutrient-poor soil. Since they are from a tropical climate, they do thrive with lots of moisture and humidity.
Scientific Name: Nepenthes
Common Name: Asian Pitcher Plant
Light: Bright indirect light
Watering: Use ONLY distilled, rain or reverse osmosis water. Keep evenly hydrated, likes being misted.
Growth: Slow growing, can take 5-10 years to mature.
Pet Safe: Yes
Care: Intermediate
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Bring the sun into the garden with these delightful flowers! Multi branched and loaded with flowers!
Type: Annual flower
Height: 5-6'
Light: full sun
Soil: rich soil
Water: even watering
Bloom time: late summer
Planting: Start indoors 2-3 weeks before last frost or sow directly into the garden. Sow 1/2" deep into warm soil.
A member of the nettle family, this plant is known for its moss-like dense foliage. It drapes nicely in a hanging pot! Baby tears originated in the Mediterranean Region. It's a creeping, mat-forming, evergreen perennial that thrives in damp, shaded area. It is known to have calming effects on some plant lovers due to the texture and softness of the foliage.
Scientific Name: Soleirolia Soleirolii
Common Name: Angel Tears/Baby Tears.
Light: Bright indirect light
Growth: it can spread 3-6 feet
Watering: Keep well watered, don’t let dry
Pet Safe: Yes
Care: Intermediate - they like high humidity
A weird little succulent that looks like…well…baby toes!
Scientific Name: Fenestraria rhopalophylla
Common Name: Baby Toes
Growth: 2-3 inches tall
Watering: Let dry between watering
Pet Safe: Yes
Care: Intermediate
Light: Bright, indirect light
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I've grown Scarlet Runner Beans for many years for a very specific purpose: the flowers are a magnet for hummingbirds! I plant them along the fence of my food garden enclosure, where I train them to wind horizontally - each seed produces a vine 10-15 ft. Ruby Throated Hummingbirds (the only type I've seen in my Zone 5 gardens) visit the scarlet flowers, then zoom to the fruit and veggie plants, herbs and native plants. It's a joy to see.
While usually grown for their splendid flowers, every part of this versatile veggie is edible! The starchy roots, young leaves and even the flowers can be eaten. (Check out the bright pink-light purple fresh seeds! So fun.) Runner beans must be thoroughly cooked before eating, as they contain traces of lectin (phytohaemagglutinin), which is toxic in large quantities. The beans are dense, with a thick texture, and slightly smoky flavour.
Dried beans store excellent in the pantry, and can be added to soups and stews after soaking.
To get the most flowers, pinch off forming pods; this sends a message to the plant to push out more buds.
Type: Vegetable
Height: 10-15ft.
Light: full sun
Soil: well draining, warm
Planting: Direct sow late spring-early summer, 1-2" deep into warm soil (too cold, and the seeds will rot), 3-4" apart.
Harvest: 75 days
The Bear Claw succulent is a plant with thick, fuzzy green leaves that have distinct, claw-like teeth along the edges, resembling bear paws. The plant is native to South Africa. The tips of the plants, under bright sunlight, can turn red!
Scientific Name: Cotyledon Tomentosa
Common Name: Bear Claw Succulent
Light: Bright, indirect light
Growth: 12-16 inches tall
Watering: Let dry between watering
Pet Safe: No
Care: Easy
A fun variety of Begonia with exciting spotted leaves! This type of begonia is one of the easiest begonias to grow. It originates from the rain forests of Brazil. With their spotted leaves in the shape of an angel wing, this is a stand out plant that will get your guests talking. When in a place where it thrives, this plant produces beautiful flowers.
Scientific Name: Begonia Coccinea
Common Name: Angel Wing Begonia
Light: Bright indirect light
Growth: 4-6 feet tall
Watering: Keep evenly hydrated, bottom water ONLY
Pet Safe: No
Care: Moderate
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A beautifully tall grass native to the original prairies of Southern Ontario. Lovely, bronze colour in the fall, lends graceful movement to the garden as it sways in the wind. Give them a few years to establish as they sink their roots down to incredible depths, making them great carbon sequesters. Big Blue Stem is also known as Turkey's foot due to the shape of it's seed heads. A warm season grass, it will be slow to return in the spring. Be patient!
Type: Perennial, native to Ontario
Height: 6-10'
Light: Full sun
Soil: sandy, loam
Water: moist to dry
Bloom time: fall
Planting: Seeds grow best when planted into containers in the spring. Press into the soil well to make contact with the soil. They will take some time to germinate and will only do so when it gets a bit warmer. Here is a good guide: Big Bluestem – A Big Grass With Big Benefits – GrowIt BuildIT
Wild life support: Seeds feed feed a variety of birds and are great for creating hiding and shelter spots for birds and other wildlife.
The bird's nest fern is named this way because the centre of the plant resembles a bird's nest. It is also occasionally called a crow's nest fern. The Bird's Nest Fern is Native to the tropical regions of Southeast Asia, Eastern Australia and India.
Scientific Name: Asplenium Nidus
Common Name: Bird's Nest Fern
Light: Bright indirect light
Watering: They need a very deep watering followed by letting them dry out.
Growth: Can grow up to 12 inches
Pet Safe: yes
Care: Easy
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A "happy" flower for the garden. It is not a perennial in the common sense of the word as it does not reliably come back every year. To keep it in the garden you must allow it to self seed and plan for it to appear randomly throughout the garden. Some may find this charming, but for those who like a planned garden, it might be annoying. Black Eyed Susan like to grow in disturbed soils, so it is often thought of as a colonizing plant. Once a garden is established, it is less likely to grow in your garden.
Type: Annual to short lived perennial, native to Ontario
Height: 1-2'
Light: full sun to light shade
Soil: sand to richer loams, adaptable
Water: dry to moist
Bloom time: all summer, June to end of August
Planting: Cold moist stratification for 30 days - see options in photos, courtesy of Northern Wildflowers. . This website offers a great guide to "winter sowing". Winter Sowing – Complete Guide To Starting Seeds In Winter – GrowIt BuildIT
Stratification & Scarification: Breaking Seed Dormancy – Halton region Master Gardeners
Wild life support: Larval host plant for several butterflies and enjoyed by small bees and adult butterflies. Gold Finches enjoy the seeds throughout the fall.
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These gorgeous flowers absolutely pop in the garden, producing non-stop blooms from early summer-hard frost. They crawl with bumblebees, especially through the fall - non only for food, but as a soft sleeping bed in the cooling temperatures.
Blanket Flower need full sun and love the heat. I have them all over my property, in every type of soil - once established, they are happy as long as there's sun. Deadheading will keep the flowers prolific. A beautiful cut flower, tucked among amaranth, white phlox and sunflowers in a late summer bouquet.
Type: native perennial flower
Height: 2-3 ft.
Light: full sun
Moisture: drought tolerant
Planting: needs light to germinate. Lightly cover with soil, pressing to make contact. Keep evenly moist until germination. Can be direct sown after last frost.
Care: once established, Blanket Flower is low maintenance. Deadhead for more blooms
Bloom time: early summer-hard frost
Delicate but hardy. Bring the forest inside with this adorable Blue Star fern. A popular beginner friendly plant known for its attractive blue green leaves. It originates from tropical and sub-tropical regions of the Americas.
Scientific Name: Phlebodium Aureum
Common Name: Blue Star Fern
Light: Bright indirect light
Growth: 2-3 feet indoors over several years
Watering: They need a very deep watering followed by letting them dry out.
Pet Safe: Yes
Care: Easy
Scientific Name: Sedum Morganianum
Common Name: Burro’s Tail
Light:
Growth:
Watering: Let dry between watering
Pet Safe: Yes
Care:
In the Prayer family, its beautifully patterned leaves are sure to impress! Originating in the tropical rainforests of Brazil where it thrives under a canopy of dense forest and moisture. One of the beautiful things about this plant is that it opens up and displays its colours during the day but then closes up at night.
Scientific Name: Calathea roseopicta
Common Name: Calathea roseopicta
Light: Bright indirect light
Growth: 12-24 inches tall
Watering: Keep evenly hydrated, likes to be misted
Pet Safe: Yes
Care: Moderate