Greenspire Linden Tree

Shinamagashi Japanese Maple in Retainning Planter

Bloodgood Japanese Maple

Emerald Cedars 4-5'

Things you need at the Garden Center

When you have ventured to the garden center to purchase a tree or shrub their are several factors to think about. Below is a list of factors and the materials in which are needed to make it all to come together.

Materials to maximize ultimate tree health and growth.

1. Location: Think about where the tree you purchase will be planted, will it be planted in the sun, shade or a mixture of both. Will the tree be planted in a low elevation on your property or will be up on a higher area? this will help determine if you need a specimen that requires allot of moisture or if would prefer a dryer area. Think about the size of the area the tree or shrub will be planted and how large you would like the tree or shrub to maximize at. How long will you be staying at this particular property. All this will help you to select the tree or shrub. Now Select your tree or shrub
2. Think about if you have good soil quality at your property or if you will need to amend your existing soil. In most cases to insure maximum health and growth of a freshly planted tree or shrub you will want to prepare a completely new soil bed in the area the tree or shrub will be planted. Select a high grade triple mix planting soil in which new plantings take kindly to. The amount of soil will depend on the size of hole you will dig or the size of specimen you will be planting.
3. In most to all cases with a freshly planted tree or shrub you will want to add a water soluble starter fertilizer. This will help give the freshly planted tree or shrub a good kick start and get the roots going. It will help the roots bypass any planting stress that can occur in the early stages of planting.
4. You may have to stake the tree if it is a larger specimen and is planted in an area susceptible to high winds. In some cases a tree planted in a high wind area can be uprooted and fall over in a storm.

 size of stake will be determined by the size of tree or shrub you are planting. Be sure to select the correct hardware that will secure the tree to the wood tree stakes.




5. After the tree has been planted according to the planting diagrams and suggestion I have given you below on this site, your next step will be to mulch the planting area around the drip line of the tree or shrub with a cedar mulch. This will help to retain the moisture and insulate the roots over the cold winter. What the Cedar mulch also does is to attract the warm sun in the spring to quickly activate the roots into action, helping the tree or shrub bounce back after winter.

6.  Water Water and more Water for the first 2 weeks after planting to ensure root growth and establishment. I recommend a watering can or hose not a sprinkler because then you can manually direct the water right at the roots.      

ENJOY YOUR TREE

ONTARIO CLIMATE ZONE MAP

When selecting and purchasing plants ,trees, and shrubs you need to always consider the appropriate climate zone in which the plant or tree veriety should be planted. Please keep in mind that specimens can be planted in a zone 1 higher or 1 lower than your zone location. eg. If you are in a zone 5 like Toronto than you can go with a zone 4 or 6 specimen if you alter the care and yard location to match the climate environment of the correct zone indicated. Appropriate zones are generally indicated on the tag attached to the tree or shrub you are purchasing.

ZONE MAP OF ONTARIO

Native Trees and Shrubs to Ontario

 
The distinction of Native and Non-native species is sometimes not clearcut. For the purposes of this website various sources are used. Generally speaking, a species is considered to be non-native if it did not occur in the region covered by this website prior to the arrival of Europeans. But there may be exceptions.
Non-native species are also often referred to as "Alien" species.
The distinction between Native and Non-native species is important because many Non-native species are invasive and alter the ecosystem of an area. They may crowd out native plants. Animals, not being familiar with the foreign plants, frequently will not use them for food or even shelter. So the impact of the Non-native species extends well past their simple presence in an area.

 

Native Trees List

• Balsam Fir
• Silver (white) Fir
• Fraser Fir
• Rocky Mountain Fir
• Manitoba Maple
• Black Maple
• Striped Maple
• Red Maple
• Silver Maple
• Sugar Maple
• Mountain Maple
• Ohio Buckeye
• Yellow Buckeye
• Speckled (Hazel) Alder
• Shadblow (Downy) Serviceberry
• Allegany Serviceberry
• Devil's Walking Stick
• Common Paw Paw
• Sweet Birch
• Yellow Birch
• River Birch
• Gray Birch
• American Hornbeam (Blue Beech)
• Bitternut Hickory
• Pignut Hickory
• Northern Pecan
• Shagbark Hickory
• Mockernut hickory
• American chestnut
• Northern Catalpa
• Common Hackberry
• Eastern Redbud
• Hinoki False Cypress
• Fringe Tree
• Yellowwood
• Pagoda Dogwood
• Flowering Dogwood
• Corkspur Hawthorn
• Downy Hawthorn
• Washington Hawthorn
• Frosted Hawthorn
• Common Persimmon
• Eastern Wahoo
• American Beech
• White Ash
• Black Ash
• Green Ash
• Blue Ash
• Common Honeylocust
• Kentucky Coffee Tree
• Carolina Silverbell
• Common Witchhazel
• Butternut
• Black Walnut
• Rocky Mountain Juniper
• Eastern Red Cedar
• Eastern Larch
• American Sweetgum
• Tulip Tree
• Osage-Orange
• Cucumber Tree Magnolia
• Prairie Crabapple
• Red Mulberry
• Black Tupelo
• Ironwood
• Sourwood
• White Spruce
• Dwarf Alberta Spruce
• Black Hills White Spruce
• Black Spruce
• Colorado Spruce
• Colorado Blue Spruce
• Jack Pine
• Lumber Pine
• Ponderosa Pine
• Red Pine
• Eastern White Pine
• American Plane Tree
• Balsam Poplar
• Eastern Poplar
• Bigtooth Aspen
• Trembling Aspen
• American Plum
• Pin Cherry
• Black Cherry
• Chokecherrry
• Common Hop Tree
• White Oak
• Swamp Oak
• Northern Red Oak
• Scarlet Oak
• Shingle Oak
• Bur Oak
• Pin Oak
• Red Oak
• Rosebay Rhododendron
• Smooth Sumac
• Staghorn Sumac
• Black Locust
• Pussy Willow
• Black Willow
• Sassafras
• American Mountain Ash
• Showy Mountain Ash
• Common Bald Cypress
• Eastern White Cedar
• American Linden (basswood)
• Canadian Hemlock
• American Elm
• Nannyberry
• Common Prickly Ash

Native Shrubs

• Bottlebush Buckeye
• Lead Plant
• Indigo Bush
• Bog Rosemary
• Bearberry
• Red Chokeberry
• Black Chokeberry
• Purple Chokeberry
• Sweet Shrub
• New Jersey Tea
• Buttonbush
• Summers Weet
• Sweet Fern
• Silky Dogwood
• Bunchberry
• Gray Dogwood
• Red Osier Dogwood
• Dwarf Bush Honeysuckle
• Leatherwood
• Silverberry
• Running Euonymus
• Dwarf Gothergilla
• Fothergilla
• Wintergreen
• Spring Witchhazel
• Smooth Hydrangea
• Oakleaf Hydrangea
• Saint John's Wort
• Shruby Saint John's Wort
• Inkberry
• Winterberry
• Virginia Sweet Spire
• Common Juniper
• Creeping Juniper
• Lambkill Kalmia
• Mountain Laurel
• Bog Kalmia
• Labrador Tea
• Spicebush
• Fly Honeysuckle
• Oregon Grape Holly
• Creeping Oregon Grape Holly
• Bayberry
• Canby Paxistima
• Common Ninebark
• Bristlecone Pine
• Bush Cinquefoil
• Catawba Rhododendron
• Fragrant Sumac
• American Black Currant
• Golden Currant
• Rose Acacia
• Prickly Rose
• Carolina Pasture Rose
• Prairie Rose
• Virginia Rose
• Mountain Rose
• Allegheny Raspberry
• Blackcap Raspberry
• Flowering Raspberry
• Prairie Willow
• American Elder
• Scarlet Elder
• Silver Buffaloberry
• Russet Buffaloberry
• Meadowsweet
• Hard Tack (Steeple Bush)
• American Bladdeernut
• Snowberry
• Coralberry
• Canadian Yew
• Lowbush Blueberry
• Highbush Blueberry
• American Cranberry
• Mapleleaf Viburnum
• Hobblebush
• Witherod
• Arrowood
• Rafinesque Viburnum
• American Highbush Cranberry
• Adam's Needle

Native Vines

• Dutchmans Pipe
• Crossvine
• Trumpet (Hummingbird) Vine
• American Bittersweet
• Virgins Bower
• Lumber Honeysuckle
• Common Moonseed
• Virginia Creeper
• Common Greenbrier
• Riverbank Grape

Native Perennials for Sunny Locations Yarrow Giant Hassop Blue Star Pearly Everlasting Meadow Anemone Pussy Toes Columbine Goatsbeard Butterfly Weed Heather Aster Michaelmas Daisy Groundsel Tree False Indigo White Baptisia Boltonia Side Oat Gramma Mosquito Grass Indian Paintbrush Turtle Head Pink Turtle Head Golden Star Golden Aster Black Snakeroot Coreopsis Pink Coreopsis Threadleaf Coreopsis Mountain Avens Purple Coneflower Canadian Wild Rye Mountain Fleabane Daisy Fleabane Oregon Sunshine Rattlesnake Master Mist Flower Joe Pye Weed White Snakeroot Blue Fescue Queen of the Prairie Wild Strawberry Blanket Flowers Gaura Prairie Smoke Bowman's Root Helenium Sunflower Heliopsis Cow Parsnip Alum Root Coral Bells Rose Mallow Hawkweed Blue Ridge St. John's Wort Dwarf Crested Iris Louisiana Iris Arctic Iris Blue Flag Iris Blazing Star Kansas Gayfeather Gayfeather Canada Lily Prairie Lily Turk's Cap Lily Prairie Flax Cardinal Flower Great Lobelia Alpine Azalea Wild Lupin American Loosestrife Swamp Loosestrife Monkey Flower Partridge Berry Lemon Bergamot Bee Balm Wild Bergamot Dotted Mint Mountain Mint Ozark Sundrops Evening Primrose Sundrops Pachistima Switch Grass Umbrella Plant Red Penstemon Mat Penstemon Foxglove Penstemon Rocky Mountain Penstemon Colorado Penstemon Ground Phlox Obedient Plant Creeping Cinquefoil Mexican Hat Black-eyed Susan Sweet Susan Wild Petunia Cancer Weed Oregon Stonecrop Checkerbloom Mountain Pink Compass Plant Cup Plant Prairie Dock Blue Eyed Grass Solomon's Plume Golden Rod Stiff Golden Rod Carolina Lupine Spiderwort Vervain Native Plants for Shade Locations Baneberry Meadow Rue Anemone Jack in the Pulpit Wild Ginger Blue Cohosh Golden Star Spring Beauty Miner's Lettuce Bunchberry Pink Lady's Slipper Yellow Lady's Slipper Dwarf Larkspur Prairie Larkspur Pink Toothwort Squirrel Corn Dutchman's Breeches Shooting Star Galaxy Wintergreen Bottle Gentian Bowman's Root Rattlesnake Orchid Fringed Orchid Livewort Golden Seal Virginia Waterleaf Mayflower Meehan's Mint Virginia Blue Bells Showy Orchid Allegheny Spurge Ginseng Grass of Parnassus Woodland Phlox Creeping Phlox May Apple Bog jacob's Ladder Dwarf Polemonium Solomon's Seal Bloodroot Oconee Bells Rose Twisted Stalk Golden Wood Poppy Fringecups American Wood Sage Purple Meadow Rue Foam Flower Crane Fly Orchid Tovara Trillium Bellwort Lingonberry Iron Weed Sweet White Violet Yellow Violet Canadian Violet Native Grasses Sweet Flag Big blue Stem Little Blue Stem Side Oats Grama Mosquito Grass Prairie Brome Blue Joint Grass Gray's Sedge Porcupine Sedge Palm Sedge Grass Pennsylvanian Sedge Plaintain Sedge Cyperus Sedge Fox Sedge Northern Sea Oats Tufted Hair Grass Canadian Wild Rye Wild Rye Red Fescue Blue Fescue Rattlesnake Grass Manna Grass Fowl Manna Grass Sweet Grass Bottle Brush Grass Crested June Grass Rice Cut Grass Switch Grass Reed Canary Grass Common Reed Indian Grass Cord Grass Variegated Cord Grass Prairie Drop Seeds Native plants, trees, perennials and grasses can be found growing naturally in suitable environments like dry grasslands, shady woods, near ponds and streams and in wet areas in North America. When deciding to add native plants to your landscape design, consider the conditions they need to survive.