Learn More About the Land You are On
Whose Land
Learn about whose land you are on and the indigenous businesses you can support.
Plant Websites
Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Centre: Native Plants of North America
Best for: learning to propagate, identifying growing conditions, finding additional research.
Drawback: Lists native distribution by province, lots of information that is to parse at a glance.
The North Carolina Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox
Best for: relationships to bugs and birds, growing conditions, landscape use.
Drawback: Lists native distribution by province or state.
Plant Books
- 100 Easy-to-Grow native Plants for Canadian Gardens
- A Garden for the Rusty-Patched Bumblebee: Creating Habitat for Native Pollinators: Ontario and Great Lakes Edition
- The Gardener’s Guide to Native Plants of the Southern Great Lakes Region
- Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Organizations
Carolinian Zone Organizations
The Carolinian zone is commonly referred to South West Ontario, an area rich in biodiversity that spans from Windsor to St. Catherines and Toronto. Many plants labelled as native to Ontario are native to this region and may not be native to the Ottawa Valley.