NANPS spring plant sale pre-ordering now open!

The North American Native Plant Society's annual spring plant sale is coming up! This is the biggest native plant sale in all of Canada, and the best source for locally ethically grown native plants for Toronto gardeners. You can preorder online now, or just do what I do and shop on the day itself. The prices are very reasonable ($5 for most forbs, $12 for most trees) and the selection is amazing! (The photo above is the Penstemon hirsutus (hairy beardtongue, penstémon hirsute) which I bought at last year's sale. It started blooming within weeks of planting it in my garden!

Don't forget the NANPS native plant sale tomorrow!

The North American Native Plant Society's Spring Wildflower Show and Expo is happening tomorrow, May 9, 10am-3pm, Markham Civic Centre, 101 Town Centre Boulevard (west of Warden Avenue, north of Highway 7). They will have a huge selection of ferns, grasses, sedges, trees, shrubs, and vines, as well as wildflowers, at very reasonable prices.

Toronto Botanical Garden plant sale is on now!

Oops, I forgot to post earlier that Toronto Botanical Garden's plant sale is now underway. It is every day from now through Saturday, May 9, and is open 10am-5pm, at TBG, 777 Lawrence Ave. East (at Leslie; served by TTC bus 54 Lawrence East from Eglinton Station, directions available here).

Unfortunately they don't seem to have posted a plant list this year; unless you count the vague "[c]arefully selected annuals, perennials, succulents, native plants, ornamental vegetables and heirloom favourites". Last year I picked up Aquilegia canadensis (wild columbine), Coreopsis lanceolata (lanceleaf coreopsis), and Geum triflorum (prairie smoke).

There are lots of lovely plants to enjoy at TBG anyway; on the weekend I saw as well as the usual daffodills and Muscari a very pretty pale yellow magnolia in bloom, various natives including Hepatica, Trillium grandiflora and Dicentra cucullaria, and much more which I can't remember right now. Right next to TBG is Wilket Creek Park, always worth exploring, especially now with so many spring ephemerals in bloom!

High Park VSP Plant Sale coming May 3

The High Park Volunteer Stewardship Program is having their spring native plant sale on Sunday, May 3, 11-2, at the greenhouse. You can view the plant list (PDF) online; prices are very reasonable.

NANPS Native Plant Sale coming May 9

The North American Native Plant Society is having a plant sale and expo in Markham on May 9. I don't know how I'll be able to go, since I don't drive, but if you can go it looks amazing. Check out the list of amazing plants available at very reasonable prices (you can reserve plants, but check their policy on plant unavailability at the bottom of this page before you do).