Sisyrinchium are low growing perennial native to America, with grass like leaves in strong clumps, and small but attractive, blue or yellow flowers. Wild flowers often found in wet meadows. Easily grown in ordinary garden soil, most species need steady moisture....
Pale purple coneflower(E. pallida); native to Ontario Sanguine purple coneflower(E. sanguinea): red-purple petals with streaks (sanguinea, Latin for “blood” refers to streaks in petals; native to southern states Smooth purple coneflower(E. laevigata): narrow, drooping, pale-pink petals; endang...
20 Most Beautiful Native Flowers of the Philippines Foxgloves: Beautiful Flowers and Digitalis Health Effects 12 Flowers That Look Like Animals, Insects, and People Amorphophallus Titanum (Corpse Plant): The Largest Flower in the World Only Blooms Every 40 Years...
moist woodland area. Native in southern US. Best in partial shade or at least light shade area. Red and yellow showy flowers in late spring to early summer. Attracts humming birds, bees and butterflies. Also gives shady spot some color!
A native to Europe, it first found its way west with early missionaries and now is found over most of temperate North America. Flowers May to October. FACTS/USES: The generic name is derived from the Latinized form of an old Greek plant used by Aristotle around Sparta and Troy. The ...
A pink White Trillium in Ontario, Canada forest. White trilliums turn pink as they age. ©iStock.com/Zoe Weber The trillium plant is a nativeNorth Americanwildflower with three large leaves and a single three-petaled blossom. The blooms can be white, pink, or red, and they appear in ...
In more southerly areas (southern Ontario and south) Poison Ivy becomes a vine and climbs trees. It attaches to the tree with numerous fine rootlets. The tree shown here has several Poison Ivy vines climbing it. This picture was taken in the spring before any leaves have come out, in Poin...
Foxgloves are beautiful but poisonous flowers found in the wild and in gardens. They contain digitalis. This is a useful heart medication but can be dangerous.
This thesis explores the meanings and implications of private gardening in the suburbs of southern Ontario in the post World War II era until 1962. It explores why gardening proliferated, the impact of tools and technology, the purposes of different spaces within the yard, and the gendered ...
Pickerel weed is a deciduous, perennial, aquatic plant that native to Americas. It commonly found in streams, ponds and Marshes of Ontario, Nova Scotia, Southern Florida, Missouri and Oklahoma.Pickerel weedshave long, shiny heart-shaped leaves and it produce tiny, tubular blue flowers on spikes...