NinebarkFARM & GARDEN

What's growing

Everything on the benches right now, with honest advice about where it will and won't do well. Stock counts update through the day.

12 plants

Black-Eyed Susan

$13.00

Rudbeckia fulgida 'Goldsturm'

Solid gold from August into October, when most of the border has given up.

  • NATIVE
  • POLLINATOR
Light
Full sun
Zone
3 – 9
Height
60 cm
Common Ninebark

Common Ninebark

$42.00

Physocarpus opulifolius

The shrub we named the place after. Nearly unkillable, and the bark peels in winter.

  • NATIVE
  • POLLINATOR
  • DEER OK
Light
Full sun
Zone
2 – 8
Height
1.5 – 2.5 m
Culinary Herb Collection

Culinary Herb Collection

$5.00

Mixed genera

Basil, thyme, sage, oregano, rosemary, parsley, chives, mint — and mint stays in a pot.

  • POLLINATOR
  • DEER OK
Light
Full sun
Zone
Mixed
Height
20 – 60 cm
Heritage Tomato Seedlings

Heritage Tomato Seedlings

$6.00

Solanum lycopersicum

Fourteen varieties we grow on the farm here, because they actually ripen in our season.

  • POLLINATOR
Light
Full sun
Zone
Annual
Height
1.5 – 2 m
Hosta 'Halcyon'

Hosta 'Halcyon'

$18.00

Hosta × tardiana

The best blue hosta there is, and thick enough in the leaf that slugs mostly give up.

    Light
    Part shade
    Zone
    3 – 8
    Height
    40 cm

    Little Bluestem

    $16.00

    Schizachyrium scoparium

    Blue-green in summer, copper and mahogany from September until you cut it down in April.

    • NATIVE
    • DEER OK
    Light
    Full sun
    Zone
    3 – 9
    Height
    60 – 100 cm
    Ostrich Fern

    Ostrich Fern

    $17.00

    Matteuccia struthiopteris

    Fiddleheads in May, a metre and a half of green architecture by July.

    • NATIVE
    • DEER OK
    Light
    Part shade
    Zone
    3 – 7
    Height
    1 – 1.5 m
    Purple Coneflower

    Purple Coneflower

    $14.00

    Echinacea purpurea

    The workhorse of a pollinator border. Flowers for two months and feeds goldfinches all winter.

    • NATIVE
    • POLLINATOR
    • DEER OK
    Light
    Full sun
    Zone
    3 – 9
    Height
    60 – 90 cm

    Sedum 'Autumn Joy'

    $14.00

    Hylotelephium 'Herbstfreude'

    Broccoli-green all summer, dusty pink in September, rust-brown through the snow.

    • POLLINATOR
    • DEER OK
    Light
    Full sun
    Zone
    3 – 9
    Height
    50 cm
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    Serviceberry

    $145.00

    Amelanchier canadensis

    A small native tree that earns its space four times a year — and the berries are worth eating.

    • NATIVE
    • POLLINATOR
    Light
    Full sun
    Zone
    3 – 8
    Height
    5 – 7 m
    Summer Squash & Zucchini

    Summer Squash & Zucchini

    $5.00

    Cucurbita pepo

    Two plants will feed a household. Three will make you unpopular with your neighbours.

    • POLLINATOR
    Light
    Full sun
    Zone
    Annual
    Height
    60 cm

    Wild Ginger

    $15.00

    Asarum canadense

    The native ground cover for dry shade under maples, where almost nothing else will go.

    • NATIVE
    • DEER OK
    Light
    Part shade
    Zone
    3 – 7
    Height
    15 cm