Common Ninebark
$42.00The shrub we named the place after. Nearly unkillable, and the bark peels in winter.
Serviceberry
Amelanchier canadensis
$145.00#7 pot9 on the bench
A small native tree that earns its space four times a year — and the berries are worth eating.
- ONTARIO NATIVE
- FEEDS POLLINATORS
We don't sell online — plants travel badly and we'd rather you saw what you're buying. Ring 705-555-0126 and we'll hold it at the till for 48 hours.
About this plant
If someone asks for one small tree for a suburban lot, this is what we send them home with. White flowers before the leaves in early May, edible berries in late June, clean orange-red autumn colour, and smooth grey bark in winter.
The berries taste somewhere between a blueberry and an almond. You will be competing with cedar waxwings for them and you will lose, which is arguably the better outcome.
Multi-stem forms look better in a garden than the single-leader nursery standard. We grow both; ask which we have.
Looking after it
- Water
- Deeply, weekly, for the first two summers
- Soil
- Prefers slightly acidic; tolerates most things
- Pruning
- Only to remove crossing branches, in late winter
- Note
- Susceptible to rust if near junipers
Plant it with
Hosta 'Halcyon'
$18.00The best blue hosta there is, and thick enough in the leaf that slugs mostly give up.
Wild Ginger
$15.00The native ground cover for dry shade under maples, where almost nothing else will go.