Echo Native Plants

05/21/2026

I have a new resident in the greenhouse keeping me company. He helps with pest control...and cuteness. 😍🐸

What should I name our little Tree Frog?

05/16/2026

*Happy Dance*
The best surprise when taking a stroll in the Echo forest today - I've never had Large Flowered Bellwort before!

It was right off the path and when I ventured in a bit more a found a few more. Growing from seed has been slow and/or unsuccessful so I'm very excited to start having a wild source to be able to pot up in a few years!

05/14/2026

We are in full swing at the nursery! Despite the cooler cloudy spring and plants being a few weeks behind schedule, the nursery is open for appointments! We have limited stock available at the moment, but more is being added each day. New season stock and new species (winter germinated plants) are expected to be out early June.

Now is also the perfect time to schedule in your Garden Designs or Garden Consultations! I can help you with your garden prep, design you pollinator garden of your dreams, install your garden.
Not ready this year? That's ok! We get your design and prep done now, so your garden can be customer grown over the winter and installed next year!

Plan a visit to come view our wide selection of native plants, get in-person advice on what plants will grow in your space and view our ever-expanding demo gardens. We're only a 45 minute drive from Ottawa.

05/06/2026

Busy busy busy! We've been hard at work potting and prepping plants for the Friends of the Farm plant sale this weekend on Sunday May 10th, and the nursery open on Monday May 11th.

Come out and get your spring bloomers, spring ephemerals and even a limited selection of warmer season perennials (that I was able to fit in the greenhouse and wake up a bit earlier)!

05/01/2026

The days will be getting warmer again, but just a reminder that our pollinators will still be mostly hibernating and needing that leaf much and those stems for a few more weeks.
If you feel you really need to get in the garden because say you don't want to do heavy gardening once all the black flies and mosquitoes come out (*ahem*...guilty) here's what you can do to tidy up, while helping out our pollinators:

* snip or snap stems 8"-24" high and lay them in a tidy pile near the plant. This way any pollinators or eggs that will be hatching will be right near their food source when they emerge. With things in tidy piles, once summer has moved on and our pollinators have emerged, it only takes a couple minutes walking around with the wheel barrow to gather everything up.
* Use your fingers to loosely break up dense leaf mats and falllen grasses. This way emerging plants aren't as likely to be smothered, but pollinators still have protection.
* Light weeding. Any missed dandelion, clover or other unwanteds get pulled (and tossed to the chickens).
* Prune or trim shrubs. Before they leaf out is a great time to do this for most of our native shrubs. Less stress on the shrub and it's easier to see what shape you're working with.
* Sometimes I'll remove or move plants at this time as well. It's easier on the plant to move it when the temps are still cool and it is still dormant. Plus you're not fighting to work around all the other garden growth.

05/01/2026

Some more pretty spring ephemerals from the last few days! 😍

04/23/2026

It's beginning to look alot like spring! 😍

04/20/2026

Some photos from a hike in the Echo forest this weekend. I visited the second Round Lobed Hepetica patch - one of my top spring blooms, for sure!
Also spotted a teeny tiny Spring Peeper and our Blanding Turtle (endangered species) is back!
Potted up this weekend: more Round Lobed Hepetica, Foamflower, Woodland Strawberry, Virginia Waterleaf, and a few Maidenhair Fern.

04/17/2026

A beautiful day for potting up some spring ephemerals! Carolina Spring Beauty, Dutchman's Breeches, Trout Lily, Wild Ramps and even a couple TrIlliums. I also have some Round Lobed Hepetica and Wild Columbine (not ephemerals though). They will be in the shop by next week!

01/01/2026

Another night cleaning seeds to finish off planting this week. Obviously, all the essentials are with me. Including good company with the family listening to music and playing with Legos

I know I am definitely excited for another season of growing and creating native plant gardens...anyone else looking forward to the growing season!? 💕

Happy New Year everyone! 🥂🌱