Bountiful midsummer flowers: Hardy hydrangeas
Hydrangeas are one of the most loved and widely planted flowering shrubs in Canada. Stephen grows the smooth hydrangea and the panicle hydrangea.
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Stephen Westcott-Gratton
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Reach for the top with foxtail lilies
Tall perennials are beautiful and useful for dramatic accents, focal points and floral screens. Several species of foxtail lilies produce flowering spikes.
My Canada 150 summer reading list
Canadian classics: Manitoba’s Frederick Philip Grove, British Columbia’s Martin Allerdale Grainger, Ontario’s Anna Brownell Jameson, Nova Scotia’s Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Bunchberries make national headlines
You may not recognize the name, but you may have seen bunchberries hiking through a Canadian forest in late spring (small, upward-facing white flowers).
Baptisias: Favourite almost-native perennials
In 1990, blue false indigo (Baptisia australis) was considered a rare plant, but by 2010 the Perennial Plant Association named it Perennial of the Year.