We're open for the 2024 season and aim to start deliveries and pick ups beginning in May.

Here are the potted plants and bulbs we're offering right now. These Ottawa Valley native plants are grouped by type and sorted by scientific name.

Large Trees :

1. Balsam fir (Abies balsamea)
2. Red Maple (Acer rubrum)
3. Downy serviceberry (Amelanchier arborea)
4. Paper birch(Betula papyrifera)
5. Yellow birch (Betula alleghaniensis)
6. American beech (Fagus grandifolia)
7. White spruce (Picea glauca)
8. White pine (Pinus strobus)
9. Black cherry (Prunus serotina)
10. Eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis)
11. White elm (Ulmus americana)

Small Trees/ Large Shrubs

1. Pagoda dogwood (Corylus cornuta)
2. Beaked hazelnut (Corylus cornuta)
3. Choke cherry (Prunus virginiana)
4. Staghorn sumac (Rhus typhina)
5. Bebb's willow (Salix bebbiana)
6. American black elderberry (Sambucus canadensis)
7. American mountain-ash (Sorbus americana)
8. Wild raisin (Viburnum cassinoides)

Shrubs

1. Northern bush honeysuckle (Diervilla lonicera)
2. Winterberry holly (Ilex verticillata)
3. American common juniper (Juniperus communis depressa)
4. Canada fly-honeysuckle (Lonicera canadensis)
5. White meadowsweet (Spiraea alba)
6. Steeplebush (Spiraea tomentosa)
7. Flowering raspberry (Rubus odoratus)

Flowers:

1. Yarrow (Achillea millefolium)
2. Tall hairy agrimony (Agrimonia gryposepala)
3. Canada anemone (Anemonastrum canadense)
4. Small Pussytoes (Antennaria howellii)
5. Wild sarsaparilla (Aralia nudicaulis)
6. Silverweed (Argentine anserine)
7. Silver wormwood (Artemisia ludoviciana)
8. Common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca)
9. Broad-leaved enchanter's nightshade (Circaea canadensis)
10. Goldthread (Coptis trifolia)
11. Prairie fleabane (Erigeron strigosus)
12. Philadelphia fleabane (Erigeron philadelphicus)
13. Yellow trouth lily (Erythronium americanum)
14. Field Strawberry (Fragaria virginiana)
15. Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus)
16. Northern bugleweed (Lycopus uniflorus )
17. starflower (Lysimachia borealis)
18. Canada mint (Mentha canadensis)
19. Partridge berry (Mitchella repens)
20. American plantain (Plantago rugelii)
21. Old field cinquefoil (Potentilla simplex)
22. Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta)
23. Strict blue-eyed-grass (Sisyrinchium montanum)
24. Tall goldenrod (Solidago altissima)
25. Giant goldenrod (Solidago gigantea)
26. Early goldenrod (Solidago juncea)
27. Heart-leaved aster (Symphyotrichum cordifolium)
28. Calico aster (Symphyotrichum lateriflorum)
29. New England aster (Symphyotrichum novaeangliae)
30. Northern blue violet (Viola septentrionalis)
31. Northern white violet (Viola minuscula)

Ferns:

1. Interrupted fern (Claytosmunda claytoniana)
2. New York fern (Amauropelta noveboracensis)
3. Sensitive fern (Onoclea sensibilis)
4. Cinnamon fern (Osmundastrum cinnamomeum)

Grasses, sedges, and rushes:

1. Poverty oatgrass (Danthonia spicata)
2. Longstalk sedge (Carex pedunculata)
3. Bladder sedge (Carex intumescens)
4. Brome-like sedge (Carex bromoides)
5. Crawford's sedge (Carex crawfordii)

Vines:

1. Virginia clematis (Clematis virginiana)
2. Wild cucumber (Echinocystis lobata)
3. Thicket creeper (Parthenocissus vitacea)
4. Riverbank grape (Vitis riparia)

Orders can be picked up at arranged times at our farm in Bristol, Quebec, or in Aylmer. We also offer delivery and planting services within the greater Gatineau-Ottawa area. Delivery fees are waived for orders above $500 in the National capital region, and orders $100 or greater in Aylmer, Gatineau.

Unfortunately we currently do not ship by post as our pots are too bulky and heavy, we are looking into shipping potted and bareroot woody plants within Quebec and Ontario for the 2024 season.

Garden consults and Inventories

Not sure which plants are best suited to your situation, or what the names are of the plants you already have? You can contact us by e-mail to request a consultation and/or inventory on site. You will receive a spreadsheet inventory of all species identified on your property and a one page write up on your property with suggestions which can tailored to your gardening or naturalizing priorities.

Prices depend on location and size of property, but start as low as $150 for lots of half an acre or less within Aylmer sector, Gatineau. Consultations also come with a 10% discount on plants.

Note to buyers

We guarantee that the plants are true to species and healthy at time of purchase. However, since our plants are grown in the field in non monoculture beds, there are likely bonus plants caught in the roots or within the soil as seeds or bulbs. While most of these are likely native plants like Canada mayflower (Maianthemum canadense) be aware that there may be the occasional glossy buckthorn (Frangulana alnus) seed. If you are curious or concerned about any tag-along plant purchased, please e-mail us with a photo at nurseryfortheearth@gmail.com and we will assist as soon as possible.

Our mission

Nursery for the Earth is committed to helping you restore biodiversity by providing you with our local native flora. We sell plants that are considered native to within 100 km of our nursery in Bristol, Quebec. We also sell plants that are native to eastern North America and long been naturalized here.

All our plants are grown at our nursery but were originally sourced within this 100 km radius. As our plants are all local wild type and not cultivated varieties, you can be sure you are supporting genetic diversity of the local flora and supporting the wider ecosystems around us.