Northern Wildflowers

10/04/2025

🌱 Highlighting a few of the heirloom varieties now marked down 30% and 40% off in our online store!

Long Red Cayenne Pepper (Seeds 30% Off!) – Classic, tried and true cayenne peppers with plenty of heat, excellent for drying, pickling, or cooking fresh.

Slow Bolt Cilantro (Seeds 40% Off!) – A reliable cilantro that takes longer to bolt, giving you more fresh harvests for brightening up your favourite dishes.

Chocolate Cherry Tomato (Seeds 30% Off!) – Sweet and rich cherry tomatoes with deep mahogany skin. Perfect for salads or snacking right off the vine.

Genovese Zucchini (Seeds 40% Off!) – Classic Italian zucchini with tender flesh and high yields, great for grilling, roasting, or sauteeing.

Jester Lettuce (Seeds 40% Off!) – Crisp and speckled with colour with frilled edges, this lettuce adds both texture and beauty to your salads.

🛒 Shop the sale here: https://northernwildflowers.ca/collections/fruit-and-vegetable-seeds

10/03/2025

Another beautiful photo update from one of restoration seed mixes! Mario in Hearst, ON is super happy with the results he's seeing.

Over the next several years this project will continue seeing more of the components reach maturity to begin blooming, and it will continue to add more and more wildlife value for years to come.

We love seeing updates of our bulk restoration seed mixes, and this one is no exception.

10/03/2025

Shady, sunny, dry or windy—whatever your growing conditions, there’s a plant that will flourish in your care.

10/02/2025

In 2022, Jenny took her daughter Danica to hear Dr. Jane Goodall speak in Sudbury for the 10 million tree planting celebration. That day, Danica, and a hundred other little girls, decided they wanted to become scientists. Dr. Goodall’s deep connection to Sudbury and our regreening program left a legacy of hope and inspiration that will live on in generations to come. 🌱

It is an especially heartbreaking year for the biology community as we grieve the loss of both Dr. Goodall and Dr. Sheila Colla - two brilliant minds who gave so much to our planet. 💚

Dr. Jane Goodall once said "I think I'd like to be remembered as someone who really helped people to have a little humility and realize that we are part of the animal kingdom, not separated from it." It’s safe to say she accomplished exactly that—guiding countless people toward a deeper humility, respect, and understanding of our place within the natural world.

Jane also famously said, “My next great adventure, aged 90, is going to be dying. There’s either nothing or something. If there’s nothing, there’s nothing - that’s it. If there’s something, I can’t think of a greater adventure than finding out what it is.” This week we're wishing her luck on this next adventure, and admiring the curious and fearless nature of this incredible scientist.

10/01/2025

Skip the garden cleanup.

Seed heads = feeding birds.
Stems = homes for bees.
Messy = functional habitat. 🌿

And if you must tidy your perennial gardens, try just leaving 6-10 inches of the stems intact, chop and drop the rest, and feed the seed heads to the birds some other way. Add them to your birdfeeder station, or string them up somewhere in the yard. If you insist on raking your leaves, mulch them with the lawn mower and add them as a mulch layer back to your garden. This will feed your plants next season, and provide a bit of overwintering habitat for wild insects.

We think seed heads and including native grasses and shrubs in a wildflower garden adds lots of visual interest through the winter months, but if that's not your thing, there are still small choices you can make in your garden clean-up to hold onto some of the off-season wildlife value of your perennial gardens.

What do you do to prepare your garden for winter?

09/30/2025

We’re pleased to announce that Northern Wildflowers will be attending Expo QuébecVert 2025.

📍 Find us at Booth 2420
📅 November 19, 20 & 21, 2025
📍 Espace Saint-Hyacinthe

Expo QuébecVert is the premier trade show for horticulture and landscaping professionals. We’re looking forward to connecting with industry peers, sharing knowledge, and showcasing our Cutleaf Seeds by Northern Wildflowers collection.
If you’ll be attending, we invite you to stop by our booth to meet our team and learn more about what we’re growing.



Nous sommes heureux d'annoncer que Northern Wildflowers participera à Expo QuébecVert 2025.

📍 Stand 2420
📅 19, 20 et 21 novembre 2025
📍 Espace Saint-Hyacinthe

Expo QuébecVert est le salon professionnel par excellence pour les professionnels de l'horticulture et de l'aménagement paysager. Nous sommes impatients de rencontrer nos pairs du secteur, de partager nos connaissances et de présenter notre collection Cutleaf Seeds by Northern Wildflowers. Si vous participez à l'événement, nous vous invitons à vous arrêter à notre stand pour rencontrer notre équipe et en savoir plus sur ce que nous cultivons.

09/29/2025

🌼 Shipping Update 🌼

Canada Post has temporarily paused all services due to strike action. We’ve reached out directly to all customers with open orders, but if you have any questions, feel free to email us at [email protected] with your order number. 💌

In the meantime, here are your options:
📮 Canada Post Lettermail (Hold until service resumes): Place your order as usual, and we’ll keep it safe until Canada Post is back up and running.
📦 Purolator Parcel Shipping: For reliable delivery in the meantime, choose Purolator at checkout (please note: Purolator cannot ship to P.O. Boxes).

We’ll continue to monitor the situation and update our shipping options as we are able to. Thanks so much for your patience and support while we work through this together! 💛

You can still shop in person at any of our retailers across Canada.

For more information on our current shipping status visit: https://northernwildflowers.ca/pages/shipping-returns

09/29/2025

09/27/2025

Looking back at Swamp Milkweed when it was in bloom and, wow. If you need a reason to plant some this fall - there are more than we can even list!

Swamp milkweed is a standout in any native garden. 🌸 Not only does it produce beautiful clusters of pink blooms through summer, but it’s also one of the best plants you can grow for pollinators. Monarch butterflies rely on milkweed as a host plant for their caterpillars, and the nectar-rich flowers attract bees, hummingbirds, and countless other species.

If you’re looking for a hardy, low-maintenance perennial that supports biodiversity and adds beauty to your garden, swamp milkweed is a perfect choice. 🌿

https://northernwildflowers.ca/products/swamp-milkweed

09/26/2025

🌼 A demo garden experiment took an unexpected turn, we let one Common Evening Primrose plant do its thing, and it decided to take over the entire bed with wild, branching growth! To us this is proof that sometimes you only need one thriving native plant to make a huge impact. Hard to believe this is all one plant!

Some of you may see this and go "I would never let that take over a whole garden bed", and if you're limited on growing space, we can understand why. But in our case, we let it go since this bed was supposed to be for wildflowers anyway, and boy are we glad we got to see this thing explode. It was covered in bees and moths the entire 2 months it bloomed, and we will get quite a lot of seed off this one plant.

https://northernwildflowers.ca/products/common-evening-primrose

09/25/2025

Looking for a wildflower seed mix that's actually native to eastern or central Canada? We've got you covered.

Our wildflower mixes are formulated with an ideal ratio of wildflower to grass species and the appropriate amount of seed for your application site. Our mixes contain spring, summer and fall blooms in a variety of colours to provide a continuous nectar supply to a range of pollinators. For your convenience, this mix also includes our eco-friendly seed coating. We've coated the small-seeded varieties with a biodegradable mix of natural minerals to make application easier and increase germination rates.

https://northernwildflowers.ca/collections/bulk-seed

09/24/2025

What are your favourite uses for green tomatoes? Asking for myself...

We had been getting some cold nights so started to harvest things a little bit on the side of caution, picking fruits early or under-ripe, and are glad we did since the frost came this past weekend. Since we're not in our demo garden every day, sometimes we miss things. Nevertheless, we have harvested quite a lot of food out of this little garden this summer!

Coming soon is some more garden planning and layout content to help some of you plan for next spring. Let us know any questions you have about the vegetable garden and we'll try to cover them soon!