Floral & Brick

18/06/2025

It's Pollinator Week! Pollinators like bees, flies, butterflies and moths are an essential part of the ecosystem with unique connections to native plants and habitats. You can support pollinators by growing native plants at home and recording your wildlife observations on community science platforms like iNaturalist.

05/06/2025

Sometimes it’s hard not to feel helpless :(
But that’s why we’ll just continue doing the little things we can 🌻

Today, we mourn. Tomorrow, we rise.

Bill 5 just passed in Ontario.
✅ The Endangered Species Act? Repealed.
✅ Environmental assessments? Gone.
✅ Indigenous consent? Ignored.
✅ Public input? Erased.

And Premier Doug Ford? He didn’t even bother to show up for the vote.

05/06/2025

This is great!

I get asked a lot about how to figure out what species are native to your area.

So I wanted to share resources for folks in the USA and Canada. I've updated this list to include more resources, as well as some Canada-specific resources for Canadian gardeners.

🌻 🇺🇸 The National Wildlife Federation has an excellent tool called the Native Plant Finder. It shows you what native species support the most wildlife in your zip code - these are called “keystone” species. https://nativeplantfinder.nwf.org/

🌻 🇺🇸 The NWF has another tool that tells you the best commercially available native host plant species based on your ecoregion. https://www.nwf.org/Native-Plant-Habitats/Plant-Native/Why-Native/Keystone-Plants-by-Ecoregion

🌻 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 BONAP’s North American Plant Atlas has a prolific database of range maps for species in the US and Canada listed by botanical name https://bonap.net/Napa/

🌻 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center’s website has a search tool where you can input your state or province, growing conditions, and other descriptors like bloom time, height, lifespan, etc., and search their database for plant species that meet your criteria. https://www.wildflower.org/plants/

🌻 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 Most states and provinces have a Native Plant Society that should have resources specific to your area. You can find your local Native Plant Society here: https://nanps.org/native-plant-societies/

🌻 🇺🇸 Wild Ones is another organization that advocates for native plants and has chapters in most US states. Find your local chapter here: https://wildones.org/chapters/

🌻 🌎 iNaturalist can help you identify plants that you’re unsure of what they are. You can also browse what’s been seen in your area, check a species’ status as native or introduced, etc. www.inaturalist.org

🌻 🇺🇸 The Audubon Society has a database of bird-friendly native plants based on zip code. https://audubon.org/native-plants

🌻 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 The Xerces Society has a resource of pollinator-friendly native plant lists for different regions across the US and Canada: https://xerces.org/pollinator-conservation/pollinator-friendly-plant-lists

🌻 🇨🇦 The Canadian Wildlife Federation has an online native plant encyclopedia tool: https://cwf-fcf.org/en/resources/encyclopedias/native-plant-encyclopedia/

🌻 🇨🇦 The David Suzuki Foundation has lots of resources for planting native in Canada: https://davidsuzuki.org/living-green/how-to-attract-pollinators/

🌻 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 If you’re plant shopping and not sure where a species is from, do a quick google of “(species name) native range.” Always use the botanical name because common names can apply to multiple species. I don’t recommend buying plants that aren’t labeled with the botanical name unless you’re 100% sure you know what it is.

It can be most useful to cross-reference a couple of these resources to get the most accurate information.

17/05/2025

Guys! I finally started my YouTube channel!!! Please head here https://youtu.be/Wl1ssTORAEo to see my first video and do me a big favour and like, comment, and subscribe to help me get established.

I have a lot to learn in this medium, but I honestly just did it the way my favourite garden youtubers do it. I figure I should be creating something that I myself would want to watch.

So if you love cut flowers and/or native plants please take a look and let me know what you think ☺️

# ecologicalgarden

16/05/2025

$5 each! It’s like 2015 over here 😅

DM me what you would like, and I’ll let you know your total for etransfer and my address downtown Hamilton for porch pickup!

Thanks everyone!

10/05/2025

Spring tidbits from the garden. I love this time of year!

None of these flowers are native to Ontario, but with the new native plants I’m adding to my cutting garden, next year at this time I should have some fun native cut flowers to show you!

03/03/2025

This bouquet got me my first “viral” post, and inspired brides who wanted a daisy bouquet for their wedding! So I thought it was time to revisit it on the feed 💛🌼

28/02/2025

Needed some colour on the feed 🧡💛💜🩷

Native asters doing some important work in this summer bouquet

31/01/2025

There’s nothing quite like local flowers 🌿

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25/01/2025

Just a few cutting garden flowers for your enjoyment! Let me know if there are any you don’t recognize ☺️

06/01/2025

New podcast episode (finally!) Head to The Cut Flower Garden Girl on Spotify. (I promise I will get it up on other platforms soon!)

Part of my plan for 2025 is to experiment with more native plants as cut flowers, and start the process of transforming more and more of the cutting garden into a native plant extravaganza! I can't wait to use these blooms at wild and natural weddings we'll be doing more of, and to enjoy them in the garden space itself along with all my bird, bee and other critter friends.

I hope you enjoy the episode, and please do comment here about native plants you have in your garden! I'd love to hear your thoughts, interests, and experiences, flower friends.

Photos are by !

03/01/2025

So many garden goodies went into these wildflower bud vases for a beautiful July wedding at . Sweet peas, garlic scapes, allium, yarrow, campanula, green cherry tomatoes, and so much more for guests to admire while they dine.

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