Plants for shady boulevards:

Sweet Woodruff
Hostas spp. (be sure to check height)
English Ivy (hedera helix)*
Spotted Deadnettle (lamium maculatum)

Plants for boulevards in full sun:
Yarrows (achillea)                                           
Thymes (thymus)
Hens-and-chicks (sempervivum)
Sundrops (onethera)

Sedums
Lamb's-ears (stachys)
Cinquefoil (potentillas)
Moss Pink (phlox sublata)
Junipers (sprawling ones only)
Wormwood (artemesia)

Native plants:

Native plants are well adapted to the climate conditions of the region they evolved in. Always buy native plants from a reputable nursery and never take plants from the wild!

Some low-growing native plants:
Barren Strawberry (Waldsteinia fragarioides)      Pussytoes (Antennaria neglecta)
Wild Ginger (Asarum canadense)         
Wild Columbine (Aquilegia canadensis)
Foamflower (Tiarella cordifolia)

More information on native plants:
The Waterloo-Wellington Wildflower Society

Plant ideas?

Have you tried a plant that has been a roaring success or a dismal failure?
Where have you found plants?

Shared the information with us so others can benefit:

gen@bbc.guelph.org

*Note: some introduced plant species have become invasive in our native ecosystems, woodlands, parks, etc.  Be sure to confine groundcovers so that they do not encroach onto natural areas.

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