Create Beautiful Home Landscapes
Help your yard flourish and brighten your community. Join us for a workshop or use our helpful resources to create beautiful and sustainable yards and gardens. Find inspiration and simple steps to help you:
- Garden with locally native plants
- Create rain-ready gardens
- Attract birds and butterflies to your yard
- Build climate change resilience
- Add colour and curb appeal to your neighbourhood
Urban Homeowner Programs
Homeowners in eligible neighbourhoods can request a free tree or shrub that CVC’s home planting team will deliver and help plant. Trees and shrubs are also available for purchase.
Join us for a workshop, webinar or event to learn more about sustainable landscaping, top tips for caring for your yard, managing stormwater beautifully, landscaping for pollinators and creating bird-friendly yards.
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Plant of the Month
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Lilium michiganese If you are looking for a bold summer flower to add to your garden, try Michigan …
Caring for Your Yard
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Maintain a picture-perfect garden all year long with these simple sustainable landscaping tips: Summer Water your plants at …
Did You Know
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Photo Galleries
Be inspired by our demonstration gardens and motivated by your neighbours’ projects.
Jack Darling Memorial Prairie Wildflower Garden
![An adult and a child planting together in the garden.](https://files.cvc.ca/cvc/uploads/2021/05/med_VolunteersPlantingJackDarlingDemonstrationGarden_CreditAarathiEdward_20130924.jpg)
![Flowers blooming in a garden.](https://files.cvc.ca/cvc/uploads/2021/05/IMG_2173_JackDrlgPrairieWldflwrGarden_ObedientPlantbloomsinSummer.jpg)
![A pecks skipper moth landing on flowers.](https://files.cvc.ca/cvc/uploads/2021/05/IMG_7435_Pecks-skipper.jpg)
![A black-eyed Susan flower and showy tick trefoil.](https://files.cvc.ca/cvc/uploads/2021/05/med_BlackEyedSusanAndShowyTickTrefoil_20180706.jpg)
![Two adults planting together in a garden - one person has a bucket, the other person has a shovel.](https://files.cvc.ca/cvc/uploads/2021/05/med_VolunteersMaintainingtheJackDarlingDemonstrationGarden_20140828.jpg)
![Bumblebees feeding on foxglove beard tongue flowers.](https://files.cvc.ca/cvc/uploads/2021/05/med_BumbleBeesFeedingOnFoxgloveBeardtongue_20170824.jpg)
![A bumblebee feeding on New England aster flowers.](https://files.cvc.ca/cvc/uploads/2021/05/med_BumbleBeesFeedingOnNewEnglandAster_20150929.jpg)
![A group of people surrounding a CVC staff member who is describing the garden around them.](https://files.cvc.ca/cvc/uploads/2021/05/med_JackDarlingDemonstrationGardenTour_20160817.jpg)
![Monarch butterflies landing on purple coneflowers.](https://files.cvc.ca/cvc/uploads/2021/05/med_MonarchsOnPurpleConeflower_20180720.jpg)
![A bee landing on Joe Pye weed.](https://files.cvc.ca/cvc/uploads/2021/05/med_PollinatorsOnJoePyeWeed_20160805.jpg)
![A person watching monarch butterflies landing on purple coneflowers.](https://files.cvc.ca/cvc/uploads/2021/05/med_WatchingMonarchs_20180720.jpg)
![Little bluestem grasses growing in a garden.](https://files.cvc.ca/cvc/uploads/2021/05/med-LittleBluestemGoingToSeed_20150929.jpg)
Port Credit Pollinator Garden
![A Port Credit Pollinator Garden interpretive sign is revealed by a CVC staff member and two other people.](https://files.cvc.ca/cvc/uploads/2021/05/med_OfficialGardenLaunch_20190608.jpg)
![Monarch butterfly and a bee amongst dense blazingstar and grey-headed coneflower.](https://files.cvc.ca/cvc/uploads/2021/05/med_PollinatorsFeedingOnDenseBlazingstarandGrayHeadedConeflower_20190823.jpg)
![Common Eastern bumble bee on blue-stemmed goldenrod Photo credit: Patricia Griesser](https://files.cvc.ca/cvc/uploads/2021/06/med_CommonEasternBumblebeeonBlue-stemmedGoldenrod_creditPatriciaGriesser_2019-resized.jpg)
![Monarch butterfly feeding on anise hyssop flowers.](https://files.cvc.ca/cvc/uploads/2021/05/med_MonarchFeedingOnAniseHyssop_20180817.jpg)
![Two people planting in a garden - one crouching down while the other standing with a shovel.](https://files.cvc.ca/cvc/uploads/2021/05/med_VolunteersPlantingThePortCreditLibraryDemonstrationGarden_20180621.jpg)
![A bumblebee on butterfly milkweed flowers.](https://files.cvc.ca/cvc/uploads/2021/05/med_BumblebeeOnButterflyMilkweed_20190725.jpg)
![Trees and shrubs in front of a grey brick wall.](https://files.cvc.ca/cvc/uploads/2021/05/med_CreatingLayersWithTreesAndShrubs_20190725.jpg)
![Autumn colours in a garden of flowers, plants and trees in a urban setting.](https://files.cvc.ca/cvc/uploads/2021/05/med_FallGardenColours_20201026.jpg)
![Milkweed seedpods.](https://files.cvc.ca/cvc/uploads/2021/05/med_MilkweedSeedpods_CreditPatriciaGriessier20201026.jpg)
![Black-eyed susan and foxglove beardtongue flowers.](https://files.cvc.ca/cvc/uploads/2021/05/med_BlackEyedSusanAndFoxgloveBeardtongue_20200908.jpg)
![A garden with flowers and plants in an urban setting.](https://files.cvc.ca/cvc/uploads/2021/05/med_PortCreditLibraryDemoGarden_20190725.jpg)
![Question mark butterfly, Joe Pye weed.](https://files.cvc.ca/cvc/uploads/2021/05/med_QuestionMarkButterflyOnJoePyeWeed_CreditPatriciaGriesser20190813.jpg)
Urban Home Garden
![Red-eyed vireo nestlings in their nest.](https://files.cvc.ca/cvc/uploads/2021/05/med_RedEyedVireoNestInResidentialYard_Cawthra_20160628.jpg)
![A bee on ninebark blossoms.](https://files.cvc.ca/cvc/uploads/2021/05/med_HomePlantings_BeeOnNinebark.jpg)
![A tall blooming rain garden in front of a set of windows on a house.](https://files.cvc.ca/cvc/uploads/2021/05/alton-raingarden-Water.jpg)
![A person planting purple flowering raspberry shrubs in a residential garden.](https://files.cvc.ca/cvc/uploads/2021/05/IMG_5402_AddingaGroupingofPurpleFloweringRaspberryShrubs.jpg)
![A person wearing a mask, kneeling down and planting in a garden.](https://files.cvc.ca/cvc/uploads/2021/05/IMG_6704_AddingPurpleFloweringRaspberrytoaPart-ShadeGarden.jpg)
![Colourful blooms in a rain garden, set before a home's front porch.](https://files.cvc.ca/cvc/uploads/2021/05/Melissas-garden.jpg)
![Colourful blooms in a rain garden, set before a home's front porch.](https://files.cvc.ca/cvc/uploads/2021/05/Melissas-rain-garden.jpg)
![A group of trees and bushes in fall colours.](https://files.cvc.ca/cvc/uploads/2021/05/Aiken-yard-fallpermission-to-use.jpg)
![A woodland garden in front of a house.](https://files.cvc.ca/cvc/uploads/2021/05/20110825_Woodland-gdn_YGY_Aug-2011-010.jpg)
![A residential flowering rain garden, showing stones and a drain pipe running between the plants.](https://files.cvc.ca/cvc/uploads/2021/05/HomeRainGarden_3_creditMCreasey.jpg)
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Urban Homeowner News
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If You Build it, They Will Come Tree cavities, crucial for resting and nesting, can be scarce in …
![Yellow flowers with thin, long petals pointed down towards the ground in a grassy landscape.](https://files.cvc.ca/cvc/uploads/2024/07/fbdfc0fa-a756-1e3d-7192-a3f222134692-1024x900.jpg)
Maintain a picture-perfect garden all year long with these simple sustainable landscaping tips: Summer Water your plants at …
![Bright orange flowers with curled back petals and darker orange spots in the center.](https://files.cvc.ca/cvc/uploads/2024/07/b227288f-dc0f-f3bb-3534-c90ed5056365-1024x900.jpg)
Lilium michiganese If you are looking for a bold summer flower to add to your garden, try Michigan …
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Residents and landowners in the Credit River Watershed are eligible for our programs. Use our property look up tool to check to see if you’re eligible.