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.
The Garden Post
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Plant of the Month
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Caring for Your Yard
If you’re planting native trees and shrubs in your yard this fall, you’re likely going through the usual […]
Did You Know
We often enjoy flowers for their beauty and fragrance. But did you know that the unique colour and […]
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Be inspired by our demonstration gardens and motivated by your neighbours’ projects.
Jack Darling Memorial Prairie Wildflower Garden
Port Credit Pollinator Garden
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Urban Homeowner News
Around this time of year, you may take precautions to protect yourself and others from becoming ill, like […]
Circle of Friendship Le Cercle de l’Amitié, which translates to “circle of friendship” in English, has been a […]
As leaves change colour and fall to the ground, many of us prepare to rake away the dead […]
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- Sustainable Gardening and Landscaping
- Invasive Plants
- Native Plants
- Landscaping for Birds
- Landscaping for Pollinators
- Rain-Ready Landscapes
- Caring for Your Green Yard
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Program Eligibility
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.