Urban Homeowners

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

Request a Free Tree

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.

Request a free tree now.

Attend a Workshop or Event

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.

See upcoming events.

The Garden Post

Read the latest articles from The Garden Post.

Plant of the Month

Eastern Buttonbush
Mar. 14, 2025
Cephalanthus occidentalis  The unique pom-pom-like flowers of the eastern buttonbush make it fun to grow if you have […]

Caring for Your Yard

Protecting Your Soil After a Flood
Mar. 14, 2025
Flooding, no matter what time of year it happens, can stress soil and plants and leave them vulnerable […]

Did You Know

Flooding Questions and Answers
Mar. 14, 2025
During the winter, flood concerns may not be on the top of your mind, but those affected by […]

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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.
Volunteers helping to maintain Jack Darling Prairie Wildflower Garden
Flowers blooming in a garden.
Obedient plant blooms in summer
A pecks skipper moth landing on flowers.
Peck’s skipper butterfly on dense blazing-star
A black-eyed Susan flower and showy tick trefoil.
Black-eyed Susan with showy tick-trefoil
Two adults planting together in a garden - one person has a bucket, the other person has a shovel.
Volunteers helping to maintain Jack Darling Prairie Wildflower Garden
Bumblebees feeding on foxglove beard tongue flowers.
Bumble bees feeding on foxglove beardtongue
A bumblebee feeding on New England aster flowers.
Bumble bees feeding on New England aster
A group of people surrounding a CVC staff member who is describing the garden around them.
Visitors learn about the Jack Darling Prairie Wildflower Garden
Monarch butterflies landing on purple coneflowers.
Monarch butterfly visits a purple coneflower
A bee landing on Joe Pye weed.
Pollinators visit spotted Joe Pye weed
A person watching monarch butterflies landing on purple coneflowers.
Watching a monarch butterfly feed on a purple coneflower
Little bluestem grasses growing in a garden.
Little bluestem going to seed in fall

Port Credit Pollinator Garden

A Port Credit Pollinator Garden interpretive sign is revealed by a CVC staff member and two other people.
Partners come together to launch the Port Credit Pollinator Garden
Monarch butterfly and a bee amongst dense blazingstar and grey-headed coneflower.
Pollinators feeding on dense blazing-star and gray-headed coneflower
bumble bee on goldenrod Photo credit: Patricia Griesser
Common Eastern bumble bee on blue-stemmed goldenrod Photo credit: Patricia Griesser
Monarch butterfly feeding on anise hyssop flowers.
Monarch butterfly feeding on anise hyssop
Two people planting in a garden - one crouching down while the other standing with a shovel.
Volunteers planting at the Port Credit Pollinator Garden
A bumblebee on butterfly milkweed flowers.
Bumble bee on butterfly milkweed
Trees and shrubs in front of a grey brick wall.
Creating layers with trees and shrubs
Autumn colours in a garden of flowers, plants and trees in a urban setting.
Fall colours frame this home landscape
Milkweed seedpods.
Photo credit: Patricia Griessier
Black-eyed susan and foxglove beardtongue flowers.
Black-eyed Susan and foxglove beardtongue blooming in late summer
A garden with flowers and plants in an urban setting.
Port Credit Pollinator Garden in mid-summer
Question mark butterfly, Joe Pye weed.
Question mark butterfly on Joe Pye weed – Photo credit: Patricia Griesser

Urban Home Garden

Red-eyed vireo nestlings in their nest.
Red-eyed vireo chicks nesting in a Mississauga backyard
A bee on ninebark blossoms.
Mining bee on ninebark blossom
A tall blooming rain garden in front of a set of windows on a house.
Eye-catching home rain garden
A person planting purple flowering raspberry shrubs in a residential garden.
Planting a purple flowering raspberry shrub
A person wearing a mask, kneeling down and planting in a garden.
Planting a purple flowering raspberry to a part-shade garden
Colourful blooms in a rain garden, set before a home's front porch.
Hairy beardtongue and wild lupine in pollinator garden – Photo credit: Melissa Creasey
Colourful blooms in a rain garden, set before a home's front porch.
Rain garden featuring native wildflowers
A group of trees and bushes in fall colours.
Fall colours brighten this home landscape
A woodland garden in front of a house.
Native plants replace grass in this home woodland garden
A residential flowering rain garden, showing stones and a drain pipe running between the plants.
A rain garden in bloom – Photo credit: Melissa Creasey

Upcoming Events

Top Trees For Your Yard WorkshopApr15

April 15 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Inglewood Community Centre
Attracting Birds to Your Yard Workshop – Hancock WoodlandsMay6

May 6 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Hancock Woodlands Park
Attracting Birds to Your Yard Workshop – Georgetown ArboretumMay13

May 13 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Georgetown Arboretum
More Events

Urban Homeowner News

Tending to White Pines in a Changing Climate
Mar. 20, 2025
White pines (Pinus strobus), long-living giants of eastern North America, form natural, quiet cathedral-like groves, sheltering and feeding wildlife […]
Eastern Buttonbush
Mar. 14, 2025
Cephalanthus occidentalis  The unique pom-pom-like flowers of the eastern buttonbush make it fun to grow if you have […]
Protecting Your Soil After a Flood
Mar. 14, 2025
Flooding, no matter what time of year it happens, can stress soil and plants and leave them vulnerable […]
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