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
Free Native Plant Giveaway
Residents of the Credit River Watershed who attend our Landscaping for Pollinators, Landscaping for Birds or Naturescaping workshops can sign up for our free native plant giveaway. Depending on the workshop, local attendees can choose a local native tree, shrub or flower that we’ll deliver and help plant. Learn more about our giveaway by attending an upcoming workshop.
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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 ![Common Eastern bumble bee on blue-stemmed 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
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Great Blue Lobelia
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