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

Goutweed (Aegopodium podagraria), also known as bishop’s weed or snow on the mountain, is a perennial groundcover native …
Caring for Your Yard

It’s Not Easy But Don’t Give Up Removing goutweed and other invasive groundcovers, like periwinkle, English ivy or …
Did You Know

There are some plants that you wish you didn’t invite into your yard. These are invasive species—non-native plants …
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Urban Homeowner News

Nature Invaders Scavenger Hunt When left unmanaged, invasive species can take over your yard, garden, field or forest. …

June 13, 2022 – Credit Valley Conservation (CVC) is launching a new citizen science project for landowners across …

It’s Not Easy But Don’t Give Up Removing goutweed and other invasive groundcovers, like periwinkle, English ivy or …
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- Sustainable Gardening and Landscaping
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- Landscaping for Pollinators
- Rain-Ready Landscapes
- Caring for Your Green Yard