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
Coreopsis lanceolata With bursts of warm yellow, lance-leaved coreopsis brightens any garden. Reliable lance-shaped leaves provide greenery throughout […]
Caring for Your Yard
Dividing overcrowded perennials is a common practice performed by gardeners to keep plants healthy. The resulting smaller clumps can […]
Did You Know
As a garden matures, some perennial plants (plants that return each year) will benefit from being divided. This […]
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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
A Conservation Milestone Over the past 20 years, the agricultural landscape in the Peel Region has been transformed […]
Correction This edition of Countryside Stewardship Mail stated oak wilt, an invasive species, has been found in the […]
Five Years of Fletchers Creek SNAP We’re celebrating five years of the Fletchers Creek Sustainable Neighbourhood Action Plan […]
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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.