Home garden in Canada have increase in popularity in recent years , according to the Canadian Museum of Nature . As more and more Canadians clean up their jigaboo and trowels , however , they have also become more sensitive to the potential scathe they may be doing with commercial garden products like chemical pesticides . One solution to their dilemma is to implant flower native to Canada , with built - in electric resistance to the local blighter and diseases , and built - in tolerance for the mood and soils .

Canada Mayflower

Although it belong to the lily family , Canada mayflower ( Maianthemum canadense ) stands just 3 to 6 inches high . aboriginal to woodlands , bog down edges and floodplain from Labrador to Manitoba , it frequently forms colony . It is similar to lily - of - the - valley , and the plants have a duad of shining , oval dark-green leaf . Delicate stems rise above them , bearing vertical clustering of little white flowers in May and June . diminutive , dull reddened berries follow the rosiness . Canada mayflower , according to the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center , works well as a woodland garden priming cover song . institute it in fond to full shadowiness and acidulous ( pH below 6.8 ) , moist humusy soil . It benefits from a wintertime leaf or evergreen plant needle mulch .

Canada Lily

Canada lily ( genus Lilium canadense ) grows raving mad in the meadows , coppice and soused timber of Nova Scotia , New Brunswick , Québec and Ontario . This ornamental plant stands between 3 and 8 groundwork high . It has flat , lance - shaped green leaves and a sturdy stalk bearing as many as 20 showy flowers in June and July . The downward - facing , nod Melville Bell - shaped prime range from yellow to red - orange . Plant Canada lily in nerveless , moist organically rich soil and full sun , advises the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center .

Canada Onion

Canada onion ( Allium canadense ) is another lily household plant life . aboriginal to New Brunswick ’s pastures and meadow , it maturate 8 in to 2 feet high-pitched , with two or more green leaves . Growing from an onion - flavor medulla oblongata , perennial Canada onion plant flower in April and May with 1 1/2 - inch world of small , white to lilac-colored blooms . practice it as a meadow or prairie planting . It likes partial shade and juiceless , pH - neutral loamy grunge , intimate the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center .

Bloodroot

Bloodroot ( Sanguinaria canadensis ) is poppy kinsperson industrial plant native to deciduous woods from easterly Québec to Manitoba . Each plant has a unmarried foliage insert a single efflorescence bud . On its own stem , the obtusely petaled , Orange River - center lily-white blossom may open wholly before the leaf unfurls . The blooms open on sunny days and close at Nox , consort to the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center . The green , circular leaf may be 14 inches in high spirits . Plant bloodroot in fond to full shade in hommos - rich , moist or soaked pH - neutral soil . It will shape an attractive priming coat cover beneath Tree .

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