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It took four LEAF staff members and two full cargo vans to deliver 250 native shrubs to 18 TCHC properties in a single day! All of that time and effort was well worth it to provide TCHC tenants with their new native shrubs.

The Small Yard Shrub Bundle includes four native shrubs, mulch, delivery, a planting and care guide and a specialized fact sheet, all for only $100 +HST! The bundle includes lowbush blueberry, St. John’s wort, meadowsweet and snowberry. Read on to learn more about these small shrubs:

Lowbush blueberry (Vaccinium angustifolium)

The first thing you can do is learn about invasive plants and how to identify them. Remember, not all non-native plants are considered invasive. For example, dandelions may be a nuisance to some, but they don’t pose a significant threat to native plants in southern Ontario. Instead, invasive plants are defined as non-native plants that are introduced to an area where they have negative environmental, social or economic effects. Some of the impacts of invasive plants include:

LEAF has six Urban Forest Demonstration Gardens throughout the City of Toronto that showcase the beauty of native plant species and enhance the urban forest. Each of these gardens is cared for  by a group of dedicated volunteer garden stewards, who recently put on their gardening gloves for the first time this year to wake up our gardens. Here’s photo evidence of the good times we had checking tasks off our gardening to-do list during our annual spring work parties.