Shrubs and Pawpaws

Increase Biodiversity in your Yard

Available to residents of Toronto, York Region and some municipalities within Durham Region.

We make it easy to plant native shrubs and pawpaw trees around your home, business or school to improve biodiversity, brighten up your space and/or create important habitat for birds and pollinators. Edible species provide a local food source in an urban environment, offering a great opportunity to discuss food security and share with your community. Harvest the urban forest, support native wildlife and get the most out of your backyard!

Shrubs and pawpaws can be ordered without a consultation - just choose your plants and give us a call to order!

Native Shrubs

Ordering Native Shrubs

Enhance biodiversity, brighten up your yard or create important food and habitat for wildlife and pollinators by planting native shrubs through LEAF. Our shrubs are $30 each and eastern white cedars are $50 each. These prices include mulch and delivery for orders of four or more shrubs/cedars (for fewer than four shrubs/cedars, a delivery fee of $25 per order applies). We do offer planting services for shrubs/cedars at an additional cost of $25 per item; however, we will not plant any shrubs/cedars without a site consultation.

Please note that shrubs are one to two feet in height and eastern white cedars are two to four feet at time of delivery.

If you are ordering only shrubs or cedars for delivery, no site consultation is required. Just follow these four easy steps:

View our comprehensive list and photos of all of the native shrubs we are offering this year. Please note that prices are subject to HST.
Contact us to reserve your shrubs or cedars.
Pay for your order by cheque, Visa or Mastercard. We will send you a receipt once you place your order.
Spring deliveries begin in April and continue through to the end of June. Fall deliveries begin in September and continue through to the end of November. Your shrub/cedar delivery may be scheduled at any time within these three-month periods and will include mulch and a Planting and Care Guide.

Please note

We will notify you two business days prior to your delivery date but unfortunately cannot provide you with a specific time of day. In order to maintain the most efficient delivery routes, we are unable to accommodate any scheduling requests. You do not need to be home on the day of delivery, as long as we have access to your backyard. This means that any gates must be left unlocked all day.

Shrub Species

LEAF offers a variety of shrub species native to southern Ontario. Availability may vary seasonally.

Bundle Your Shrubs to Beautify your Yard!

We are now offering themed shrub bundles, designed to help you beautify your yard! A bundle of four native shrubs, delivered to your door with mulch, a planting and care guide and a specialized fact sheet will cost you only $100 + HST- that's like buying four shrubs for the price of three!

Choose from our themed bundles below:

Edible Bundles are designed to help you create your own edible urban garden. This bundle allows you to select your favourite shrubs based on taste, bloom time, fruit type, flower and fall colour, mature size or hardiness! Select any four of the following: American hazelnut, black chokeberry, common elderberry, highbush cranberry, lowbush blueberry, nannyberry, northern wild raisin, pasture rose, purple flowering raspberry and serviceberry.

The rest of our bundles contain pre-determined species. As species sell out, substitutions may be made.

Native Bee Bundles are designed to provide habitat and food sources for our native bees. This bundle contains shrubs of varying mature sizes including St. John's wort, snowberry, common ninebark and grey dogwood.

Songbird Bundles are designed to provide food and shelter for songbirds throughout the year. This bundle contains shrubs of varying mature sizes including lowbush blueberry, red osier dogwood, common elderberry, and serviceberry.

Small Yard Bundles are designed for smaller spaces while still adding beauty and biodiversity to your yard. This bundle includes lowbush blueberry, St. John's wort, and meadowsweet and snowberry.

Privacy Bundles are designed to help you attain privacy while still adding biodiversity to your yard. This bundle contains tall and dense growing shrubs including red osier dogwood, black chokeberry, bayberry and common ninebark.

Native Garden Kits

Garden Kits

Native Garden Kits Announcement

Since 2011, LEAF has offered Native Garden Kits, which included a curated selection of native herbaceous perennials and shrubs that residents could purchase, with several different themes and sizes. LEAF has decided to discontinue the sale of our Native Garden Kits, effective immediately. This follows a thorough review of internal and external factors..

The good news is that there are now many more sources of native perennials available to the public than when we began offering the kits many years ago!

We are pleased to offer the following links that will help you find native perennials and supporting resources:

Pawpaws

Ordering Pawpaws

Ordering Pawpaws

Pawpaws are unique native trees that produce beautiful purple flowers in the spring and a delicious fruit that tastes like a cross between banana and mango.. Pawpaws are sold in pairs for cross-pollination and will do best when planted in locations with partial to full shade and well-drained soil.

Pawpaws are available for spring delivery only and are $150 (+HST) per pair. Trees are 2-3 feet in height at the time of delivery.

Pawpaw FAQs

Pawpaws are only available to residents of Toronto, York Region and some municipalities within Durham Region.

We've sold out for 2024! Register to receive an early bird notification when pawpaws become available for the Spring 2025 season.

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Our Guarantee

LEAF is committed to growing our urban forest, and by planting with us you agree to join us in that goal – thank you!

We guarantee that, with proper care, trees/shrubs will produce leaves by the first July 15th after planting.

For trees/shrubs planted or delivered in the spring (between April 1-June 30), this means July 15th of the same year, and for trees/shrubs planted or delivered in the fall (between September 1-November 30), this means July 15th of the following year.

Replacement requests made after the July 15th deadline, or when proper care has not been provided, will not be considered. Animal, weather or other damage incurred after planting is not covered.