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Home » Backyard Nurseries » Backyard Nurseries in Canada

Backyard Nurseries in Canada

Updated : November 21, 2014

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Aurora, Ontario, Canada

Christine’s Canadian Plant Nursery

Christine’s Canadian Plant Nursery is a small, intimate, home-based nursery growing ornamental landscape plants right in the heart of Aurora, Ontario. Plants include Barberry, Golden Privet, Purple Sandcherry, several types of Weigela, Forsythia, Deutzia, Dwarf Korean Lilac, Burning Bush, Ninebark, several types of Euonymous, Rose of Sharon, Hydrangeas, Spireas and others.

Prices and pictures are listed on the website at http://www.plantsbychristine.com. It’s cheaper to buy small and watch the plants grow, and more fun as well. Plants can be bought in 4 inch pots or 1 gal sizes.

I am located at

14088 Leslie St.  in Aurora
North of Bloomington and South of Vandorf Sideroad.

I have retail sales in the spring, and sell the rest of the year by personal contact.

Don’t hesitate to give me a call at 416-564-8324 to see if you can beautify your yard at more reasonable prices than you can find anywhere else!

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Comments

  1. Brent Mathews says

    February 17, 2018 at 4:43 pm

    Good day,

    Brent From Arnprior, Ontario, Canada. Wanting to start a backyard nursery here this spring!

    I purchased your backyard atm book, and although for $7 there was a great deal of good information, it has left some questions unanswered, to which I believe are important to the success of this guide.

    1) How exactly does one start from nothing, and is it possible to make a profit in the first year?

    2) How many “mother plants” should we start with, how many different types?

    3) How many cuttings do you typically take from one plant on each session?

    4) You explain the different types of hardening, but aren’t we always taking softwood cuttings if we are always taking the new shoots, no matter the time of season?

    Thank you for taking the time to answer these questions for me!

    Brent Mathews

    Reply
    • Mike says

      February 18, 2018 at 7:15 am

      Brent,

      We just closed membership to our members area, we discuss all of these issues on a daily basis and offer up wholesale sources.

      1. If you want to start with nothing at all, dig and divide some perennials and sell them. Instant profit! I had one member pay for his completely membership in a week doing that.
      2. That’s up to you, I often tell people to buy liners in the members area, pot or bed plant them, take cuttings from them then later sell them at a profit.
      3. A liner? Maybe 5, a mature plant? Hundreds
      4. No. Come fall plants quit growing and all of the new grow hardens off and the entire plant is hardwood.
      5. http://backyardgrowers.com/join

      Reply
  2. Bob Donker says

    May 5, 2013 at 11:35 pm

    So nice to see we are getting some Canadian back yard growers, hope to start next year,
    Laid up for this year with a broken femur and lower back.
    By then we may have some a bit closer to BC.
    Bob

    Reply
  3. Sheila says

    November 19, 2012 at 3:08 pm

    Hay guys. I am a newbie also…A Canadian Newbie 🙂 I am in zone 5, Saskatchewan. I grew up in a commercial greenhouse, and have pics of my children playing in a kiddie pool in the greenhouse when there’s still snow on the ground!
    I am particularly interested in some japanese maple seedlings. I have contacted the nursery’s on Mike’s list, however, the inspections to cross the border from the US is pricy. Do you fellow Canadians have any resources for these seedlings? Thanks 🙂

    Reply
  4. Colleen Heigh says

    June 10, 2012 at 12:32 pm

    just joined the crew and nice to see some others from Canada.
    I am in zone 6

    Reply
    • Mike says

      June 16, 2012 at 10:52 am

      Colleen, it’s great to have you aboard in Canada! I hope to attract others from Canada as well so you folks can have your own little network of Backyard Growers.

      Reply
      • Tino says

        October 10, 2012 at 11:01 pm

        I’ve been following you around Mike for nearly two years and just haven’t made the plunge yet. I truly enjoy what you have to offer and things you provide to your readers.

        I have a small 35 acre farm that needs a backyard nursery. I’m in zone 3 Manitoba.

        I see other nurseries around the area within a 30 mile radius and am wondering, is it worth my while going against the bigger established operations?

        Reply
        • Mike says

          October 16, 2012 at 7:37 am

          Tino, A lot of people have the same concern as you but it is completely unfounded. When you grow as a Backyard Grower you really aren’t competing with anybody. Those big growers cannot compete with you! They have a very high overhead expenses that have to be built into each plant they grow and sell. You don’t. As a backyard grower you can make a plant for 36 cents and sell it for $4.97. They can’t compete with that. I started a new nursery less than 2 years ago. I’m surrounded by over 85 wholesale nurseries posting 85 million dollars in sales. I am completely unfazed by that. I sell to a different market than they do. In my market area I have two Walmarts, one Home Depot and Lowes. Doesn’t bother me. I can attract people because I am the little guy. People like buying from people like you and I. Good luck!
          http://freeplants.com/wanted.htm

          Reply
  5. Jeannette Leduc says

    May 6, 2012 at 2:00 am

    I am just getting started without a site yet. Do you have rooted cuttings available to fellow members at wholesale for a small amount of plants?

    Reply
  6. henry sippel says

    May 4, 2012 at 11:10 pm

    looking for brandywine maple tree

    Reply
    • Beyonce says

      December 22, 2017 at 7:57 pm

      I bow down humbly in the presence of such gressneat.

      Reply
  7. Kenzie says

    March 22, 2012 at 2:59 pm

    I am so pleased to find a nursery in Canada.

    Reply
  8. Brian says

    February 22, 2012 at 12:23 pm

    Good to see there is somewhere in Canada to get plants. Thanks Mike, and Christine.

    Reply
  9. Mike says

    February 14, 2012 at 1:01 pm

    Paula, shipping across international borders can be done, but in most cases it’s just not worth the effort because there are inspections that have to be done.

    Reply
  10. Paula says

    January 25, 2012 at 4:54 pm

    Are there any taxes or inspection necessary to ship plants to the states. I live in Montana. What hardiness zone are you in? Do you have zone 3 plants?

    Reply

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