Trees:

Columnar Trees

​Parkland Pillar Birch
Dakota Pinnacle Birch
Skinny Genes Oaks
Crimson Spire Oak
Regal Prince Oak
Kindred Spirit Oak
Purple/Emerald Spire Crabapple
Jade Bouquet Crabapple
Green Wall Crabapple
Columnar Norway Maple
Crimson Sentry Maple
Russian Mountain Ash
Pyramidal Mountain Ash
Algonquin Pillar Swiss Stone Pine
Columnar Blue Spruce
Weeping White Spruce
Columnar Eastern White Pine
Brandon & Skybound Cedars

Small Ornamental Trees

​Tree-Form Lilacs
Tree-Form Hydrangeas
Courageous Crabapple
​Weeping Crabapple
Princess Kay Plum
Japanese Tree Lilac
Toba Hawthorn
Muckle Plum
Amur Maple
Korean Maple
Weeping Caragana
Top Grafted Evergeens
​Topiary Pines
​Pagoda Dogwood

Drought Tolerant Trees

​Mountain Ash
Plum & Cherry Trees
​Russian Olive
Crabapples
Oaks
Green Ash
Caragana (Sutherland, Weeping, Tree Form Common)
Mountain Pine 
Scots Pine
Swiss Stone Pine
Colorado Spruce
​Siberian Larch

Moisture Tolerant Trees

Laurel Leaf Willow
Golden Willow
Ohio Buckeye
Elm
Manchurian Alder
Silver Maple
Native Birch Varieties
​Autumn Blaze Maple
Tamarack & Siberian Larch
​Cedars
Black Spruce
​

Trees loved by Birds

​Mountain Ash
Amur Cherry
Evans & Romance Cherries
Mayday
Ming Ornamental Cherry

Fruitless/Less messy Trees

​Spring Snow Crabapple
Princess Kay Plum
Autumn Blaze Maple
Chickadee Birch
Japanese Tree Lilacs
Top Grafted Lilacs
Muckle Plum
Seedless Green Ash (Trojan, Prairie Spire, Patmore)
Spruce

Extra cold hardy trees

​Starlite Crabapple
Colorado Blue Spruce
White Spruce
Scots Pine
Mountain Pine
Swiss Stone Pine
Russian Olive
Green Ash
Brandon Elm
Laurel Leaf Willow
Golden Willow
Dropmore Linden
Trembling Aspen
Ohio Buckeye
Paper Birch
Siberian Larch
Tamarack

Weeping Trees

​Cutleaf Weeping Birch
Young's Weeping Birch
Weeping Caragana
Walker's Weeping Caragana
Weeping Crabapples
Weeping Larch
Weeping Blue Spruce
Weeping Norway Spruce
Weeping White Spruce
Lace Weeping Willow

Trees with fragranCE

​Lilacs
Mayday
Pink Flowering Crabs
Linden
​Navigator Pear

colourful Fall Foliage 

Amur Maples
Autumn Blaze Maple
Sugar Maples
Korean Maple
Navigator Pear
Japanese Tree Lilacs
Muckle Plum
Princess Kay Plum
Crimson Spire Oak
Mountain Ash
Ohio Buckeye
Northern Pin Oaks
White Ash
Siberian Larch
Tamarack

Trees with Winter Interest

Mountain Ash (berries)
Starlite Crabapple (pink fruit)
Larch & Tamarack (interesting cones)

Shrubs:

​Columnar Shrubs

Marquette Pussy Willow
Standing Ovation Saskatoon
Glossy Buckthorn
Brandon/Skybound Cedar
Upright Junipers
Columnar Mugo Pines (Big Tuna, Tannenbaum, Columnar)

Shrubs for Small Yards

​Spireas
Weigelas
Mops Mugo Pine
Little Gem Spruce
Barberries (some, not all)
Snow Dwarf/Belle Mockorange
Little Rebel Dogwood
Kelsey Dwarf Dogwood
Dwarf European Cranberry
Bobo Hydrangea
Annabelle Hydrangea
Blueberries
Boxwood
​Globe Caragana
​Blueberries

Drought tolerant Shrubs

Sem False Spirea
Lilacs
Potentillas
Wolf Willow
Sea Buckthorn
Buffalo Berry
Junipers
Pavement Roses
Hansa Rose
Globe Blue Spruce
Broom 
Forsythia
Double Flowering Plum
Elders
Goji Berry
Honeyberry
Nanking Cherry
Russian Almond
​Caraganas
​Cotoneaster

Moisture Tolerant Shrubs

​Cranberry (low/high bush)
Snowball Viburnum
Pussy Willows
Dogwoods
Hydrangeas
Mockoranges
Dwarf Arctic Willow
Dappled Willows 
Cedars
​Dwarf Balsam Fir

Shrubs loved by Birds

​Saskatoons
Nanking Cherry 
Currants (that fruit)
High Bush Cranberry
Cotoneaster
Sea Buckthorn (w/pollinator)
Raspberries 
Gooseberries
Honeyberries (Haskap)
​Dwarf Korean Lilac

Fruitless/Less Messy Shrubs

​Spireas
Mockorange
Ninebarks
Dogwoods
Hydrangeas
Lilacs
Junipers
Barberries
Dwarf Norway Spruce
Globe Blue Spruce
Burning Bush
Dwarf Balsam Fir

Extra Cold Hardy Shrubs

​Potentillas
Hansa Rose
Pavement Roses
Globe Blue Spruce
Wapiti Juniper
Alpine Carpet Juniper
Calgary Carpet Juniper
Sem False Spirea
Double Flowering Plum
Lilacs
​Cotoneaster
​Mugo and Dwarf Mugo Pines

Shrubs Loved by Bees & Butterflies

​Cherries
Lilacs
Hydrangeas
Roses
Ninebarks

Shrubs with Fragrance

​Lilacs
Hansa Rose
Mockoranges
Golden Flowering Currant

Groundcover Shrubs

​Low Junipers
Gro Lo Sumac
Yellow Gem Potentilla
Kinnickinnick
Broom

Shade Tolerant Shrubs

​Hydrangeas (Part)
Cranberries (Part)
Snowball Viburnum (Part)
Weigelas (Part)
Sem False Spirea (Part)
Cedars (Part to Mostly)
Beaked Hazelnut
Dogwoods 
Mockorange (Part)
Russian Cypress (Part)
Dwarf Balsam Fir (Part to Mostly)
Dwarf Serbian Spruce (Part)
Blueberries (Part)
​Russian Cypress (Part)

Shrubs with Fall Colour

​Dogwoods
Barberries
Tiger Eyes Sumac
Gro Lo Sumac
Spireas
Burning Bushes
Cranberries
Saskatoons
Blueberries
Arrowwood (Berries)
Chokeberry
​Cotoneaster

Shrubs with winter interest

​Dogwoods (twig colour)
Sem False Spirea (Dry Flower)
Hydrangeas (Dry Flower)
Spruce, Pine & Cedar (Evergreen)
Roses (Hips)
Sea Berry/Sea Buckthorn (Berries)
​Buffaloberry (Berries)

​Shrubs for hedging

Cotoneaster
Alpine Currant
Fruiting Currants
Nanking Cherry
Common Caragana
Pygmy Caragana
Upright Cedars
Upright Junipers
Hansa Rose
Mockoranges
​Lilacs

Perennials & Grasses:

Tall / Large perennials

​Delphinium
Lupine
Joe Pye Weed
Empress Wu Hosta
Big Daddy Hosta
Krossa Regal Hosta
Hollyhock
Giant Goat's Beard
Ligularia/Ray Flower
Frans Hals Daylily
Sneezeweed
Kahome Meadowsweet
Giant Fleeceflower
Giant Maiden/Silver Grass
Eulalia Maiden Grass
Russian Sage
Tree Lilies
Rhubarb & Ornamental Rhubarb

Perennials for small yards

​Blue/White Clips
Seathrifts
Coral Bells
Little Grapette Daylily
Stella D'oro Daylily
Cherry Garden Dwarf Iris
Columbines
Bunchberry
Pinks
Halcyon Hosta
Rainforest Sunrise Hosta
Balloon Flower
​Hens & Chicks

Drought Tolerant perennials

​Daylilies
Artemisias & Silvermound
Yarrows
Meadow Sages
Russian Sage
Bergenia/Elephant Ears
Shasta Daisy
Coneflower
Goldenrod
False Sunflowers
Tickseed
Lamb's Ear
Asters
Cranesbill
Sedum/Stonecrop
Snow in Summer
Nettles (lamium)

Moisture tolerant perennials

​Astilbes
Meadowsweets
Bergenia
Siberian Iris
Flag Iris
Karl Foerster Grass
Bugbane
Fleeceflowers
Ray Flower
Ferns
​Japanese Spurge
Globe Flower
Primulas
​

Perennials loved by Bees & Butterflies

​Bee Balm
Autumn Fire & Joy Sedums
Liatris / Blazing Star
Hyssop
Catmints
Asters
Butterfly Weed/flower
Pincushion Flower
Coneflowers
Meadow Sages
Russian Sage

Shade tolerant perennials

​Hostas 
Ferns
Nettles (lamium)
Bugleweed
Astilbes (part)
Elephant Ears
Coral Bells
Ray Flower
Masterwort
Bugbane
Spikenard
Goatsbeard
Fleeceflowers
Pink Turtlehead
Siberian Bugloss
Lungwort
Bleeding Hearts
Primula
Globe Flowers
Culver's Root
Periwinkle
Creeping Jenny

Groundcover Perennials

​Stonecrop/Sedum
Pussy Toes
Creeping Thyme
Nettles/Lamium
Max Frei Cranesbill
Creeping/Moss Phlox
Kinnickinnick
Japanese Spurge
Creeping Jenny
Vinca Vine/Periwinkle

Extra cold tolerant

​Daylilies
Snow in Summer
Bergenia
Cranesbill
Nuuk Potentilla
Pasque Flower
Pussytoes

Fragrant Perennials

​Dalmation Iris
Hyssop
Catmint
Creeping Thyme
Sweet Woodruff
Bugbane
Joe Pye Weed
Lily of the Valley
Oriental Lilies
Bee Balm
Lavender
​

Perennials with fall colour

​Elephant Ears/Bergenia
Cranesbill
Switchgrasses 
John Creech Sedum
Autumn Fire Sedum
Bunchberry
Kinnickinnick
​Virginia Creeper Vine

Perennials with winter Interest

​Karl Foerster Grass (Seedheads)
Switchgrasses (Seedheads)
Maiden Grasses (Seedheads)
Coneflowers (Seedheads)
​False Indigo (Seedheads)
​Alpine Clematis (Seedheads)