Not So Hollow Farm Native Shrubs of Ontario
View our selection of native shrubs that support pollinators, birds and other wildlife.
Please click each image for more information
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- Mountain Maple
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- Speckled Alder
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- Serviceberry
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- Chokeberry
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- Buttonbush
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- Redbud
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- Alternate Leaf Dogwood
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- Silky Dogwood
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- Gray Dogwood
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- Red Osier Dogwood
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- Beaked Hazel
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- Cockspur Hawthorn
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- Bush Honeysuckle
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- Silverberry
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- Witchhazel
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- Winterberry
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- Spicebush
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- Sand Cherry
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- Chokecherry
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- Ninebark
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- Fragrant Sumac
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- Shining Sumac
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- Staghorn Sumac
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- Pasture Rose
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- Swamp Rose
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- Common Blackberry
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- Black Raspberry
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- Wild Red Raspberry
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- Flowering Raspberry
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- Peachleaf Willow
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- Bebb’s Willow
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- Sandbar Willow
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- Black Willow
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- Pussy Willow
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- Shining Willow
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- Slender Willow
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- Common Elderberry
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- Scarlet Elder
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- Meadowsweet
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- Snowberry
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- Arrowwood
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- Nannyberry
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- Highbush Cranberry
2018 Shrub List
Native shrubs are best for birds, butterflies and bees. We espcially promote the use of native shrubs within the design of butterfly gardens, pollinator gardens, formal gardens and naturalized areas.
Please reference our inventory for sizes and availability of each species.
Acer spicatum – Mountain Maple
Alnus rugosa – Speckled Alder
Amelanchier alnifolia – Saskatoon Serviceberry
Amelanchier canadensis – Servicberry
Amelanchier laevis – Smooth Serviceberry
Amelanchier stolonifera – Running Serviceberry
Aronia melanocarpa – Chokeberry
Ceanothus americanus – New Jersey Tea
Cercis canadensis – Eastern Redbud
Cornus alternifolia – Alternate leaf Dogwood
Cornus amomum – Silky Dogwood
Cornus racemosa – Gray Dogwood
Cornus sericea – Red Osier Dogwood
Corylus americana – American Hazel
Corylus cornuta – Beaked Hazel
Crateaegus crus-gali – Cockspur Hawthorn
Diervilla ionicera – Bush Honeysuckle
Elaeagnus commutata – Silverberry
Hamamelis virginiana – Common Witch-hazel
Ilex verticillata – Winterberry
Lindera benzion – Spicebush
Prunus pumila – Sandcherry
Prunus virginiana – Chokecherry
Physocarpus opulifolius – Ninebark
Rhus aromatica -Fragrant Sumac
Rhus copallina – Shining Sumac
Rhus typhina – Staghorn Sumac
Ribes americanum – Wild Black Currant
Rosa blanda – Smooth Wild Rose
Rosa carolina – Pasture Rose
Rosa palustris – Swamp Rose
Rosa rubrifolia – Red Leaf Rose
Rosa setigera – Prairie Rose
Rubus allegheniensis – Common Blackberry
Rubus canadensis – Smooth Blackberry
Rubus idaeus – Wild Red Raspberry
Rubus occidentalis – Black Raspberry
Rubus odoratus – Flowering Raspberry
Salix amygdaloides – Peachleaf Willow
Salix bebbiana – Bebb’s Willow
Salix discolor – Pussy Willow
Salix eriocephala – Woolly-headed Willow
Salix exigua – Sandbar Willow
Salix humulis – Prarie/Upland Willow
Salix lucida – Shining Willow
Salix nigra – Black Willow
Salix petiolaris – Slender Willow
Sambucus canadensis – Common Elderberry
Sambucus pubens – Scarlet Elder
Spiraea alba – Meadowsweet
Staphylea trifolia – Bladdernut
Symphoricarpos albus – Snowberry
Viburnum acerifolium – Maple-leaf Viburnum
Viburnum cassinoides – Whiterod Viburnum
Viburnum dentatum – Arrowwood
Viburnum lentago – Nannyberry
Viburnum trilobum – High-bush Cranberry
Native Ontario shrubs for landscaping, naturalizing, edibles and naturalized gardens.