Mid August Native Garden Tour in GTA | Aurora | Toronto | Ontario

🌿Welcome to my Aurora Native Garden Tour video, for GTA, outside of Toronto, Aurora! This is a Zone 5b garden! Mid August 2026! This video I'll show you around my garden for some Ontario Native plants. I have both native and non-native plants! I'm hoping for the 70% native to 30% rule. Hopefully in future videos you can see how the plants grown, in which conditions and what they look like throughout the seasons! 🌱 Some Plants featured in this video: Prairie Smoke Prairie Dropseed Upland White goldenrod Common milkweed Swamp milkweed Joe Pye weed Butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa) Spotted Beebalm Pearly Everlasting New York aster New England aster Echinacea (coneflower) Monarda (bee balm) Anise hyssop Wild Columbine Leadplant New Jersey Tea Serviceberry tree Highbush Cranberry bush Jack in the Pulpit Wild ginger Heart Leaf aster Trillium (white) Mountain Mint Virginia Creeper 🌿 About this garden: I mix Native plants with Ornamental plants. The Pollinator Patch is southeast-facing pollinator garden with clay soil, designed to support butterflies, bees, and beneficial insects through layered native planting and seasonal bloom succession. The Shade Garden is in heavy clay, and on the South of my property. The Back Pool Garden is in heavy clay, and gets full sun! The Front Pool Garden is in sandy soil, in the center of my property, so it gets full sun during the day! The New patch or Serviceberry patch is north facing with sandy soil. The Woodland Garden is on the front/mid East side of my property in sandy soil 🌸 Follow along: Subscribe for ongoing updates on native plant gardening, pollinator habitat design, and real-time observations from my home garden.