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Native Plant Demand Survey Results Sept 1st, 2020
Ontario Plant Restoration Alliance & Hamilton Naturalists Club • 115 Responses • 62% Personal Use/Hobbyist • 30% NAMPS Members • 40% Use over 75% native species in their projects • 75% Are not specifically required to use native plants • Organizations Represented: Trent University, Alderville Black Oak Savanna, Land of the Dancing Deer Six Nations UBC Botanical Garden, Toronto Forestry Dept., York University, City of Toronto ReLeaf Chatham-Kent, Blooming Boulevards, Ontario Ministry of Transportation (southwest region), Conservation Halton, Credit Valley, Fanshawe College, LiteRoof Ontario, NANPS, Long Point Region Conservation Authority, Pollination Guelph In the past year , respondents collectively created ✓ 68 acres of wetland with native plants ✓ 492 acres of forest with native plants ✓ 404 acres of grasslands with native plants ✓ 121 acres of urban parks with native plants ✓ 17 acres of home gardens with native plants ✓ 13 acres of infrastructure corridor with native plants
• The most common issues with stock quality reported were ✓ Small Size ✓ Poor Root System ✓ Stock Handling (Damage) • Plants specifically requested or reported being hard to Plants specifically requested or reported being hard to find: Spice Bush Bayberry Cucumber Magnolia Red Cedar Witch Hazel Sumacs Leatherwood Black Spruce Shagbark Hickory Hackberry Hop Hornbeam Hop Tree Flowering Dogwood Birch Butternut Running Strawberry Milkweeds Elderberry Paw-Paw Tulip Tree Blue Cohosh Lupine Bergamot Hyssop Lupine Sunflower Hepatica Hairy Beardtongue Birds Foot Violet Yellow Pimpernel Golden Alexander Bellwort Wood Phlox Ground Nut Anemone Blue Bells Bunchberry Snowberry Grey Goldenrod Bloodroot Cardinal Flower Ironweed Early Buttercup Cup Plant Early Saxifrage Twinleaf Green Dragon Spikenard Yellow Mandarin Hoary Puccoon
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