Karner Blue Garden Design provides landscaping services in the Guelph and surrounding areas that specialize in native plants.
Services include: consultation, garden design, installation, maintenance, and more!
We believe native plants are beautiful and should be used more in landscaping. Let us help build the garden of your dreams that helps the birds, bees, and butterflies!
What we do
We provide native plant landscaping services to both residents and businesses. Our garden designs span from more traditional gardens to a wildflower cottage gardens.
There’s a native plant for any environment. We select plants that will thrive in whatever conditions you have: full sun to full shade, dry to wet, loamy to poor soil. Minimal maintenance is the best part about native plant gardens.
Why plant native?
Native plants have a ton of benefits, here are just a few.
Low maintenance
Once established in the right environment, native plants require no watering or pruning. We plant perennials or self-seeding annuals, which means the planting is one-and-done!
Endless blooms
We design our gardens with successions of flowers from spring to fall so you always get a fresh pop of colour.
Hardy
There’s a native plant that has evolved for every environment and condition in Ontario.
Unique
There are some really unique native plants that can add some originality to your garden. Morningstar sedge is a fabulous example.
Sustainable
You get to enjoy the many birds, bees, and butterflies that will peruse your garden looking for food and shelter. Check out who we’ve seen in our own gardens here!
And they’re f*cking beautiful!
Click here for some prime examples.
What is a native plant?
An Ontario native plant is one that existed here before the 1600s. They have evolved for centuries alongside other plants and animals. They are critical to our ecosystem.
With sprawling urban development, climate change, and the introduction of invasive plants, many native plants and animals are facing challenges to survival like never before. To preserve our beautiful Ontario nature, we need to protect our beautiful native plants. Each native garden is a building block to restoring a balanced ecosystem.
Our Work
Testimonials
Gen and Leslie did an incredible job on our new garden! They gave us lots of great recommendations based on our taste and our yard parameters. They helped us figure out what we liked and what would work best, and then presented us with a design that we loved. We’re so excited to have a new garden that is beautiful and low maintenance and will attract pollinators. Looking forward to working with them again on future garden projects!
Daniel (Guelph)