If you were looking for long seasoned flowers, we have three different families of shrubs as options. Only two will tolerate locations with full sun and just one that also tolerates wind exposure and extreme cold. Potentillas.
Why plant a currant you may ask? Well, one reason would be that currants are some of the most easy to grow plants available in Manitoba.
This tree is almost native to Manitoba. I have found Silver Maples growing very close to home. Crossing the border at Sprague on the way to Ontario, the first Ontario town you come to is Rainy River.
So many spireas! There are so many kinds to pick from! Some with white flowers and some with pink and they come in every shape, size and shade… but which ones are best?
When I started working in sales at our nursery and saw how many different lilacs varieties there are in every shape and size and colour I thought to myself “Aren’t they pretty.”
I remember the first time I saw a purple shrub I was somewhere between confused and impressed. How different! How unique!
As unlikely as it may seem there are grapes that can survive here in Manitoba and produce a bountiful crop while they are at it.
As spring arrives the early bloomers like cherries, plums, apricots and forsythia are eager to start the season show off. As spring progresses, the spireas and lilacs bloom and the flowering crabapples put out their brilliant display.
The one species of shrubs we carry the most varieties of is undoubtedly lilacs. At least four different families of lilac and well over forty different cultivars have passed through our nursery over the years I have worked here.
Annabelle Hydrangea and its family members (hydrangea arborescence) are very popular shrubs here in Manitoba. We would technically call them a perennial shrub as you do need to prune off the dead frozen tips each year, similar to a perennial like a peony or daylily.
