Art61, I'd definitely be interested in your cardinal flower seed if you find you have any extra once you've filled your own needs. I let all my native columbines self seed and there is already a new patch of tiny babies starting despite the horrid drought we'd had for about a month. IMHO, protection of the red mulberry is only one facet of what needs to be done. You can plant as many pure red mulberries as you want but if the gene pool is disturbed by the continued importation and planting of the white mulberry, ALL planted or natural red mulberries will continue to be at risk. We have an old, very unkempt arboretum here in Woodstock and it has a mature white mulberry and I'm going to firmly request that it's time to take it down. It can be replaced with something of a more native nature, even if it's not native to our general area, at least it could be native to Canada or Canada and the north-east of USA. It's a danger to our native stocks and serves little purpose in the arboretum which is not the attraction that it should be in our booming little town. Now it is down to finding the time to write the appropriate persons about taking down the tree and see what comes of it. Good luck in your search for your mulberries. I'll let you know if I find any unaffected red mulberries (not likely since there are so few pristine red mulberry left in the whole of the country...they say as low as 80 trees left in canada) in my neck of the woods and collect some seed for you. Here's an eye opening article from the University of Guelph that shows the state of the Red Mulberry and how the white mulberry needs to be eradicated in order for the red to rebound. IMHO with such a small genepool as only 80 specimens, the species may already be doomed as small gene pools almost always mean death to a species as they are not able to survive disease and infestations as those in cases of diverse genepools. At any rate, here's the article: http://www.uoguelph.ca/research/news/articles/1998/preserving_legendary_mulberry.shtml Barb southern Ontario, CANADA

Well we have had around 60 responses regarding starting a Canadian native plant forum here on Gardenweb - honestly I don't think it would matter if we had a thousand responses as far as Garden web goes, I think they believe there are 6 people living here in Canada - Thanks for knottyceltic for answering questions and responding to peoples growing interest in native plants. It has come to my attention today that there may be a alternative. I actually received an email from a member who thought I started this group..lol which I didn't anyways I'll get to it - the group is called http://groups.y****.com/group/nativerareplants/ (just select the URL copy and paste) I have replaced ahoo with 4 stars I suggest that if you are interested in native plants to join and support this group and most of all have fun learning & trading our own native plants Cheers Jeff

Bumping this back up to the top of the forum list in case there are any CANADIANS who want to add their name/username to the list of interested folks. Please do not add your name here, click on the link and add your name at the proper forum. Thanks so much. Barb southern ONtario, CANADA

Here are some resources I found: The first sells plants native to Ontario: https://onplants.ca/ The others are resources/ listings (or contain listings) of plants native to Ontario: http://chapter.ser.org/ontario/files/2012/08/SERO-6th-Ed.-Growers-List-Only.pdf http://www.ontarioinvasiveplants.ca.php56-30.ord1-1.websitetestlink.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/GMI-Booklet_FINAL-FOR-WEB_May132016.pdf http://ontariowildflowers.com/main/alien_native.php?type=N Hope this helps!