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Evergreens planted close to your home will act as windbreaking insulators in the cold winter months and help reduce heating costs. |
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Evergreens are natural windbreakers. |
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There are approximately 2,000 native plants found in Ontario. |
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A high quality landscape design can increase your property value 20% — a higher return on investment than remodelling your kitchen or bathroom. |
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Feed the birds year-round, not just in winter, so you can enjoy the beauty of summer visitors too. |
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According to studies conducted by NASA, tropical house plants inside your home act as natural air filters and improve air quality. Pick one up today at any Sheridan Nurseries Garden Centre. |
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Studies show that exposure to plants can lower blood pressure, reduce muscle tension and reduce stress. |
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By adding a variety of house plants including blooming plants such as the Gerbera Daisy, you can create feelings of relaxation, calm and well-being in any room. |
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Plants placed within your own personal breathing space will add humidity, remove bacteria and chemical toxins and suppress airborne particles. |
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House plants are nature’s “eco-friendly” living air purifiers. |
Tropical Festival
Saturday, February 4th &
Sunday, February 5th
Sunday, February 5th
Escape the winter and be inspired to create your own tropical paradise with our wide selection of tropical and exotic house plants!
Pre-Order Your Roses
Wrapped and ready to go for just $39.98
Package includes:
- 12 florist quality long stemmed roses
- Baby’s Breath
- Assorted greenery
*Cash & Carry – Orders ready for pick-up beginning February 10th. Delivery Extra.
Exciting Programs for 2012!
We offer a number of informative and fun programs that will inspire you and your family to have a green thumb in 2012!
Our Feathered Friends
Besides plants in your garden that naturally produce food for the birds, you can also provide a constant supply of seed and nuts in bird feeders.
Ask about our refillable birdseed program.
Gift Cards
Gift Cards are available on-line and in-store!
A great gift idea for Mother's Day or any occasion. A Sheridan Nurseries Gift Card is a marvelous way to let your friends and family choose something special for their landscape, indoor or outdoor living space. Our Gift Cards never expire, and are accepted at all of our Garden Centres.
Great careers are grown here!
We're expanding our team of dedicated, hard-working professionals and are looking for great people like you!
If you are interested in an exciting and challenging career, you are looking at the right place!
LANDSCAPE DESIGN
Increase the value of your home through a well designed landscape!
CUSTOM DESIGN
Our talented garden centre designers will create inspiring custom arrangements, wreaths, and centerpieces and more!
GIFT SHOP
Searching for the perfect gift? A Sheridan Nurseries gift card is the ideal solution! Include our Garden Guide to make it a package!
In May 1911 two British landscape architects Howard Dunington-Grubb and his wife Lorrie settled in Toronto to set up one of Canada’s first landscape architecture firms. They soon found out that they were going to have to do something about the lack of locally grown ornamental plant material.
In 1913 they purchased 100 acres of land in Ontario near the village of Sheridan, named after the Irish Playwright Richard Sheridan and now part of Oakville. An ad in a British journal soon brought a young Swedish born nurseryman, Herman Stensson and his wife and four young sons to Canada to establish this new nursery in the spring of 1914. A daughter, Betty born in Canada a few years later, completed the family.
The first catalogue was released in the fall of 1914 for the 1914-1915 gardening season. Growth was rapid and by 1926 the nursery had grown to 250 acres with an extensive selection of trees, shrubs, evergreens, roses and perennials. The company continued to grow through the war and post war years when farms were added north of Georgetown, Ontario.
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Herman Stensson & Family - 1918
