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On average, one tree produces nearly 260 pounds of oxygen each year. Two mature trees can provide enough oxygen for a family of four. |
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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. |
Enjoy planting with the whole family
Add splashes of colour to your garden with our large selection of attractive perennials, annuals and shrubs.
*We are open Victoria Day – 7:00am to 6:00pm
2013 Plant Introductions
These new twists on old favourites have been specially selected for their floriferous characteristics and easy-to-grow nature.
Too mark one hundred years in business, we are also delighted to present our 100th anniversary plant introductions.
Be part of our green movement!
Would your local community benefit from more plants?
Sheridan Nurseries will be donating 1000 plants to your favourite local community projects across the GTA.
Celebrating 100 Years
2013 marks our 100th anniversary in business!
Join us on a journey through time as we celebrate 100 years of horticultural innovation in Canada!
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!
Garden Centre of the Year!
We are delighted to announce that our Markham / Unionville Garden Centre has been awarded Chrysler Garden Centre of the Year, as part of Canadian Nursery and Landscape Association’s (CNLA) National Awards of Excellence program.
100TH ANNIVERSARY
Join us on a journey through time as we celebrate 100 years of horticultural innovation in Canada!
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LANDSCAPE DESIGN
Increase the value of your home through a well designed landscape!
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GIFT CARDS
A Sheridan Nurseries Gift Card is perfect for any occasion.
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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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