April 29th update: Spring has arrived! We have been busy potting and cleaning up and organizing ourselves for opening day. The excitement is building! Most of the hostas are just now starting to wake up. It's been a slow spring, but I think all the more eagerly anticipated because of the delay. We have opened up the coldframes for our customers this year. This brings more than twice as much shopping space! So make some time when you stop by because you're going to want to check it all out! Opening day is May 10th.

Hope to see you soon...

Check out our Photo Album. Our own introductions to both the hosta and daylily world will be added to this tab in the 'Our Introductions' section. New photos will be added as they are created. We hope you enjoy these new pictures. Plants will become available gradually as they are propagated.

The 2013 hosta and daylily availabilities are ready to view &/or download. We look forward to seeing you in the spring!

2013 Daylily availability 2013 Hosta availability

Welcome to Shades of Green

Welcome to Shades of Green. We are thrilled that you have found our site! We are a family-owned business in Aylmer, Ontario, Canada. We specialize in hostas, the number one perennial on the market for many years now.They are so popular that in 1998 they were deemed the friendship plant. Just one of the many reasons why we love hostas!

One never knows what treasures they will find here! We have ever changing display gardens for our friends and customers to stroll through and enjoy. As you stroll, you can see how the plants perform in the garden setting, rather than in a pot on a shelf. There are over 1000 varieties of hosta on display as well as approximately 300 daylilies with over 600 varieties of hosta available for sale and over 100 daylily varieties.

Our hostas and daylilies are available for purchase online. We have had great success in shipping these. Perennials, such as astilbe, ferns, heuchera, etc., we would love to have you come for a visit and purchase these in person. Our online availability will change as our stock grows and depletes. If there is something that you are looking for and don’t see it, please e-mail us as we may have it in stock, but in too few numbers to post on-line.

We are open every day May through September starting Mother’s Day weekend. Please see the 'Contact Us' page for hours. One of the greatest joys to this business is meeting fellow gardeners. We look forward to having you come in for a tour and a visit. See you soon…

If you are coming to see us in person, you will find that there is always something interesting to see around the next corner in our gardens. They are a constant work in progress as we strive to make them better every year!

Our daylilies are hardy and healthy! We sell mature divisions of field grown daylilies and always ship freshly dug plants. There are more varieties available at the nursery than we have listed online.

Our hostas are field grown from either division or from tissue culture. We ship healthy, mature divisions. Please keep in mind when ordering that the latest releases of hosta will be smaller divisions as they will not have had as much time to grow as the older varieties.

For those of you coming to visit us at the nursery, we have many companion plants for the hostas available for sale. We have expanded our selection of Heucheras and Ferns this year. Also, we have added Arisaema (Jack-in-the-Pulpit), Astilbe, Brunnera, Dicentra (Bleeding Heart), Epimedium, Helleborus, Ligularia, Polygonatum (Soloman's Seal), and Trillium.