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Rooted Naturally

🌱Ecology-inspired garden consulting + design
🌺 For gardens that support pollinators & people
📍Windsor, Ontario | Message for inquiries!

Owned by Nicole shangi, M.Sc, 10+years horticulture experience 🌸
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10/30/2026

I’m back from a quick trip leaf peeping in New England! I left feeling inspired to share some of my local fall colour faves. 🍁🍁🍁What are your favourites? Also happy Halloweekend! 🎃

10/16/2026

🗣️ Can I have 2.5 mins of your time to get preachy about gardening? We are rapidly losing natural landscapes to make room for more of us. But what happens to them? It is our responsibility to take care of those who cannot fight for themselves (that goes for other humans too). Starting with a tiny garden is one of the best ways to give back! It’s good for you, and it’s good for the planet! 🌎🌱DMs open, let me help you get started!

10/13/2026

A small yard is the perfect opportunity to replace turf with a slice of native habitat.

This type of landscape conversion may seem like a daunting, huge task. It’s not! It can be low cost and a couple days worth of labour.

When I think about what I would rather spend my money and time on, I’d much rather it be a beautiful patch of plants which themselves support a diverse range of life.

Imagine the effort some people put into their turf put into something like this instead? What if everyone was a steward to their own little patch of habitat? 🤔

10/07/2026

Design vs. Reality: Part Two!

Designed by Rooted Naturally, installed by the wonderful Florascape | Windsor-Essex Expert Landscaping.

This is the backyard of the same property from part one. Our secret garden from last time is a walkway into this yard.

The goal is the same; to use mostly native plants for maximum benefit to wildlife.
I wanted any visitor to this garden to feel instantly surrounded by life. Varying bloom times, fall colours, multiple food sources for all sorts of creatures… I just can’t wait to see how this space grows over the next few years.

Thank you again to Karla Florascape | Windsor-Essex Expert Landscaping for bringing my crazy visions to life! Also a big thank you to the homeowner for being so passionate about bringing so much life into her home. Still more to come in part three!

10/04/2026

It’s the time of year everyone is over-seeding their lawns. Annoyance with lawns is rising. The constant watering in our increasingly hot and dry summers, fungal issues, grub issues… My solution: scrap it entirely!! But for those not quite ready for that, here are some simple solutions to the difficulties of growing turf in shade under trees.

09/29/2026

Design vs. Reality, Part One!

Designed by Rooted Naturally, installed by Florascape | Windsor-Essex Expert Landscaping. Karla and her team are the best at bringing visions to life!
Using new and existing plants, the vision for this space is a “secret garden” with small trees arching overhead and ground covers with various bloom times underfoot.

This area is meant to be walked through to connect separate spaces so not much time will be spent here. I chose native plants that will be very low maintenance and drought tolerant over time, spread on their own, and have various seasons of interest (blooms, berries, fall colour).

The goal is that walking through this garden to the backyard will feel like you’re being transported to a different place. One that is private, quiet, peaceful, and full of life.

Stay tuned next for the back garden which is designed to blend cottage-style gardens with native plants!

09/22/2026

I re-cylcled an old stock tank into a planter! A quick little DIY at the end of the summer. Check out how quickly it transformed into a lush little oasis!

09/12/2026

Took a day trip to Pelee Island for the grand opening of the Atwood-Gibson Bird Centre Pelee Island Bird Observatory! Got to grab lunch with science-loving pals old and new, and toured the island with Chris Solcz. I designed the landscaping for the new facility which is slowly taking shape. It will be full of native plants attracting tons of pollinators, migratory monarchs, and of course, birds! 🐦

09/10/2026

I built a native garden in 200sqft and this is how much it cost 🪏

The most expensive part was definitely the plants. A more cost effective way to do it would be sourcing plants sold on Facebook marketplace from people’s gardens or the Ontario Native Plants website. These plants were mostly all sourced from my other workplace Orchard Farm Nursery Ltd.. I liked the idea of knowing where the plants were coming from, how they were grown, and that they were large, well established plants.

Once the bulk of my plants from my original design were installed, I mixed in a few seedlings from my other gardens and random sources throughout the summer.

Plant List:
- Big bluestem
- Pearly everlasting
- Butterfly milkweed
- Pale coneflower
- Purple coneflower
- Liatris
- Anise hyssop
- Purple prairie clover
- Scarlet bee balm
- Wild bergamot
- Virginia mountain mint
- Heliopsis
- Buttonbush
- Cup plant
Other
- Gaura
- Sunflowers
- Cosmos
- Squash
- Parsley & Dill

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Windsor, ON
N8P TO N8T, N8W TO N9G

Website

http://rootednaturally.net/

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