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One highlight of having created the garden has been regular visits from groups interested in learning more about pollinators and ecology. In this post Ko, who lives and is active in Parkdale, describes two nature walks that she organized and promoted that have included the Pollinator Garden. We’ve been particularly grateful for her enthusiastic ongoing

One of the best things about pollinator gardening is the connections that are built among people with the same commitment to creating beautiful, welcoming, and educational spaces while sustaining the planet. There are an abundance of ways in which this happens: educational walks, networking about best practices for growing and caring for plants, and collecting

Today, May 15, is the one-year anniversary of “planting day,” when we turned the soil, put up the stone border, put in the beautiful labelling stakes, erected the sign, and planted 15 species of native plants for our new pollinator garden, as well as supplementing gardens on five households on the street. It looked pretty

The natural cycle of a wild plant in Ontario inevitably involves winter. While most of us think of spring as “planting season,” that won’t work for a lot of native pollinators: they need winter, or a winter simulation, as part of the process that will allow them to germinate in the summer. The easiest solution