After a few weeks of not looking after the garden too much (we’ve been blessed by a lot of rain this summer, and we’ve just been super bee-sy) I had some time today – on the tail end of a flu bug (no, not COVID, just a good ole flu so I had a sick […]
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Our plants have been doing well since our planting day just over two months ago! While some won’t bloom until next year, the violets and foxglove beardstongue have been beautiful, the yarrow has been blooming for a month, and the black-eyed Susans are in full flower. Everything else is growing by leaps and bounds as
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Yesterday evening I attended my course on Pollinator Stewardship (which I’m attending as part of a grant to create an educational pollinator garden through PollinateTO, Project Swallowtail, LiveGreen & the City of Toronto) (check out our garden here!). This week was focused on the perspective of Indigenous peoples on pollinators which was pretty fabulous. Some
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Yes!Toronto’s official bee is the Metallic Green Sweat Bee.Definitely the coolest looking bee, it has a bright metallic green sheen which is hard to miss. Note below is from the City of Toronto website:https://www.toronto.ca/services-payments/water-environment/live-green-toronto/torontos-official-bee/ Introducing Toronto’s Official Bee, the Bicoloured Agapostemon (Agapostemon virescens)! This metallic green sweat bee is an ideal choice as Toronto’s Official Bee for
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