GARDEN
RESOURCES
INSECTS
- ButterflyWay Project – David Suzuki Foundation
- Pollinator Partnership Canada - support pollinator conservation
- Jumping Worms Alert and Prevention, Halton Master Gardeners
- An UpTick on Ticks and Lyme Disease video presentation by the Friends of the Napanee River
- Bee City Canada connecting people, pollinators and places
- Native Pollinator Garden Recipe Cards selecting plants, Pollinator Partnership Canada
- Selecting Plants for Pollinators Pollinator Partnership Canada
- Ontario’s Pollinator Pals poster illustrated by Mariel Lepra. Ontario Nature, 2017
- Build a Monarch Butterfly Way Station Lee Valley Gardening
- Monarch Watch Education, Conservation, Research
- Lost Ladybug Project Cornell University
- Wild About Bees: Tips for a Pollinator-Friendly Garden City of Toronto
ECOLOGY
• Grow Me Instead Non-invasive plants for your garden, Ontario Invasive Plant Council
• The Cornell Lab Bird Academy All About Birds: course catalog, videos, games, lectures
• Building a Bird Garden and plants for birds, Humber College
• Ontario’s Invading Species Awareness Program Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources & Forestry
• Invasive Species, Garlic Mustard Nature Conservancy Canada
• Wild Parsnip and Queen Anne’s Lace Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources & Forestry
GARDENS
- Royal Botanical Gardens, Burlington, ON
- Make Your own Wildlife Garden Fletcher Wildlife Garden, Ottawa
- Butchard Gardens Victoria, British Columbia
GARDENING ORGANIZATIONS
- Canadian Garden Council Gardens Canada/Jardins du Canada
- Garden Clubs of Ontario
- Arboretum of the University of Guelph
- Ontario Horticultural Association
- Ontario Invasive Plant Council
- Ontario Hosta Society
- Rhododendron Society of Eastern Canada Niagara Region
- Trees are Good: International Society of Arboriculture
GARDENING
- Landscaping on the Playground: Gardening for Kids recommended by Cassie!
- Attract Birds to Your Yard Homemade Suet recipes and feeding tips from Birds & Blooms
- Attract Nature to your Yard Planting for Pollinators, Land Conservancy KFL&A March 21, 2021 (YouTube)
- Arboretum of the University of Guelph offers a variety of virtual programs and workshops
- How to Sharpen Pruning Tools Lee Valley: The Gardening Journal, Episode 7
- Sourcing Native and Edible Forest Plants Rideau 1000 Islands Master Gardeners
- How to Care for Seedlings video, Lee Valley, 2021
- Seeds of Diversity Canada dedicated to conservation of horticultural biodiversity
- Seed-Starting Date Calculator Johnny’s Selected Seeds of Winslow, Maine
- Growing Indoor Plants University of Georgia
- Successful Container Gardens University of Illinois
- Poisonous Plants and Flowers Ontario SPCA and Humane Society
- On Growing Orchids Canadian Orchid Congress
- Carson's Garden + Market
- Power Pollinator Plant List
MAGAZINES
- The Gardening Journal with Niki Jabbour Lee Valley videos- pollinators & lots more!
- Canada’s Local Gardener Magazine
- Ontario Nature Blog
- Gardening Enjoyed: Dallying in the Dirt Ken Brown’s blog, Ontario
Thank you to our generous local individuals, organizations and businesses. You help us to continue our efforts in beautifying our community.
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