Pollinators join us on a tour of Christine Edmonds’ Tapestry Garden
Written on: July 23rd, 2025by Berit Erickson On 21 June, Christine Edmonds opened her meadow-inspired boulevard garden for a Wild Pollinator Partners tour. Entomologist and bee researcher, Gil ...
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Written on: June 27th, 2025by Berit Erickson For Pollinator Appreciation Day this year, we raffled some of our native plant favourites. Here are the species we gave away. Serviceberry ...
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Christine Edmonds’ boulevard garden
Written on: March 21st, 2025by Christine Edmonds The boulevard garden is located on a busy corner which was torn up when infrastructure upgrades happened 6 years ago. The soil is sandy loam ...
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History of the Alcove Garden
Written on: February 21st, 2025by Amanda Carrigan (text and photos) The Alcove Garden space at Kitchissippi United Church (KUC) was originally pavement. In 2014, KUC members, Ecology Ottawa, and ...
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Street and rain gardens in Old Ottawa South
Written on: January 20th, 2025by Sandy Garland The gardens along Bank Street in Old Ottawa South started as a traffic-calming measure. The three rain gardens on Sunnyside were a pilot project ...
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Touring the Canadian Wildlife Federation demonstration gardens
Written on: July 29th, 2024by Bert Erickson On July 20th, we visited the habitat demonstration gardens that surround the Canadian Wildlife Federation’s Kanata office. Created in 2001, they are ...
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