Brenda’s garden

Written on: September 9th, 2019

by Brenda MacKenzie Our colourful but idiosyncratic garden is on an ordinary urban lot at 1826 Scott Street. At the front of the house, frustrated motorists on their ...

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Special guest at the Corner Pollinator Garden

Written on: August 29th, 2019

Check out this recent post by Berit Erickson about a rare and declining bee species – Yellow-banded Bumble Bee – that found her pollinator garden and ...

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Finding pollinators at Sunnyside library

Written on: August 21st, 2019

by Sandy Garland On Sunday afternoon, 18 August, Véronique, Jasmine, and I did a survey of pollinators in the gardens at Sunnyside library. For many years, these ...

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Finding pollinators at Lansdowne

Written on: August 21st, 2019

by Sandy Garland On 18 August, Véronique, Jasmine, and I did a survey of the gardens at Sunnyside library (see Finding pollinators at Sunnyside library) and the ones ...

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Pearly Everlasting blues – learning to love tattered plants

Written on: August 14th, 2019

by Renate Sander-Regier In the spring of 2018, I planted a patch of Pearly Everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacea). I have long been charmed by the poetic, ...

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Finding pollinators at the Canadian Museum of Nature

Written on: August 13th, 2019

by Sandy Garland Our Sunday survey this week (August 11, 2019) was in the Landscapes of Canada gardens on the O’Connor Street side of the Canadian Museum of ...

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