Ottawa Wildflower Seed Library fall 2023 seed giveaways
Written on: December 16th, 2022In 2020, Melanie Ouelette began the Ottawa Wildflower Seed Library (OWSL) to encourage others to grow native plants. Since then, the OWSL has distributed thousands ...
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Our second colloquium – 2020
Written on: January 7th, 2022by Sandy Garland WPP held its second annual colloquium on 8 March 2020. As I write this, read the notes, and look at the photos, it seems like a different world. ...
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Cleaning seeds with CWF
Written on: December 12th, 2019by Sandy Garland Collecting seeds for the Canadian Wildlife Federation’s habitat restoration project on October 20 was fun (see Collecting seeds with CWF), but ...
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Seed collecting with CWF
Written on: December 12th, 2019by Sandy Garland, photos by Li-Shien Lee WPP has been interested in and supportive of a large project that the Canadian Wildlife Federation is conducting: restoring ...
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An introduction to our native bees
Written on: June 13th, 2019by Sandy Garland, presentation slides and identifications from Jessica Forrest, photos by Barry Cottam What is a bee? How do you distinguish them from look-alike ...
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Pollinator superheroes
Written on: May 6th, 2019text by Sandy Garland, photos by Edgar R. Hernandez The City of Ottawa’s first Wildlife Speaker event of the season was a big success. WPP brought a display ...
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