Past activities

Fletcher Wildlife Garden annual native plant sale

Help pollinators and butterflies, attract birds to your backyard. We’ll show you which native plant species are favourites with wildlife at the FWG and which species ...

Learning about our native bees: talk and walk

Led by Jessica Forrest, researcher at Ottawa U (see Forrest Lab) What is (and isn’t) a bee? What is pollination? How diverse are wild bees, and how do they live ...

The best of Beaux Arbres Native Plants

CWF webinar: Creating a wildlife-friendly garden

Join the CWF on May 15 for great ideas to make your garden more wildlife-friendly and discover why it is so important, now more than ever! Whether you’re ...

Monarch butterfly conservation

Ottawa Field-Naturalists’ Club monthly meeting The iconic monarch butterfly is known for its amazing 5000-km migration across North America, one of the longest ...

Native Plant Talk in the Highlands

Celebrate spring! Learn from an expert, Peter Fuller, owner of Native and Rare Plants, about using native plants in your garden to help pollinators. Free event. Some ...

Jane’s walk at the Fletcher Wildlife Garden

I think Jane Jacobs would enjoy the FWG and how it’s an oasis of nature in the city. Join us to celebrate her life and ideas as we see what’s happening all ...

Build a Mason Bee box

What can you do to help pollinators? Learn how to make a bee box that works for Mason Bees, the pollinators of our early-blooming fruit trees. Materials will be ...

Secret superheroes of pollination

City of Ottawa Wildlife Speaker Series Speakers: Jessica Forrest and Jeff Skevington Join us at this first-of-the-season Wildlife Speaker event. We’ll be ...