Local bakery, Bread & Roses, enthusiastically agreed to have the Manor Park Community Association’s Environmental Sustainability Committee volunteers add native plants to their gardens.
Along with existing rose bushes and the rare Eastern Prickly Pear Cactus, the small 7.5-square-metre gardens now feature New England Aster, Little Bluestem, Canada Columbine, Pearly Everlasting, and other drought-tolerant plants. All seedlings planted were grown from Ottawa Wildflower Seed Library seeds.
The bakery proudly displays a Butterflyway sign in the bed of Jerusalem Artichokes to the right of its front door.