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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Ottawa Stewardship Council’s Kanata North Regeneration Stewards
Written on: July 12th, 2024by Berit Erickson On July 6th, Wild Pollinator Partners organized a tour of the Kanata North Pollinator Patch (and related projects) in the Kanata North Hydro ...
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Down to the nitty gritty: creating the Churchill Alternative School butterfly garden
Written on: February 22nd, 2020by Berit Erickson Once I had created a successful pollinator garden of my own [see Berit’s Corner Pollinator Garden], I began to see prime locations for ...
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Agapostemons in the Corner Pollinator Garden
Written on: June 26th, 2019by Berit Erickson (reproduced with permission from Berit’s web site: Ottawa cousins of Toronto’s unofficial bee) This week, while I was supposed to be ...
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Andrena – or mining – bees
Written on: February 8th, 2018by Sandy Garland Although Andrenid species are common, you may not have noticed these little gold bees. The hibernating adults emerge from underground tunnels in ...
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