History of the Alcove Garden
Written on: February 21st, 2025by Amanda Carrigan (text and photos) The Alcove Garden space at Kitchissippi United Church (KUC) was originally pavement. In 2014, KUC members, Ecology Ottawa, and ...
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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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Beginner pollinator garden: the 3 x 3 x 3 system
Written on: June 6th, 2024by Berit Erickson “I don’t know where to start:” I’ve heard this statement many times from people who want to create their own native plant pollinator gardens. Since ...
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Riverview Park Pollinator Garden
Written on: December 17th, 2023by Lynne Patenaude The Friends of Riverview Park Green Spaces and a group of volunteers planted over 370 seedlings of 25+ species of sun-loving, mostly native, ...
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OWSL: lending the seeds to grow Ottawa’s pollinator gardens
Written on: November 28th, 2023By Elaine DeCoursey (modified slightly from an article written for the Old Ottawa South Community Association Review, January 2024) At the November meeting of the ...
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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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