2017 Newsletters

2017   Cross Pollination Newsletter November 2017

• How to Honour Our War Dead – As Fertilizer?
• Tears for the departed, but no sentiment for the dead.
• The Poinsettia: From Scrubby Shrub to Designer Darling
• Winterizing Evergreens
• Winter Entertainment in Your Own Back Yard
• Environment Hamilton’s Climate Change Survey

  2017   Cross Pollination Newsletter October 2017

• Monarch Awards 2017 Winner: Amy Taylor’s Garden of Delights
• Are You an Excessive Gardener or a Laid back One?
• Monarch or Viceroy?
• Home-grown Lies at the Farmers’ Market
• Halton Forest Festival
• Hamilton’s 97th Annual Fall Garden & Mum Show
• Halton Environment Network Invasive Species Removal Project
• Urquhart Butterfly Garden 2017 Photography Competition
• Hummingbirds!

2017   Cross Pollination Newsletter September 2017

• The Great Canada 150 Tulip Mystery Solved
• More on tomatoes
• Can  you name this insect
• Dealing with the Japanese beetle
• Ontario Greenway Program needs our help
• September Calendar
• The Wisdom of trees

2017   Cross Pollination Newsletter May 2017

• Canada 150   A celebration of red & white …  and orange?
• Original trees of the Hammer
• French Tarragon and the Russian  Imposter
• Garden Sharing – New Seed and Plant exchange launched
• An Invasive reminder (Garlic Mustard)
• Queen Rhubarb
• Plants Near Water
• A Day on the Bridge    June 11th 2017

2017   Cross Pollination Newsletter April 2017

• Georgia O’Keeffe at AGO – 22 April to 30 July
• April to-do list
• Monarch butterfly has been moved to “Endangered” status
• More butterfly & pollinator resources –  searchable database,
• Book Release: The Greenbelt – Protecting and Cultivating a Great Ontario Treasure

2017  Cross Pollination Newsletter February Edition

• 2017 Perennial Plant of the Year
• Seedy Saturday reminder
• Awesome Herbs for Bees, Benevolence, and Beauty
• February’s TO DO List