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    Articles from the Blog

    Gardens for Pollinators
    Celebrating Native Plant Gardens & Gardeners
    #GardensForOurFuture
    Naturalized Landscapes and Municipal Bylaws
    Why Native Plants?
    HOW TO ATTRACT BENEFICIAL INSECTS TO THE GARDEN

    Other Articles & Fact Sheets

    • Planning your Butterfly Garden
    • Asclepias curassavica  – Tropical Milkweed – Should it be included in the home garden?
    • A Guide to Starting Milkweed From Seed
    • Sources for Native Plants in Southern Ontario (map)
    • Step by Step Guide on How to Plant a Pollinator Patch- Cathy Kavassalis
    • Creating a Pollinator Patch – Cathy Kavassalis
    • Pollinator Partnership – Selecting Plants for Pollinators: Lake ErieLowlands
    • Nests for Native Bees – Xerces Society
    • Bee Condo Maintenance Guidelines – Pollination Guelph
    • Pollinator Plants of the Great Lakes Region – Dec. 2017 – Xerces Society
    • Pollinator Partnership of Canada – No Fear of Stings: Inviting Bees to Your Property
    • Halton Butterfly Host Plant List and Planting Plan
    • Pollinator Gardens: 8 Easy Steps to Design a Landscape with Native Plants
    • Keystone Native Plants Eastern Temperate Forest – EcoRegion 8 – National Wildlife Federation
    • List of the Vascular Plants of Ontario’s Carolinian Zoone – Michael J. Oldham
    • Native Butterfly Host & Nectar Plants
    • Wild about Gardening – Canadian Wildlife Federation
    • Native Trees – City of Oakville
    • North American Native Plant Society
    • Seeds of Diversity

    Cross Pollination, is a monthly newsletter delivered at the first of the month to your email inbox, written by Master Gardeners, who enjoy sharing scientifically-based information.

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