Seedy Saturday - GardenKitchener

Seedy Saturday event happening in Kitchener, #Ontario, on February 28. Great speakers, vendors and a seed exchange. 😃

#NativePlants #OntarioNativePlants #gardening #wildlife #whatyouplantmatters

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#OntarioNativePlants #GreenSky

City of Mississauga's Nuisance Weed and Tall Grass Bylaw Ruled Unconstitutional — Lorraine Johnson

3-0 in favour of naturalised gardens!

#Ontario courts have now ruled three times that municipalities targeting native plant gardens using ‘weed’ bylaws are acting unconstitutionally.

#nativeplants #gardening #ontarionativeplants #wildlife

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I got my winter sowing done on Thursday. Leftover seeds were strewn about the property. #OntarioNativePlants

Lots of planning and dreaming ahead from this year's Christmas haul :) #ontarionativeplants #gardening #nature

Happiness is … signs that your #nativeplant garden is helping #wildlife survive #winter 🐇

🌱Freshly nibbled New England Aster

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From pollinator food (September 21) to becoming winter bird food (this week) - Dog-tooth Daisy (Helenium autumnale), aka Sneezeweed, looks amazing in the wildlife garden. I have it next to Joe Pye, as its blooms peak as the JP fades.

#nativeplants #gardening #ontarionativeplants

Water-Wise Home Gardening Workshop (Nobleton) | LEAF | Local Enhancement & Appreciation of Forests

A great opportunity to learn about native plant gardening and meet like-minded people!

#OntarioNativePlants #OntarioNativePlantGardening #OntarioNativeGardening #ONPlants #ONNativePlants #TownshipofKing #YorkRegion #GTA

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The Goldenrod is fading and the New England asters are magnificent! Monarch butterflies & bees love them. #OntarioNativePlants #OntarioAutumn

Native Clematis (Clematis virginiana) in August (left) and September (right). It can be a prolific reseeder. But flowers emerge on new growth each season, so you can cut it back as needed or remove seed heads.

#nativeplants #whatyouplantmatters #gardening #ontarionativeplants

First time my Closed Bottle Gentian has bloomed since I planted it! This is the #flower fully formed, they don't open more than this. Iirc they're mostly pollinated by bees because most #pollinators don't have the strength/dexterity to pry open the petals #bloomscrolling #ontarionativeplants #garden

Burlington penalizing two residents with a naturalized garden The City of Burlington is taking a mother and daughter to court over their naturalized garden.

City of Burlington priorities: fighting these naturalised gardens with harsh penalties ($400k?!), by-law changes and court action. 🤦‍♀️

#ontario #burlington #nativeplants #gardening #ontarionativeplants

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Who needs all those mainstream chrysanthemums (🥱) this time of year when Bottle Gentian (Gentiana andrewsii) looks so showy from late summer to first frost and provides pollinator food?

#nativeplants #gardening #bloomscrolling #ontarionativeplants

Provide Nesting Habitat for Native Bees Through Plant Stems in Your Garden By the time springtime rolls around many folks are itching to get back into their gardens and start cleaning up in preparation for a new season of blooms. Hopefully last year’s perennials have been le...

A fantastic article about the shelter requirements of bees and how to create nesting spaces for them in your garden. 🐝

#nativeplants #gardening #ontarionativeplants

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Grew these from seed and just love them. The bees do too. Dotted Mint (Monarda punctata).

#NativePlants #gardening #ontarionativeplants #bloomscrolling

I'm still alive. Mostly been doing kcd2 fanart (see my fanart account at garden-ghoul). Barely been #gardening because of how hot is been, but I finally got outside again the other day. #nativeplants #ontarionativeplants
Blue lobelia - hollyhock (not native) - pokeweed berries - spotted bee balm.

‘It felt magical’: monarch butterfly swarm delights visitors and locals in Western Australia town For more than two months, the bright orange butterflies have been descending on Nannup in WA’s south-west, attracted by invasive plant species

Endangered in the Americas but thriving in Australia thanks to invasive plants. Ironic? #Monarchbutterflies #ontarionativeplants

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My garden is open for tours during Hamilton’s Garden Journeys Open Days.

AUG 16 & 17 | 9-4
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Stop by and shoot the breeze about native plants and insects and birds. More life. More plants.

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#gardenjourneysopendays2025 #gardenjourneys25 #hamont #dundasont #ontarionativeplants

Great blue lobelia and cardinal flowers #OntarioNativePlants

Two bumblebees tussle above a Hydrangea Arborescens. The smaller bee has been knocked off its perch and is falling upside down off the top of a cluster of flowers, while the larger of the bees flies above.

A rumble between bumbles #BloomScrolling #OntarioNativePlants #Gardening

Black raspberries & lilies #gardening #ontarionativeplants #plants #berries #lilies #bloomscrolling

Northern azure butterfly laying eggs on New Jersey tea. #OntarioNativePlants #NativePlants #InsectsofOntario

Monarch butterfly perched on common milkweed

Happy Canada Day to you and to this monarch butterfly enjoying common milkweed in a neighbour's yard. First sighting of 2025.
#MonarchButterfly #Milkweed #OntarioNativePlants

The surprising power of your nature photos Scott Loarie has a challenge for you: go outside and take a picture of a living thing. He introduces the global community of people building a living atlas of the natural world by sharing their nature...

One small way we can all help nature conservation #ontarionativeplants www.ted.com/talks/scott_...

Robin’s Plantain. Beautiful, pollinator-attracting flowers which can be cut back once they have finished blooming to keep the leaves as a groundcover.

#nativeplants #ontarionativeplants #gardening

Chipmunks and eastern grey squirrels are going nuts over the wild strawberries in our garden. #whatyouplantmatters

#nativeplants #ontarionativeplants #gardening

Golden Alexander #ontarionativeplants #gardening #garden

A quick scan of the gardens at HQ. Getting there… #OntarioNativePlants #NativePlants #NativeGardens

hairy beardtongue sprouts

pale purple coneflower sprouts

white wood aster sprouts

pearly everlasting sprouts

Winter sowing sprouts Part 5. All of these little seedlings were winter sown in clamshell containers.

Species:
-hairy beardtongue
-pale purple coneflower
-white wood aster (in only an inch of soil since I must have run out)
-pearly everlasting

#OntarioNativePlants