Gardening Resources on the Web
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Plant Lists provided by our local Gardeners
The Pollinator Garden Guide, prepared by Kim Bonner
John Whitaker and Bernie Leroux’s Garden
Insects
- Monarch butterfly population increase; tap title to read article from Monarch Joint Venture
- Jumping Worms Alert and Prevention, Halton Master Gardeners
- Five Tips for Creating a Pollinator-Friendly Habitat with Plants that Repel Ticks – Atlantick.ca blog
- Landscaping Tips to Reduce Tick Populations – Atlantick.ca blog
- ButterflyWay Project – David Suzuki Foundation
- An UpTick on Ticks and Lyme Disease video presentation by the Friends of the Napanee River
- Bee City Canada connecting people, pollinators and places
- Selecting Plants for Pollinators Pollinator Partnership Canada
- Ontario’s Pollinator Pals poster illustrated by Mariel Lepra. Ontario Nature, 2017
- Discover Bee Friendly Habitats Friends of the Earth, UK
- Build a Monarch Butterfly Way Station Lee Valley Gardening
- Monarch Watch Education, Conservation, Research
- Lost Ladybug Project Cornell University
- Wild About Bees: Tips for a Pollinator-Friendly Garden City of Toronto
Ecology
- Invasive Plants Field Guide – Canadian Food Inspection Agency
- Canadian Coalition for Invasive Plant Regulation
- Grow Me Instead Non-invasive plants for your garden, Ontario Invasive Plant Council
- Ontario’s Invading Species Awareness Program Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources & Forestry
- Invasive Species, Garlic Mustard Nature Conservancy Canada
- Wild Parsnip and Queen Anne’s Lace Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources & Forestry
- Native Alternatives to Invasive Plants – In Our Nature
- Land Conservancy for Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox & Addington
- The Cornell Lab Bird Academy All About Birds: course catalog, videos, games, lectures
- How to Save Water with the Clay Pot Irrigation Method – Amanda MacArthur, Food Gardening Network
- Building a Bird Garden and plants for birds, Humber College
Gardens
- Royal Botanical Gardens Burlington, Ontario
- Make Your own Wildlife Garden Fletcher Wildlife Garden, Ottawa
- Butchart Gardens Victoria, British Columbia
- Les Jardins de Quatre-Vents La Malbaie, Charlevoix, Québec
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew UNESCO Word Heritage Site, Kew, England
- Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden Cape Town, South Africa
- Keukenhof Holland Lisse, Netherlands
Gardening Organizations
- Ontario Invasive Plant Council
- Garden Clubs of Ontario
- Toronto Master Gardeners
- Rideau 1000 Islands Master Gardeners
- Arboretum of the University of Guelph
- Ontario Horticultural Association
- Oakville Horticultural Society
- Ontario Hosta Society
- Atlantic Rhododendron & Horticultural Society
Gardening
- Attract Birds to your Yard Homemade Suet recipes and feeding tips from Birds & Blooms
- Attract Nature to your Yard Planting for Pollinators, Land Conservancy KFL&A March 21, 2021 (YouTube)
- Arboretum of the University of Guelph offers a variety of virtual programs and workshops
- How to Sharpen Pruning Tools Lee Valley: The Gardening Journal, Episode 7
- Sourcing Native and Edible Forest Plants Rideau 1000 Islands Master Gardeners
- How to Care for Seedlings video, Lee Valley, 2021
- Seeds of Diversity Canada dedicated to conservation of horticultural biodiversity
- Kingston Area Seed Saving Initiative KASSI
- Seed-Starting Date Calculator Johnny’s Selected Seeds of Winslow, Maine
- Successful Container Gardens University of Illinois
- On Growing Orchids Canadian Orchid Congress
- Growing Roses in Zone 5 Rideau 1000 Islands Master Gardeners
Magazines
- The Gardening Journal with Niki Jabbour Lee Valley videos- pollinators & lots more!
- Canada’s Local Gardener Magazine
- Ontario Nature Blog
- Gardening Enjoyed: Dallying in the Dirt Ken Brown’s blog, Ontario
