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Insects

• Pollinator Partnership Canada support pollinator conservation
• Jumping Worms Alert and Prevention, Halton Master Gardeners
• An UpTick on Ticks and Lyme Disease video presentation by the Friends of the Napanee River
• Bee City Canada connecting people, pollinators and places
• Native Pollinator Garden Recipe Cards selecting plants, Pollinator Partnership Canada
• 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

• Grow Me Instead Non-invasive plants for your garden, Ontario Invasive Plant Council
• How to Save Water with the Clay Pot Irrigation Method – by Amanda MacArthur, Food Gardening Network, Sept. 9, 2021
• Land Conservancy for Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox & Addington
• The Cornell Lab Bird Academy All About Birds: course catalog, videos, games, lectures
• Building a Bird Garden and plants for birds, Humber College
• 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
• Flora Ontario Integrated Botanical Information System (FOIBIS), University of Guelph

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

• Canadian Garden Council Gardens Canada/Jardins du Canada
• Garden Clubs of Ontario
• Toronto Master Gardeners
• Rideau 1000 Islands Master Gardeners
• Arboretum of the University of Guelph
• Ontario Horticultural Association
• Ontario Invasive Plant Council
• Oakville Horticultural Society
• Ontario Hosta Society
• Rhododendron Society of Eastern Canada Niagara Region
• Trees are Good: International Society of Arboriculture

Gardening

• Attract Birds to your Yard Homemade Suet recipes (and Suet feeding tips) from Birds & Blooms 5 free recipes for creating bird suet for your garden
• Attract Nature to your Yard Planting for Pollinators, presentation hosted by Land Conservancy for Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington, 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
• KASSI: Kingston Area Seed Saving Initiative
• Seed-Starting Date Calculator Johnny’s Selected Seeds of Winslow, Maine
• Growing Indoor Plants University of Georgia
• Successful Container Gardens University of Illinois
• Poisonous Plants and Flowers Ontario SPCA and Humane Society
• 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