Early spring is a tough time for bees, butterflies and other pollinators as they emerge from their long winter hiatus just when sources of nutritious pollen and nectar are few…
There are more than 4,000 species of wild bees in North America – and many are vastly superior pollinators compared to the honey bee, which originally hails from Europe. Unlike…
Planting milkweed this year? If your goal is to provide habitat for monarch butterflies, you’ll want to choose milkweed varieties that are native to your region – and suitable for…
“Plant them to look as though they had always been there” advised Lois Wilson about native wild flowers and ferns in her ground-breaking, exhaustively researched guide to Canadian gardening published in…
U.S.-based landscape designer and author Heather Holm will deliver a keynote presentation on Attracting Pollinators and Beneficial Insects with Native Plants at Pollination Guelph’s 9th annual symposium April 2. Holm…
One of the threads in Anthony Doerr’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel All the Light We Cannot See is the story of Frederick, a boy who loves birds and steadfastly speaks his…
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