Ingrid Janssen: Gardening for Pollinators (Feb 2016)
Here are some places where you can buy either plants or seeds for native plants that are suited to our area.
- OHA Roadsides – A Guide to Creating a Pollinator Patch
http://www.gardenontario.org/subdomains/conservation/resource
s/guide.pdf - Pollinators of Native Plants, Heather Holm
http://www.pollinatorsnativeplants.com - A guide to Toronto’s Pollinators, David Suzuki Foundation
http://www.davidsuzuki.org/issues/downloads/Pollinator_Guide_5pg.pdf - A Landowner’s Guide to Conserving Native Pollinators in Ontario, Susan Chan http://www.feedthebees.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/A-Landowners-Guide-to-Conserving-Native-Pollinators-in-Ontario.pdf
- The Xerces Society: http://www.xerces.org
Here are some places where you can buy either plants or seeds for native plants that are suited to our area.
- Native Plants in Claremont http://www.nativeplants.ca
- Wildflower Farm http://www.wildflowerfarm.com
- Gardens North http://www.gardensnorth.com
- Native Plant Nurseries http://www.nativeplantnurseries.ca
- North American Native Plant Society (they have a native plant sale at the Markham Civic Centre every spring) http://www.nanps.org