Making Gorgeous Pollinator Gardens using Native Plants: How to do it!

Making a pollinator garden using native plants can be tons of fun, but there are real challenges. This talk will show lovely examples of wonderful gardens but will also highlight problems and how to overcome them. We'll look at working on a tiny budget, getting permissions in a timely way, getting young plants established during record breaking droughts, battling invasive weeds, and keeping neighbours or municipalities from destroying established gardens. There are solutions to all these problems, and we hope you and your neighbours will be inspired to do more and better rewilding using these ideas. We hope to publish excerpts from the talk in Blazing Star.

About the Speaker:

Clement Kent wrote "How to Make a Pollinator Garden" in 2011, and has helped create many public PG's since then, all using native plants. He co-founded Project Swallowtail, a program to help people create pollinator gardens which has over 800 participants in the GTA and elsewhere. He co-founded the Parkdale Horticultural Society and serves on the board, and is an adjunct professor of biology at York University focusing on insect genetics. As a member of the Advisory Group for the City of Toronto's Pollinator Protections Strategy, he focused on ways of building corridors of native plantings to connect larger green spaces for the benefit of pollinators.

This webinar is offered with support from a TD - Friends of the Environment Foundation grant and in partnership with the David Suzuki Foundation.