Promoting the growing of tree nuts in Canada, and their use.
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 Allbirch Controlled Pollinator GardenOur progress to date... |
Friday, June 26, 2009... Canada's prestigious
Fletcher Wildlife Garden is lending its support to our efforts to replace our former passee lawn, at 374 Allbirch Road in Constance Bay Village, Ottawa, Canada, with aİde rigueur controlled pollinator garden and has contributedİsome 140 native wildflower plants to the project. The plants come from six plant families: LILACEAE (lilies), ROSACEAE (roses), ASTERACEAE (daisies), SCROPHULARIACEAE (figworts), RANUNCULACEAE (buttercups) and APIACEAE (carrots). Here's more...
Saturday, June 27, 2009... Our front and backyard are being subdivided into several plots to get us started. Pathways separating the plots are mowed in order to define these plots, wherein the grasses (important to pollinator 'Skipper' butterfly caterpillars and the like) are left to grow. Each plot will be unique. The species will vary from plot to plot. All specimens we can find will be assigned to plots with the requisite sunniness. There are four plots in front and five plots at back. Eight kinds of dwarf fruit trees (ten trees total) will stand over these plots, with some plots addionally overarched by mature red oak and Colorado spruce. Here is an overview of the plots now ready for ornamentals interplanting...
Tuesday, July 7, 2009... Here is Doug Counter's garden in Toronto. Doug says, ""Here are four photos of my garden so you can visualize what I was fighting to protect. The native-plant memorial garden was started on Mother's Day 1997 on my front lawn and was expanded onto the city-owned boulevard in 1999. So the two sections are now 12 and 10 years old, respectively. Keep in mind when viewing the photos that my 80+ native-species wild garden is in a neighbourhood of mown lawns and the Courts have affirmed my Charter right to express my environmental beliefs through the planting of this kind of garden on the publicly-owned city boulevard (subject to still-yet-to-be-articulated height restrictions on the boulevard for safety reasons, so I use my own reasoned judgment in keeping the boulevard garden in check). Here are some pictures and more information about Doug's garden...