Learn how to replace your high-maintenance turf with a drought-proof, salt resistant, no-mow native boulevard garden! All you need to know about plant selection, design, installation and care will be covered in this inspiring workshop capped off by a Q & A session. Downloadable handouts.provided. Offered for free by Blooming Boulevards and conducted by native plant … [Read more...] about Low Maintenance Native Boulevard Gardens
Pollinator
Design Your Own Native Pollinator Garden
Learn all the best ways to provide food and shelter for native pollinators, while delighting your family and neighbours with textures, shapes and colours. You will learn to assess site conditions and create a beautiful garden design that meets pollinator, plant and your own needs. The challenges of tough sites such as boulevards and balconies are addressed and design templates … [Read more...] about Design Your Own Native Pollinator Garden
Spring Garden Festival & Seedling Sales
Green Venture celebrates the arrival of spring at EcoHouse. Save the date May 14th, 2022 for Green Venture’s Spring Garden Festival & Plant Sale. Visitors can shop for seedlings, join a garden workshop, ask a master gardener for advice, enjoy live music on the historic grounds and gardens of Ecohouse. … [Read more...] about Spring Garden Festival & Seedling Sales
Urban beehives make tasty honey
It’s no secret or surprise to gardeners that pollinators are essential to our gardens and, more importantly, to our food supply. One hopes more people, including non-gardeners, are learning this, too. Although we may know why healthy bee colonies are important, what can we do to help make bees happy? What’s the role of urban bee colonies? And just where, exactly, does honey … [Read more...] about Urban beehives make tasty honey
