DIY Wildlife Garden

Learn about the role of native plants in supporting local biodiversity and how personal actions like adding native trees, shrubs, flowers and grasses can make a big difference in providing better habitat, while also providing beauty, shade, stormwater management, and more ecosystem resilience.

We’ll discuss how to integrate native plants in your yard, garden beds, and containers. We’ll learn about some common invasive species found in gardens, yards, and green spaces and how individuals and community groups can work to remove them.

We’ll finish with each participant planting a small pot to take home with some native wildflower seeds that will bloom each fall.

Our instructor, Lynne, has been gardening for decades and discovered the joys of gardening with native plants in 2020. She is a certified Tree Seed Collector with Forest Gene Conservation Association, and Pollinator Steward with Pollinator Partnership Canada. With other volunteers at Ottawa South Eco-Action Network, she has grown thousands of native seedlings for Pollinator Patch kits as a Butterflyway Ranger in the last three years and for distribution at events, helping to build pollinator corridors through Ottawa South and at community gardens across the city.

With Friends of Riverview Park Green Spaces, she designed, grew hundreds of seedlings and led a team of volunteers who planted a large community pollinator garden and 3 other gardens since 2022. She also volunteers with Ottawa Wildflower Seed Library, Wild Pollinator Partners and the Canadian Coalition for Invasive Plant Regulation.

NOTES:

a) Workshops are transferable to another person and only refundable if we have people on the waiting list who can take your spot. Please make sure this date works with your schedule.

b) Member-rate tickets are reserved for current Ottawa Tool Library members. If a non-member registers at the member rate, we will follow up to collect the price difference plus a $15 administrative fee.

c) If you are registering for a young person, please note that children under the age of 18 must be accompanied by an adult with a ticket for the same workshop. Children under the age of 13 are not permitted in many of our workshops (other than Tinkering School and some demo nights). Please reach out to us if you have questions about the person you wish to buy a ticket for BEFORE you purchase a ticket: [email protected].

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