Tag: Fletcher Wildlife Garden

Pollinator Appreciation Day – June 20

Join the celebration

Pollinator Appreciation Day

Saturday, June 20th, 2026, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
at the Fletcher Wildlife Garden. Ottawa
Hosted by Wild Pollinator Partners
Free tickets at EventBrite.ca

Wild Pollinator Partners is all about appreciating pollinators. We love how they make sure we have fruit and vegetables to eat and beautiful flowers in our gardens.

This year’s theme is “Start with a Native Tree” which features how important planting native trees are to our environment and how planting a single key native tree can be a game-changer for increasing pollinator biodiversity.

A variety of experts representing organizations or themselves will be on hand to share information and answer questions including:

[Background is a big tree, a distant forest and blue sky with clouds, foregound is someone watering a newly planted small tree]

  • Wild Pollinator Partners
  • Master Gardeners of Ottawa
  • Ontario Invasive Plant Council
  • Ottawa Wildflower Seed Library
  • Ecology Ottawa
  • City of Ottawa
  • Friends of the Earth
  • Monarch Teacher Network
  • Ottawa Stewardship Council
  • National Capital Commission
  • CAFES Ottawa

  • Come and enter our contest to win a free tree to provide habitat and food for pollinators.
  • Come see an interactive display that maps tree planting, pollinator gardening and greening initiatives in the city by ward and neighbourhoods.
  • Find out how to start a pollinator plant project at your local school or park. Recognize invasive species to keep these problem plants out of your yard.
  • The Ottawa Wildflower Seed Library will be there giving away native plant seeds and providing information on how to grow them.
  • Find out how Ottawa is promoting Right-of-Way (ROW) gardening, learn about the “Plant a Tree” program and what is going on with the Community Gardening and Greening Initiative program.
  • Bird Friendly Ottawa members will take you on a tour of the FWG to show you how birds contribute to the distribution of some of our native plants and trees. They’ll also explain how to keep your yard safe for birds.

Enjoy these activities and more. Find out why everyone wants to help pollinators and grow trees.

Full URL for EventBrite tickets: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/ottawa-pollinator-appreciation-day-tickets-1976357525561

Fletcher Wildlife Garden Native Plant Sale – June 1

Fletcher Wildlife Garden Annual Native Plant Sale
Saturday, 1 June, 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Location: Fletcher Wildlife Garden Interpretive Centre, located off Prince of Wales Drive south of the Arboretum. Volunteers will be on hand to show you where to park.

Help pollinators and butterflies, attract birds to your backyard. We’ll show you which native plant species are favourites with wildlife at the FWG and which species will do well in your growing conditions. We have milkweeds for monarchs, asters to suit any garden location, goldenrods, blue-eyed grass, bergamot, beardtongue, a few native grass species, and hundreds of other species from our own garden.

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Calling all Green Thumbs

Woodland Restoration Projects:

Join your neighbours in the rehabilitation of the Champlain Woods. This year we are planting native ground cover and shrubs from a list created especially for Champlain Park by the University of Ottawa Plant Science Laboratory and the Fletcher Wildlife Garden. We hope to gradually displace the invasive species such as buckthorn and shift the plant diversity in the woods towards native trees and understory shrubs and ground cover.

If you have any of the plants on the list and would like to donate seeds or potted plants, please contact Catherine Shearer (metshag@gmail.com) or Daniel Buckles (dbuckles@sas2.net) or Adrian Bradley (adrian.bradley@sympatico.ca).

[List and Charts of Local Plants]
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Fletcher Wildlife Garden Native Plant Sale – June 2

Subject: FLETCHER WILDLIFE GARDEN – ANNUAL NATIVE PLANT SALE 2018
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 16:45:43 -0400
From: Pam Johnston <pamjohnston47@gmail.com>
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The plant sale will be held on Saturday June 2, 2018 from 9:30 to 12:30 at the Fletcher Wildlife Garden, located off Prince of Wales Drive south of the Arboretum.

The Fletcher Wildlife Garden is run by volunteers for the enjoyment and education of all Ottawa residents. It is open for everyone to walk the trails, enjoy the beautiful garden, our newly developed pond area, and to learn about native plants. Our Annual Native Plant Sale is an opportunity for people to buy local plants and learn which ones are suitable for their own garden.

Attached are pdfs of our poster in English and French for you can share with your members, readers and your community. For more information please check our website at: http://ofnc.ca/programs/fletcher-wildlife-garden.
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