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  • Get free seeds
  • Plan your garden
  • Donate seeds
  • Additional resources
  • Contact us
  • Get Free Plants
  • Donate time or supplies

Additional resources

Videos

 

  • Gardening for Fireflies, Berries & Bushcraft
  • Gardening with Native Plants: Restoring Your Backyard,  Stefan Weber 
  • Enhancing Existing Landscapes for Monarch and Native Pollinators, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
  • Native Planting and Yard Landscaping Techniques: An Insect's Point of View, Maryland Native Plant Society
  • Rewilding the Veggie Garden: Native Plants as Companion Plants and as a Pollinator Powerhouse, North American Native Plant Society
  • Shrinking the Lawn: Ecofriendly Alternatives to Sod, Lorraine Johnson
  • The Potential of Native Plant Agriculture,  Indigenous Landscapes
  • What Does the Earth Asks of Us, Robin Wall Kimmerer

 Free online resources

  • A Complete Guide to Building and Maintaining a Rain Garden, Toronto and Region Conservation Authority
  •  Adding Native Plants to an Established Bed, Monarch Gard
  • A Flower Patch for the Rusty-Patched Bumblebee, Friends of the Earth
  • An Informed Approach to Animal "Pests" in the Garden, Halton Master Gardeners
  • Butterflies of Ontario, Butterflies and Moths of North America (BAMONA) project 
  • Butterflies of Ontario, Rick Cavasin
  • Cultivating Accessibility in your Garden, Blooming Boulevards
  • Gardening for Birds, Birds Canada
  • Growing Ferns from Spores, William Cullina
  • Grow Me Instead, Ontario Invasive Plant Council
  • How to Create a Wild Bee Sanctuary, David Suzuki Foundation
  • How to Fight Plants with Plants, Humane Gardener
  • Insect pests, Oregon State University
  • Native Alternatives to Invasive Plants, In Our Nature
  • Native Caterpillars Moths and Butterflies and Host Native Woodies, Wild Ones
  • Native Grasses for Ontario Gardens, In Our Nature
  • Native Plants for Boulevard Gardens, In Our Nature
  • Native Plants for Wildlife Habitat and Conservation Landscaping, USDA 
  • Native Species or Cultivars of Native Plants–Does it Matter?  Piedmont Master Gardeners
  • Plant Identification Key, Pacific Rim College
  • Plants & Beneficial Insects, Michigan State University Extension 
  • Plant species, CANPLANT
  • Poisonous Plants of Canada, Agriculture Canada
  • Resources for Lorraine Johnson’s presentation for PollinateTO, Lorraine Johnson
  • What are Native Plant Materials, US Forest Service
  • Why Locally-Sourced, Locally-Grown Native Plants Matter, EcoBeneficial
  • Why Native Plants Matter, Blooming Boulevards


Paperback Books

  • Braiding Sweetgrass; Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, Robin Wall Kimmerer
  • Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens, Doug Tallamy
  • Garden Bugs of Ontario: Gardening to Attract, Repel and Control, Leslie Procter Foster, Ken Fry, and Doug Macaulay
  • Grow Wild! Native Plant Gardening in Canada and Northern United States, Lorraine Johnson
  • Nature's Best Hope; A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard, Douglas W. Tallamy
  • 100 Easy-to-Grow Native Plants for Canadian Gardens, Lorraine Johnson and Andrew Leyerle 
  • The New Ontario Naturalized Garden: the Complete Guide to Using Native Plants, Lorraine Johnson Native Species or Cultivars of Native Plants–Does it Matter? | Piedmont Master Gardeners 
  • Gardening for Butterflies, Fletcher Wildlife Garden

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