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CWF Garden Photo of the Week
[PHOTO CREDIT: CWF] Around this time our Wildlife-Friendly Demonstration Garden is coloured with ripening fruit. Our deep blue-purple pagoda dogwood berries have already been devoured by waxwings and other birds, but more…
CWF Garden Photo of the Week
[PHOTO CREDIT: CWF] I’ve yet to meet a person who didn’t like hummingbirds, those tiny winged dynamos that can hover and move about in all directions with such seeming ease.…
CWF Garden Photo of the Week
[PHOTO CREDIT: CWF] Canada is home to many beautiful ferns. Since I began paying attention to them, I have come to appreciate the many different textures that ferns offer, apart…
CWF Garden Photo of the Week
[PHOTO CREDIT: CWF] Bees and butterflies are busy pollinating the flowers in our Wildlife-friendly Demonstration Garden. It’s always fun to take a minute to watch them at work. It’s then that…
CWF Garden Photo of the Week
[PHOTO CREDIT: CWF CO-OP STUDENT MARIA TOLYMBEK] CWF’s headquarters has several beds in its Wildlife-friendly Demonstration Garden, such as the Bird Bed and the Drought Bed. This shot was taken in…
Garden Photo of the Week
[PHOTO CREDIT: CANADIAN WILDLIFE FEDERATION’S DEMONSTRATION GARDEN] Many midsummer flowers are blooming in our wildlife-friendly demonstration garden this week, including Echinacea. It will bloom for several weeks, feeding butterflies and…
Garden Photo of the Week
[PHOTO CREDIT: CANADIAN WILDLIFE FEDERATION’S DEMONSTRATION GARDEN] Monarch butterflies benefit from our many native milkweeds but tend to prefer this one, Asclepias syriaca, also known as common milkweed. The flowers have…
Water Chestnut Pull Days – Come help save the Ottawa River!
[PHOTO CREDIT: VOYAGEUR PROVINCIAL PARK] Come help save the Ottawa River! Volunteers are needed to help remove Water Chestnut plants from Voyageur Provincial Park, near Chute-a-Blondeau, ON. Water chestnut is…
Thinking of the people and wildlife affected by the floods
As we all join together on Canada Day, we would like to take this opportunity on behalf of the Canadian Wildlife Federation, to extend our thoughts and prayers to our…
River of the Month – The Three Rivers
[PHOTO – THE THREE RIVERS] This month we’re off to beautiful Prince Edward Island. Found on the eastern shore of PEI is the Cardigan River, Brudenell River and the Montague/Valleyfield…
