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This Week in Our Garden
[PHOTOS: CWF] The weekly reports on our Wildlife-friendly Demonstration Garden, here at CWF headquarters in Ottawa, have had a long break and will join the garden in going…
Blue and Green Coloured Honey
[PHOTO CREDIT] Have you heard about the bees in France and their blue and green coloured honey? There’s a biogas plant that processes waste from a Mars chocolate factory –…
Getting Outside
I stumbled upon this YouTube video. It’s Jason Mraz on Sesame Street singing different lyrics to his song “I’m Yours”. It’s all about getting outside and enjoying nature and is therefore…
Beneficial Insect Water Dish
[PHOTOS: ROBIN AND SARAH COULBER] So many of us have a water source for birds and some have larger features such as ponds which accomodate amphibians and fish, too. But…
This Week in Our Garden
[PHOTOS: CWF] Many flowers are still blooming as best they can in this drought that continues on. Despite some rain here and there, water levels are still very low and…
This Week in Our Garden
[PHOTOS: CWF] As summer moves on, many flowers continue to bloom such as echinacea, brown eyed Susans, our wild onions and coreopsis. Pearly everlasting is still going strong, too.…
This Week in Our Garden
[PHOTOS: CWF] These cup plant (Silphium perfoliatum) flowers are the latest addition to the blooms in CWF’s Wildlife-friendly Demonstration Garden, giving our local bee population some much needed nectar and…
This Week in Our Garden
[PHOTOS: CWF] Berries are ripening and birds are feasting! This week our pagoda dogwood berries (shown above) are attracting waxwings and eastern kingbirds, among others. I see glimpses of many…
Miraculous Metamorphosis
[PHOTOS: SARAH COULBER] I’m the sort that gets rather nervous at the idea of bringing in a wild animal for observation. For starters, it’s usually illegal. But I’m not talking…
This Week in Our Garden
[PHOTOS: CWF] Well, we’re now officially in a level 2 drought, with no rain for weeks and temperatures continuing in the 30s and sometimes 40s with humidity. The plants in…
