By Stephanie Keeler Have you noticed dozens of tiny butterflies fluttering past you while in your garden, on the trails of Riverwood, or...

By Pamela Sleightholm For the backyard fruit and veggie grower, including native plants in your spring plantings can provide big...

Story and photos by Heather Raithby Doyle Native plants attract all kinds of fascinating insects and that includes wasps. Stare at a...

By Pamela Sleightholm Ontario is home to a diversity of bumblebee species, known for their important roles as pollinators. These fuzzy...

Story and photos by Diana Westland, Mississauga Master Gardeners Goldenrod is a keystone plant. Keystone plants are native plants...

There’s no doubt our gardens can be a visual feast. But many native and other plants are aromatic as well, charming our sense of smell.

by Rob Chiasson Touring the garden with camera in hand late afternoon August 24th, hoping to snap a couple of shots of bees or...

by Heather Raithby Doyle Walking along a trail, or in our neighbourhood we may see a plant and wonder: “What is that?” Since many of us...

by Jeanne McRight and Pamela Sleightholm We’ve all seen the beautifully blooming butterfly bushes at the nursery and the zinnia, roses...

Photos and text by Peeter Poldre The mourning cloak butterfly (Nymphalis antiopa) is an under-recognized harbinger of spring! This...

by Wayne Cardinalli Now that spring is imminent get ready to hear the unmistakable buzz of a queen bumblebee. You’re right if you think...

Story by Heather Raithby Doyle, Photos by Karen James Spring is in the air and Karen James can’t wait. Her naturalized garden backs onto...

Many Lepidoptera (the family of butterflies and moths) are specialists, dependent on specific plants for nutrition and habitat.

Looking for an easy-care small native tree that is gorgeous in every season, beloved by pollinators and birds, and can replace invasives lik

A fascinating chat with Ron Orenstein and his wife, Eileen Yen, two of the newest members of the growing Blooming Boulevards' community.

By Pamela Sleightholm When we think about wasps, many of us will remember a run-in – an annoying buzz around a picnic or an...

Can anyone spare a cutting from their trillium plant? If so, Jitendra Chaudhari would love it for his boulevard garden on Bristol Road...

By Pamela Sleightholm Bees, butterflies and birds – they’re central organisms in our natural ecosystem and key to the pollination of all...