So what is this pollinator festival about? We, at Bee Sweet Nature Co, want everyone to celebrate all of our pollinators from flies, bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds to bats. They are all crucial to the health of our ecosystems and vital to a healthy food chain. It is a fun-filled day of walking tours and interaction at educational booths manned by volunteers from various environmental organizations. To support our important pollinators, we want to promote the importance of gardening with native plants that are seed-sourced from the southern Ontario landscape.
We are very proud of our high-quality native Ontario plants and invite you to get to know us and our native plant-growing programs. View our Getting To Know Us videos.
Plant Sale
We will be offering all our native trees, shrubs, vines, wildflowers, grasses, and aquatic plants on sale during Festival Day to enable all your native plant gardening needs. It will be a SAVE THE TAX DAY on all your plant purchases! Browse through our online native Ontario plant inventory to see what is available. Easy.
OUR NATIVE PLANT STOCK INVENTORY
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WALKING TOUR AGENDA
10:00 – 11:00 Come for an introductory butterfly and caterpillar walk with our butterfly enthusiast, Gail.
11:00 – 11:30 Meet some of the native plants of southern Ontario and the Carolinian life zone. Walk with ,our horticulture student, as they introduce you to the world of native plants in our area.
3:00 Keystone species and larval hosts. What is this about? Let Marion show you some of these species and why they are important in native plant gardening and keeping our ecosystems healthy.
AFTERNOON SPEAKING SERIES
12:00 Sean James consulting and design – Learn from Sean about butterfly gardening.
12:30 Hamilton Conservation Authority. Visit with Cherish for a presentation titled “Native plant garden design: Make room for nature”
1:00 Root Rescue. The world of mycorrhiza and plants.
1:30 The Painted Lady. Jessica will discuss butterfly kits.
2:00 Our Xerces Ambassador, Paula, will discuss “All about pollinators.”
2:30 Come learn about boulevard gardening from Maegan at Cardiff Naturescaping..
3:30 Taylor from Reep Green Solutions will chat about Rain Smart Landscapes.
PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS
Butterflyway Hamilton
Cardiff Naturescaping
Hamilton Conservation Authority
Hamilton Naturalists’ Club
Sean James Consulting and Design
Painted Lady – butterfly kits
Pollination Guelph
Rare charitable research reserve
Reep Green Solutions
Root Rescue
Terra Mosa Landscaping
University of Guelph Arboreteum
Water Farmers Guelph
Xerces Society
All these organizations want to share their passion and knowledge with you to enable you to garden with native plants and help protect our native pollinators and protect our fragile ecosystems. Come with questions and interact with all our amazing volunteers. This is your day so come and celebrate with us.