It's such a beautiful time of the year to celebrate our essential pollinators. Please head down to Terra Nova Park and check out our Victory Gardens for Diversity Garden. We've got signs so you can do your own tour of the gardens and find out what we are growing. Those purple flowers at the top of the photo are lacy phacelia we planted in the spring. They are fantastic food for bees!
Can't wait until these sunflowers are blooming and full of visiting bees.
Many Thanks to the David Suzuki Richmond ButterflyWay Project for giving us some of these amazing perennials including Douglas aster and Goldenrod. Check out their website and tour the butterfly gardens during Pollinator Week!
We've started harvesting some of the food plants and developing recipes for our workshops coming up in the fall.
Check out the vetch that is blooming in the garden for many species of bees. Occasionally they will sun themselves on the warm wooden boards of the garden beds.
Be sure to head to the water to see the natural beauty of the other non-pollinating critters at Terra Nova Park!
Don't forget to download and print our Nature Bingo cards to play on your nature walk. (Click the links for pdfs.) If you go to my Beespeaker blog, you'll find three more cards. Have fun!
Card 1: Gumweed
Card 3: Chives
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