Description
This informative guide focuses on the relationship between pollinators and plants considered native to Ontario, and shows how to create diverse habitats to support them in various gardening spaces.
The authors describe how to prepare, design, plant and maintain a native habitat garden and how to add native plants to existing garden beds. A list of native plants for container gardening is provided. There are more than 300 plants profiled, each detailed description including plant height, flower colors, blooming period, exposure and soil moisture conditions, and details of specialized relationships (larval host, pollen or nectar source) between plant and pollinators.
The text is supplemented with color photos and illustrations, sample garden designs, lists of native plant nurseries in Ontario, books for further reading, organizations for pollinator protection and more.
A rich resource for Ontario gardeners who want to create native plant habitat in support of pollinators.
Softcover, 8" × 9 1/4", 250 pages, 2022.
