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Pollinator Garden and Meadow

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Oshawa is home to five pollinator gardens on City-owned land. Our main pollinator garden and meadow located at Delpark Homes Centre features native plantings to attract pollinators such as birds, bees, and butterflies.

Why are pollinators important?

Garden plantings can attract more than 1000 species of pollinators who help flowering plants develop seeds or fruit. This process is vital to maintaining the earth's ecosystem and food supply. To help prevent the decline in pollinator populations, the City provides suitable habitats in our gardens.

Pollinator plants in city gardens

Botanical nameCommon name

Asclepias tuberosa

Butterfly Milkweed

Achillea millefolium

'Saucy Seduction' Yarrow

Aster novae-angliae

'Vibrant Done' New England Aster

Bouteloua curtipendula

Side Oats Grama

Echinacea x

'Hot Coral' Hot Coral Echinacea

Echinacea x

'Flamenco Orange' Flamenco Orange Echinacea

Echinops ritro

'Veitch's Blue' Globe Thistle

Elymus canadensis

Canada Wild Rye

Hemerocallis

'Happy Returns' Daylily

Hemerocallis

'Tigger' Daylily

Kniphofia

'First Surise' Red Hot Poker 

Lavandula angustifolium

'Munstead' Lavander 

Leucanthemum superbum

'Becky' Shasta Daisy

Liatris spicata

Blazing Star

Lobelia siphilitica

Great Blue Lobelia

Monarda didyma

'Purple Rooster' Bee Balm

Nepeta faassenii

'Walkers Low' Catmint

Oenothera fruiticosa

'Glauca' Sundrops

Pachysandra terminalis 

Japanese Spurge

Rudbeckia fulgida

'Goldstrum' Black-eyed Susan

Salvia verticillata

'Purple Rain' Whorled Sage

Solidago sphacelata

'Golden Baby' Goldenrod

Sorghastrum nutans

Indian Grass

Tiarella cordifolia

Foamflower

What you can do for pollinators

Create a pollinator garden by:

  • Ensuring a continuous succession of flowering plants from spring to fall;
  • Planting a variety of native plants that are rich in nectar and pollen; and
  • By offering shelter and nesting opportunities. These may include woody stems, bare ground, or bee-nesting houses or blocks.

Resources

  • Create a pollinator-friendly garden for the birds, bees and butterflies - David Suzuki Foundation
  • Pollinator Health - Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs
  • Pollinator Plants Great Lakes Region - The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation
  • Pollination Guelph - Resources
  • Durham Field Naturalists Butterfly Garden
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