Making Gorgeous Pollinator Gardens Webinar

Making a pollinator garden using native plants can be tons of fun, but there are real challenges. This talk shows lovely examples of wonderful gardens but also highlights problems and how to overcome them. Speaker Clement Kent looks at working on a tiny budget, getting permissions in a timely way, getting young plants established during record breaking droughts, battling invasive weeds, and keeping neighbours or municipalities from destroying established gardens. There are solutions to all these problems, and we hope the ideas shared will inspire you and your neighbours to do more and better rewilding.
Clement Kent wrote "How to Make a Pollinator Garden" in 2011, and has helped create many public PG's since then, all using native plants. He co-founded Project Swallowtail, a program to help people create pollinator gardens which has over 800 participants in the GTA and elsewhere. He co-founded the Parkdale Horticultural Society and serves on the board, and is an adjunct professor of biology at York University focusing on insect genetics. As a member of the Advisory Group for the City of Toronto's Pollinator Protections Strategy, he focused on ways of building corridors of native plantings to connect larger green spaces for the benefit of pollinators.

[@markday5797]

Watching on 23 AUG. 2023, from Rockford Illinois.
Growing pollinator gardens for many years and always enjoy watching all of the visitors to the gardens.

[@thevagabondsageinthewoods]

I would live to listen to this in its entirety and I may at a later time. Native pollinator gardens is one of my strongest passions in life and I feel so fortunate! Mine already existed where I live and all I have to do is voice concerns whenever the county or friendly “helpful” tractor owner would come by and assume the grass and flowers were theirs to mow. I began to nurture, protect and study my immense garden. I fell in love with my Queen Mullein and her 7 court members, aka thistle. I watched my field change color and height all summer, learning and developing relationships with all, insects included. I raised caterpillars and helped feed humminbirds, butterflies and bees to name only a fraction. Anyone who discovers this passion will be happier and humbled every single day. Good day friends❤

[@LINativePlantConservation]

thank you for this awesome video and for the PDF resources!

[@susieclues]

Illinois Thank you!

[@kimberlymagyar4234]

Great info! Thank you.

[@LINativePlantConservation]

Thank you so much!! This was super helpful ❤

[@bluespot222]

Such great information!

[@MeganMegsGarden]

Reached midwestern USA

[@blakegranquist481]

5:35 is when the presenter starts

[@undergrace_6.14]

Rifle Colorado

[@mvradford]

I have one but not enough native plants