How to support Oakville’s pollinators!

How to support Oakville’s pollinators!

1. Replace part of your lawn with your own pollinator garden, or add container pollinator gardens to your deck or balcony
2. Look out for Oakvillegreen’s Native Plant Sale in March! We offer ready-made pollinator kits for your garden, native trees, shrubs and more. 
3. Choose native plants that are adapted to our local climate and soils. As an added bonus they’ll require less water and care!
4. Incorporate caterpillar host plants such as Milkweed, New Jersey Tea and other nectar sources in your garden.
5. Plant a wide variety of species to ensure that there are plants in bloom throughout the season.
6. Ditch the chemicals, pesticides, and fertilizers as they are very harmful to all insects.
7. Don’t tidy up too much – many pollinators overwinter in leaf litter, plant stems and broken branches.