How to support Oakville’s pollinators!
April 1, 2022
How to support Oakville’s pollinators!
- Replace part of your lawn with your own pollinator garden, or add container pollinator gardens to your deck or balcony
- Look out for Oakvillegreen’s Native Plant Sale in March! We offer ready-made pollinator kits for your garden, native trees, shrubs and more.
- Choose native plants that are adapted to our local climate and soils. As an added bonus they’ll require less water and care!
- Incorporate caterpillar host plants such as Milkweed, New Jersey Tea and other nectar sources in your garden.
- Plant a wide variety of species to ensure that there are plants in bloom throughout the season.
- Ditch the chemicals, pesticides, and fertilizers as they are very harmful to all insects.
- Don’t tidy up too much – many pollinators overwinter in leaf litter, plant stems and broken branches.