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pollinators Posts

Helping Save the Forest’s Air Conditioner: Eastern Hemlock

February 24, 2026

By Mallory Peirce, Senior Terrestrial Ecologist, Royal Botanical Gardens Eastern Hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) is the forest’s elder – standing tall, casting deep shade that turns hot ...

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Midsummer Meadows: Pollinator Monitoring at Princess Point

August 27, 2025

By Mallory Peirce, Senior Terrestrial Ecologist, Royal Botanical Gardens In the heat of a Southern Ontario summer, meadows become a daydream filled with vivid colour. The ...

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Put the rake down. Your garden, and local wildlife, will thank you

October 24, 2022

By Jessica Veter, Volunteer, Royal Botanical Gardens. I have been gardening since April and, frankly, I’m exhausted. I’ve dug a set of stairs into a ...

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8 Ways to Attract Beneficial Insects to your Garden

June 10, 2022

By Jessica Veter, Volunteer, Royal Botanical Gardens. I’m a live-and-let-live kind of gardener, though that was sorely tested when an army of caterpillars were stripping ...

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