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Welcome to the Holy Family Pollinator Garden Gallery! Below are some photos from our pollinator garden planted at Holy Family School next to Owl Park.
The Hunt Club Community Association already had a small patch planted on site to start us off!
Volunteers turn over the sod, establishing the garden's shape.
Volunteers mix in some topsoil to enrich the existing soil.
Plants laid out in their proposed locations, with taller plants on the inside and smaller ones on the outside.
Volunteers planting the wildflowers. All are native species!
The garden is planted and mulched—a success!
Owing to the aggressiveness of the grass we turned over, it returned!
With the help of volunteers—as usual—we removed the grass to reserve resources for the pollinator plants and space for pollinators that benefit from open soil.
One of our wonderful volunteers recently gave the garden a fresh mulching. Look how much the plants have grown!
The garden filled in beautifully! Even while colder temperatures and eventually snow set in, this garden will provided food and habitat for the local ecosystem.
This is what the garden looks like in June 2026!
Though it needs some light weeding, the plants seem to be flourishing beautifully.
Here is some Hairy Beardtongue getting ready to bloom!
This Wild Bergamot bush has really sprung to life! If you visit the garden in the late summer, you'll be sure to see it in bloom.
A huge thanks goes to the members of the Holy Family community who have been tending to and caring for this garden!
Another huge thank you to our funders, Ottawa Community Foundation for making this project possible! If you would like to be one of the several donors who support our pollinator gardens, please contact [email protected].
