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Native plants
- Native plants
- Starting native seeds indoors, by Ryan Godfrey
- Propagating native plants: getting your seeds to grow, by Stefan Weber
- Flowers and food: growing edible native plants, by Lorraine Johnson
- List of commercial growers from the NANPS website
- Project Swallowtail Seed Sitters Club
- 21 native groundcovers for Ontario gardens
- How to create a pollinator garden
- Pollinator tip sheet
Other useful information
- Handout from Anny Schneider – Speaker handout, September 22, 2025
- Presentation by Oz Obukuro – Renaturing Montreal, February 24, 2025
- Presentation by Ingrid Birker – Fossil plants from eastern Canada, March 25, 2024
- Pépinière des Sources Nursery (corner Sources and St-Louis, pds1789.com) offers a 10–15% discount on retail prices to Dorval Garden Club members on trees, shrubs and perennials, plus a $10 discount on delivery of bulk items such as soil or gravel. You must present your membership card.
- Presentation by Sean James – Pruning, April 19, 2021
- Bilingual notes on 12 lovely medicinal plants – presentation by Diane Mackay of “Les Jardins du Grand-Portage”
- Dreaming the New Perennial Garden – Tony Spencer notes, 2017
- Presentation by Claire Belisle, February 27 – Merveilleuses plantes d’ombre, autres que les hostas et fougères (in French only)
- Home recipes
- Herbology and common medicinal plants
- Don’t waste water!
- Compost those leaves!
- Ergonomic garden tools
- Ticks
Gardening without pain (some resources in French)
- Tableau de vivaces
- Références en anglais
- Feuillet horticulture sans courbature
- Gardening doesn’t have to hurt your back (video)
- Stop destroying your back when gardening – 12 golden tips (video)
- As you age, become an adaptive gardener!
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