Promoting the growing of tree nuts in Canada, and their use.
Promoting the growing of tree nuts in Canada, and their use. |
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 Allbirch Pollinator Garden Kids Gallery |
 (click the pic to see it full size) any kinds of butterflies are importnat pollinaotrs of flowering plants. These youngsters in Constance Bay Village, in Ottawa, Canada know that butterflies are important. They made a big banner with the message 'Our Ottawa Includes Butterflies' and paraded it along Allbirch Road, right to the Allbirch Pollinator Garden! Each sign his or her name, with a message of support for the butterfly meadow the Allbirch pollinator Garden will become as it completes its three year transition from a mown lawn anchored garden.When the Allbirch Pollinator Garden in Constance Bay Village in Ottawa, Canada started in 2009, it attracted much attention from the public media across North America. Newspaper articles, columns and editorials appeared in newspapers across Canada. Radio and Television coverage broadcast in Canada and the USA. Urban pollinator gardening is a form of urban natural gardening where native flowering plants are preferred and allowed to grow in their natural form. Some grow tall. Some people call these 'weeds', but they are not. |
 Artist Autumn Rose shows us the butterfly art she made to encourage all of us to make our own gardens into pollinator meadows to keep all our butterflies strong and healthy so they can pollinate our flowering plants.All flowering plants need to be pollenated so they can make their fruit with its seeds. The seeds are baby plants ready to start growing once they are put into the soil. Then they will grow to be adult plants, ready to be pollenated so they can make their ownfruit and seeds. Flowering plants (there are some plants that are not flowering plants, such as the conifers like pine and spruce trees) and their pollinators have been growing on Earth (aka Terra, our planet where we all live) for over a hundred million years! According to the National Academy of Sciences on Pollinators in the USA, pollinators, those insects, birds, bats, and other animals that carry pollen from the male to the female parts of flowers, are an essential part of natural and agricultural ecosystems throughout North America, including in Canada, too. Most fruit, vegetable, and seed crops and some crops that provide fiber, drugs and fuel depend on animals for pollination. By the way, some people do not know that insects and birds are animals, too. (click the pic to see it full size) |
 (click the pic to see it full size) Many kinds of apple trees need pollinators to fertilize their flowers so that they can grow their fruit (the apple) with its many seeds insides.Each seed has a baby plant in it. When the seed is put into the soil, it opens and the baby plant puts down its roots and sends up its stem, and soon grows into a big tree, ready to make its own fruit and seeds. Of course, it will be needing pollinators, too.This painting by artist Autumn Rose shows the tasty apples we get when the pollinators feeding on each apple flower's nectar carry pollen from flower to flower. At least 90 food crops in North America depend on pollinators to produce the fruits, nuts, and vegetables that fill your refrigerator. Here are a few of the fruits and vegetables that need to be pollinated: Blueberries, Elderberries, Apples, Pears, Apricots, Pears, Plums, Asparagus, Broccoli, Cabbage, Carrot, Cauliflower, Cucumber, Muskmelon, Pumpkin, Squash and Watermelon. |