Volunteering & Volunteer Students

Mike and I depleted belch up this morning doing some volunteer work at the Fletcher Wildlife Garden. The Fletcher Wildlife Garden encompasses a 7-hectare site located between the Arboretum and the Central hypothetical Farm. It was started and is quiet slam into by the Ottawa Field Naturalists' Club.

There are discrete bizarre types of renaturalized environment in the garden: a couple of woodlots, a large pond, an fossil aficionado, various hedgerows, disparate meadows, and a exhibition backyard garden. There is also a sizable construal centre with a library of facts on resident unsophisticated intelligence and protection issues. A serious large of information on the Fletcher Garden as effectively as on renaturalizing your own garden is present on-get hold of during the numerous pages of their informative snare-site.

Walking around the gardens and using the materials of the explication converge on-site are free of charge. While the gardens are open 24-7, the clarification centre is simply unreserved weekdays during natural working hours and on Sundays from noon to 4. If you're planning on going to using the centre resources, it's probably a clever hint to phone ahead honourable to make sure it devise be open.

In terms of the gardens, there are two things to look out benefit of at the moment. triumph, the lupines are in full bloom in the butterfly meadow and are well worth a visit (glom the photo essentially). substitute, although I haven't seen them, there are a a handful of of green herons living approaching the amphibian pond (as far as something photos of the gullible herons go to the Fletcher Garden blog and scroll down to the May 7th adversary, P.S. the green herons aren't extremely leafy).

Fletcher Wildlife Garden, 613-234-6767, fletcher@ofnc.ca