The Local Scoop - Newsletter Archive
The Local Scoop & News & Events Archive
- The Local Scoop is Back!
- #WeAreSpring – “Native Plants in Our Gardens”
- ScoopAssist/Photog Wins Photo Contest
- Native Plant Species – Grow Local Plant Native! – Add your Voice
- NANPS Extra Plant Sales
- Excursion to Warsaw Caves Conservation Area, Peterborough County
- Through the Garden Gate: The Kingsway, Toronto
- High Park Stewards Native Plant Sale
- Toronto Botanical Garden Spring Plant Sale
- Let it Bee - Helping wild bees in the city
- St. Williams Nursery Public Sale
- Ontario Bioblitz - We are all Biodiversity
- The 2014-15 NANPS Seed Exchange
- Using Native Plants for Landscaped Constructed Wetlands and Alternative Waste and Stormwater Treatment
- Jump into Spring
- Canada Blooms
- Seedy Saturday (Toronto Central)
- Reviving Rare Plants at The Riverwood Conservancy
- Seedy Sunday (Toronto Central)
- Scarborough Seedy Saturday
- Flowers and Food: Growing Edible Native Plants
- GoWild - GrowWild 2015 Expo
- Healing Gardens Workshop
- NANPS Native Plant Sale
- Gardening for Pollinators
- Why go Native in our Urban Forest?
- Winter Tree ID Tour
- 2015 Pollination Guelph Symposium
- Garry Oak Preserve Restoration
- Winter Weed ID
- Pesticides, parasites and pollinators: the impacts of environmental stressors on bees
- NANPS Annual General Meeting and Fall Native Plant Rental Event
- NANPS at EcoFair 2014
- Barbara Fallis Memorial Lecture Series
- A Public Evening of Science and Stewardship on the Minesing Wetlands
- Engaging In-Between Spaces - Toronto's First Summit on Laneways
- Hess Lecture Weekend - Get Wild!
- Fourth Annual Quimby F. Hess Lecture: The Importance of Insect Conservation
- Liveable Cities: NYC-Toronto Growing Green
- NANPS Speaker Series - Conserving The Rich Flora Of Eastern North America by Dr. Elizabeth Farnsworth
- NANPS Events and Volunteer Opportunities
- YIMBY Festival
- David Suzuki Foundation Park Crawl
- David Wychwood Barns EcoFair
- NANPS Bookstore Coordinator
- NANPS Membership Offer – hurry, it ends soon!
- Survey Says!
- Spare the ‘Rod & Spoil the Goldenrod
- Open Garden with Darcie McKelvey - Sunday September 7, 2014
- The NANPS Awards: Nominate Someone Today!
- Acorus Restoration Native Plant Nursery Sale
- St. Williams Nursery & Ecology Centre's Fall Public Sale
- NANPS AGM May 10, 2014
- The Scoop is Evolving
- Evergreen Brick Works and Ravine Tour
- NANPS at Native Plant Sale
- Native Plants: Beautiful, Important, Threatened
- Gardening: Planting the Right Seeds for Biodiversity - Speaker: Paul LaPorte
- Doors Open Tour
- Native Plants: Beautiful, Important, Threatened - Speaker: John Oyston
- High Park Stewards Native Plant Sale
- Ontario Nature Social Media Challenge
- Maple Leaf Forever Tree Project
- Implications For Native Plants - Dawn Bazely
- Ontario Place Park and Trail Meeting
- Seedy Saturday/Sunday
- Wildly interesting talks at Canada Blooms
- Beaverton Historical Society AGM
- OHA District 5 AGM – Natural Gardening – Back to Basics
- Winter Tree Identification Tour
- Botanical Artists of Canada 2014 Juried Exhibition (March 26 – April 6)
- News Release – Ontario introduces the Invasive Species Act
- Barbara Fallis Memorial Lecture Series
- NANPS call for volunteers
- Annual Horticultural Open House
- Seedy Saturday/Sunday
- Society for Conservation Biology, Toronto Chapter is looking for volunteers to help pin specimens
- Macrophotography of Insects
- Environmental Stewards in the Community
- The push to get native plants in Ontario Place Park
- Emerald Ash Borer - Ontario Rare Woody Plant Program at Guelph Arboretum
- Acorus Restoration Native Plant Nursery and Blazingstar Learning Centre, in Walsingham is for sale
- World Wetlands Day 2014
- Minesing Wetlands is the largest intact wetland in southern Ontario
- Petition to send Margaret Atwood back to school
- Pickering Airport back on the radar
- Promoting Biodiversity in the Urban Landscape - Barbara Fallis Memorial Lecture - Speaker: Scott Torrance, Landscape Architect
- Using Native Plants for LEED Buildings - Barbara Fallis Memorial Lecture
- The 2013-14 NANPS Seed Exchange
- Nature: Winter Tree ID
- Ontario Place Revitalization
- Environmental Stewards - in the University
- 33rd Annual Guelph Organic Conference & Expo - Catching the Wave
- Why Gardens Matter
- North Gwillimbury Forest Alliance Update
- Give a thought... to Ontario Place Revitalization
- Remember to become a member!
- Nanps Annual General Meeting and Fall Native Plant Rental Event
- Seed Collecting at Oak Hills Farm - Sunday October 6th, 2013
- Planting the Right Seeds for Biodiversity - Tuesday October 8th, 2013
- Gardening: Creating a Prairie Garden - Tuesday October 22, 2013
- Let's put Ontario back in Ontario Place!
- Taking a LEAF from the Book of Biodiversity Tree Tour - Wednesday, Oct 9th, 2013
- Native Plants Presentation and Beach Garden Society October, 2013 General Meeting & Flower Show - Tuesday, October 15
- Maple Leaf Forever Tree Tour - Saturday, October 26th, 2013
- Plant Identification Workshop: Using Dichotomous Keys - Friday, November 15th, 2013
- Canadian Wildlife Magazine's Reflections of Nature Photo Contest
- Backus Woods, Shining Tree Woods & Acorus Restoration Nursery
- Upcoming NANPS Event Dates to Consider
- Gardening: Planting the Right Seeds for Biodiversity
- NANPS AGM at Markham Civic Centre
- Gardening: Creating a Prairie Garden
- In Passing - It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Dr. Jane Bowles on July 27th, 2013
- Markham Civic Centre Pond Planting Part 2 - Saturday June 8th, 2013 10 a.m. to noon
- NANPS infill project - What should the future of NANPS look like?
- NANPS Award nominations - We offer awards in three categories
- NANPS is no wallflower! - NANPS has ramped up the Social Media context
- Going out in a Blaze of Glory! - The back issues of the Blazing Star newsletters from 2003 - 2011 (except one) have been planted on the NANPS web site
- Cass Stabler comes on Board - new member to the Board, Cass is the Stewardship Coordinator for TRCA's Healthy Yards Program
- NANPS Annual Spring Plant Sale
- The NANPS 2013 Winter Photo Competition: Native Plants in Winter has now closed
- It's Spring and Local Enhancement and Appreciation of Forests is LEAFing out with many activities
- A green alternative to plant fibre pots!
- Give a hoot for the North Gwillimbury Forest Alliance!
- Bad Buckthorn
- And something even scarier on the horizon - we can expect Lyme Disease to reach Toronto by 2020
- NANPS Events
- Mon. May 6 - Pollinator Gardens Galore Workshop – NANPS
- Sat. May 11 - NANPS Annual Spring Plant Sale & Fundraiser
- Sat. May 18 - Spring Tours at TBG
- Sat. June 1 - Markham-Unionville Greens AGM & Native Plant Exchange
- Sat. June 8 - NANPS Markham Civic Centre Pond/Wildflower Planting
- Other Events
- TRCA Greening Your Garden Workshops Events in Markham
- Opening of the Laura Secord Trail - Laura Secord Commemorative Walk
- NANPS Lecture - When Good Plants Go Wild with John Oyston, NANPS Vice-President
- NANPS Newsworthies
- NANPS online plant order sales
- 2013 Winter Photo Competition - Native Plants in Winter
- Back Issues of Blazing Star - PDFs now available!
- NANPS updates lists of Native Plant Societies across North America
- NANPS online bookstore
- Other Bits
- City of Toronto News Release - Green Roofs & Biodiversity
- Save the North Gwillimbury Forest
- Toronto Parks Plan 2013-2017
- Events - NANPS, City of Markham and others
- Events Events
- Wed. April 17 - NANPS Lecture - When Good Plants Go Wild (John Oyston, NANPS Vice-President)
- Sat. April 27 - Tours of TBG - NANPS Exclusive - The Invasives Tour
- Tues. April 30 - April EnviroChats: Native Plant Gardens (Paul LaPorte, NANPS President)
- Mon. May 6 - Pollinator Gardens Galore Workshop - NANPS
- Sat. May 11 - NANPS Annual Spring Plant Sale & Fundraiser
- Sat. June 1 - Markham-Unionville Greens AGM & Native Plant Exchange
- Sat. June 8 - NANPS Markham Civic Centre Pond/Wildflower Planting
- City of Markham - TRCA and the Healthy Yards Program Events
- Greening Your Garden Workshops
- Sat. April 20 - Get Started!
- Sat. May 4 - Creating a Beautiful Garden with Native Plants
- Sat. May 25 - Creating Rain Gardens and Dry Riverbeds
- Sat. June 15 - Rain Barrels
- RBG Workshops - June through September
- Wetland Graminoid Identification (grasses, sedges, rushes), June 20-21
- Grass Identification Workshop, July 11-12
- Fern and Allies Identification Workshop, July 25-26
- Aster and Goldenrod Identification Workshop, September 12-13
- Other Events/Workshops Including Plant Sales
- Ontario Nature - Our Special Spaces 2013
- April 12-14 - Green Living Show
- April 18-20 - Urban Forests & Political Ecologies - Celebrating Transdisciplinarity Conference
- Sat. April 20 - Pocket Tree Tour - Toronto
- April 22 - Earth Day
- May 4-12, 2013 - National Wildflower Week
- Sat. - Sun. May 4 - 5 - St. Williams Nursery Spring Public Native Plant Sale
- Sat. May 11 - Out of the Ashes Tree Tour: Lessons From the Emerald Ash Borer
- Sunday May 12 - High Park Stewards Annual Plant Sale
- May 22, 23, 25 & 29 - LEAF Tree Tenders Volunteer Training Toronto
- June 8, 12 & 15 - LEAF Tree Tenders Volunteer Training York Region
- News
- NANPS Plant Sale Pre-orders
- Volunteer Opps
- Passing of a Pioneer
- NANPS enters Wiki
- NANPS Director, John Oyston adds more letters to his name
- ScoopAssist wins recognition
- NANPS Photo contest
- New director at Guelph Arboretum
- The Roots of NANPS
- Events
- March 2 Seedy Saturday Vaughan
- March 3 – 8 National Invasive Species Awareness Week
- March 7 Green Roof Ecosystems: Designing green roofs with native plants: Mathis Natvik, MLA (see poster)
- March 9 Seedy Saturday Brick Works 2013
- March 10 Goodbye Standard Time, Hello Daylight Savings Time
- March 15-24 (NANPS booth - March 20-24) Canada Blooms
- March 16 Seedy Saturday – Scadding Court
- March 28 Biodiversity in the City Workshop
- March 28 Native Alternatives to Ornamental, Exotic Plants Talk
- April 6 Pollination Guelph Pollination Symposium
- April 10 Canadian Pollinator Conservation 2013: Next Steps
- April 17 When Good Plants Go Wild: John Oyston, NANPS Director
- April 27 Invasive and Native Plant Tours
- Plant Identification Workshops at RBG this summer (June – September)
- Promoting Biodiversity in the Urban Landscape - Barbara Fallis Memorial Lecture - Speaker: Scott Torrance, Landscape Architect
- Using Native Plants for LEED Buildings - Barbara Fallis Memorial Lecture
- The 2013-14 NANPS Seed Exchange
- Nature: Winter Tree ID
- Ontario Place Revitalization
- Environmental Stewards - in the University
- 33rd Annual Guelph Organic Conference & Expo - Catching the Wave
- Why Gardens Matter
- North Gwillimbury Forest Alliance Update
- Seasonal Greetings From The Local Scoop
- Alert - Natural Garden Exemption Bylaw Change Update Toronto City Council Meeting Tuesday November 27, 2012
- NANPS AGM - October 20, 2012, Reminder
- The NANPS Garden / Restoration Award winners
- The 2012 Paul McGaw Memorial Conservation Awards winners
- NANPS AGM - October 20, 2012, proposed Quorum change - looking for new board members
- Markham Civic Centre Pond Planting - Saturday September 29, 2012
- Calendar Events:
- NANPS bus tour of Carolinian Woods of SW Ontario - Sept 22, 2012
- Prairie Day II at Alderville Black Oak Savanna - Sept 23, 2012
- 2012 Halton Forest Festival Ontario Forestry Association (OFA) tour of woodlots - Oct 13, 2012
- Ontario Invasive Plant Council (OIPC) AGM & Invasive Plants Symposium - Oct. 16, 2012
- 2012 Ontario Land Trust Alliance (OLTA) Conference - Oct. 17, 2012
- NANPS AGM - Oct. 20, 2012
- Society for Ecological Restoration (SERA) Ontario Chapter AGM - Oct. 20-21, 2012
- North American Native Plant Society Fall Tour - Carolinian Woods of SW Ontario - Saturday Sept 22, 2012
- Shining Tree Woods Home of the Cucumber Tree Full Day Excursion 2012 - Saturday June 2, 8 a.m. – 9 p.m.
- Suzuki Louv in - an evening with scientist and broadcaster David Suzuki and Richard Louv
- Green Infrastructure Ontario Update - an update on recent initiatives, including the release of Health, Prosperity and Sustainability: The Case for Green Infrastructure in Ontario
- National Wildflower Week May 7-13 & Nanps Annual Spring Plant Sale & Fundraiser
- Don't you wish we could celebrate National Wildflower Week like the New Yorkers?
- NANPSter wins award! - The Monitoring the Moraine (MTM) Partners, EcoSpark and STORM Coalition, announced the 2012 Moraine Heroes
- Over 50 Organisations speak out against the gutting of environmental laws in Ontario's budget bill
- Invasive bamboo unleashed on the unsuspecting public in the U.S. to devastating consequences! Do not be tempted to buy running bamboo, Phyllostachys spp.
- Ontario Invasive Plant Council's Countdown Campaign: "Look before you leave"
- Coming Soon - Nothing adventured, nothing gained!
- May 26 - Waterloo-Wellington Wildflower Society Native Plant Sale
- June 2 - NANPS all-day venture to Norfolk County
- Sept. 22 - NANPS adventure to Backus Woods
- Scoop Gets New Digs - The Local Scoop has been reseeded and has launched a new look and a new face
- NANPS near-Earth Day Experiences
- First Garlic Mustard Pull of 2012 - Saturday April 21st, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Charlie Clifford Memorial Park Sprucewood Dr. (Bayview/Steeles Ave., Markham)
- Special Earth Day deadheading of advance plant orders for the Annual NANPS Spring Plant Sale - midnight of Sunday April 22nd.
- Lots of other activities are happening in the local area - The Scoop calendar
- NANPS post-Earth Day Experiences
- Exclusive pre-excursion Biodiversity Workshop held in Scarborough on Saturday May 5th followed by a chartered coach bus trip to NANPS property, Shining Tree Woods in Norfolk Co.
- June 2nd, replete with supper and a visit to a native plant nursery, St. Williams Nursery & Ecology Centre.
- Please spend some time weeding out an invasive species or working on a restoration project in your area. For 2012, our goal is 400 of 2,012 volunteer hours devoted to Shining Tree Woods.
- Pledge financial support for each bag of garlic mustard removed. In 2011, 45 bags of garlic mustard were removed from Shining Tree Woods.
- The Bruce Duncan Memorial Lecture Series - Lorraine Johnson - NANPSter, Editor, Author, City Farmer, Lecturer at York University
- NANPS Annual Plant Sale Updates
- The Pollinator Plot
- Are you a virtual, social butterfly milkweed?
- Project Migration - Red Admiral butterflies - eButterfly is now live and ready to accept Canadian butterfly records.
- Ants in your Plants? - Dr. Kirsten Prior, a post-doc in Dr. Frederickson's lab in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at U of T needs our help.
- ALERT from Ontario Nature - Changes to the provincial Endangered Species Act
- Paul O'Hara - Go Native Now: Building Landscapes for Future Sustainability
- Year End Stuffing – Green Giving - species at risk proposed Recovery Strategy - Cryptic Paw Lichen
- Quick Calendar picks to wrap up the year - TV docs on TVO
- Scoop’s New Year's Resolution
- Robert Bateman Night
- City of Toronto seeks public input for a new five-year plan for parks, trails and natural areas
- Shell Fuelling Change
- It's all about the plants - Green Giving in so many ways through charitable donations
- NANPS
- The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC)
- Ontario Nature - Malcolm Bluff Shores - Protect your share
Foodstock and AGM Reminder
- NANPS AGM & Plant Sale
- NANPS Seed Exchange
- Project Baseline - The U of T Koffler Scientific Reserve in King City will be the anchor location for the Canadian effort
- Melancthon Mayhem
- Escarpment Muse
- The rain falls lamely on the Moraine – because it isn't protected!
- Mail Melee
- NANPS AGM
- Torontonians: Petition to save Environmental and Urban Agriculture Programs!
- Ontarians: Stop the Mega Quarry in Melancthon Twp.
- The Local Scoop has a bold new look, but everything is still there
- Keswick Call for help
- Paul Heydon - Free Presentation: The Understory - The Forgotten Forest Layer with Understory Teller
- An Overstory of Sorts - Mentor needed for butterfly garden in Keswick, Maskinonge River Recovery Project (MRRP)
- Cedar Valley Park Pull 'n' Plant! Event - Friends of Cedar Valley community action group in Markham
- All Stories can apply from across North America - NANPS "Plant of the Month" suggestions needed
- July 1 - Native Acer Species Day
- July 5 - Hunter's Point Wildlife Park Wildflower Planting, Richmond Hill
- July 6 - The Understory - The Forgotten Forest Layer, Toronto
- July 10 - Cedar Valley Park Pull 'n' Plant, Markham
- July 31 - Nomination deadline for NANPS Garden/Restoration Awards
- Sept 1 - Nomination deadline for NANPS Volunteer of the Year Award
- Sept 24 - NANPS Tour of Markham
- Oct 22 - NANPS AGM
- NANPS Annual Plant Sale Fundraiser
- Free presentations
- Vicki Beard - Making it Work. How to Create Pollinator Habitat in Your City
- Colleen Cirillo - Invasive Garden Plants
- On the Mark - Mark Cullen includes NANPS in his column in the Toronto Star on April 30th
- NANPS Weekender Weedender Bender at Shining Tree Woods, May 13-15th
- Another Greenspace still threatened - Friends of the Concord West Greenspace
- These dates are closer than they appear
- May 5 - RBG Auxiliary Plant Sale
- May 6 - NANPS Annual Spring Plant Sale set-up
- May 7 - NANPS Annual Spring Plant Sale in Markham
- May 8 - The High Park Community Advisory Council Plant Sale
- May 11-15 - TBG's Annual Plant Sale
- May 13-15 - NANPS 1st Weekend Weedend at Shining Tree Woods
- May 29 - NANPS at the 13th Annual Richmond Hill Mill Pond Splash
- June 3 - 5th Annual Carden Nature Festival
- June 4 - NANPS at Connecting People with Plants, Humber College
- Scoop Art "The annual dead heading of (plant sale) advance orders"
- NANPS Plant Sale News
- These dates are closer than they appear
- April 15-17 – Green Living Show, Toronto
- April 16 – Walk on the Wild Side, Pickering
- April 17 – 1st Seedy Sunday in York Region, Aurora
- April 18 – Free Workshop - Your Green Yard, Brampton
- April 22 – EARTH DAY
- April 22 – Life in the City - A Nature Walk in the Heart of Toronto, ROM
- April 23 – Workshop - Photography in the wild, King Cit
- April 26-27 – Conference - Soils and Urban Trees, TBG
- April 26 – Wildflowers: Bringing Beauty and Biodiversity into the Garden, TBG
- April 27 – Thickson's Woods Walk, Pickering
- April 27 – Solutions from the Underground: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World
- April 30 – One Day Tree Seedling Sale, Dufferin County
- April 30 – The Weird but Wonderful World of Insects, TBG
- April 30 – Seedy Saturday at Everdale, Hillsburgh
- April 30 – A Taste of RBG - Serving Up Our Gardens, RBG
- NANPS Speakers' Series - Martin Galloway - Native Plants in our Day to Day Lives. Changing the Culture
- NANPS Annual Spring Plant Sale Online Pre-ordering Update
- NANPS Annual Spring Plant Sale – May 7th
- Save the Plants, Save the World ... by May 22nd
- These dates are closer than they appear
- April 1 – Life on the edge: the impacts of global warming on range limits (plant ecology) at U of T
- April 2 – Learning to Live with the River: Our River Our Health, Guelph
- April 5 – Lecture – Going Green in the Garden: Sustainable Strategies for Ontario Home Landscapes at U of Guelph
- April 6 – Transformations: Parking Lots, Plants and Paradise, R.H. Adrienne Clarkson at the TBG
- April 8 – Urban Wildlife Habitat Gardening workshop at Guelph Arboretum
- April 8 – Bringing Nature Home with Doug Tallamy at the ROM
- NANPS Speakers' Series - by Mark Carabetta - Unique Plants of the Malcolm Bluff Shores, Niagara Escarpment
- On The Scoop Front - Scoop calendar launched
- Canada Blooms is coming up soon - volunteers needed
- NANPS Spring Plant Sale Coming Soon
- A Treebuncle Dropped From The Heavens
- Wayward Shoots
- Alert Ontario Nature - Send in your comments
- Calling All Groups - NANPS will be sending the 25th Anniversary
- Mary Lake Update
- Only in the U.S. you say – pity! Interactive USDA Hardiness Zone Map
- NEW! Draft Habitat Regulations
- Send them up the creek…without a paddle! - licensing non-profit groups using water craft such as canoes and kayaks
- Reminder - Speakers' Series Event Tomorrow!
- Sean Fox - Rare Native Woody Plants of Ontario
- Mark Carabeta - Unique Native Plants of the Malcolm Bluff Shores, Niagara Escarpment
- Martin Galloway - Native Plants in our Day to Day Lives. Changing the Culture.
- Canada Blooms - MARCH 16-20
- Save Mary Lake
- February Events, Seminars, Courses, Workshops
- Walking Tour: Winter Tree Identification Toronto Urban Forestry
- Distribution and ecosystem effects of earthworms in a Central Ontario forest – are invasive earthworms a threat?
- Urban Environments: People, Plants, and Pollution Will Wilson, Duke University
- Toronto Botanical Garden's Annual Horticultural Open House Spring into action and join NANPS for the event
- Edwards Lecture Series: Romance with Trees Wayne Grady and Merilyn Simonds
- Pollination Guelph Annual Symposium
- Stewardship Forum 2011 This year's theme is "Reflections on the Year of Biodiversity”
- Sean Fox - Lecture - Elm Recovery Project
- NANPS Speaker's Series
- Sean Fox - Rare Native Woody Plants of Ontario
- Mark Carabeta - Unique Native Plants of the Malcolm Bluff Shores, Niagara Escarpment
- Martin Galloway - Native Plants in our Day to Day Lives. Changing the Culture.
- Also in the pipevine:
- Northumberland Land Trust Lecture Series – "Rice Lake Plains Joint Initiative"
- Edwards Lecture Series: "When Native Plants Are Not the Answer"
- Official Launch of "The International Year of Forests 2011"
- Get the Jump on Spring
- Edwards Lecture Series: "Romance with Trees"
- "Elm Recovery Project"
- Edwards Lecture Series: "Transformations: Parking Lots, Plants and Paradise."
- "Bringing Nature Home" - ROM Auditorium
- NANPS Annual Plant Sale Fundraiser
- New Service for speakers and gardening groups - Great Garden Speakers
- For the artistically inclined:
- Botanical Art with Coloured Pencils
- Botanical Art 101
- Conifers: Terrific Non-Seasonal Plants with James E. Eckenwalder (U of T)
- NANPS Project ...We would like to compile a "Do NOT Buy" list of potentially invasive species
- The high winds that beset Toronto the night before the NANPS Prairie tour took its toll (on the Scoop's car)
- Scoop Art: The high winds that beset Toronto the night before the NANPS Prairie tour took its toll
- The Scoop Goes Down Under
- Seed Collection Workshop this Saturday in the lovely Rouge Valley, amid the splendour of fall colours
- Native Seed Collection Workshop/Certificate
- Fall 2010 Edwards Lectures Series - Toronto Botanical Garden
- Botanical Artists of Canada Second Annual Art Exhibition
- Scoop Art: "Performance Anxiety"
Fall For NANPS Events - Not The Local Scoop - Just a blast!
- NANPS Northumberland County Fall Prairie Tour Saturday September 25th, 2010
- Only Two More Weeks To ... NANPS AGM & Fall plant sale
- Keynote Speaker: Dr. Bridget Stutchbury, author of The Silence of the Songbirds & The Bird Detective
- NANPS October Events
- Native Seed Collection Workshop
- Bringing Nature Home with Douglas Tallamy
- "When Native Plants Are Not the Answer" with Belinda Gallagher from the RBG
- Coming soon ... Shining Tree Woods - garlic mustard/tree survey in late October - mid November
- Other Events, courses, and workshops
- Ajax in Bloom Awards Presentation Speaker: Christina Sharma - Founder and Director of Project CHIRP!
- For the Fungi at heart ... Wild Mushrooms in Not-So-Wild Places with Richard Aaron
- LEAF - Quick & Easy Tree I.D.
- Walk and Talk about Using Native Plants with Liz Hood
- Songbirds and Migration: Making the Connection
- Mushrooms on the Moraine
- Finding the Forest for the Trees
- Bringing Birds to your Urban Oasis
- Conifers: Terrific Non-Seasonal Plants with James E. Eckenwalder (U of T)
- NANPS Northumberland County Fall Prairie Tour - no tall tales but a lot of tall grass and "weeds"
- NANPS Awards - get your nominations in!
- 404 Plant Rescue - The Scoop thanks the Scoopers
- Events, Workshops and Courses - dig in!
- Scoop summer reading - A Natural Selection
- Scoopologically Speaking
Fall For NANPS Events - Not The Local Scoop - Just a blast!
- Native plants in danger - rescue mounted for this Sunday - get your scoops out!
NANPS Annual Plant Sale Fundraiser
- Markham Civic Centre 101 Town Centre Boulevard - Saturday, May 8, 2010 - 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
- Events
- NANPS: Volunteer for restoration activities
- Charlie Clifford Park/Grandview Park restoration days - Saturday, May 15
- Shining Tree Woods Join us for a look at spring wildflowers and a garlic mustard pull - Saturday, May 22
- High Park VSP Native Plant Sale - May 9 from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. at the Greenhouses
- LEAF's 6th Annual Leslieville Tree Festival - Saturday, May 15 from 12-4 p.m.
- LEAF's Fourth Annual Celebration - June 11 from 7-10 p.m. at the Artscape Wychwood Barns
- Nature Walks and Workshops - Koffler Scientific Reserve at Jokers Hill
- Botanical Art Courses - Art 101: June 21-25 - Art with Coloured Pencils: July 5-9 - Watercolour Technique: July 12-16
NANPS Plant sale pre-orders online and last Speakers' Series presentation
- NANPS Plant Sale Advanced Online Ordering Now!
- Don't Forget - Last Presentation of The Season - "Rare Native Plant Gems" or Species at Risk by Jane Bowles
- It's Practically Here! NANPS Annual Plant Sale
- Enjoy free presentations:
- 11:30 a.m. - Rachel Gagnon: Identifying and Controlling Invasive Plants
- 12:30 p.m. - Gavin Trevelyan: Prairie Plants for Your Garden
- On hand will be two Master Gardeners, plus Paul Heydon and Ashley Baron (Native Plant Source) to field question
- And if you miss out on the NANPS plant sale... High Park VSP Native Plant Sale
"Where irreverence is as common as goldenrod" (...as long as it isn't cut down)
- What's in this Scoop? - We unearth every Gardener's threat
- Welcome to The Age of Enheightenment
- Tall Grass & Weeds: One of Toronto's Most Threatened Habitats
- Natural Garden Exemption: I did it my way…
- When is a hedge or shrub a fence? When the City of Toronto says so!
- There's a bustle in your hedgerow...and you should be alarmed now
- Goldenrod – Declared "Weed of The Year" by The Local Scoop
- The City is out of whack and run by Weed Whackers
- The City needs some strong medicine to get better. Could this be the cure or should the City seek a second opinion?
- The Scoop has some predictions if the City of Toronto keeps sliding down the slippery slope of status quo
- Scoop Snippet - Mon cherie - Frost damaged or broken branches of chokecherry release cyanide
- Battle of the Weeds to hit the screen
- NANPS Calendar of Events
- Dan Bissonnette Naturalized Landscape Design Workshop - Saturday, April 10
- Volunteers Needed For Invasive Species Control
- Shining Tree woods - next excursion Saturday, April 17th
- Charlie Clifford Memorial Park/Grandview Park - starting Saturday, May 15th
- Last Chance To Order Plants Before The Sale: April 18th
NANPS Call For Volunteers
- Call out for Volunteers
- Speakers' Series: Toronto Botanical Gardens (TBG)
- Getting a Jump on Spring
- Wychwood Barns, Seedy 'Saturday'
- Canada Blooms
NANPS Speakers' Series reminder
- Janine McLeod - "Tallgrass Prairie: One of Canada's Most Threatened Native Habitats - the Alderville Savanna"
- NANPS Calendar of Events
- Getting the Jump on Spring (TBG)
- Seedy Sunday (Wychwood Barns)
- Canada Blooms
- Shining Tree Woods Working Excursion
- Coming Very Soon - Online ordering for the NANPS Annual Plant Sale and the next edition of The Local Scoop
- NANPS Calendar of Events
NANPS calendar of events and a need to plant volunteers
- NANPS January To March Volunteers Needed
- Speakers' Series: Allies in Protecting the Environment: First Nations and the Land
- NANPS at Curran Hall Community's Winterfest
- Guelph Organic Conference
- Seedy Saturday Pickering
- Speakers' Series: Tallgrass Prairie: One of Canada's Most Threatened Native Habitats - the Alderville Savanna
- NANPS at Getting the Jump on Spring
- Seedy 'Saturday' Toronto
- NANPS Booth at Canada Blooms
- Shining Tree Woods Working Excursion (invasive plant removal)
Gardens under attack council meetings tomorrow please send email/fax support letters
- To All Gardeners Or Friends Of Gardens - two deputations from NANPS members are to be heard on the same day
- Doug Smith - 156 Wincott Drive Hedge Issue
- Diane Way - 144 Manor Road East Natural Garden Issue
North American Native Plant Society Speakers' Series 2010
- Paul General - NANPS Speakers' Series - "Allies in Protecting the Environment: First Nations and the Land"
- Coming Soon:
- Janine McLeod - "Tallgrass Prairie: One of Canada's Most Threatened Native Habitats - the Alderville Savanna"
- Jane Bowles - "Rare Native Plant Gems or Species at Risk"
Where life is Celastrus
- Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year! Happy Holidays or Festivus for the rest of us!
- Ghosts from the Past
- Ghosts from The Present
- Ghosts from The Future
- E-FLASH: - Diane Way - turned down for an application under the native plant garden exemption
- PARTING SHOOTS IN THE PIPEVINE
- Town of Markham has granted NANPS funding for an Invasive Species Awareness Program
- LEED for Weeds: New Program Will Rate Green Landscapes
SCARY Scoop! - The Hallowe'ed Edition
- Happy Harvest & Hallowmas!
- The Age of Entitlement
- Victory Garden – a little justiceweed (Eupatorium leucolepis) for all
- Case battle Part 1: NANPS vs Scotts
- Case battle Part 2: The Rebuttal
- Hallowe'ed Costumes
- Parting Shoots - SEED EX, Plantopsy of the AGM, 25th Anniversary, etc.
- Compost Square - definitely something different cooking in the composter!
NANPS Annual General Meeting 2009
- HP Volunteer Stewardship Program Planting - Saucy High Jinks Grenadier Café, High Park, Toronto
- 2009 Healthy Landscape Community Garden Tour - Sunday, September 20
- NANPS Fall Restoration Event - Charlie Clifford Memorial Park, Thornhill
- Project CHIRP! Educational Songbird Garden Tour
- U of T Nature Walk - Koffler Scientific Reserve, Joker's Hill, Aurora - Trees and Fungi: Friends or Foes?
- Miraculous Migrants: Why Songbird Conservation Begins at Home! - Presentation at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
- Carolinian Canada Coalition Forum 2009 - Caring for Our Coast: Point Pelee National Park
- Scoop Summer Synopsis - When it rains, it pours. From aphid rain to acorn showers - what a summer we had!
- Parting Shoot - Chalk up another reason to love our native species
Call To Action: Garlic Mustard Pull And Periwinkle Smother - Charlie Clifford Memorial Park 2
- Can't think of anything to do this summer? Don't get your knickers in a knotwood! Come out and pull for a good cause.
- Reminder: Annual Awards, deadline looming - NANPS Native Plant Garden/Restoration Award
- Nature Walk: Bugs by the Bushel: The Diversity of Insects Around Us
- Early Fall - A NANPS excursion
- NANPS AGM (Annual General Meeting) - Markham Civic Centre
- Nature Walk: Trees and Fungi: Friends or Foes?
On the menu in this issue of The Scoop are a number of tasty offerings
- Project Chirp Spring Songbird Garden Tour - Saturday, June 13
- Waterloo-Wellington Wildflower Society Annual Plant Sale in Guelph - Saturday, June 13
- Acorus Talk in Walsingham: Beginners Plant Identification with Paul Morris - Saturday, June 13
- Charlie Clifford Memorial Park - Thornhill - Sunday, June 14
- Leslieville Tree Festival - Leslie Grove Park - Saturday, June 20
- Markham Green Neighbourhoods workshop: Designing Beautiful Gardens with Native Plants - Tuesday, June 23
- Tour of Pomona Mills Park & Ukrainian Church Dinner - Thornhill - Thursday, June 25
- Summer intensive botanical art courses at Swansea Town Hall with the Chair of the Botanical Artists of Canada
- NANPS Annual Spring Plant Sale Extravaganza Next Saturday - May 9th
- The Local Scoop Contest Winners
- NANPS Member Service Health Announcement - choosing plants for infill projects for your particular garden conditions
- Lost but Found - Aethusa cynapium, an introduced species
- Truth in Advertising? - Scotts Canada roundup ad
- In Passing - Professor Fred Urquhart
- Dates on Tap - Lorraine Johnson, The Natural Treasures of Carolinian Canada, May 3rd - NANPS Plant Sale, May 9th
First email
- NANPS Speaker Series - Todd Irvine - Last one of the series! Native Trees of Southern Ontario
- It's All about the Earth/terroir - this Weekend - Earth Hour Saturday March 28, 2009
- Downsview Park's Annual Earth Day Festival - Sunday, April 26, 2009
- Toronto Field Naturalists Natural History Multimedia Lectures - The Natural Treasures of Carolinian Canada - Sunday May 3, 2009
- NANPS Annual Spring Plant Sale Extravaganza Saturday, May 9th
- The Local Scoop 1st Anniversary Contest for Members Only!
- Memories of NANPS - 25th Anniversary is approaching
- Reward Offered - The Paul McGaw Memorial Conservation Award - Native Plant Garden/Restoration Award
Reminder email
- The Natural Order - advanced order deadline is this Sunday, April 19
- Scoop Contest - Win a Plant or Two
- NANPS Annual Plant Sale Saturday, MAY 9th Markham Civic Centre
- Taxus canadensis - perennials, trees and shrubs are eligible for a tax credit
- A Licence to Buy - NANPS will be issuing tax receipts for the HRTC at the Plant Sale
- More Dirt - Return to Sender - Post Office Hijinx
- Home, Home on the Range - management planning process for the Holland Landing Prairie Provincial Nature Reserve
- Dates on Tap - Earth Day - Annual Earth Day Festival - TFN lecture
- Dr. Nina Katalin Barabas -Echinacea and Beyond
- Todd Irvine - Native Trees of Southern Ontario - previous speaker Ken Parker cancelled - replaced by Dr. Nina K. O'Barabas
- NANPS Health Service Announcement - Botanical Art 101 & Botanical Art with Coloured Pencils at Swansea Town Hall
- NANPS Speaker Series - Dr. Laurence Packer - The Importance of Bees
- Denis Flanagan & Charles Kinsley - Coming next month! Gardening Trends
- ENEWS ALERT NANPS is exhibiting at the Guelph Organic Conference January 24 - 25
- NANPS Speakers Series - Martin Galloway - The Secret Life of Plants
- Dr. Laurence Packer - The Importance of Bees
- NANPS Year End Stuff
- NANPS Speaker Series - Martin Galloway - The Secret Life of Plants
- Dr. Laurence Packer - The Importance of Bees
- NANPS Year End Stuff
- NANPS Speaker Series - Paul Heydon & Gavin Miller -Invasive Species of the Toronto Area
- NANPS Annual General Meeting Agenda at Toronto Botanical Gardens - First email and Reminder
Events, Excursion & AGM - September 2008
- Excursion to Arthur Langford Nature Reserve, Jackson Gunn Old Growth Forest & Restoration Site
- NANPS Annual General Meeting, Toronto Botanical Gardens (formerly known as Edwards Gardens)
- NANPS Speakers Series - Toronto Botanical Gardens
- Paul Heydon & Gavin Miller - Invasive species of the Toronto area - What and where they are and how we can prevent their spread.
- Martin Galloway - Secret Life of Plants - what goes on in gardens beyond the naked eye.
- Denis Flannigan & Charles Kinsley - Gardening Trends over the past 200 years, their influences and how they are in the midst of change today.
- GREEN Gardening
Ken Parker - A Joint Venture with Nature. Learn how to incorporate native species in the home landscape from a leading industry expert. - Todd Irvine - Native Trees of Southern Ontario - helpful tree identification tips, basic tree physiology, and some personal anecdotes.
- May 3
- Wild Things with Wings at the Brick Works
- Workshops by NANPS Darcie McKelvey
- Using native plants to attract bees
- Native plant seed starting
- May 4
- NANPS Plant Rescue Alert! 16th Ave. and Hwy 404
- High Park Community Advisory Council - Volunteer Stewardship Program (VSP) Native Plant Sale
- May 10
- NANPS & The Most Amazing Plant Sale Ever! Markham Civic Centre - be there!
- May 11
- Lorraine Johnson presentation
- June 6 - 8
- Carden Nature Festival joins with Ontario Nature AGM
NANPS Plant Sale and Expo - May 10 2008
- members version
- non-members version
- 10 Reasons why you need to attend the NANPS Plant Sale