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OFNC & FWG Instagram page has expanded to include OFNC study area
Click on button below or click on the Instagram icon in the green bar, top right, next to our Facebook, and YouTube links
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Download a species trail map and look for species of trees, vines, or shrubs at the Gardens
Amphibian Pond
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The plant sale is now over. You can still pickup flowers that were paid. Thanks for your support.
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Our challenge to you. Find the 14 stories in the Garden.
Hint, there are none in the Backyard Garden
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Try one of our wildlife quests. Look for and listen for wildlife.
Scots pine
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Wild Pollinator Partners appreciate pollinators.
Theme: Start with a Tree.Meet at Fletcher Wildlife Garden from 10 AM to 2 PM, Sat. 20 June 2026
Demonstrating how to create wildlife-friendly habitat and gardens on urban or rural property, emphasizing the use of plants native to the Ottawa region.
FWG blog
Discovering plant galls formed by insects
by Christine Hanrahan Gall: “An abnormal growth of plant tissue produced by a stimulus external to the plant itself.” - [...]
Through the lens: a year in the Old Field
by Christine Hanrahan The rototilled section of the old field in later summer, showing the variety of species that [...]
Christine’s walks: insects in late October
by Christine Hanrahan The end of summer signals also the end of insect life – or does it? While summer [...]