Shirley Tang Rosewood Pollinator Garden Group

Rosewood Pollinator Garden Group

Who we are: The Rosewood Pollinator Garden Group was established in September 2023. Our group of 25 gardeners are from the Rosewood Community. They are of different ages, cultures and backgrounds. While our group has expert and novice gardeners, we all learn from each other. We also offer volunteer hours to high school students and will involve local elementary schools to engage students in creating pollinator friendly gardens. The Rosewood Pollinator Garden Group is a proud recipient of the Certificate of Recognition, presented by Councillor Jamaal Myers, for outstanding contributions to the community.

What we do: Our main goal is to rehabilitate the Rosewood Community Gardens. These are located on the Northeast and Northwest corners of the intersection at Alexmuir Boulevard and Finch Avenue East. We are creating pollinator-friendly gardens to help preserve and increase the population of pollinators in our city. Some of the pollinators that we are trying to help are butterflies, bees, moths and birds.

the Rosewood gardens before the update

What we are growing in the community gardens: Most of the plants that we are growing are native to Canada. These include, Serviceberry trees, Black-eyed Susans, Echinacea, Golden Rod, Bee Balm, Sunflowers and Butterfly Milkweed. Native plants provide pollinators with food, nectar and nesting sites.

If you would like to join our group or need more information, please email us at: rosewoodpollinators@gmail.com

Our Proud Partners and Sponsors
We are grateful to the following partners and sponsors for helping us to create our beautiful community gardens:
– Scarborough Rosewood Community Association
– Canadian Tire, Agincourt
– Birchcliff Treecare: https://birchclifftreecare.com/
– Pollinate TO
– Cliffcrest Butterflyway, A David Suzuki Foundation Community Project: https://www.cliffcrestbutterflyway.com/

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Fall 2023

Dear Rosewood,

As the weather turns, our gardening activities turn to raking leaves, cleaning up our flower beds and over-wintering our gardens for the cold weather. This last month has seen a great deal of construction in our neighbourhood. Thank you to all of our residents for continuing to drive considerately and carefully through our streets, making sure that all our road users are safe.

We’re so excited as a neighbourhood association to be slowly re-vamping our activities, starting this summer with our Movie Night in the Park (so many of you came out to watch and it was so much fun!) and the fall Community Clean-Up. Our local gardeners and gardeners-in-training have also begun to meet, to look at cleaning up our Rosewood gardens and planning for next spring. It’s possible Spring 2024 will see the return of our door-to-door canvassing for SRCA’s $5/year membership fee, and we look forward to being able to do even more with the increase in funding.

Do you have ideas? Want to come out and volunteer in our gardens for some social time and exercise? Hand out (or design!) a newsletter? Let us know, and for timely updates, subscribe to our email newsletter using the link at the bottom of this website.

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Happy 2020 Rosewood!

We’re starting a new year, and a new decade! You should be receiving an email from us tonight with some Scarborough city budget forum and council news. Meanwhile, a team of Rosewood volunteers is beginning to plan for our own Lunar New Year (I know, another new year?) celebration. This will be our 5th such event and it has become an anticipated and fun, family-friendly event that brightens up some of the dreary winter months.

So mark your calendars, plan to attend, and if you have some free time we always appreciate having volunteers!

Date: Saturday, February 1st, 2020

Time: 10am to 12pm

Place: Alexmuir Junior Public School

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Rosewood Lunar New Year Celebration 2018

The Rosewood Taxpayers’ Association invites you to celebrate the Lunar New Year with a Lion Dance, traditional group dances, children’s performances and an appearance by Choy Sun (Red Pockets will be given to children at the end of the event).

Saturday, February 10, 10am to 12pm in the gymnasium at Alexmuir Jr Public School. Everyone welcome. Free admission.English Flyer