Yesterday, the volunteer garden maintenance team put up these new signs in the garden! Priscilla Lee designed and illustrated them herself.
Visit from Councillor Myers
These are pictures of Councillor Myers’ visit to the Rosewood Pollinator Gardens last Saturday. He was visiting to see the gardens and discuss options for securing sustainable options for watering the gardens. As some of you are aware, our volunteers have been hand-watering the gardens for the last year and a bit as there is no water source by our gardens.
Thank you to Councillor Myers and his team, as always, for their partnership! Thank you also to our dedicated volunteers, some of whom you can see here!
August’s End Gardens 2026
A group of our volunteer gardeners put in a hard day’s work this past Saturday to water and weed and move some logs. A big thank you to everyone for your hard work. Our gardens look great! Thank you.
Some of the flowers and grasses in Brandon’s Garden are in bloom:
Then, a visiting monarch butterfly was photographed feeding on Anise Hyssop:
All photo credits in this post go to Ana.
An updated peek at our gardens
First up, Brandon’s Garden (still early days):
Then, a look at the rest of the gardens. Cup plant:
Next, goldenrod:
Swamp Milkweed and pollinators:
Now some Bergamot:
Snowy Tick-Trefoil:
Echinacea and more pollinators:
Joe Pye Weed:
And finally, some wider shots of the gardens as a whole:
All photo credits in this post go to our talented local artist and photographer, Priscilla Lee.
Click Beetles! A garden visit
Hello all, we had a site inspection from PollinateTO today. They loved the gardens. It was especially good when this beetle showed up! If you zoom in on some of the photos here you can also see the ladybug eating aphids on the fake sunflower, a bee with pollen on its legs, and a monarch butterfly right by the pollinator garden sign.
We don’t have the ability to upload videos to our website yet, so if you want to see more regular updates and a video of the click beetle in action, please visit our Instagram page @rosewoodcommunityassociation and check out the “garden” story highlights.
Rosewood Reads 2025-2026
We are coming to the end of our second year of enjoying most of our books. Not all have appealed to us…can’t please them all. But it did open us to new genres and authors. We read from mysteries to historical fiction to AI and more. Our gatherings have been filled with fun, laughter and solving the world’s problems…lol!
Below are the books we read and hope one or two might pique your curiosity to enjoy over the summer months. These are all available at the Toronto Public Library.
Happy Reading and have a wonderful summer.
Brandon’s Memorial Garden
A member of our Rosewood community passed in a tragic car accident last summer. In his memory, his parents have planted a special memorial garden as part of the Rosewood Pollinator Gardens.
The plants are all native pollinator friendly and include: big blue stem, grey headed cone flower, yellow prairie grass, little blue stem, showy golden rod, lance leaf coreopsis, iron weed, wild bergamot, pearly everlasting and blackeye susan. More plants and shrubs will continue to be added over the coming months.
grade 1 pollinator garden project
On Wednesday, the grade 1&2 class completed their pollinator garden collage! Using the textured paper they made a couple days earlier, together they created: – 9 distinct native, pollinator-friendly flowers- june grass- a red oak tree- and many, many bees, butterflies and birds to inhabit the garden.
To the final collage we also added the names of each plant, and dried flower stalks, seed pods and grasses from our gardens so the students could see and compare what the real plants looked like. Here’s the final artwork, displayed on the wall outside their classroom, right next to the front entrance of the school!
June Planting in the Garden
It was a very hot day in June when a class of excited primary students were finally able to plant their seedlings (lovingly started in the winter! and cared for for many many months) into the ground at the Rosewood Pollinator Garden.
They planted sunflowers, swamp milk weed, Anise hysop, and butterfly milkweed. The students had sprouted these in the winter/spring this year. Thank you to our dedicated volunteers for your help!
