pollinators – Scarborough Rosewood Community Association

September 2025 – August 2026

The Rosewood Pollinator Garden Group in partnership with Alexmuir Junior Public School and the Scarborough Rosewood Community Association have created a printable PDF calendar featuring artwork by the young primary students who were involved with the pollinator gardens this school year.

Excerpt from the Calendar:

About the Calendar

This calendar features the imaginative and thoughtful artwork of students from Alexmuir Junior Public School. Each illustration is a student-created poster celebrating native plants and their crucial role in supporting pollinators.
Since fall 2024, students have been engaged in learning about pollination and the significance of pollinators through regular visits to the Rosewood Community Pollinator Gardens. They’ve observedplant life cycles and the wide array of pollinators that visit the gardens—including bees, butterflies, and birds—while discovering how native, pollinator-friendly plants contribute to healthy ecosystems.
Over the winter, the class worked with members of the Rosewood Pollinator Garden Group to winter sow native seeds. The students later planted the sunflowers and native seedlings they nurtured in both the Rosewood and Alexmuir Junior Public School Pollinator Gardens. This year, both gardens were awarded the City of Toronto’s PollinateTO grant in recognition of their community impact, a first for the Rosewood Community.
Through various fun hands-on activities, students also explored how pollinators are deeply connected to the food we eat. Did you know that pollinators like bees are responsible for about one-third of the world’s food supply? That’s every third bite on your plate. Yet, these essential creatures are in decline due to habitat loss, pesticide use, and climate change.
In response, the students created persuasive posters to encourage others to grow native plants and provide food and shelter for pollinators. Their message is clear: we all have a role to play in protecting pollinators.

Printing Instructions: For the best results, print in colour, single-sided on letter-sized (8.5×11″) printer paper. Cardstock would look great as well, and can be printed double-sided to save paper. For quick and easy binding, use staples or bulldog clips along the top of the calendar.

You may download the PDF here. This is for personal use only. Please respect the hard work of these young artists and do not reproduce their work outside of this calendar. This is not to be sold for profit in any shape or form.

Last week a couple of our gardeners had the honour of sharing what they learned about seed sowing to a group of primary students at the local school.

We arrived early to fill containers with soil and distribute them to different tables. Working in pairs mostly, each group planted a different native, pollinator-friendly plant.

They have been learning about pollinator gardens for a while now, so they were very excited to sow some seeds today. Back in December, the students had collected enough single-use yogurt containers, pop bottles and clear clamshell packaging for today’s activity. We also brought extra seeds for them to attach to a worksheet we had prepared.