A Landowner’s Guide to

Conserving Native Pollinators in Ontario

How to Make a Pollinator Garden

by Clement F. Kent

Design: Leena RaudveeIllustrations by author except where notedCopyright 2011 by Clement F. Kent

Supported by the Pollinator Garden Project of the Horticultural Societies of Parkdale and Toronto

Published 2011 by Godel Computer Solutions Ltd.Toronto, Ontario, Canada

ISBN 978-0-9868753-0-4 pollinatorgardens.net

About the author:

Clement Kent, Ph.D., is head of the Pollinator Garden Project and President of the Horticul-tural Societies of Parkdale and Toronto. He also researches the genetics of honeybees at York University.

Clement loves sharing his gardening and scientific knowledge with other gardeners.

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