Photo Op: Grant helps City Build New Pollinator-friendly Garden in Erin Meadows

On Monday, the City of Mississauga will be unveiling its new pollinator garden at Erin Meadows Community Centre/St. Aloysius Gonzaga Secondary School. The City was awarded with the ScottsGRO1000 Grassroots Garden Grant, which promotes creating gardens and green spaces throughout Canada, the United States and Europe. The $1,500 grant supports the creation of a pollinator-friendly garden which contains perennial flowers and plants to attract butterflies, hummingbirds and other pollinators. Pollinators feed on nectar and collect pollen, transferring the genetic material necessary for the reproduction of flowers, fruits and vegetables.

Media Photo Opportunity

What:

Unveiling of the Erin Meadows Pollinator Garden

When:

Monday, June 27, 2016 at 11:30 a.m.

Where:

Erin Meadows Community Centre/St. Aloysius Gonzaga Secondary School
2800 Erin Centre Blvd.
Mississauga, ON
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Who:

• Ward 9 Councillor Pat Saito
• School Board Trustees
• Students, teachers and principals from St. Aloysius Gonzaga Secondary School
• Parks and Forestry staff
• Local residents

The butterfly garden will be maintained by students from St. Aloysius Gonzaga Secondary School with support from the school’s administration and youth from the Erin Meadows Community Centre.

Background:

About ScottsGRO1000 Grassroots Garden Grant

ScottsMiracle-Gro launched GRO1000 to create 1,000 gardens and green spaces across Canada, the United States and Europe by 2018. Since 2011, more than 700 grants have been awarded throughout the world. Scotts Canada Ltd. – a subsidiary of the Scotts Miracle-Gro Company – has partnered with Communities in Bloom, Plant a Row — Grow a Row, and Nutrients for Life with the aim of bringing together national and local groups to collectively advocate for and demonstrate the benefits of gardening and green space development and to unite people around a common project.