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New & Returning Members Welcome

Annual Membership: $15

Please fill out the form if you are a new member or if you are renewing your membership. You will be prompted to pay online. See below for mailing instructions.

Membership Benefits

Apply for a boulevard garden - Info
Learn from experts - Info
Connect with community
Share skills - Info
Activities for all ages - Info
Full voting rights as set out by Our Charter

If you prefer to mail a cheque, you can print this membership application page, fill out the application form and enclose it with your check made out to Blooming Boulevards for $15.

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Mail to:

Jeanne McRight, President

Blooming Boulevards

1295 Mineola Gardens

Mississauga, ON. L5G 3Y5

Our boulevard gardens help to conserve our native bees and other pollinators by increasing habitat.

All of our services - consultation, design, ongoing advice, plants and delivery, regular monitoring of the garden during the first and second years - are free.

Our members, volunteers and donors make it happen!

Grow a Garden with Us!

2024 Applications Now Open!

Here is what we offer our garden stewards:

Preliminary site visit assessment.
Assistance with city permit process.
Advice on how to get your new garden site ready for planting.
Up to 50 free native plants matched to your garden site.
Planting: Plant pickup dates between mid-May - early June.
Plant info, online garden workshops and presentations.
Aftercare coaching and expertise.
Info & advice via our private Garden Steward Facebook group.

Apply Today

Get Started

1. You must be a current year member of Blooming Boulevards. Make sure your membership is up-to-date. Find our current membership form here.

2. BB Garden application form:
Submit your BB garden application online. Only Mississauga property owners with an appropriate road allowance site will be accepted for a free residential boulevard garden.

3. Site visit:
In the spring (April-May), a BB team will schedule a visit to your property to assess your prospective site's growing conditions, advise you on how to get ready for your garden, and answer your questions.

3. City permit:
The City of Mississauga requires a boulevard garden permit. No fee is required for our gardens. During the site visit, BB will help you complete your city permit application process.

Download the City's Boulevard Garden Encroachment Permit application and Acceptable Plantings forms here.

4. If you are a community organization, local institution or business, we can provide you with our native plants, consultation and design services for a reasonable fee.

Garden Set Up

Site Prep:

Mark site dimensions: allow 30 cm2 (1 sq. ft.) per plant, plus a 45 cm (18 in.) border on all sides.
Locate underground utility lines (as, phone, cable, etc.)

Contact Ontario One Call:

It's best to do this early!
Website: www.on1call.com

Telephone: 1-800-400-2255

Remove all existing vegetation, including roots. Do when ground is soft.

PLEASE NOTE: This is a physically strenuous job and is challenging for many people - allow lots of time to do this, and/or make arrangements to get help. BB does not provide this service.

Condition the soil:

Add 6 to 8cm (2 to 3 inches) of compost (such as composted manure, mushroom compost, worm compost, etc.) and mix it into the top 10 cm (4 inches) of soil.

Planting:

We will email you a choice of pick up dates.
Plants are assembled for same day planting. Diagram & advice on planting & placement given.

Planting Tools Needed:

A garden trowel, hose and/or watering can and water.

Dig holes to depth of plant roots, install plants, and water them.
Cover bare soil around plants with 5 cm (1 inch) layer of shredded pine bark mulch.

For More Information
on Our Gardens

Download our garden applicant info sheet.

Questions or concerns about this process? Feel free to reach out to Blooming Boulevards directly.

Maintenance

Aftercare:

Maintain the depth of shredded pine bark mulch to suppress weeds and retain surface moisture for this growing season.
Young plants will need to be watered twice a week for their first 6 weeks, then gradually taper off amount of irrigation. Young plants will need water during drought as well.
Pull weed seedlings when they sprout. Perennial weeds can be repeatedly cut off below ground level until they die.

Our garden stewards have access to our private Facebook group, where photos and info are shared and questions are answered

You Can Help. Volunteers Wanted!

Volunteer members are the backbone of our organization. As a BB volunteer member, you choose the area most interesting to you, and help according to your ability and time.

You'll be rewarded in so many ways!

Volunteer Benefits

Meet others who care!
Be active!
Hands-on learning!
Support our Bee City!

Improve biodiversity!
Share skills & knowledge!
Be part of workshops & activities!

Garden Volunteers

Garden volunteers may apply to help with seed collecting, plant propagating and other garden projects.