ADOPT-A-HIGHWAY PLANTING PARTNERSHIP PROJECT
In 2019 the Barrie Garden Club adopted a one kilometer section of Highway 26 in Springwater Township. The road section is located on Hwy. 26 coming into Midhurst by the Springwater baseball diamonds.
The Club has agreed to be part of the Adopt-A-Highway program through the Ministry of Transportation. Our goal is to clean any garbage from the site and promote the growth of wildflowers and native plants on the land to help encourage pollinators in this area. Our Planting Partnership is indicated by Ministry signage on the roadway, and we hope that the mass of flowers will do the job of welcoming people into the City of Barrie.
Everyone can help with this project by saving wildflower seeds for spring planting in 2021.
Pollinator Seeds desired:
Bee Balm -- Monarda didyma
Black-eyed Susan – Rudbeckia hirta
Blueweed/Vipers bugloss - Echium vulgare
Butterfly Weed – Asclepias tuberosa
Joe Pye Weed -- Eupatorium maculatum
Choke Cherry – Prunus virginianum
Coreopsis -- Coreopsis lanceolata
Cow vetch - Vicia cracca
Culvers Root – Veronicastrum virginicum
Cup Plant – Silphium perfoliatum
Day lilies - Hemerocallis
Dense Blazing Star -- Liatris spicata
Golden Alexanders -- Zizia aurea
Green-headed Coneflowers -- Rudbeckia laciniata
Grey Goldenrod – Solidago nemoralis
Hoary Vervain - Verbena stricta
Ironweed -- Vernonia gigantean
Little Bluestem – Schizacryium scoparium Milkweed -- Asclepias syriaca
New England Aster – aster novae-angliae
New Jersey Tea- ceanothus americanus
Pale Coneflower -- Echinacea pallid
Purple Coneflower -- Echinacea pallid
Russian Sage - Perovskia atriplicifolia
Side-oats Grama – Bouteloua curtipendula
Smooth Aster — Symphotricum laeve
Switch Grass — (Panicum virgatum)
Tiger lilies - Lilium lancifolium
Wild Strawberry- Fragaria vesca
In 2019 the Barrie Garden Club adopted a one kilometer section of Highway 26 in Springwater Township. The road section is located on Hwy. 26 coming into Midhurst by the Springwater baseball diamonds.
The Club has agreed to be part of the Adopt-A-Highway program through the Ministry of Transportation. Our goal is to clean any garbage from the site and promote the growth of wildflowers and native plants on the land to help encourage pollinators in this area. Our Planting Partnership is indicated by Ministry signage on the roadway, and we hope that the mass of flowers will do the job of welcoming people into the City of Barrie.
Everyone can help with this project by saving wildflower seeds for spring planting in 2021.
Pollinator Seeds desired:
Bee Balm -- Monarda didyma
Black-eyed Susan – Rudbeckia hirta
Blueweed/Vipers bugloss - Echium vulgare
Butterfly Weed – Asclepias tuberosa
Joe Pye Weed -- Eupatorium maculatum
Choke Cherry – Prunus virginianum
Coreopsis -- Coreopsis lanceolata
Cow vetch - Vicia cracca
Culvers Root – Veronicastrum virginicum
Cup Plant – Silphium perfoliatum
Day lilies - Hemerocallis
Dense Blazing Star -- Liatris spicata
Golden Alexanders -- Zizia aurea
Green-headed Coneflowers -- Rudbeckia laciniata
Grey Goldenrod – Solidago nemoralis
Hoary Vervain - Verbena stricta
Ironweed -- Vernonia gigantean
Little Bluestem – Schizacryium scoparium Milkweed -- Asclepias syriaca
New England Aster – aster novae-angliae
New Jersey Tea- ceanothus americanus
Pale Coneflower -- Echinacea pallid
Purple Coneflower -- Echinacea pallid
Russian Sage - Perovskia atriplicifolia
Side-oats Grama – Bouteloua curtipendula
Smooth Aster — Symphotricum laeve
Switch Grass — (Panicum virgatum)
Tiger lilies - Lilium lancifolium
Wild Strawberry- Fragaria vesca