Fundy National Park Pollinator Garden Tour and Kinnie Brook Trail Walk

Ever wanted to add more native plants to your garden, but weren’t sure where to start? Join us for a tour of Fundy National Park’s 400m2 native plant pollinator garden. Topics will include how to get started, what plants to choose for your site, shopping for native species at nurseries, collecting plants in the wild, dealing with deer’s disposition to detrimental dining, do’s, don’ts, and lessons learned to date. The tour of the garden is expected to take 1-2 hours, depending on the number of questions, and will be followed by a hike on the botanically diverse Kinnie Brook Trail (2.8km return trip). The first part of the trail is on flat ground and travels through a typical Acadian forest dominated by maple, birch, spruce and fir. It skirts the upper edge of the Kinnie Brook valley before descending a long flight of stairs to the stream bed. The lush floodplain is filled with water-loving plants among which are ostrich and sensitive ferns, cow parsnip, jack-in-the pulpit, and red osier dogwood. At some point along the trail, we will travel through an area known as Frosty Hollow, where local topography creates a cooler microclimate and pockets of ice can be found well into August.

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