Netscaping allows people and nature to coexist with conventional landscaping. 

Designing gardens and green spaces that attract insect and birds as well as provide beauty, while minimizing pesticides, is taking place throughout the world, as a quick google search will reveal. People are interested in restoring damaged habitats everywhere.

The goal of the West Bend Naturescapes group is to work with volunteers to develop a bee and pollinator insect highway from network of gardens that will link the 400 acre High Park natural gardens on the west side of the West Bend to major urban rail and electric tower corridors on the east side of West Bend, thus providing a conduit for native plants, insects and birds within the larger City otherwise known as the Bee Line.

West Bend Naturescape volunteers have created several boulevard gardens in the neighbourhood. These include the area north of the Dundas Street W subway station, Dorval Avenue over the TTC right of way, Edna alongside the TTC right of way, on Indian Road just north or Keele subway station. A new garden is planned for the area southeast of the Keele Stn on Indian Road in 2023.  These gardens are featured on this website.

West Bend Naturescapers work in close cooperation with the West Bend Community Association  that has been involved for over 20 years with creating the Railside Garden on the east side of the West Bend neighbourhood. Railside Gardens are featured on this website

The west side of the West Bend neighbourhood is next to High Park.  The High Park Stewards, a volunteer group, have planted over 60,000 native plants in High Park in the past decade or so. 

This is a great start. But we need to continue. Help out and add your garden or boulevard to this growing list of native greenery in the West Bend neighbourhood. Or help boost the existing gardens by helping out. 

Join your neighbours and try some native plants this season