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QTN Community Plant Share

Sharing local plants with other QTN residents helps them and adds to the greening of our neighborhood. Local plants are also more likely to grow well.  Perennials that need splitting or trimming can be put into extra plastic pots, containers or bags, watered to settle, and then offered to others during our QTN Plant Share Event for the month of May.

Plant drives will occur during the weekends of May 8-9 & May 15-16. To respect the provincial lockdown, we encourage no contact sharing and suggest placing plants at the end of your driveway or lot with signage and/or post on the QTN Facebook page.

Please print the attached QTN sign

As you walk through the neighborhood, you may find other plants that you would like to have.  We all benefit from sharing plants and perhaps plant knowledge as well.

QTN will promote the event so residents know what is happening.  Plants that are not picked up or wanted can be disposed of in Green bins.

Some ideas for sharing include:

  • Echinacea or Purple Cone Flower
  • Rudebeckia
  • Iris
  • Phlox (many different varieties)
  • Spring Bulb splitting (Lily, Canna Lily, Hostas, Gladiolas)
  • Ground covers, such a periwinkle and thyme, and border plants
  • Strawberry plants
  • Raspberry stalks
  • Rhubarb

Update on the QTN Storm Sewer Project including Traffic Implications

Councillor Kavanagh’s office has organized an update on the sewer project, which will include discussion of the road closures and associated traffic impacts. The meeting will take place on April 9th at 9:30 AM. If you are unable to attend, a recording will be made available afterward on the Bay Ward Bulleting which we will share with you as well.

Sewer and traffic update meeting
April 9th from 9:30 am to 10:15 am.
Link to register: https://www.baywardbulletin.ca/event/16786/

If possible, please submit your questions to qtncommunity@gmail.com by 5:00 PM on Tuesday, April 5th so staff have time to prepare more thorough answers.

Once the sewer project is completed, more discussion about traffic calming in that area will take place. The Councillor’s office is also looking at other methods for addressing concerns about pedestrian and cycling safety across QTN, such as the raised pedestrian crossovers that have been proposed as part of the construction of a sidewalk on Connaught Ave.

Volunteers needed: Lets beautify the Elmhurst paths on March 30 & April 2!

We are calling all walkers, dog walkers, bird watchers, and anyone who likes exploring the trails in QTN.

We need your help to spread mulch along the paths in Elmhurst Park and are asking that as you finish your day tomorrow (March 30), to meet us at the corner of Alpine and Henley starting at 3:00 PM. Please bring your mask, a shovel or a rake, and if possible – a wheelbarrow.

Update: due to the amount of paths to cover, we will also be working on Friday April 2nd start at 8:00 AM until around 12:00 PM.

Update: Brent from Pilon Landworks (http://www.pilonlandworks.ca/ thank you!) will be helping the community with a tractor and shuttling mulch to the park entrances as of 10:00 AM. On April 2nd if you are:
  • Starting at 8:00 AM? Meet us at Alpine entrance
  • Starting at 10:00 AM? Meet us at the Elmhurst entrances

Why the short notice?

As part of the City’s Queensway Terrace Storm Sewer Rehabilitation project, a number of trees had to be taken down along the north side of Henley Street to make way for new infrastructure (storm sewer and sidewalk). Our natural environment  committee, along with many of your neighbours, arranged to have the mulch from this work kept on site and the City approved its use for beautifying local paths! Since the trees have just been cut, it is important that we spread the mulch as soon as possible.

We look forward to seeing many of you tomorrow!