Beauty and biodiversity.
Mission
We connect neighbourhoods to nature, providing a network of native habitat gardens and opportunities for inclusive community engagement, education, and collaboration.
Vision
Our vision is a city-wide environment that supports well-being for all of its inhabitants - wildlife and natural resources as well as people. We envision a city with a resilient, biodiverse ecosystem that fosters community engagement through meaningful interactions with nature.
Organization History
Blooming Boulevards is a Mississauga-based, volunteer-led organization of civic-minded residents who share a passion for gardening, environmental stewardship, and community well-being. When developing our mission and goals in early 2019, we built an expert volunteer Board of Directors and successfully delivered programs through our 2019–2022 pilot project.
From 2023 to 2026, we developed a phased plan to guide future program and service expansion. This growth is grounded in three complementary program areas designed to support biodiversity, engage public participation, and align with City strategic priorities: our Gardens, Education, and Outreach programs. We engage the community's active participation in pollinator conservation by providing Mississauga residents with hands-on learning through garden stewardship and other volunteer opportunities.
• Volunteer training enables us to strengthen our native plant propagation projects, increasing our production and distribution of drought- and salt-resistant Indigenous native plant seedlings. In our first six years, the number of our new gardens grew from 14 in 2019 to nearly 400 in 2026. These pollinator gardens link Mississauga’s expanding number of native plant habitat patches, increasing areas that support native pollinator biodiversity and resilience to climate change.
• Our education and outreach efforts now include free, inclusive virtual and in-person workshops for individuals, families, local clubs, community organizations, institutions, businesses, and corporations in Mississauga and beyond.
In 2025, Blooming Boulevards became a registered charity. We are focused now on strengthening our ability to advance our charitable purposes, grow our programs, and deepen our impact in the years ahead.
Building Connections
We are creating networks of citywide habitat gardens that serve as a corridor for native pollinator population movement, fostering genetic diversity by enabling bees, butterflies and other pollinating insects to reach each other.
We engage with residents, neighbourhood groups, community businesses and organizations, institutions, and our municipality in planning, installing, maintaining and promoting the gardens.
We propagate the plants we use for the habitat gardens, using seeds we collect locally. with written permission from landowners, using ethical native seed collection protocols established by Mississauga Parks and Forestry.
Charitable Purposes
SUPPORT
To protect the environment for the benefit of the public by conserving ecosystems through projects that preserve, protect, and assist native flora and fauna in Southern Ontario.
CONNECT
To advance education by conducting workshops and courses to the public on environmental issues and environmentally sustainable horticulture and landscaping.
SUSTAIN AND GROW
To do all such things as are incidental and ancillary to the attainment of the above charitable purposes.