Holiday Decor From Your Garden

By: Linda Petite, Head Gardener Nature's finest decorations are just outside your door. Take a stroll around your garden and be inspired…
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Community Education, Wellness, and You

Community Education has long been a staple of offerings at the Gardens at HCP. Our mission is to 'connect people with plants' and…
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Saving Seed

A Pacific Horticulture College Student Blog Post by: Chris Head This August, our horticulture class visited Salt Spring Island where…
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Fruit Culture

Fruit Culture - a blog post in two parts by Pacific Horticulture College Students   Part 1: By Ian Silbernagel I won't lie,…
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Medicinal Plants

This blog post has been written by Pacific Horticulture Student: Rachel Lavrisa The Fireweed Farm & School, located on the Saanich…
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Summertime in the Gardens at HCP

The Gardens at HCP is a pretty special place year-round. The changing maple trees in the Takata Garden in fall, the hellebores…
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Environmental Stewardship at Saanich Native Plants

A blog from our Pacific Horticulture College in two parts: Part One: Environmental Stewardship by: Alexandra Spalding On June 27, Kirsten…
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Organic Land Care Part 2

Part Two of our Pacific Horticulture College Student Blog Series on Organic Land Care. Find Part One here. We reap What We Sow by…
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Organic Land Care Principles

by Maddy Pauls (Part one of our two part blog posts on Organic Land Care - Find Part Two Here) We had the pleasure of having three…
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Plant Identification Instructor

Position Title:              Plant Identification Instructor – Part-time, Contract Department:              …
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Dry-Stone Walling Techniques

Student Blog post by: Amelia Barbin and Gareth Richards The art of constructing dry-stone walls first began as a method to separate…
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The Empress Fig

The Gardens at HCP has been part of the horticulture community, a tourist destination, a local favourite and a centre of plant education…
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Territory Acknowledgement

We at HCP gratefully acknowledge that the Gardens are located on the ancestral territories of the lək’ʷəŋən peoples, represented by the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations, and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples, represented by the W̱JOȽEȽP (Tsartlip), BOḰEĆEN (Pauquachin), SȾÁUTW̱ (Tsawout), W̱SIḴEM (Tseycum) and MÁLEXEȽ (Malahat) Nations. With gratitude, we work and learn where people come together in appreciation of plants and stewardship of the Gardens.

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Phone: 250-479-6162

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