ADULT COMMUNITY EDUCATION | WORKSHOP | 3 HOURS
In this workshop, you will learn how gardening with our local native plants can give you a water-saving, low-maintenance garden that brings colour all season long, making them the ultimate ecological choice. Native plants are adapted to the area’s conditions making them ideal for organic gardening- no supplemental fertilizers or pesticides are needed.
Whether your garden conditions are wet, salty or xeric (dry, dry, dry) there are native plants that will thrive and support great pollinators and our local ecology too! With year-round interest in mind, we will explore how to keep the garden beautiful from spring to winter and tap
into valuable local and online resources to help you along the way!
Your registration includes all-day admission to the Gardens at HCP (9:00-3:30 last entry)
Date & Location
Saturday March 15, 2025 - 1:00-4:00 pm
The Classroom at the Gardens at HCP, 505 Quale Road, Saanich
Fees & Registration
$45.00 HCP Members
$50.00 Non-Members Interested in Membership?
REGISTER ONLINE or call 250 479 6162
Instructor Bio: Emony Nicholls
Emony has worked as an environmental consultant, entrepreneur and biologist for over 25 years.
For seven of those years, she owned and operated a native plant nursery in Ontario growing plants for, designing, and installing ecological restoration projects in the most easterly tallgrass prairie in North America.
Her graduate research was on the connection between pollinators and plants and how that relationship drives the evolution of plants. As part of her work, she did taxonomic identification of native pollinators during graduate school and fell in love with them for their diversity and individual beauty.
Emony is on a mission to empower homeowners on how to support pollinators by providing habitats in our own back yards. In 2020 she left work with the provincial government as a biologist and now lives and works on Salt Spring Island.
