ADULT COMMUNITY EDUCATION | WORKSHOP | 3 HOURS
In this workshop, learn how gardening with native and conventional plants can give you a garden
teeming with life from beneficial insects and birds while also being uninviting to deer and
rabbits. We will look at how to attract pollinators to your garden, helping to produce larger fruits
and vegetables. Berry producing shrubs and seed producing perennials for year-round bird
watching pleasure will also be covered. Learn about barrier/deterrent options for rabbits and deer
plus which plants will help repel them. And finally, preferred feeders and houses for wildlife will
be discussed.
Your registration includes all-day admission to the Gardens at HCP (9:00-3:30 last entry)
Date & Location
Saturday May 31, 2025 - 9:00 am - noon
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.
