FREE! Winter Seminar Series
GREY COUNTY MASTER GARDENERS PRESENTS:
“THE 2024 ECO-RESPONSIBLE GARDENER”
Three free Zoom seminars, 1.5 hours each, to help you create and maintain an environmentally sustainable and beautiful garden!
Seminar 3: Designing Your Native Plant Garden
Saturday, March 23 from 11:00am - 12:30pm
This is one of the most requested topics we’ve had in recent years- about how to design your garden using native plants. More and more gardeners are interested in native plants, but are often unsure about how to use them in landscape design. What goes with what? How do I space them? Am I limited to a wildflower theme? (No, you’re not!)
We’re very pleased to have landscape designer and owner of the native plant nursery, Ontario Flora - Claire Ellenwood - present this free seminar on designing with native plants. Claire received her degree in Fine Arts at York University, studied Landscape Design at Ryerson, and Ecosystem Restoration at Niagara College. She has been razor focussed on native plants for more than 20 years. Claire began a landscape design business in 2003, which by 2010 had morphed into Ontario Flora.
Claire has divided her time between business owner and employee, working always as a native plant landscape designer and ecosystem restoration project manager. As Stewardship Project Manager at Evergreen Brick Works in Toronto, Claire managed over 15000 square feet of native plant gardens, piloting their native plant retail nursery, managing stewardship groups on ecosystem restoration projects for waterfront sites in Toronto and in the 40 acre Brick Works parkland restoration in Toronto. She created the preliminary design for the Evergreen Brick Works Green Roof, and coordinated a series of workshops related to stewardship, horticulture and nature in general (with many GTA partners).
We are trained volunteers who offer non-biased, science-based horticultural information and advice to home gardeners and community groups. Established in 1996, the Grey County Master Gardeners are a member group of Master Gardeners of Ontario Inc. (MGOI).
To help cover the costs of our community services, we request donations for our presentations. To make a donation to Grey County Master Gardeners, please contact us at greycountymg@gmail.com.
If you would like to learn more about Master Gardeners of Ontario or to join our Grey County Master Gardeners, please visit our Ask Us! page.