Creating Gardens // Growing Flowers
Kitchen Gardens
Transform part of your outdoor space into a garden that can harvest from throughout the year. From small herb gardens to raised bed vegetable gardens we can help make your edible garden dreams a reality.
Edible gardens are designed to be safe and engaging sensory experiences and are a wonderful way to connect with nature.
Kitchen gardens are a fabulous option for local eateries, restaurants and cafes to harvest their own menu items directly from their own growing spaces.
Residences, Schools, Hospitals, Community Living Spaces and Community Centres can all benefit from a garden which provides fresh bountiful produce, and a place to be in nature. Gardens provide a place to connect, collaborate and learn and are an invaluable asset to any community. It’s also a space to engage in horticultural therapy; a way of healing and improving mental, physical and emotional health through gardening and connecting to the outdoors.
Perennials & permaculture
Protecting soil, growing deep, strong roots, providing year round habitats for critical pollinators, reducing maintenance and waste on your property… all this while growing productive, beautiful gardens that feed you and your local ecosystem.
Trees and perennials (plants which come back year after year ) can help offset the carbon load and provide important habitats for native pollinators and beneficial wildlife. Feeding the soil with compost and protecting soil with mulch improves the soil microbiome and leaves the soil structure intact. Using native plants and feeding the soil is key to creating productive, drought resistant gardens that are as ecologically valuable as they are beautiful.
Black Raspberries and Common Eastern Fleabane growing together
Pollinator Gardens
Create a beautiful garden that supports pollinators and other beneficial insects throughout the year providing important nectar sources and ideal native habitiats. These gardens can be a a mix of annuals and perennials, with an emphasis on native perennial planting which will provide the most support for native pollinators.
These gardens always have something blooming from early spring to late fall and will maintain their interest in the winter months with the structure of the plants remaining intact for year round habitat for native pollinators. The seed pods and hollow stems provide food and shelter for wildlife and beneficial insects all winter.
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We want to acknowledge that we are growing on unceded ancestral territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabe Nation. We are grateful to our Host Nation who are the original gardeners of this area and who have been caring for this land for millennia. #landback
These tips are to help you find success in some of the more elusive aspects of gardening, topics that are often mentioned on the back of a seed pack or planting instruction but are not always elaborated on. I hope you find these tips and explanations helpful on your gardening journey!