• Special Interest Plants

Travel accommodations to Vancouver Island and the Interior

• Gardening with ease: Explore ways to move that place less strain on the body
• Discussions re. choices of tools and set up to avoid pain and injury

• Vegetables
• Container Gardening, Small Space Gardening
• Healthy soil, fertilizers, soil amendments, etc.

• Veggetables
• Compost

Vegetables Compost

• Salad Gardening in Small Spaces and Containers
• Grow your own Veggies for Beginners
• Grow your own 365 - Winter Vegetables
• Growing Gardeners - Containers for Kids
• How to Preserve the Harvest
• Composting 101 - 6 Different Types of Compost

• Vegetables
• Container Gardening, Small Space Gardening
• Herbs, growing and using
• Healthy soil, fertilizers, soil amendments, etc.

• Saving Seed, soil, composting

Linda Beer Environmental Technologist Advanced Master Gardener Organic Master Gardener Small Scale Farmer Linda is passionate about growing food. Everywhere she has lived, the Prairies, Switzerland, the Lower Mainland, and …

• The Miraculous Seed, Get Growing!
• Soils and Composting
• The Garden in Autumn

• Healthy soil, fertilizers, soil amendments, etc.

• Diagnosing landscape problems. Garden myth debunking
• Installing trees and shrubs correctly. The landscape underground: roots, microbes, and soils
• Mulches. Myth-busting information on garden products and practices
• Native and nonnative trees and shrubs. Selecting healthy plants at the nursery
• Soil testing and management. Sustainable garden and landscape management
• Tree myth debunking. Weed management

Urban landscape soil management *** Please note Linda is a professor of the Washington State University and travel expenses and accommodations are to be negotiated***

• Food Safety
• Horticulture in ecological restoration
• How plants survive in urban environments
• Mulches
• Myth debunking
• Pest management
• Selecting healthy plants and installing them correctly
• Sustainable garden and landscape management

• Special Interest Plants

• Indigenous wisdom with wild, native and medicinal plants

LoriAnn Bird (Snyder) is an indigenous herbalist and educator, with a deep knowledge of medicinal and edible plants that grow in the most common and everyday spaces. Through LoriAnn's eyes …

• Indigenous wisdom using wild, native and medicinal plants

• Special Interest Plants

• Fuchsias
• Begonias

• Fuchsias and Begonias

• Fruits, Fruit Trees
• Vegetables
• Container Gardening, Small Space Gardening
• Herbs, growing and using
• Special Interest Plants
• Healthy soil, fertilizers, soil amendments, etc.

• Superfood Edible Landscapes featuring berries, figs, herbs, healing plants

Lucretia Schanfarber is a dedicated organic gardener, motivational speaker and writer. Her mission is to motivate and teach people to Cultivate Edible Landscapes & Superfood Gardens while Building Soil Health …

• "Grow Your Own SuperFoods & Build Your Own SuperSoil!"

• Floral Arts, Floral Design, Flower Arrangements

• Cut Flowers

Lynda Mallinson has a Home Economics degree from the University of Manitoba. Lynda is gifted at delivering relevant scientific facts that are woven in with humour and story telling. Previous …

• Cut Flowers: Their Meaning to Us and How to Make them Last as Long as Possible

• Special Interest Plants

• Hydrangeas
• Dogwoods

• Hydrangeas
• Dogwood Trees and Shrubs
• Variegated plants
• Gardening with cardboard

• Fruits, Fruit Trees
• Vegetables
• Water gardens, ponds
• Floral Arts, Floral Design, Flower Arrangements
• Herbs, growing and using
• Special Interest Plants

• Orchids

• Orchids
• Dried Flowers, Herbs, Fruits and Veggies
• Floral Arranging (Floral Art)
• Pond and Water Gardens
• Lifestyles, Homes and Gardening of Ancient Natives of Southern USA
• Touring Natural History and Historic Sites of Southern USA

• Container Gardening, Small Space Gardening
• Trees, Arboretums, Arborists
• Special Interest Plants

• Hydrangeas

• Annual and Tender Vines
• Native Plant Beauties for Small Garden Spaces
• All about Hydrangeas
• Fragrant Trees and Shrubs

• Vegetables
• Garden Insects, Bees, Butterflies, Garden Pests
• Healthy soil, fertilizers, soil amendments, etc.

• Vegetables
• Garden Insects, Bees, Butterflies, Garden Pests
• Container Gardening, Small Space Gardening
• Herbs, growing and using
• Special Interest Plants
• Healthy soil, fertilizers, soil amendments, etc.

• Geraniums and Pelargoniums

SPEAKING TOPICS What Plants Require To Excel Soils, Fertilizers and Minerals For Optimum Plant Health Good Bugs, Bad Bugs Fertilizers - Understanding The Numbers & What To Use, When To …

• Fertilizer - What, When and Where; Understanding the Numbers
• Gardening in Containers and Small Spaces
• Geraniums and Pelargoniums
• Good Bugs - Bad Bugs
• Herbs - Culiary, Cosmetic and Medicinal
• Seeds from Planting to Saving
• Soil Stewardship - Soils and What Plants Need
• Vegetables in Small Spaces and Containers

• Garden Insects, Bees, Butterflies, Garden Pests

Matthew graduated UBC with a BSc in Microbiology and an interest in honeybee diseases and integrated pest management in apiculture. Shortly after, Matthew began working for a local commercial apiary, …

• Pollinators, Bee Phylogeny/ Identification, Beekeeping

• Garden Insects, Bees, Butterflies, Garden Pests
• Water gardens, ponds
• Garden Design, landscaping
• Healthy soil, fertilizers, soil amendments, etc.

Sustainable landscaping Urban Ecosystems

• Bug Gardens for Conservation Biological Control
• Green Roof Technology
• Introduction to Site Grading
• Landscape Design
• Landscape Drafting
• Microorganism Enrichment of Horticultural Media
• Plant Identification
• Rain Gardens

• Fruits, Fruit Trees
• Container Gardening, Small Space Gardening
• Garden Design, landscaping
• Special Interest Plants

• fruits and edible ornamental plants

Author of two books ('A Grower's Choice''A Place in the Rain - Designing the West Coast Garden') with a new book, 'Extraordinary Ornamental Edibles - 100 Perennials, Trees, Shrubs and …

• 'The Rare Fruit Revolution' 'Foraging the Urban Garden'

• Garden Design, landscaping

With a minor in fine arts, Nicole has developed a unique perspective that blends creativity with horticultural knowledge. As a dedicated member of the Green Thumb Horticultural Society for four …

• Installation Art: Using Plants and Flowers // After this lecture, participants will be able to: 1) Understand Installation Art 2) Learn 3 key elements of creating an art installation using plants and flowers. 3) Be inspired to create your own art installation

• Garden Insects, Bees, Butterflies, Garden Pests
• Special Interest Plants

• Hydroponics

• Beneficial Bugs
• Beneficial Fungus
• Hydroponics

• Special Interest Plants

• Daylilies
• Hostas
• Lilies

Daylilies Hostas Lilies

• Daylilies - several topics available - New introductions
• Hostas - General presentation on care, culture and best Hostas for your area
• Lilies - General presentation on the best Asiatic, Oriental, Longiflorums and Trumpet lilies
• Garden presentations - several topics available including Passions, Our Favourite Plants and more
• The evolution of Daylilies from Ancient to Modern
• The Tropical Gardens of Hawaii
• A Taste of Baltic City Gardens and Beer

• Container Gardening, Small Space Gardening
• Floral Arts, Floral Design, Flower Arrangements
• Special Interest Plants

• Flower Bulbs

Living up to our commitment of Care~Inspire~Grow Botanus is proud to offer an exciting roster of amazing presentations that are intended to inform, excite and inspire. Drawing from years of …

• Garden Insects, Bees, Butterflies, Garden Pests
• Special Interest Plants

• Earthwise Society

• Gardening for Pollinators
• Feed the Bees
• Earthwise Society's Garden & Farm

• Vegetables
• Container Gardening, Small Space Gardening
• Herbs, growing and using
• Special Interest Plants

• Orchids

Organic Gardening Reliable House/Interior Plants Vegetable Container Gardening Why do we Design Gardens Radina is now currently living in West Kelowna

• Why do we design gardens; The principles of garden design; Garden design for small spaces, medium spaces and large spaces; Garden design for the West Coast; Garden design for the 21st Century
• Garden design for the West Coast; Garden design for the 21st Century
• Container gardening by design; Container gardening for balconies/decks; Container gardening for tomatoes; Container gardening for edibles
• How to care for and re-bloom orchids at home; I promise you a Rose garden
• Art in the garden
• Most reliable interior/house plants and how to care for them
• Edible Weeds
• Flower arranging

• Garden Insects, Bees, Butterflies, Garden Pests
• Special Interest Plants

• Invasive Plants

• Invasive Plants including Japanese Knotweed
• Butterflies

• Garden Photography

Ron Long was the sciences photographer at Simon Fraser University for thirty-six years. Early in his career he developed a life long interest in plants and plant photography. Now retired …

• Death Valley Superbloom
• Flora of Five Deserts - South Africa
• The Endangered Tundra Plants of Pink Mountain BC.
• Chasing Wild Orchids and other Botanical Adventures in Western Australia
• Botany of Chile
• The Fascinating Native Flora of British Columbia
• Spring Flowers of Texas
• Flora of Southern Oregon, as well as Calochorus: The Most Beautiful Genus in the World

• Fruits, Fruit Trees
• Vegetables
• Trees, Arboretums, Arborists
• Herbs, growing and using

• Food Forestry, aka Edible Forest Gardening

Edible forest gardening - Food Forestry - is the art and science of putting plants together in woodland-like patterns that forge mutually beneficial relationships, creating a garden ecosystem that is …