Ecological
Garden Design
Creating sustainable and biodiverse outdoor spaces through native plants and eco-friendly practices.
Welcome to ecologicalgardening.ca – a place for information and resources about anything and everything related to ecological gardening!
We can support the environment right now by creating thriving habitats in our yards and other outdoor spaces. I’m so excited to share with you what I’ve learned during my 25+ year experience as a biologist and consultant. Through the blog I share knowledge about topics like drought tolerant planting, native bee habitats, rain water harvesting, and much more!
– Emony
Supporting local ecosystems by creating & nurturing habitats in our own backyards.
From the blog…
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Invasive Shiny Geranium
In recent years, the small ground-covering invasive annual called “Shiny Geranium” (Geranium lucidum) has been spreading on Salt Spring Island. Patches of the weed are currently found on Quarry Drive Park, at the corner of Lower Ganges Road and Booth Canal, on…
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Keeping Mason Bees on the Cheap
Purchasing a ready-made mason bee house can be an expensive proposition, ranging from approximately $50-100…
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Plant Profile: Oregon Gumweed (Grindelia stricta)
Grindelia stricta, member of the Asteraceae family is a tough and adaptable plant, ideal on…
Passionate About Pollination
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.
