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Emony Nicholls’
Ecological Garden
Consulting & Design


Ecological
Garden Design

Supporting local ecosystems by creating & nurturing habitats in our own backyards.

From the blog…

  • Plant Profile: Kinnickinnik (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi)

    Plant Profile: Kinnickinnik (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi)

    Kinnickinnik Trailing, mat-forming Evergreen Shrub Common names: BearberryLatin Name: Arctostaphylos uva-ursiPlant Family: Ericaceae Zone: 2-6  BEC Zones: AT, BAFA, BG, BWBS, CDF, CMA, CWH, ESSF, ICH, IDF, IMA, MH, MS, PP, SBPS, SBS, SWBHeight: Up to 20cmWidth: 1-2m+ Conditions Sun: Full sun to…

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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.