Virtual Gardening Series: Native Plants for the Urban Landscape
Channel: Vancouver Island Regional Library
Date: 2021-08-17

In this seminar we take an in-depth look at some of our beautiful native plants, their growing needs, and their uses in the home garden.
Many native are useful for borders along garden beds, planted as an under-storey and they can be useful as feature shrubs and trees. These plants are well adapted to our environment. Several varieties are both wet and drought tolerant making them useful for erosion control and road side plantings. Given their hardy diversity they are an environmentally wise choice for the gardener to consider.. Presented by Dorothee Kieser of Vancouver Island Master Gardeners Association in Nanaimo, BC.

Dorothee Kieser has been a certified Master Gardener for 12 years. She brings to the library seminars her scientific approach (from her career as a biologist) as well as a wealth of experience from her own extensive home orchards, vegetable, flower, and rhododendron gardens. In addition to her volunteer work with the Master Gardeners Dorothee is an active member the Beban Learning Garden (a large, local community garden which features a greenhouse), and has given numerous seminars on many gardening topics to gardening clubs and associations. Dorothee is a one of the chapter’s mentors to our new members, serves as Vice President for the Vancouver Island Master Gardener Chapter and is part of the steering committee who ensures high standards are kept for our basic training program at VIU.