Virtual Gardening Series: Climate Change - What it Means & How to Cope
Channel: Vancouver Island Regional Library
Date: 2022-03-16

Our climate is changing, and this fact poses some real challenges for our landscapes. Studies show that many simple gardening techniques can help slow and stabilize this change. Jo will explain the basics of how climate change is affecting Vancouver Island, then focus on practical methods for coping, including water smart, protecting plants during sudden weather events, creating biodiversity, and choosing resilient cultivars.

Jo-Ann Canning is a third generation gardener, who learned from her mother at the family home on Vancouver’s West Side, from her grandparents on their  Fraser Valley truck farm. She draws on over 50 years experience of gardening in climates as diverse as Nova Scotia, the UK, the American Southwest and Rocky Mountains, British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast, and Vancouver Island. In 1996, she received her certification with the Master Gardeners Association of BC. Her articles and photographs are published in local and international magazines, and on the Association’s website.