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Let Your Garden Come Alive
LEARN•LEAP•LOVE•LIBERATE
A pollinator garden with native plants brings joy, wonder and awe
Native plants and wildlife have co-evolved and developed symbiotic relationships to create a complex and miraculously intelligent system of life. By matching the right native plants to the place you care for, you provide food and shelter for many creatures, and will see biodiversity unfold in front of your eyes.
Your pollinator garden not only increases biodiversity but also draws significantly more carbon into the soil and allows the soil to soak up astonishingly more rain. Therefore, it counteracts climate change and biodiversity loss and brings hope.
I help you unlearn and learn quickly in a fun and eye-opening way. By reconnecting our shared human memories of stewardship to the marvels of self-healing natural systems, you will enjoy a lavish garden and rediscover fascinating beauty - including your wild side - in no time.
Take Action!
Change your garden - change the world
Get an In-Garden Consultation
TO FAST TRACK YOUR SUCCESS
CREATING A BEAUTIFUL POLLINATOR GARDEN
A Pollinator Garden is a Feel-Good Garden
Go on a vacation right in your garden.
Experience the sweet scent of vanilla, luxurious colours and outrageous colour combinations, a relaxing soundscape, long bloom times and always someone visiting, if bee, bird, butterfly or curious neighbour.
Fall In-Garden Consultation
I visit your garden and help you choose native plants that will thrive in your garden conditions. Fall is a great time because most plants are present. This gives you a great idea of the space you can work with. You can use all winter to gather ideas and create a plan.
I will also point out invasive or aggressive plants that you might not have noticed.
Less maintenance since native plants are adapted to our climate:
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Less watering once the plants are established and planted in the right place
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Less weeding
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Less mowing means less noise & pollution
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No fertilizer need
Brings back biodiversity:
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Contributes to conservation efforts
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Beneficial insects and birds create a balanced and vibrant ecosystem
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Heals the soil
Climate change solution:
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Sequesters significantly more carbon than lawns
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Helps to restore the natural water cycle
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Less fossil fuel inputs
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Greater cooling effects mitigate urban heat islands.
Financial benefits:
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A beautiful pollinator garden increases curb appeal
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Better pollination increases the yield and quality of your vegetables, fruits and nuts
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Deeper root systems lower the flood risk
Health benefits:
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Stress relief
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We are hard-wired to enjoy a deeper connection to the natural beauty and processes.
By creating a pollinator garden using native plants, you allow life to unfold again how nature intended it: exuberant, beautiful, and full of intelligent relations.
A Pollinator Garden benefits everyone!
Native Plant Sale 2026
Thank you, wonderful people, for adding so many native plants to your gardens and creating habitat. We had a lot of fun together. I appreciate all your support.
I offer fall garden consultations to get ready for next spring.
The online order will reopen in December for pick up at Kingston Road and St. Clair East
in May, 2026.
In the meanwhile you can use the shop as a planning tool, to learn about native plants or to stay sane on a dark snowy winter day. I will update the shop with more pictures and information throughout the winter.
POLLINATORS· SOIL·NATIVE PLANTS
Inspirational Presentations
Book a Presentation, Talk or Workshop
for 2025/26 for your Garden Club, Event, Company, or School
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How to Create a Pollinator Garden
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Garden Maintenance with Pollinators in Mind
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Soil and the Health of Your Plants
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Increase your Vegetable Yields with Native Plants
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Seed Sowing and Growing Workshop
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Custom workshops and talks
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and more...
The right presentation for your occasion
I am passionate about empowering people to take simple yet effective actions and make a positive environmental impact to counteract biodiversity loss and climate change.
In my talks, I show how our disconnect from nature affects human mental and physical health and is the underlying cause of our environmental crisis. With engaging and beautiful photos, I share my love and respect for the beauty and intelligence of nature.
I inspire with enthusiasm and guide and educate with storytelling and practical step-by-step information to ignite action within communities and organizations.
Butterflies in my Toronto Pollinator Garden
Ever Wondered Which Microorganisms Are in Your Compost or Soil?Find Out With A
Biological Soil Exploration
GET SOME FUN PICTURES OF MICROORGANISMS WORKING IN YOUR SOIL OR COMPOST
What You Get:
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400 x magnified digital pictures of microorganisms in your soil/compost.
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Information about the function of the organisms in your soil with an easy-to-understand explanation of their role in your garden.
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Information on which microorganisms are missing and the implications.
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Simple to follow techniques to improve your soil.
Nutrient Cycling is Key to Fertile Soil!
The soil must be alive to be the foundation of a healthy and low-maintenance garden. Living organisms, such as bacteria, fungi, protozoa, amoebae, and nematodes, are crucial for nutrient cycling, which means providing plants with the proper nutrients at all times. Fungal hyphae in symbiosis with plant roots can make your garden more self-sufficient. As an extension of plant roots, the symbiotic fungal networks make plants more resilient to drought. And fungi, as chemical wizards, will supply the plants with the required nutrients. It turns out that traditional chemical soil tests and determining the pH of soil don't provide the information needed for a holistic garden approach.
As a powerful climate solution, fungi store carbon longer and in higher concentrations in their hyphae in the soil than plants in their tissue. Even in your garden, you can create conditions to promote the underground network of fungi through less, but more thoughtful, maintenance practices, and you will help counteract climate change. As a side effect, the soil chemistry will change, bringing your garden into a more advanced successional state, which will prevent weeds from thriving.
