If you are a home gardener, strata association, or property owner needing some experienced advice, then I can help.
Either an in-person or virtual consultation can help move your landscape from feeling overwhelming to one that supports your lifestyle, all while making it more resilient to climate extremes.
In our time together, we walk the property and, along with identifying plants and weeds, we discuss how your property can evolve to align better with your time and energy resources.
* All rates include tax and In-Person consultations include travel within West Kelowna and Kelowna; travel fees apply to further distances
**please note that accurate plant and noxious weed identification is best done in-person
Option 1: In-person Holistic Consultation – 1.5hrs $195
Includes:
- Design advice tailored to your goals
- Ideas for adapting your property to be more drought-tolerant, FireSmart, and sustainable in the long term
- Identification of existing plants and plant recommendations if desired
- Suggestions for how to capture and redistribute rainwater throughout the landscape
- Ways to improve the soil to support plant health
- Options for alleviating any excess heat, water or wind on your property
- If desired, vegetable garden coaching or Regenerative (Permaculture) suggestions for how to grow food and increase the productivity of your landscape so that the benefits produced are more than the resources required to maintain it
- Recommendations for next steps
Option 2: Virtual Holistic Land Consultation – 2 hours $195
Combined with satellite imagery, we do a virtual walk-through of your property.
Includes:
- Everything in the In-Person package apart from plant I.D
- Screen-shared visuals and reference images where applicable
- Video recording of our session
Choose Option 1 or 2 plus Report – $485:
Includes: Everything from either Option 1 or 2 plus a report of the relevant take-aways from our time together, which can include:
- Plant recommendations and which nurseries stock them, along with plant images and their botanical names for easy recognition
- Recommended materials and where to buy them
- Compost and fertilization recipes and, conversely, removal or management suggestions for noxious weeds
- Recommended planting and mulching techniques, types and depths (especially important for trees and endemic (native) plants
- A ‘further reading’ resource list
- Especially useful for construction elements or for integrating any recommended rainwater harvesting structures such as dry creek beds, 1000L tanks, wicking beds, contour swales (along with low-tech surveying options), and mulch basins
- Guidance on the next steps to move your project forward
Whether your property is a balcony, an existing landscape, untouched land, or a newly developed property, I can help ease the learning curve, so that you can spend less time making mistakes and more time creating a beautiful, bountiful garden.