Nature’s Garden
Wooly Sunflower
This month, the Sooke Garden Club had booked Kristen Miskelly as the speaker. Kristen is the co-founder of Saanich Native Plants, a native plant and seed nursery that aims to inspire and empower people to restore and conserve nature by providing native plants, seeds, and education. She will highlight a suite of native plants suited to a variety of conditions and offer examples of drought-tolerant, deer-resistant and edible plants. Kristen will explain how gardening with native plants can help maintain local biodiversity, including the wildlife that depends on our native flora.
Kristen Miskelly has a masters of science in biology from the University of Victoria and specializes in the botany and ecology of southeastern Vancouver Island. She also helps coordinate the Haliburton Biodiversity Project and is on the Steering Committee for the Cascadia Prairie Oak Partnership.