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“If you ever thought ground covers were simply a utilitarian strategy for covering dirt and outpacing weeds, you would have been awestruck by our speaker, Gary Lewis!” Poco Garden Club Newsletter.
Gary will highlight the functional and aesthetic uses of ground covers in the landscape, including tips and tricks for designing with ground covers to take your outdoor space to the next level and discussing the diverse ways ground covers can make gardens more sustainable. You’ll see photographs from gardens on four continents and an amazing array of different plants, styles, and designs. Ground covers offer a diverse range of beautiful and intriguing options with a variety of colors, textures, and forms. They can unify a landscape, knit together plantings and hardscape, and add extra layers of beauty, dynamism, and surprise. As a replacement for lawns, they can reduce our use of water, fertilizer, pesticides, herbicides, carbon-based fuels, and transform a yard into a diverse landscape of habitat and food for native insects, birds, and other wildlife.
Gary Lewis has had a lifelong passion for plants. While completing a Master of Science degree in Botany, Gary became the owner of Phoenix Perennials on his 28th birthday. Since that time he has greatly expanded the business into a dynamic, award-winning, destination nursery in Richmond, BC. with over 5000 different plants a year, many of which are grown at Phoenix Perennials from plant material sourced from around the world.
Gary is an avid traveler and leads botanical tours to Europe, New Zealand, South Africa, and Western Australia. His book, The Complete Book of Groundcovers, will be for sale at our lecture. https://www.phoenixperennials.com/
