Gary Lewis
“The Complete Talk on Ground Covers”
Thursday October 3, 2024
Whatcom Museum • 121 Prospect Street
7:30pm • Doors open at 7
Tickets: $10 Members • $15 General
Online ticket sales are closed, please pay at the door.
“If ever thought that 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
In this lecture, 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, along with adding extra layers of beauty, dynamism, and surprise. As a replacement for lawns, they can reduce our use of water, fertilizer and pesticides, and transform a yard into a diverse landscape and habitat. Gary will include tips and tricks for designing with ground covers to take your outdoor space to the next level.
While completing a Master of Science degree in Botany, Gary became the owner of Phoenix Perennials. This dynamic, award-winning, destination nursery in Richmond, BC, has over 5000 different plants, many of which are grown there from plant material sourced from around the world. Gary is an avid traveler and leads botanical tours to Europe, New Zealand, South Africa, and Australia. His book, The Complete Book of Ground Covers, will be for sale at our lecture. https://www.phoenixperennials.com/
