Site visits and Plans
Do you want to make your property a haven for butterflies, dragonflies, birds and other pollinators. Book a site visit with a naturalization expert. During these visits, we will provide you with advice and recommendations to improve the health of your property and help you design a nature-friendly pond, pollinator area or entire garden using the Watersheds Canada Natural Edge app.
If planting is recommended and you decide to move forward with a naturalization project, we can offer you all the resources you need to get started including a Starter Kit and a customized planting plan,
For $495.00, landowners purchasing the starter kit will receive:
- Site visit
- Customized re-naturalization planting plan for your shoreline property including plant lists for each zone, cost breakdowns, and plant descriptions
- 50 wildflowers or 10 potted plants
- Plant Care Guide with instructions on how to take care of your new plants
- Habitat Creation Guide
- Wildflower Garden Guide
Note that mileage fees will apply
Contact us for bookings starting in July. (Best planting times are in autumn)
This program has been enhanced thanks to the amazing "Natural Edge" platform of our partner:
Not ready for a site visit? Book an online consultation
You can get advise over zoom for a $225.00, including choice plants, how to address issues such as geese, erosion and more. If you want to go further, take $100.00 off the cost of the consultation if you book to receive a full site visit and plan!
Workshops and Group Events
Join seasoned experts with over 20 years’ experience in naturalizing, restoring, and designing native pollinator and shoreland gardens across Ontario.
These workshops may be in person within a venue and classroom setting, or provided on Zoom.
Workshops are $40 per attendee with a minimum attendance of 10.
Advertising costs can be shared by the attending group and the charity.
Have pictures of your shore, septic area or naturalization zone ready at the workshops, to receive custom designs tailored to these areas, and use your site for discussions and demonstrations to the group.
Learn about plants, design aspects, lighting effects. Choose colours, heights, areas and more. Landowners can also take part in case studies here, to learn from other examples.
Topics covered in the workshops include:
- Permits
- Native plants
- Increasing biodiversity and functions (pollinators, birds, fish habitat improvement etc.)
- Invasive species
- Erosion control*
- Nuisance goose control
- Limiting nutrient runoff
- Erosion considerations
- Plant species preferences
- Design aesthetics
- Step-by-step design
*Please note that erosion control may be discussed at sessions, but erosion control designs will not be developed in these workshops. Instead they will require onsite site visits