Sunshine Coast Botanical Garden Society

Sunshine Coast Botanical Garden Society A Pacific Northwest botanical garden. 40 acres to explore with extensive native plant gardens

It’s a stunning day for a frosty walk. The Garden is open until 4 pm today. Admission is $5 and free for members. Bund...
01/17/2025

It’s a stunning day for a frosty walk. The Garden is open until 4 pm today. Admission is $5 and free for members. Bundle up and come for a stroll!

Today was the first time our Clean Team has met since we learned of the passing of our dear friend Al Erlenbusch. Over ...
01/17/2025

Today was the first time our Clean Team has met since we learned of the passing of our dear friend Al Erlenbusch. Over the years, Al was a member of the Clean Team, he participated in work parties and selling Christmas trees, and volunteered for just about everything else you could imagine. He was known for his collection of quirky CDs (who could forget "Oy to the World" blasting away at our Christmas events?). He will be remembered for his kindness and willingness to lend a hand. Today, we toasted him amid tears, smiles, and laughter at his antics. Our thoughts go out to his family in this time.

We are all reaching for a bit of this glorious sunshine today!
01/12/2025

We are all reaching for a bit of this glorious sunshine today!

01/08/2025

Our thoughts are with the staff and volunteers at the Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden today as they deal with the threat from the Eaton Canyon wildfire. We sincerely hope all are kept safe.

While the rest of us are busy packing away remnants of the holidays and doing our first clean-up of 2025, we found our l...
01/06/2025

While the rest of us are busy packing away remnants of the holidays and doing our first clean-up of 2025, we found our lead gardener Sean potting up some cuttings of Vaccinium ovatum (Evergreen huckleberry).

When the property for the Sunshine Coast Botanical Garden was purchased 15 years ago, the first garden created was the V...
12/31/2024

When the property for the Sunshine Coast Botanical Garden was purchased 15 years ago, the first garden created was the Veggie Garden. It served as a demonstration for horticultural methods, a way to garner volunteer support, and grow food for the Food Bank. This volunteer-led project is still going strong, and producing more than ever, and it is long overdue for a makeover! 🥕🥬🥦

This year's holiday campaign is dedicated to the Veggie Garden with a goal of $45,000 for this revamp. With your support and that of a generous donor who has offered to match all gifts made until midnight tonight, we can meet our target!
Click through to look back at the Veggie Garden's journey over 15 years and some of the many hands who have helped it to grow. We hope it inspires you to give today! https://mailchi.mp/aff96258ebc9/2024-holiday-campaign-email-then-and-now-6418099?e=cd244b187c

Ears up if you're looking forward to our Hair of the Dog Day! January 1st from 11 am - 4 pm we welcome you and your fur...
12/30/2024

Ears up if you're looking forward to our Hair of the Dog Day! January 1st from 11 am - 4 pm we welcome you and your furry companions for a stroll around the Garden. Please be sure to pick up after your pooches and keep them on a leash at all times. Admission by donation.

We wanted to share a few more photos from last weekend’s Solstice Celebration. What a relief it was to see the rain ease...
12/29/2024

We wanted to share a few more photos from last weekend’s Solstice Celebration. What a relief it was to see the rain ease off and the clouds part to reveal the stars. ✨ The days get brighter from here!

Thank you to Lenore Rowntree, Tracy Chessa, and Julia Booth for sharing their photos with us!

This season calls us to slow down and reflect, to be grateful for what the year has brought us, and be hopeful for what ...
12/25/2024

This season calls us to slow down and reflect, to be grateful for what the year has brought us, and be hopeful for what is still ahead. Those of us here at the Garden have much to be grateful for.

✨ WISHES FOR FRIENDS & FAMILY
✨ WISHES FOR THE WORLD
✨ WISHES FOR THE WOODS
✨ AND WISHES FOR THE FISHES

On the first day of winter, we invited the community to the Garden to celebrate the winter solstice with us. There was storytelling, music by the fire, and a lantern procession outside under the stars. We encouraged visitors to write down their hopes to be dropped into baskets along the way. As it turns out, we want many of the same things. Here’s a sample:
“I wish for community health & joy”
“To be together.”
“I wish that all the children in the world get to live in peace.”
“Food for everyone. Freedom and safety and peace.”
“I wish there was more owls. I only saw 1.”
“I wish the trees and all that lives may find health, sun, water & air.”
“No more forest fires”
“I wish the forest doesn’t get cut down because the owls live in there.”
“I wish for less pollution for healthy fish.”
“For the fishes: Clean water. Less fishing. More protection.”

Our wish for you this holiday season is abundance of all things, especially peace, joy, love, and rest - and owls.

Thank you for all of your support this year.

Season’s greetings from the small but mighty Garden staff. We’ll be open again at 11 am Friday, December 27th.
12/24/2024

Season’s greetings from the small but mighty Garden staff. We’ll be open again at 11 am Friday, December 27th.

12/18/2024

The Pavilion was filled with the sounds of music on Monday evening when Suncoast Phoenix Community Choir performed their annual Sing Out. The concert started and finished with the audience singing along to many seasonal favourites, including the ever-popular 12 Days of Christmas. Toes are still tapping days later!

We’ve had a busy week of year end gatherings and celebrations with a few of our volunteer teams. Our Board met Tuesday, ...
12/13/2024

We’ve had a busy week of year end gatherings and celebrations with a few of our volunteer teams. Our Board met Tuesday, our Potters and Clean Team joined forces for lunch on Wednesday, and yesterday our Veggie volunteers held their annual debrief. All of the folks generously give their time to the Garden and we couldn’t be more grateful. We’re always on the lookout for new volunteers so please reach out if you’d like to help.

Our thoughts today are with the family of our dear friend Barbara Cook. Barbara and her late husband Alleyne donated sc...
12/12/2024

Our thoughts today are with the family of our dear friend Barbara Cook. Barbara and her late husband Alleyne donated scores of species Rhododendrons and countless understory plants to our garden over the years, and delighted to hear how they were thriving. She was an amazing woman and one of the most compassionate people we've ever met. Barbara passed away last week with family at her side. She will be sorely missed.

We've been reminiscing over old photos of the Garden's 15-year journey, finding gems like this one from December 2008. H...
12/10/2024

We've been reminiscing over old photos of the Garden's 15-year journey, finding gems like this one from December 2008. Here's Mary, the Garden's manager, and 'Guppy the Cow' from the farm next door who often wandered over, clearly convinced that the grass was greener on the other side.

Throughout December, we'll share some of these photos with you as part of this year's holiday campaign. Our goal: raise $45,000 for a revamp of our volunteer-run Veggie Garden which grows food for the Food Bank and other food programs. The new, raised, steel garden beds are set to arrive in February! 🥦🥬🥕🥔

A generous donor has offered to match all gifts made to this campaign until December 31st!

https://give-can.keela.co/2024-Holiday-Donate-to-the-Garden

The Garden has seen incredible transformation since its early days and there is still lots of change to come! We hope you will join us with your support. 💚

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5941 Mason Road
Sechelt, BC

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Monday 11am - 4pm
Friday 11am - 4pm
Saturday 11am - 4pm
Sunday 11am - 4pm

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The Pavilion was filled with the sounds of music on Monday evening when Suncoast Phoenix Community Choir performed their annual Sing Out. The concert started and finished with the audience singing along to many seasonal favourites, including the ever-popular 12 Days of Christmas. Toes are still tapping days later!

These Pine siskins have been swarming throughout the Garden all day today. A highlight was one of three youngsters (approx. age 6) visiting today who shared their knowledge with us, “I think that they fly like that to stay safe from other big birds that want to get them.” Safety in numbers, folks. #FutureBirders

We are halfway through September and the Garden is lush and full! Come see what’s in bloom or join us for today’s pruning workshop with arborist, Cheryl Topping at 2pm. Admission by donation at the door (suggested $10-$15)

We are still coming down from the high of Fiesta Botanica! What a party! Thank you to all who came to celebrate the Garden's 15th anniversary with us. To our sponsors, community partners, and volunteers, we are so grateful for your help to make this event happen.

We peeped in to see Patrick of @soundwerks.ca doing sound check ahead of Amber & Mackenzie’s wedding here at the Garden yesterday. What a beautiful ceremony it was - many congratulations to the newlyweds (we’re so glad the sun turned up for you 😅)!

A momentary pause on our stroll through the Rainforest Grove this morning - seems the Warbling Vireo, Song Sparrow, Swainson’s Thrush, and Pacific Wren have tagged along. 🔊🎶 #sunshinecoastbc

It's Potato-planting time! Veggie Garden volunteers, Kelly, Paula, Bruce, and Ursula took advantage of the warm sunny weather last week to plant certified organic potatoes from Pemberton Seed Potatoes. Big thanks to Jean Hamilton for this generous donation to our Veggie Garden!

We found Nola, one of our gardeners on staff, working away in our Pollinator Garden. Here she shares with us her favourite flower in bloom right now: Ribes sanguineum (Red Flowering Currant). Come see this deciduous shrub for yourself at the Garden and learn here why Nola’s such a big fan!

Hello March. In like a lion, out like a lamb? Let’s hope.

Lots of fallen tree branches sporting white tresses here at the Garden this morning! ‘Hair Ice’—or “Santa’s beard!” as some visiting kids called it—is made up of ultra fine strands of ice that sprout from decaying wood of broadleaf trees. There needs to be the presence of fungus, a lot of humidity in the air and below freezing temperatures for this phenomenon to occur!

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