At Almost Wild Horticulture, we believe in saving the planet one garden at a time. Through ecological horticulture, we bring gardens to life.
With an emphasis on the beauty and diversity of plant life, at Almost Wild, we take great measures to constantly improve our gardening practices and utilize your space in the most beautiful and gentle way possible.
We give your garden the love it needs by keeping it tidy where it needs to be and messy where it needs to be, seasonally aligned, and detailed. Whether it’s pruning, weeding, amending, transplanting, or dividing, you name it, we maintain it while balancing the needs of nature with modern aesthetic concerns.
We renovate existing gardens and design and install new ones. With native, edible plants and eco-friendly landscapes, we take your garden from mess to miracle. Water is a vital component to any ecosystem. With wetlands disappearing and being developed we strive to bring a water element into all gardens.
Through public and private education courses and workshops, we provide a detailed garden management plan for you and your organization. When we’re done, you’ll have the tools and techniques to garden on your own.
We aim to bring more beauty and diversity to people, wildlife, and the planet through gardening, design and installation, and education.
By fostering dwindling insect and bird populations, finding a balance between order and chaos, and using regenerative and restorative techniques, we’re saving the planet one garden at a time.
For over 10 years, Almost Wild’s founder has worked as a gardener and developer and educator. As a Red Seal Landscape Horticulturist and long-time teacher at Pacific Horticulture College, Adam is passionate about improving the environment through education and ecological horticulture.
All the employees at Almost Wild are PHC college grads and passionate about improving the natural environment. As horticulturalists, we’re constantly evaluating garden practices and looking for ways to do it better while keeping the client and planet in mind. We aim to combine beauty and diversity in our gardens with maintenance that fits your needs and contributes to the edible and diverse landscape. We love working with anyone and everyone from individuals to large organizations doing anything from maintaining gardens, to developing and installing entire landscapes.
With a focus on regenerating and renovating the landscape to fit the seasons and natural environment, we love to install, redesign, and develop plant ecosystems that thrive in any area. It’s exciting to see gardens come to life, watch birds and insects find their home, and provide people with a quiet place to rest and recharge.
We also get a lot of meaning out of “teaching people to fish to feed them for a lifetime,” or in our case, teaching people to garden to feed them and the planet for a lifetime. That’s why we carry out online and in-person public workshops and courses for schools, companies, organizations, and individuals looking to learn more about gardening and get more in touch with their environment.
By sharing the tools and techniques to create and sustain a diverse and seasonally appropriate garden, people can create their own oasis and food sources for humans and critters for generations to come.
Landscapes should be rich in life and beauty. Our gardens can be beautiful to us and wildlife. This means creating thriving habitats, while finding balance between traditional and ecological gardening practices. Traditional methods of scraping our garden beds bare to remove every leaf deprives vital habitat for insects and food sources for our dwindling bird populations. An overly-tidy garden is no friend to nature. At Almost Wild Horticulture we will find the right balance for you. Maybe this means keeping the front yard quite formal and tidy, while allowing the backyard to be a little more wild. We’ll develop a boutique approach that makes you happy while you watch your landscape come alive.
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We enjoy discussing horticulture with anyone. We would love to come meet and discuss your landscape and give some free advice – even if you don’t hire us! We just want to spread the planet-saving strategies involved in ecological horticulture. If you would like a more formal consultation then we can meet for a more lengthy discussion. We would provide you with a guide for maintaining or improving your garden, identifying every plant and giving detailed instructions on how to complete the work.
We have many years of teaching experience and are always excited to have the opportunity to educate others. We’ve taught other gardening company’s employees, individuals and the public on a wide variety of subjects. We can teach you right in your own garden! Get in touch and we can put together a lesson that fits your needs.
Victoria, Oak Bay, Uplands, Saanich and Pender Island.
