Meeting Activities: Speaker, Seed Exchange

Guest Speaker: Sean James

Topic: Texture Workhorses:  Sedges and Grasses

Only recently appreciated, grasses offer interest throughout the year, increase biodiversity and offer sound and movement.  Their close relatives, sedges, are indispensable in the fast-growing area of rain gardens.  Horizons will be broadened!

Bio:

Named by GardenMaking magazine as one of “20 Making a Difference” and by Landscape Ontario as the 2020 and 2021’s Garden Communicator of the Year, Sean has been gardening professionally since he was sixteen and speaking to horticultural societies for almost 35 years. Sean owns ‘Sean James Consulting Design’.
Gardening has been Sean James’ passion and profession for over 40 years.

A graduate of Niagara Parks School of Horticulture, a Master Gardener, writer, and teacher, Sean focuses on eco-gardening techniques. He has spoken at events from the Maritimes to Seattle and landscaped from Switzerland to California. Sean had the honour of being part of creating the new Ontario Landscape Tree Planting Guide, the Grow-Me-Instead guide, the Ontario Horticultural Apprenticeship Curriculum, the national Red Seal Occupational Standard, and the Master Gardeners Reference Manual. He has chaired the Environmental Stewardship Committee for Landscape Ontario and the Environmental Committee for the Perennial Plant Association and been featured on radio and television, including filling in for Paul Zammit occasionally on CBC’s ‘The Gardening Show’.