Gary Lewis “The Complete Talk on Ground Covers"

Gary Lewis owns Phoenix Perennials in Richmond, BC, with over 5000 varieties of plants worldwide. Gary will highlight the functional and aesthetic uses of ground covers in the landscape, including tips and tricks for designing with ground covers to take your outdoor space to the next level and discussing the diverse ways ground covers can make gardens more sustainable. 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, and add extra layers of beauty, dynamism, and surprise. As a replacement for lawns, they can reduce our use of water, fertilizer, pesticides, herbicides, and carbon-based fuels and transform a yard into a diverse landscape of habitat and food for native insects, birds, and other wildlife.