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Shopping for local plants makes your garden greener
Most of us are conscious of the benefits a 100-mile diet can have on the freshness of the produce, the health of the environment and the strength of the local economy. Organizers of Eat & Drink BC, a celebration of British Columbian food growers, distributors and restaurants, estimate that local eating can re-circulate as much as 90 cents of every dollar back into B.C.’s economy.
Amazingly, B.C. is home to nearly 1,200 nurseries – that’s more than 31 per cent of Canada’s nursery, sod and Christmas tree production. Add more than 600 British Columbian greenhouses producing potted and cut floral products, and it’s easy to see that a 100-mile garden is something you can strive for too!
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B.C.’s first nursery farms sprouted on Vancouver and Salt Spring Islands, and in the Okanagan during the mid-1880s. Today, B.C. is the second largest producer of nursery stock in Canada, and the range of crops grown is staggering. At your local garden centre, you can find trees, shrubs, hundreds of roses, perennials, annuals, grasses, groundcovers, fruit trees and berry bushes, and Christmas trees all originating from a B.C. nursery. Garden centre staff can help you identify which items are locally grown, and all plant tags denote country (or province) of origin.