Creating Climate-Resilient Landscapes

This Creating Climate-Resilient Landscapes workshop, hosted by the Okanagan Xeriscape Association, is designed to educate, inspire and connect landscape professionals with like-minded organizations in the Okanagan.

Climate resilience must include water conservation and resistance to fire, using plant materials that have adapted to ever more frequent and intense drought and heat, as well as extreme cold.

The workshop will cover these topics presented by well-known experts with experience in the Okanagan climate:

• The principles of xeriscape for landscape professionals (optional Breakfast session)
• The changing Okanagan climate and the need to embrace xeriscape
• New xeriscape plants and nursery industry updates
• Tree root defects and management at planting: A hands-on, interactive session
• The Qualified Water Efficient Landscaper (QWEL) program
• Inviting pollinators and creating meadow landscapes
• Drought-tolerant tree selection
• Regenerative landscaping
• FireSmart landscaping

It's the best opportunity of the year to:

• Hear the latest science from Okanagan experts
• Ask questions and network before the season begins
• Learn practical information to improve your landscaping practice for the coming year
• Take your design of climate-resilient landscapes to the next level - improve customer satisfaction for the future

OXA is offering this full-day workshop at the low price of $55 thanks to the tremendous support from our partners - Okanagan Basin Water Board, the City of Kelowna and the City of Kelowna Fire Department. Industry sponsors are Sawchuk Developments, Foxglove Nurseries and the Kelowna Rotary Clubs.

*BRING YOUR ENTIRE TEAM! If you purchase 10 or more tickets, we will lower the price even further. Please contact: [email protected] for further details, to ask any questions, or to arrange invoicing or e-transfers.

"Thank you for this workshop, it was full of factual information about the effects of climate change, new info about drought-tolerant plants, inspiring views of other dry landscapes."

"To me the most valuable takeaway was the sense of collegiality gained knowing there are people passionate about improving landscape practices in the Okanagan."

** Coffee and Lunch are provided.

Host or Publisher Okanagan Xeriscape Association