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Trish Symons

Is it time to update your garden?
Do you have what it takes to say goodbye to the plants and practices you have outgrown?
It takes COURAGE and CONVICTION!
Perhaps this talk will encourage you to do what needs to be done.
Trish was inspired by a presentation given at the Toronto Botanical Gardens by Thomas Hobbs, author of The Jewel Box Garden and Shocking Beauty in May of 2004 to create this presentation.

After retiring as a high school principal Trish wanted to share her passion for gardening and photography. She and her hubby Bill have a 166 acre farm on the Niagara Escarpment. Trish is a horticultural, design and rose judge. She hosts garden tours in her 3 acre garden overlooking Hockley Valley to help promote diversity and organic gardening practices.  Bill gets to play with the other 163 acres. Trish enjoys teaching floral design classes, photography workshops and presenting twenty-three different keynote/ PowerPoint shows on gardening. She creates between 50 to 100 planters each year for her decks. Her newest passion is building containers filled with succulent plants and collecting small conifers. She claims to be expert on nothing, but enthusiastic and well versed about most things related to gardening and has been booked extensively for the past 24 year to share her ideas and experiences.