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We thoughtfully create and care for gardens throughout the Cowichan Valley and Southern Vancouver Island, helping you to enjoy your outdoor spaces more.

Our Services

  • Garden maintenance services in Cowichan Valley

    Garden Maintenance

    Highly skilled and knowledgeable garden maintenance services, with a focus on plant and soil health.

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  • Garden installation and design services in Cowichan Valley

    Installation and Design

    Professional design and project coordination services, and quality installation to help you achieve your garden vision.

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  • Fruit tree pruning service in Cowichan Valley

    Fruit Tree Pruning

    Pruning services to optimize the health and production of your fruit trees.

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  • Seasonal Planting & Design

    Add more colour, fun, and seasonality to your garden or planters.

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We specialize in:

Low water-use gardens

Gardens with seasonal interest and plant diversity

Deer-resistant plant selection

Technical pruning, plant health, disease/pest diagnosis

Plant procurement and sourcing unusual and large plant material

Small tree pruning

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What Our Clients Say

  • "Monica has been working in my very large mature perennial garden now for over 5 years. She has helped rejuvenate several areas of the garden both with design and installation. She has a sound knowledge of plant behavior and what plants look good together. She is an excellent shrub pruner and has good eye for how a shrub should look. I highly recommend her to anyone who needs a highly qualified person whom they can trust to do an excellent job."

    Colleen MacGregor

  • "Knowledge, energy, and friendliness sum up Monica and her Dockerty Gardens team. We have a mature and diverse group of gardens, many with unusual plants. Monica quickly identified them and understood the environment and the care they needed to flourish. She and her team work hard to help maintain existing gardens and to prepare new ground for expansion."

    Robert and Susan Stitt, Birdsong Gardens

  • "Monica was recommended to me by a longtime friend whom Monica had been helping with her garden for a few years. A busy work schedule had left me with a sense of anxiety and dread instead of joy when I looked at my garden. She has a wonderful knack for working with the bones of the garden and restructuring and reusing plants. I can feel and share her sense of joy and creativity now throughout the seasons. I now get to look forward to coming home after work to walk through our shared version of paradise and to sitting down and savoring the beauty and peace."

    Rachel Barton

  • From the moment Monica responded to our request, "would she be interested and available to design a small front and backyard garden?, I was impressed with her professionalism, her ideas and her process. She listened to what we described we wanted and created a beautiful oasis that far exceeded what we had imagined.

    Debbie Erickson