Pollinator-Friendly Flowering Native Plant Seed Giveaway

Our Native Seed Giveaway has passed but,
seeds are only the beginning…

Grow Native Giveaway! Oaklands Sunset Market August 12, 2026

Organizations advocating for
Native Plants locally

Check out these Capital Region District-based organizations

Habitat Acquisition Trust (HAT)

HAT’s mission is to support the stewardship of eco-culturally significant lands in the southern Salish Sea region, ensuring their long-term care and contributing to biodiversity conservation and climate resiliency.

Compost Education Centre

Compost Education Centre reconnects many people, young and old, to simple, land based, resiliency practices. Our organizational practices sustain the CEC, the natural environment, and our communities. We actively work towards right relations, anti-oppression, and environmental justice in solidarity with the Indigenous peoples on whose land we work.

Lifecycles Project

Lifecycles mission is to build a resilient food system in Greater Victoria by growing, harvesting, and sharing food. Year after year, we strive to make a difference by caring for the land, empowering our community, and building momentum within the local food movement to continue to connect people with healthy food.

Satinflower Nursery

Satinflower Nurseries is an ecological native plant nursery and consulting business based on southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Satinflower is committed to growing and supporting the use of native plants for habitat restoration, ecological landscaping, and community education.

Native Plant Study Group

The Native Plant Study Group (NPSG) was formed in spring of 1993 and continues as a small volunteer group of native plant enthusiasts with a strong interest in gardening, restoration, conservation, and other cultural values of native plants.

Swan Lake Nature Sanctuary

Swan Lake Nature Sanctuary is a charitable, non-profit organization that cares for 171 acres of wetlands and Garry oak meadow. Every spring these host a Native Plant sale.

Garry Oak Meadow Preservation Society (GOMPS)

GOMPS a grassroots group passionate about preserving one of Canada’s most endangered ecosystems, the Kwetlal/Garry oak ecosystem. Our society is dedicated to the preservation, protection and restoration of Garry oak stands and their natural habitats through education, advocacy, and the supply of Garry oak nursery stock.

Pender Islands Conservancy

As a registered land trust, the Pender Islands Conservancy Association protects the rare ecosystems that make these islands special — coastal Douglas-fir forests, Garry oak meadows and wetlands that are home to plants and animals found almost nowhere else. Through land conservation we safeguard habitat for species at risk and keep these wild places thriving for the generations to come.

Pollinator Partnership Canada

Pollinator Partnership Canada (P2C) is a registered charity dedicated to the protection and promotion of pollinators and their ecosystems through conservation, education, and research. Use their native plants finder tool to discover native plants in your region.

A vibrant mixed bed of native flowering plants from coastal British Columbia, including bright red columbine, purple camas, yellow seaside goldenrod, and white yarrow, filling the foreground with rich textures and colors. The plants grow in natural drifts along a gently curving mulch path, with a low wooden fence and a distant glimpse of Victoria’s coastline in the background. Late afternoon sunlight casts a warm, golden glow, creating soft highlights on petals and leaves and gentle shadows between stems. Photographed at eye level with moderate depth of field, the flowers are in crisp focus while the background softly blurs, conveying a professional, educational mood in clean, photographic realism for a native plant guide homepage hero image.
A detailed close-up of a native bumblebee delicately visiting a cluster of purple camas flowers in full bloom, their star-shaped petals opening over slender green leaves. The scene is set in a small urban pollinator garden bed in Victoria, BC, framed by weathered cedar edging and a hint of distant townhouse rooftops, softly blurred. Gentle overcast daylight creates diffused, even lighting that enhances subtle textures on the bee’s fuzzy body and the flower’s pollen-dusted stamens. Captured with a macro, shallow depth of field composition, the bee and one flower stalk are in razor-sharp focus while the surrounding blossoms melt into creamy bokeh, evoking a calm, informative, and reverent mood toward native pollinators in a realistic, documentary photographic style.
A side-by-side garden comparison showing a small front yard space divided into two clearly separated sections. On the left, dense, messy invasive species like English ivy and Himalayan blackberry form a dark, tangled patch with little visible flowering. On the right, a thoughtfully designed planting of native flowering species such as red-flowering currant, nodding onion, and Oregon grape creates a bright, layered tapestry of blooms and varied foliage. A simple untreated wooden divider board runs between the two halves. Soft, late-morning natural light illuminates the native side more strongly, drawing the eye. Shot from a slightly elevated angle with sharp focus throughout, the composition emphasizes the stark visual contrast and educational message, in clean, professional photographic realism suitable for a “before and after” explainer image.
A focused still life of a native seed giveaway kit prepared for the August 12 event, arranged on a smooth, light wood table. Several small kraft paper seed envelopes, each marked with a simple hand-drawn icon of a specific native flower like Douglas aster or blanketflower, are fanned out beside a compact folded planting guide illustrated with diagrams instead of text. A shallow ceramic dish holds a mix of visible seeds of different sizes and colors. In the softly blurred background, a potted native flowering plant sits near a bright window. Soft, indirect afternoon light from the side creates gentle highlights on the paper texture and subtle shadows, with a clean, modern, photographic realism and a calm, organized atmosphere suited to a professional resource page.

About Us

Coastal Seeds is a project of the City of Victoria’s Local Champion program. We help Victorians choose native flowering plants that thrive with less water, support native pollinators, and replace invasive plants like foxglove, periwinkle, and Spanish bluebells. Explore photos, growing guides, and organizations advocating for drought-tolerant native plant and ecosystem restoration.

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