View Royal Garden Club Fall Show - Flowers, Fruit & Vegetables!
2026-09-19 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Toronto) | Esquimalt United Church, Wheeley Hall, 500 Lyall Street, Victoria, BC, Canada
Your $5 admission includes door prize tickets, refreshments & entrance to the show. To shop for plants no entry fee is required. Accredited BC Judges—Non-members are welcome to exhibit! For the show schedule, check our website https://viewroyalgardenclub.ca or for Exhibit Info Call (250) 858-9568

Native Plant Workshop at Swan Lake
2026-09-24 15:00 - 18:00, 2026-09-25 12:00 - 15:00, 2026-10-16 12:00 - 15:00, 2026-10-17 12:00 - 15:00 | Swan Lake Christmas Hill Nature Sanctuary, 3873 Swan Lake Road, Victoria, BC, Canada
Capital region residents are invited to attend an introductory workshop about gardening with drought-resistant native plants!

You will learn about:

native plant identification

an overview of the cultural history & ecological benefits of native plants

a tour of the Swan Lake Christmas Hill Nature Sanctuary native plant gardens, and

an introduction to the CRD’s water conservation program

HCP Fall Plant Sale
2026-09-26 09:00 - 16:00 | Horticultural Centre of the Pacific, 505 Quayle Rd, Victoria, BC, Canada
Saturday, September 26th from 9 – 10 am (HCP Members and Volunteer only)

Saturday, September 26th from 10 – 4 pm (Everyone Welcome)

Fall is the perfect time for planting, the soil is still warm, and the fall rains are on the way! All plants are reduced by 25% and the ever-popular bargain bin will have plants at a 50% discount for our ‘pot bound specials’, plants that just need to get out of the pot to thrive). Victoria Master Gardeners, HCP staff, PHC students and volunteers will help with your gardening questions and to choose the right plant for your garden. The plant availability list TBA

Peninsula Garden Club Fall Plant Sale
2026-09-26 09:00 - 23:30 | St. Andrew Anglican Church, 9691 Fourth Street, Sidney, BC
Great selection of perennial plants, seeds, shrubs, trees, and gardening accessories.

Free Workshop: Advanced Composting
2026-09-26 10:00 - 12:00 | Compost Education Centre, 1216 North Park St., Victoria
Learn a breadth of advanced composting methods including hot composting, compost tea, and in-situ composting.

This workshop aims to broaden the scope of participants’ knowledge of composting methods and will cover methods of composting that require more work and attention. Topics covered will include hot composting to produce big quantities of nutrient rich, living compost quickly, increasing the biology and nutrients in your compost pile using dynamic accumulators, how to make compost tea and in-situ composting methods like sheet mulching. We’ll even touch on the basics of humanure.

*If you are new to composting, we suggest you take one of our free Composting Basics workshops before taking Advanced Composting.

Free attendance to this workshop is generously subsidized by the CRD.

Plant Identification and Culture with Jane Tice
2026-09-26 13:00 - 16:00, 2026-10-31 13:00 - 16:00, 2026-11-28 13:00 - 16:00, 2026-12-12 13:00 - 16:00 | Horticultural Centre of the Pacific, 505 Quayle Rd, Victoria, BC, Canada
If you are a new gardener, new to Victoria or just want to brush up on your plant knowledge, this is a great place to get started. This is a monthly class where participants will be introduced to 20 new plants which fit with our local climate. Plants are selected for our local growing conditions and the value they bring to the garden. Part of the class will be in the classroom and part will be out in the gardens to view the plants for that month. Dress for the weather and bring something to take notes.

Free Workshop: Sheet Mulching
2026-10-24 10:00 - 12:00 | Compost Education Centre, 1216 North Park St., Victoria
Learn how to build rich soil where there was none before using a simple and effective technique called sheet mulching. In situ composting, or soil building in the form of Sheet Mulching is a fast process of building fertile soil where there isn’t any, converting lawn landscapes into active growing gardens, or simply adding more nutrients to existing gardens. We’ll first learn about the principles behind sheet mulching and why/how it works, then we’ll build a sheet mulch bed in the gardens at the Compost Education Centre with a variety of organic matter. Come ready to get dirty and do some shoveling! Free attendance to this workshop is generously subsidized by the CRD.

Grow Your Own Mushrooms!
2026-10-24 13:00 - 15:00 | Compost Education Centre, 1216 North Park St., Victoria
Learn the main steps used to cultivate mushrooms at home using low tech methods.

Workshop Description: In this workshop students will learn the main steps used in cultivating mushrooms at home using low tech methods. The lecture will include basic fungal biology, information on tools needed to grow mushrooms, making liquid culture, grain spawn and preparation of straw for Oyster mushrooms and for King Stropharia. For the hands-on part, students will be making their own straw bag with Oyster Mushroom spawn to bring home. The focus will be to introduce people to the exciting potential of growing mushrooms at home and in the garden and provide them with the necessary information to begin on their fungal adventures.

Materials cost = $10/person

Free In-Person Workshop: Composting Basics
2026-11-07 10:00 - 12:00 | Compost Education Centre, 1216 North Park St., Victoria, BC, Canada
Learn to make your own backyard compost- a living soil amendment rich in nutrients and micro-organisms!

Free Workshop: Understanding and Addressing Soil Contamination
2026-11-14 10:00 - 12:00 | Compost Education Centre, 1216 North Park St., Victoria
From backyard growing to community and boulevard gardening, ensuring your soil is healthy is the first step to any urban agriculture project

Soils can build up heavy metals and other pollutants over time from a range of sources — including industry, transportation, construction materials, and unsustainable land use practices. The first step to any urban agriculture project is getting to know the ground beneath your feet by assessing soil health, identifying potential contaminants, and taking steps to improve soil quality.The Compost Education Centre’s Healing City Soils program offers free soil testing for urban food growers to analyze heavy metal concentrations and their bioavailability in the region’s soils, and create a virtual soil map of the Capital Regional District to highlight areas where heavy metal contamination may need to be addressed before growing food.

Free On-line Workshop: Yard Free Composting
2026-11-21 10:00 - 12:00 | Compost Education Centre, 1216 North Park St., Victoria
Composting options for those that live in apartments, condos, or units without a yard!

We’ll cover options that are available for composting without a yard. Surprisingly, there are many, and we’ll discover the benefits and drawbacks to each so you can determine the system that is right for your life & home. We’ll learn about:

-countertop electric food dehydrators & “composters”

-private food scrap pick up, municipal food scrap pick up & proper use of greenbins

-bokashi composting

-worm composting
