Take your gardening to the next level - Go vertical!
From engineered walls to DIY projects - come along to a workshop with Karen Montgomery Kspace and work out which system is for you and how to make it thrive.
Karen will also explain the pros and cons of vertical garden systems - from using expensive to repurposed materials. We'll talk irrigation, potting mixes, plant selection, maintenance and more…
There will be time for Q&A and all participants will make their own edible vertical bottle garden to take home.
About the presenter:
Karen Montgomery is a horticulturalist with a passion for growing food and sharing knowledge to build healthy communities.
She is a garden consultant, designer, workshop facilitator, trainer, garden writer, radio presenter; current past CEO of the Master Landscapers SA, President of the Horticultural Media Association SA and involved with the Horticultural Therapy Association and The Rare Fruit Society. She can be heard regularly on ABC Adelaide & 5AA radio stations and contributes to print media such as SA Gardens and Outdoor Living magazine.
Karen lives in the Adelaide Hills, where she tends her 1 acre garden shaded by large trees. Her garden includes a 35m² veggie patch, orchard, bee hive and chicken run which she shares with her family and dogs. Along with the possums, koalas and kookaburras just to name a few permanent visitors.
The Adelaide Sustainability Centre is proudly supported by the Adelaide and Mt Lofty Ranges Natural Resource Management Board and Conservation SA.