Garry Oak Ecosystems Recovery Team (GOERT)

Gonzales Bay Native Plant Garden

A residential seaside native plant garden, featured in the April 2007 issue of House and Home magazine. Plants in the seaside garden include: Saskatoon berry, Indian plum, Oregon grape, Garry oaks, western crabapple, red-osier dogwood, woolly sunflower, coastal strawberry, snowbush, oceanspray, mock-orange, kinnickkinnick, snowberry, sedum, western hawthorn, hairy manzanita, common juniper, native grasses and bulbs. There is also a small Garry oak restoration area to the east of the Boyle property, beside the walkway to Gonzales Beach. The restoration area is accessible from the sidewalk along Crescent Road. The City of Victoria has kindly given permission for work to continue on this site.