2023 SAR Speaker Series 3 Presentation

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Growing Native Plant Species 
for People & Place
With Kristen Miskelly
Chocolate Lilies on Sidney Island © W. Tyrrell 
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Kristen Miskelly
Biologist, Consultant &
Native Plant/Seed Nursery Co-founder
Our Speakers
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Growing native plant species 
for people and place
Kristen Miskelly
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Unceded Coast Salish Territories of  the Victoria Area
Victoria
Lkwungen-speaking Peoples
Esquimalt Nation
Songhees First Nation
Metchosin
Scia'new First Nation 
T’Sou-ke First Nation
Esquimalt Nation
Songhees First Nation
Saanich
W̱SÁNEĆ Territory (5 nations), SENĆOŦEN-speaking Peoples
BOḰEĆEN – Pauquachin
SȾÁ,UTW̱– Tsawout
W̱JOȽEȽP – Tsartlip
W̱SÍḴEM – Tseycum First Nation
Malahat First Nation (Hul’q’umi’num’, Lkwungen, Malchosen, Semiahmoo, SENĆOŦEN, T’Sou-ke)
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Species At Risk Program —Conservancy —Islands Trust
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Inspiring and empowering 
people to connect with 
nature through native plants
Education 
(consults, 
workshops, 
courses)
Potted Plants 
(wholesale, retail)
Seeds 
(custom, 
seed packs, blends)
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Native Plants, Seeds 
& Consulting
~200 species
Potted wildflowers, shrubs, 
trees  grasses, sedges, 
rushes, ferns
Native seed production
Grown without herbicides, 
pesticides, chemical 
fertilizers
Genetically local
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Plant propagation (growing) is the 
process of  creating new plants
•  Propagation involves encouraging, manipulating, controlling, and 
sometimes accelerating natural plant strategies for reproduction 
so that we can make more plants.
•  To do well at propagation, it is important to study nature, learn 
about local ecology, and try to understand the individual life 
histories of species. 
•  The way plants grow in nature provides clues about how we can 
grow them. 
•  This can include timing of seed collection, when to sow them, 
what soils might be best, light and moisture conditions, and what 
style of propagation might yield the best results. 
•  We may also learn that we can’t easily propagate them! (and 
that’s okay)
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 Unique ecology, flora & fauna
 Conserving the biodiversity of  your place
 Respecting heritage
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Can you think of  ways that our local ecology has 
influenced the features or type of  plants that live here?
Growing for people and place
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Geophytes 
– die back 
to an underground 
storage (e.g. bulb, corm) 
for part of  the year
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Annuals
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Plant Reproductive Systems
Plants can reproduce by:
• Sexual reproduction (seed set 
involving meiosis and syngamy)
• Asexual reproduction 
• vegetative reproduction 
of  various types (e.g. stolons, rhizomes, bulb 
division). 
• Agamospermy (= seed set 
without fertilization)
Many plant species can 
reproduce both sexually
and asexually.
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Asexual Reproduction
• Asexually produced offspring are genetically identical to their 
parent (i.e., clonal). 
• This can work well as a reproductive strategy assuming that 
environmental conditions remain relatively stable. 
• The offspring, being identical, will also be well suited to their 
environment and would be expec

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