Native Plants
National Suppliers Directory
This directory has been compiled to make it easier to find businesses that sell native plants or seeds and provide professional landscape or consulting services. Use the search options below to find help for your native plant needs or click here to add your business to the directory. Associates are providers of native plant services who offer Wildflower Center members a discount on merchandise or services. To qualify, at least 50% of an Associate's projects or inventory must use native plants.
Search suppliers:Keefer Ecological Services
3816 Highland Rd.
Cranbrook, BC V1C 6X7
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Region: Canada
Phone: 250-489-4140Goods & Services
Nursery
Seed Company Landscape Professional Environmental Consultant
Year Established: 2004
Number of Employees: 1-5
Native Plant Experience
Percent of projects or inventory using native plants: 100%
Consult on native plant projects
Track provenance (origin) of native plant materials
Associate Program
Belong to Wildflower Center Associate Program
Description: Keefer Ecological Services (KES) is a Kootenay based firm that specialises in projects concerned with humanities connections to the land. KES has entered its third year of business and is currently working on a wide variety of projects that are all currently related to botany. Current projects include the writing of management guidelines for a number of native shrubs on two different BC Forest Science Program projects, sedge research trials, revegetation of hydroelectric reservoirs, and a profile of non-timber forest products in the Cascade Forest District. TMichael is well known as one the Kootenay’s foremost experts on native plants, their ethnobotany and their importance in contemporary society. Michael is an associate researcher with the Centre for Non-Timber Resources at Royal Roads University. In Michael’s former employment with the Ktunaxa Nation as Ethnobotanist, Manager of Research and Planning, he opened the Aqam Native Plant Nursery, the regions only such business assisted with archaeological research and conducted ethnobotanical research.
Credentials: Masters of Science, Royal Roads University Professional Agrologist - Registered in BC Society for Ecological Restoration BC - Director
Native plant source
| Self-operated Nursery |
| Native Plant Society |
| Transplant from Wild |
| Contract Grower |
| Wild-collected Seed |
| Buy Commercial Seed |
| Other: |
Sales
| Retail |
| Wholesale |
| Over the counter |
| Mail order |
| Phone order |
| Online catalog |
Community specializations
| Prairie/Grassland |
| Forest/Woodland |
| Wetland/Aquatic |
| Alpine/Mountain |
| Coastal/Dune |
| Desert |
| Other: |
Landscape specialization
| Residential |
| Commercial/Office |
| Large Corporate Grounds |
| Parkland/Open Space |
| Nature Centers and Preserves |
| Roadside Revegetation/Soil Stabilization |
| Industrial Projects |
| Other: |
Landscape services
| Garden design |
| Contract growing |
| Landscape architect |
| Site analysis |
| Land use |
| Maintenance plans |
Consultant specialization
| Prairie |
| Woodland |
| Freshwater |
| Saltwater |
| All Habitats |
| Other: |
Consultant services
| Species Inventory |
| Site Assessments |
| Survey Natural Areas |
| Post Vegetation |
| Land Use |
| Restoration |
| Wetland |
| Other: |
Last Update: 2008-01-02
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