Locally Grown Flowers &
Garden Design Services
for the eco-conscious, urban family in Durham Region.
Buying Thyme Designs
Providing garden design services for properties in Durham Region.
Incorporating native plants into urban spaces has begun to take off (yay!), but it typically leaves gardeners with wild, messy, floppy patches that don’t fit in with their neighbours and a lot of confusion with plant names (ugh!) and what is actually a native plant.
My designs create interactive and educational spaces to enjoy family, with biodiversity to better your patch of this planet . The designs follow a regenerative approach to gardening, with a focus on supporting the ecosystem through soil health, native plant selection, and ease of ongoing maintenance. They roll all of that into a package that can fit your neighbourhood’s aesthetic or can be as rebellious to the norms as you’d like.
I love to support DIY’rs and those willing to get actively involved in nature through how-to’s and simple, low-cost garden projects. Through presentations to groups or one on one consultations I answer your questions and troubleshoot your topics or garden spaces.
Cut Flowers
In 2023 I trialed offering my fresh, home grown flowers as bouquets to the Durham Region community and am excited to announce that we will continue to offer this service in 2024.
Bouquets will continue to be available for pickup at our roadside stand, and at Turquoise Boutique in Whitby, during the growing season. Local delivery is available upon request.
Bouquets contain a mix of introduced, traditional bouquet staples and native blooms.
As the season progresses, a list of what is currently available will be posted for florists, and those seeking species bunches or bulk orders.
Meet Christine.
As a mother of three small children, ensuring that they are raised to take responsibility for our environment, enjoy nature, and have the opportunity to reap the health benefits from such activities, is a daily priority. Motherhood made me aware of how the common practices in gardening often cause more harm long term, for short term convenience. It also left very little time for gardening and forced me to find efficiencies and work with the land.
Gardening shows us continuously, that there is always more to learn. Buying Thyme has given me the platform to share what I learn through this journey while fast tracking others spaces with my own experience.
My personal garden space has been one of experimentations where I have been applying regenerative gardening, a focus on soil health and the ecosystem while trying slightly unconventional vegetable gardening methods (hügelkultur, no till, gutter gardens) and pushing boundaries with what is generally accepted as possible for our growing zone. I have experienced first hand the struggles others face with indoor, balcony and small space gardening. Now on a rural, larger piece of land I get to scale my experiences and work towards more common homesteading practices.
I received my Architectural Technology Diploma from George Brown College, later completing the Garden Design Certificate through their partnership with the Toronto Botanical Gardens. I have been working in design since 2007 when I got my start in kitchens and bathrooms and later moved into branded commercial designs across Canada. Eventually this led to garden design.
“To change the world, you have to start with your own space. Let me show you where to start.”
— Christine
Contact
christine@buyingthymedesigns.ca
(647) 787-2834 (BTDi)