Dockerty Gardens was founded in 2016. Our goal is to ensure that our clients’ find their gardens and natural spaces more beautiful. Our passion is the trade, art, and science of horticulture. We blend extensive plant knowledge, horticultural skill, and genuine care to build and maintain our clients gardens.
Being intentionally small, a central pillar of our business is the relationships we have with our loyal clients. It is our emphasis on providing superior service and using horticultural best practices that makes us unique and able to do this work.
Monica - Owner and Head Gardener
After receiving a horticultural education from UBC Botanical Garden, owner and operator Monica Dockerty worked in both public and private landscape horticulture. Her passion for plants led her to become the primary buyer and a manager at Vancouver Island's largest retail garden center and nursery. Dockerty Gardens started during this time as a part-time business, and has now evolved into a full-time maintenance, install and design company with an incredibly loyal and growing client base.
Monica's experience in multiple areas of the horticultural industry has helped her to have a broad knowledge base but excellent plant knowledge and an emphasis on service is what sets Dockerty Gardens apart.
When not working for her clients, Monica enjoys time hiking in the Vancouver Island alpine, being a volunteer warden at the Mount Tzuhalem Ecological Reserve, and having fun in her own vegetable and ornamental gardens. Monica is passionate about connecting people to their gardens and natural spaces, and she believes that horticulture and plants can play an important role in everyone’s lives.