Official Tourism Website of Walkerton & Area Ontario
Garden enthusiasts… experience the largest privately owned Botanical Gardens in Southwestern Ontario!
Plant addicts… visit us to find an incredible selection of healthy and unique plant varieties.
Landscaping clients… we welcome you to come and view some of our work in our showcase gardens.
We provide complete Landscape Design and Construction Services for residential, commercial and municipal projects including: site consultations, detailed landscape plans and maintenance guidelines.
As well as Hard Landscaping (the use of inert construction materials) includes patios, driveways and sidewalks. We are skilled in the use of natural flagstone as well as interlocking brick for these applications. Services include: ponds, patios, interlocking brick driveways and sidewalks, retaining walls and fences, arbors and trellises and sprinkler systems.
The Folmer Landscaping business began with the owner, Brian Folmer, working for neighbours doing yardwork and small landscaping jobs. Summer employment at a local Garden Centre and Landscape Contractor followed, and Brian pursued his formal education at the University of Guelph.
He next started a small Garden Centre, Landscaping business and Display Gardens at his parent's property. After the business became more established and the gardens were featured in Canadian Gardening magazine and David Tarrant’s book ‘Canadian Gardens’, Brian had to move and find more space! He was incredibly fortunate to discover a scenic property near Walkerton, Ontario with 108 acres in 1996.
Within this diverse natural area, he began to sink his roots. The Garden Centre and Landscape Contracting business were relocated and work began in earnest on the Botanical Gardens. Using the existing mature plantings, abundant natural features and incorporating extensive plantings and construction projects, the Botanical Gardens look like they have always been here. After 12 years, Brian and Jana’s wedding in the Gardens, the birth of Abby and Colby, and an incredible amount of work, the business and gardens are thriving.
