Director at Large, Training Institution Representative
Shoreline Landscape Design and Horticulture College of the Pacific
Janis Matson has been in the horticulture industry for over 30 years. Her experience includes retail nursery, landscape design & installation and arboriculture. She has owned and operated Shoreline Landscape Design for over 30 years. Janis is a Red Seal certified Landscape Horticulturalist and an award-winning landscape designer and contractor.
For the last 15 years, she has focused on a new career teaching what she loves. Janis is a landscape horticultural apprenticeship instructor at the Horticultural College of the Pacific in Victoria. She has previously worked as a horticultural instructor at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Vancouver Island University and the Burnaby School District’s community and continuing education division. Her academic accomplishments include a Provincial Instructor Diploma, a Landscape Design and Horticulture Diploma. She is an ISA certified Arborist, an ICPI certified concrete paver installer, a Level 1 Certified Irrigation Technician, and has a floral design certificate.
Janis serves as a subject-matter expert for the Red Seal Landscape Horticulturist trade, participating in Skilled TradesBC and Red Seal Canada workshops to develop apprenticeship education and training standards, and lending her expertise to the development of learning resources for apprentices.
Janis enjoys many outreach activities, including radio, newspaper and magazine articles, conference presentations, home shows, garden clubs, and she is an adult education instructor with VanDusen Botanical Garden. Janis loves to show and share her enthusiasm, photos and knowledge of plants, landscape design and horticultural topic favourites.