HOSPICE MONTH WILDFLOWER BLOOM CAMPAIGN
Hospice Month Wildflower Bloom Campaign
May 3 – 31, 2021
Support your community hospice
Price includes bags, cards and delivery.
- Help us reach our goal of $3000 30%
Hospice services are as diverse as wildflowers
Hospice societies across BC and the Yukon provide many services that aim to improve the quality of life of individuals living with life-limiting conditions, while also ensuring the well-being of their caregivers and loved ones impacted by their illness or death.
We are kicking off Hospice Month by launching our first annual Wildflower Bloom Campaign. To honour hospices throughout BC and the Yukon, wildflower seed packets are being sold as a fundraiser for hospice societies as well as to raise awareness of the ways hospices support their communities.
- Palliative support
- Vigil support
- Spiritual support
- Complementary therapies
- Grief & bereavement support
- Symptom management
- Day programming
- Assistance with daily living activities
- Caregiver support
- Respite programming
- Self-care skills support
- Advance Care Planning
Hospice Societies: Providing Integral Palliative Care Service
We are facing an important demographic shift in the coming years that will lead to growing demands for hospice care. By 2036, one-quarter of the BC’s residents will be over the age of 65. Our Hospice Societies will continue to play an integral part in helping to meet the increased demands and current gaps in the system, which have been further fueled by COVID-19. Together, let’s raise awareness of all of the important services that hospices deliver to all people in all of our communities.
How to Bloom Your Wildflowers in Honour of Hospice Societies
Create a spectacular garden of popular wildflowers in various shapes and sizes. Provides exceptional beauty and colour all season long!
Planting Directions:
- Shake bag of seeds well before planting.
- Sow seed in a sunny or partially shaded location in early spring (after the danger of frost has passed) or early summer. Clear the area to be planted. Loosen soil to a depth of 5cm (2”) with a rake or hoe. Smooth soil surface by raking.
- Evenly scatter the seed mixture over the prepared area. The organic vermiculite contained in the seed mixture aids in proper seed distribution. Lightly rake again to create a good seed/soil contact.
- Keep seed bed moist.
- Lightly water immediately after sowing, using a fine spray. Avoid puddling. Keep seed bed moist until seedlings are well established.
- Continue to water periodically as needed.
Contents: Adonis aestivalis, Calendula officinalis, Centaurea cyanus, Erysimum cheiri, leucanthemum maximum, coreopsis tinctoria, cosmos bipinnatus, delphinium consolida, dianthus barbatus, digitalis purpurea, echinacea purpurea, eschscholzia californica, gypsophila elegans, linum perenne, lupinus perennis, papaver rhoeas, rudbeckia hirta.
HOSPICE SERVICES PROVIDE A DIVERSITY OF SUPPORT
Helping to Ease the Growing Demands on our Healthcare System
VANCOUVER, BC — April 27, 2021 | British Columbia is facing an important demographic shift in the coming years that will lead to growing demands for hospice care.
Please read the full press release here.
BC Hospice Palliative Care Societies are here to help.
Hospice societies provide services in grief, compassionate listening, bereavement, end of life, caregivers support, volunteers and frontline workers support and much more in the communities they serve. Please contact your community hospice for additional services and self-care supports.