Troy Marden is in the home landscape of a young, accomplished designer who has partnered with his father in developing a breathtaking landscape over 15 years that coincided with training as a horticulturist and a designer. The long, sloped area of the backyard is densely planted with trees, shrubs, perennials and annuals that carry the entire growing season, from early spring into autumn.
Annette Shrader visits with an accomplished gardener who loves color. She has a talent for selecting plants with gorgeous hues and stellar growth habit, and displays those in containers throughout her outdoor spaces. The long front porch features eye-catching window boxes with a trio of plants. Vignettes are created in spots with using a dozen or more containers in combination. Her design skills are evident in the plant placements and combinations. There are showstopper spots throughout the outdoor spaces.
One element of a good garden design is repetition of plants, as it creates a rhythm. April Moore tours the home garden spaces where the deer do roam, so plant choices are made with that in mind. The selections here are gorgeous, and combined with shrubs, trees, and even a water feature.
Have you let yourself dream of what your backyard space could be? We'll tour a garden that could provide the inspiration. The homeowners began with a Master Gardener group to learn plants and design, then expanded into water features and stone terracing. The backyard features a long, deep terraced border with banana trees, shrubs, herbs and perennials in a nice display. There's also a colorful and varied plant palette around the house foundation. In every garden vignette, there's a variety of form, and multi-season interest.
Troy Marden strolls the home garden spaces of horticulturist and popular You Tube personality Brie The Plant Lady. Her passion for growing is infectious. We'll learn what challenges she has had with the quality of soil in her yard, and what methods she is using to add bring life into it.
A well-planned garden can be attractive, and also provide for beneficial insects. Sheri Gramer tours one such residential garden in Brentwood that is part of the Green Bridges program of the American Herb Society. We'll learn about this initiative that encourages home gardeners to create safe and supportive passage for pollinators.
Rita Venable introduces us to an avid gardener who, in retirement, studied landscape design. Then she started a landscaping business, designing more than a hundred landscapes. Now she's devoting full-time to her own garden. Rita Venable walks with her through 3 distinct areas, each brimming with good-performing trees, shrubs, vines, ground covers, and perennials.
The Wetlands Garden at the UT Botanical Garden in Knoxville has been established in a low-lying area that once had been a difficult space to maintain. Now this area is working in harmony with nature. It features a series of ponds, plus a wide variety of native plants that together form a sustainable ecosystem that filters water and provides habitat for wildlife. Troy Marden tours the area and gains tips for homeowners who may have a situation on their property with water run-off and retention.
The team at UT Botanical Garden in Knoxville Tennessee have put together a garden area that is delighting children, and piquing their interest in plants and gardening. This zoo garden features those plants that have a common name associated with an animal such as monkey grass and Lamb's Ear.
Every bit of this urban yard is part of the garden design, whether its the front yard with a definite 'wow' factor, the planted strip along the driveway, or the secluded sanctuary at the rear property line. In this garden, the right plants are in the right places. There's a rhythm and flow between the spaces, and each part leads you on to the next pretty spot.
