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Garden Design Tours

Where Brie Grows on NPT's Volunteer Gardener

Where Brie Grows

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.


Creating safe passage for pollinators on NPT's Volunteer Gardener

Creating safe passage for pollinators

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.


Home Garden Spaces of a Designer on NPT's Volunteer Gardener

Home Garden Spaces of a Designer

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.


Lath House on NPT's Volunteer Gardener

Lath House

A Lath House is a protected open air structure made chiefly of slats used for nurturing plants. Annette Shrader tours the Lath House at JC Raulston Arboretum with the director of horticulture to highlight the diverse and unique perennials, shrubs and trees being grown here.


Wetlands Garden on NPT's Volunteer Gardener

Wetlands Garden

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.


Zoo Garden on NPT's Volunteer Gardener

Zoo Garden

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.


Southern Cottage Garden on NPT's Volunteer Gardener

Southern Cottage Garden

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.


Garden time = family time on NPT's Volunteer Gardener

Garden time = family time

What began as a few raised beds in a spot that couldn't grow grass is now a large garden space that's turning out loads of tomatoes, cucumbers, all kinds of vegetables, plus pretty flowers. Sheri Gramer tours this grand garden where every family member takes part.


A garden designed with an artist's eye on NPT's Volunteer Gardener

A garden designed with an artist’s eye

Troy Marden showcases what was once a typical, grassy residential lot that was transformed by the homeowners into a gorgeous collection of display beds and borders with desirable plants and lots of artistic touches. Japanese maples are definitely the darlings of this garden.


Collection of Color and Variety on NPT's Volunteer Gardener

Collection of Color and Variety

We tour the home garden of a self-described plant collector. Her goals for the design were cohesiveness, some symmetry, a bit of formality, and accessibility. She achieved all that, and the garden is beautiful. It features a central circular bed with four paths radiating out. Each has a plant palette sure to please.


A Mindful Landscape on NPT's Volunteer Gardener

A Mindful Landscape

Rita Venable visits with a homeowner who began gardening during the pandemic. She had inherited her landscaping when she purchased the home. Now a native plant enthusiast, she's converted those existing landscape areas into garden beds where native plants, shrubs and trees are performing well.


Garden in the Sky on NPT's Volunteer Gardener

Garden in the Sky

What a treat to tour the many thoughtful garden beds at a residence that sits on the edge of the Cumberland Plateau at an elevation of 1,900 feet. Rita Venable visits the couple who designed and installed a long and flowing border bed that takes advantage of the grand view just beyond. In a section of side yard, they've allowed nature to be nature. It's full of no fuss, mostly native, herbaceous perennials. Also highlighted are trees and shrubs that support wildlife.