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Lush Landscape for an Historic Home on NPT's Volunteer Gardener

Lush Landscape for an Historic Home

Deep border beds of flowering shrubs and perennials, grand old trees, beautiful containers, a vegetable garden and highlighted artifacts are some of the features of this landscape design that complements an historic home.


Woodland Garden Tour on NPT's Volunteer Gardener

Woodland Garden Tour

Landscapes are thought of as something to be viewed. However, gardens are meant to be lived in. We tour a renewed and redesigned native plant garden that has the right plants in the right places for optimum performance and less maintenance.


Backyard Makeover on NPT's Volunteer Gardener

Backyard Makeover

An empty backyard can be a terrific asset to new homeowners. Matt Kerske sees how a family’s desire for growing edibles, and a play spot for their growing child was realized in this updated outdoor space.


A Garden with Delightful Detail on NPT's Volunteer Gardener

A Garden with Delightful Detail

Troy Marden strolls through a charming backyard landscape that tips the hat to jolly ole England. The attention to detail makes this garden magical.


An Eye for Outdoor Design on NPT's Volunteer Gardener

An Eye for Outdoor Design

We tour a home garden featuring an historical daylily display garden, beautiful perennial borders, and learn a thing or two about using garden art to accentuate and add interest.


Border Beds for Sun and Shade on NPT's Volunteer Gardener

Border Beds for Sun and Shade

We stroll through 3 very different border beds of Graymar Farm, each one with its own personality and unique plant palette.


Environmental stewardship in a steep hillside garden on NPT's Volunteer Gardener

Environmental stewardship in a steep hillside garden

Caroll Marrero decided just after a 500-year flood in Nashville TN washed away a lot of natural resources off her steep hillside backyard that not one more pebble nor one more ounce of dirt was going to wash away. She sought advice from experts to incorporate remediation projects into her backyard hillside garden to manage the flow of storm water.


Terraced Vegetable Garden on NPT's Volunteer Gardener

Terraced Vegetable Garden

We visit an architect who plotted, planned, and executed a terrific terraced garden for vegetable gardening. He also lends a lot of insight from his personal gardening experiences.


Husk Nashville on NPT's Volunteer Gardener

Husk Nashville

Matt Kerske walks the grounds of Husk Nashville where the berries, herbs and vegetables are part of the landscape and the menu.


Nature's Way to Garden on NPT's Volunteer Gardener

Nature’s Way to Garden

Sheri Gramer tours the many garden beds of an avid gardener who is happy to admit that she's always learning. We see a butterfly garden, a vegetable garden, a large ornamental garden featuring a babbling brook. All these garden beds benefit from a breathtaking mountain top view.


Raised Vegetable Beds on NPT's Volunteer Gardener

Raised Vegetable Beds

Phillipe Chadwick walks in the sunshine with an enthusiastic grower through her raised beds brimming with vegetables.


Shade Garden on NPT's Volunteer Gardener

Shade Garden

We have it made in the shade—a beautiful shade garden that is. Annette Shrader finds plenty of colorful blooms and stately foliage in this terraced garden that features caladiums, astilbe, fern and hydrangea.