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Garden Design Tours

Botanical Garden, Austin Peay State University

This 3,000 square foot garden was established in 2010 by Dr. Wayne Estes and boasts more than 300 native plants. The garden is used for education and research, and is open to the public.

Robyn Brown Perennial Garden tour

Troy Marden lists the key points of good garden design on a tour of a friend's landscape that has both shade and sun. Amending the soil, planning pathways, selecting hardscape materials, choosing good performing plants, and planting them in the right spot; it all adds up to beautiful garden beds.

Architectural Landscape

West Meade mansion in Nashville Tennessee, built in 1886, is a stately residence for sure. We stroll the grounds to enjoy the refurbished landscape and learn how the landscape architect took design cues from exterior of the house.

Springtime Beauty with Native Plants

We visit a mature hilltop garden filled with native plants at peak springtime perfection. Troy Marden highlights the perennials, shrubs and trees that bring color and fragrance to this garden, and they're dependable too.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.