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Garden Design Tours

Betty Brown Tree Trail

As a city grows, so does the importance of keeping up a healthy and plentiful tree population. Phillipe Chadwick visits a new arboretum on the downtown riverfront in Nashville, dedicated to a real champion of trees.

DIY Garden Design: Creating Garden Rooms

This private garden takes advantage of a deep backyard that lends itself to be divided into a series of garden rooms.This do-it-yourself home owner with obvious design skills has developed each area for a particular function and 'feel'.

Tennessee Executive Residence Garden Tour

We take a stroll through newly renovated gardens on the grounds of the Tennessee Executive Residence. Former First Lady Crissy Haslam led the efforts to restore historic gardens, and to spotlight Tennessee agriculture with a farm to table kitchen garden.

Hybridizing Daylilies as a Hobby

Cross a diploid with another diploid. Tetraploid with another tetraploid. Hybridizing hobbyists love to work with daylilies because it is a relatively simple process. Annette Shrader visits with one such hobbyist to learn more and see some of her creations.

Community Garden at Volunteer State Community College

The Sumner County Master Gardeners of TN maintain a large demonstration garden on the campus of Volunteer State Community College. The goal of this garden is to educate the students and the public on the varieties of vegetables, herbs, perennials and fruiting shrubs that thrive in the middle TN climate. We'll take you on a tour.

evermore garden: developed over time

We take a tour of a backyard landscape that is the culmination of a lot of planning, a lot of toiling in the soil, and a lot of together time for the married couple who have worked in phases over many years to create their 'happy place'.

Garden Space to Grow and Glow

The residents and staff of Park Place Retirement Community very much enjoy their outdoor garden spaces. All of the garden beds and raised plots were installed and are continually maintained and enhanced by a group of dedicated volunteers with the Sumner County Master Gardeners.

Daylilies: a home garden of so many colors

There are thousands of named daylilies. It is easy to find one that is so gorgeous you just have to have it. Marty DeHart tours the home garden of a couple who have quite an impressive collection of this vigorous, long-lived perennial.

Conifer Noteworthies

We tour the home garden of a plants man and conifer enthusiast. Host Troy Marden showcases a variety of specimens with a wide range of size and texture.

Home Landscape Vignettes and Plant Combinations

This lovely home landscape begins at the curb and continues throughout the property. The various garden beds and garden vignettes sparkle with combinations of shrubs, trees, and perennials. The variance in height, color and texture speaks to good garden design. The plant palette contains some showy specimens, but none that are difficult to maintain.

Creating an Outdoor Living Space

One step at a time over several years - that was the approach of this homeowner who set out to create a relaxing, outdoor space to entertain. We get to see the culmination of the choices made along the way with the hardscape, plant palette and focal points for the space.

Plentiful Produce for this gardener

Tammy Algood meets a grower who harvests enough to feed his family, and then some. He shares his methods for composting, crop rotation and seed starting.