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Garden Design Tours

Greener Roots Farm: Controlled Environment Agriculture

There are thousands of heads of beautiful lettuce thriving in this controlled environment greenhouse, even on a 100 degree day. Phillipe Chadwick learns about the many facets to this hydroponic greenhouse operation.

Curb Appeal

This front yard landscape pays homage to the 100-year old glorious Gingko tree. A lush green lawn, pyramidal boxwoods, Autumn fern, niches for annuals and a big front porch work in harmony to say 'Welcome Home'.

Home Landscape featuring Japanese maples and conifers

This suburban home has a garden rather than any lawn in the backyard. Japanese maples and conifers are both the foundation, and the dazzling features that grace each garden vignette. We highlight the attributes and mature growth expectations of several varieties.

Allenbrooke Farm

Farmer Dan likes to think of his fields as the canvas and the crops as the color. Sheri Gramer visits this CSA, and finds it is as pretty as a picture.

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.