Visionary Gardeners

Visionary Gardeners Beauty and Delight

After fifty years of gardening the same piece of land on the edge of the Niagara escarpment, a writer reflects on the many connections between art, nature, and a long life.

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Visionary Gardeners Pruning Things Back

A best-selling garden writer makes the decision to downsize, saying farewell to her beloved home garden of over fifty years; a garden designer who creates lush, meditative gardens inspired by Chinese and Japanese aesthetics reflects on his projects.

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Visionary Gardeners Garden Creativity

An award-winning garden designer starts to think about retirement, but continues to cultivate her vast garden, which changes almost daily-year-round; a contemplative gardener downsizes from a large home garden to a collection of potted succulents.

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Visionary Gardeners Communities in Harmony

An orchardist shares his collection of hundreds of apple varieties with the community in an annual festival; a waterfront gardener celebrates the serendipity and wildness of her drought-resistant plants.

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Visionary Gardeners Symphonies & Sarracenias

A collector of rare carnivorous plants, surveys the unexplored mountain bog ecosystems of Vancouver Island; an accountant in need of a creative outlet, starts a non-profit, using her garden to support the growth of performing artists.

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Visionary Gardeners Gardening Over Decades

A Prairie tree breeder commits his life to creating and testing thousands of trees in the hopes of finding one that is resistant to deadly Dutch Elm Disease.

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Visionary Gardeners Words and History

A poet remembers her late husband through the garden they built together; an artist creates sculptural works that honour the history of the land on which they reside.

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Visionary Gardeners Once a Gardener, Always a Gardener

A retired couple have tended a 5-acre garden for decades; it features drifts of the rare meconopsis poppy, rhododendrons, and primula vulgaris growing in a meadow larger than most people's entire garden.

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