Down the Garden Path: Through the Years.
With the hustle and bustle of May, almost, behind us, the month of June promises warmer weather and time to relax, but don't let that keep you out of the garden, there's plenty to be done. On this episode of Down the Garden Path, we share the tips, tricks, dos, and don'ts for your June garden to help you spend less time working in it and more time enjoying it.
Here are some of the questions and topics covered in this episode:
How did Down the Garden Path start 9 years ago?
Where can listeners tune into past radio show episodes?
Why we entered the world of podcasting?
Why we decided to leave from RealityRadio101.
What’s next for Down the Garden Path Podcast?
What are some of Joanne and Matt’s favourites?
Joanne's favourite topics:
Straw Bale Gardening with Joel Karsten.
Hellstrip Gardening with Evelyn Hadden.
Matt's favourite topics:
Author's month - great books on several great topics.
Joanne's favourite guests:
Repeat guests Jan Johnsen, Julia Dimakos (The Gardening Girl), Lisa Steinkopf (The Houseplant Guru), Stephanie Rose (Gardentherapy.ca), and Dawn Golloher (Gardens Plus).
Matt's favourite guests:
Julia Dimakos (The Gardening Girl) and Tea Gardening for Beginners: Their first official, and only other, 'co-host'.
Katie Dubow (Garden Media Group) and the Garden Trends Reports.
Joanne's favourite episodes:
Plant-specific show where they do deep dives.
Month-in-the-garden episodes.
Matt's favourite episodes:
Launch Party: They announced the publishing of their new book based on the popular month-in-the-garden series.
Ask Us Anything and month-in-the-garden series: Matt always enjoyed getting questions from listeners, hearing where they're from, and hearing about what's exciting in their gardens.
Other favourites included:
Joanne: The beginning of the radio show with Gary, and recording in studio.
Matt: Finding our about their shared birthday, Matt's first episode on the show, and the first episode of Down the Garden Path.
Where can we tune into Down the Garden Path Podcast after June 26th, 2023?
Can we still send you our gardening questions? Continue the discussion on Facebook!
Resources mentioned during the show
Season 9, episode 22 - June 19th, 2023.
Down the Garden Path Podcast
Each week on Down The Garden Path, professional landscape designers Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing discuss down-to-earth tips and advice for your plants, gardens and landscapes.
As the owner of Down2Earth Landscape Design, Joanne Shaw has been designing beautiful gardens for homeowners east of Toronto for over a decade. A horticulturist and landscape designer, Matthew Dressing owns Natural Affinity Garden Design, a landscape design and garden maintenance firm servicing Toronto and the Eastern GTA. Together, they do their best to bring you interesting, relevant and useful topics to help you keep your garden as low maintenance as possible.
In their new book, Down the Garden Path: A Step-By-Step Guide to Your Ontario Garden, Joanne and Matthew distill their horticultural and design expertise and their combined experiences in helping others create and maintain thriving gardens into one easy-to-read monthly reference guide. It's now available on Amazon.
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