Podcasts

with Heather Moran There’s nothing quite like a fresh bouquet of flowers in the house. This week, landscape designers Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing welcome Heather Moran of Heirloom Heather Flower Farm to the Down the Garden Path podcast. Heather shares her tips and tricks on how to grow summer flowers and cheerful spring bulbs …Read more About “Heirloom Heather Flower Farm”

This week, Down the Garden Path presents an encore presentation of the October in the Garden podcast from 2019. With gardening chores changing so much from month to month, staying on top of your outdoor to-do list can be a challenge. In this week’s episode of Down the Garden Path, Joanne and Matthew discuss what’s …Read more About “October in the Garden”

with Aaron Deacon This week, landscape designers Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing welcome Aaron Deacon from BIOS Nutrients to the Down the Garden Path podcast to talk about how feeding your indoor plants naturally improves their soil health. About Aaron Deacon Aaron first learned about the environmental damage caused by synthetic fertilizers and pesticides during …Read more About “Soil Health with BIOS Nutrients”

with Lisa-Rae Cormack This week, Matthew Dressing and Joanne Shaw welcome amateur butterfly enthusiast Lisa-Rae Cormack to the Down the Garden Path podcast to talk about harvesting milkweed and how to grow it from seed. About Lisa-Rae Cormack An HR professional from Whitby, Ontario, Lisa-Rae began raising monarch butterflies when she became an empty nester …Read more About “Milkweed: Harvesting & Growing”

Do you have some annuals that are still going strong? In this episode of Down the Garden Path podcast, landscape designers Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing discuss how some annuals can be saved and brought inside for you to use in your gardens next spring. Tune in to hear Joanne and Matthew discuss ways you …Read more About “Saving Your Annuals”

with Bob Osborne This week on the Down the Garden Path podcast, landscape designers Matthew Dressing and Joanne Shaw are joined by Bob Osborne, author of Hardy Apples: Growing Apples in Cold Climates, to talk about how to select, grow, and care for our apple trees in cold climates. For over a decade, the gardening …Read more About “Growing Cold Hardy Apple Cultivars”

How’s your lawn faring after these past few months of hot dry weather? As summer winds to a close, landscape designers Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing discuss lawn care and lawn care alternatives. Tune in to hear Joanne and Matthew discuss lawn care and lawn alternatives. Here are some of the questions and topics covered …Read more About “Lawn Care and Lawn Alternatives”

This week on the Down the Garden Path podcast, landscape designers Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing close off the month of August by answering listener questions about the seasonal stressors we’re experiencing in our gardens. Tune in to hear Joanne and Matthew discuss seasonal stressors in your August garden. Here are some of the questions …Read more About “Seasonal Stressors”

In this episode of the Down the Garden Path podcast, landscape designers Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing answer questions about their new book, Down the Garden Path: A Step-By-Step Guide to Your Ontario Garden, on The Food Garden Life Show, a podcast hosted by Emma Biggs and Steven Biggs. Tune in to hear Joanne and …Read more About “The Food Garden Life Show”

with Mary Phillips This week on the Down the Garden Path podcast, landscape designers Matthew Dressing and Joanne Shaw are joined by Mary Phillips, Head of Garden for Wildlife™ at the National Wildlife Federation. Mary discusses the Federation’s wonderful initiatives and shares how we can play a part in growing a bright future for the …Read more About “Saving the Monarch Butterfly”