Ageless Gardens

A retired flight attendant grows tropicals at a lawn bowling club, amid the beauty of Vancouver's skyline. A limit-pushing gardener brings the exotic plants together in one place, only to reconsider when an unusually frigid winter occurs. A collector of thousands of heritage plants stays busy in the garden all year long.

A journalist with a life-threatening illness creates a garden to help overcome it. A conservationist demonstrates how stamina gained in the garden helps her run marathons. A 90-year-old continues to do all of her own gardening. A jovial life-long gardener shares his garden's abundance with friends and family.

An IT dad designs an innovative high-tech growing system, that helps provide for people in need. A pioneering garden advocate shows how front yard gardens lessen the environmental impact of a regular lawn. A volunteer learns patience, while restoring a nature sanctuary. A mother discusses the ecological balance of her family vegetable garden.

A master gardener and life-long learner inspires a younger generation with her latest children's book about bees. A gardener tends native plants in a natural educational garden. A garden designer listens to what the garden teaches her.

A printmaker turns her lush garden into a living art gallery, where dancers, visual artists, and musicians all come together. A cosmopolitan artist combines floral imagery in playful and complex works, and finds inspiration growing in his back alley.

A group of women in Gibsons, BC form a collective to spread local knowledge about seed saving, while elementary school children learn the value of nature and food growing in a teaching garden nestled on the edge of the coastal rainforest. A Vancouver Island University instructor prepares her students to enter the horticulture industry.

Amid the bustling industrial region of Hudson's Hope, BC, we find a tireless mother & daughter team who market garden. An exotic plant buyer/seller collaborates with his partner to turn their small Surrey, BC garden space into a tropical getaway. A Victoria, BC father & son work together to maintain an arrestingly beautiful garden.

A rural gardener and lily connoisseur in Neepawa, MB identifies hidden and rare plants left by the previous owner. A protected woodland and public-cultivated garden on Vancouver Island welcome year-round volunteers, students, and visitors. Writing about his travels to international gardens helps a Waterloo, ON gardener toappreciate the experiences in his own exquisite garden.

A Bolton, ON couple grows food in their garden to use in traditional Italian recipes. An Edmonton, AB gardener pushes climactic limits, growing gingko, Japanese maples, figs, peaches, and sweet cherries in a region as cold as Central Siberia. Building on her grandparent's achievements, an award-winning rhododendron grower in Nanaimo, BC continues to spread plant knowledge to the community.

A photographer celebrates the botanical landscape of her lake cottage and her big-city Toronto, ON home garden. In a small Maritime village (Baie Verte, NB), a Governor General's Award-winning textile artist weaves her garden and family life together with inspiring tapestries. A woman quits her high-powered Silicon Valley job to start a Victoria, BC flower farm specializing in non-traditional bouquets.