Down The Garden Path Podcast (Joanne Shaw)
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| 05 Jul 2022 | Interesting Evergreen Shrubs | 00:59:02 | |
This month on the Down the Garden Path podcast, landscape designers Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing are talking about all the wonderful shrubs for your gardens and landscapes. In this episode, they discuss interesting evergreen shrubs. Join Joanne and Matt as they discuss interesting evergreen shrubs.
Joanne and Matt answer listener questions on a variety of topics:
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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| 19 Oct 2021 | Blue Star Nursery | 01:00:31 | |
In this week's episode of Down the Garden Path, Matt and Joanne welcome Guy Ruccolo, the owner of Blue Star Nursery, a gardening centre located in Windsor, Ontario. Don't miss our conversation with Guy Ruccolo, owner of Blue Star Nursery.Guy answers a few of our questions:
Guy said the hot trend this year is fruit trees, especially the four-in-one fruit tree! He also recommended applying nematodes on your lawn to address grubs. The Windsor area is currently being hit hard by them. Mosquito Barrier (made with Californian Garlic Juice) is amazing for treating your yard for mosquitos and can even help with Japanese beetles. Here are Guy's plant recommendations for 2022:
You can find Blue Star Nursery online at www.bluestarnursery.com. To learn more about how to apply nematodes, listen to our episode Applying Nematodes. 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. And Matthew Dressing is a horticulturist and landscape designer. He owns Natural Affinity Garden Design, a landscape design and garden maintenance firm servicing Toronto and the Eastern GTA. Together, Joanne and Matthew do their best to bring you interesting, relevant and helpful topics. Their goal is to help you keep your garden as low maintenance as possible. Don't forget to check out Down the Garden Path on your favourite podcast app and subscribe! | |||
| 28 Feb 2022 | Ask Us Anything! | 00:58:22 | |
This week on the Down the Garden Path podcast, landscape designers Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing wrap up February's houseplant theme with an "Ask Us Anything!" episode. Tune in to hear Joanne and Matt respond to listener questions.Some of the questions listeners asked:
Resources mentioned during the show:
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. And Matthew Dressing is a horticulturist and landscape designer. He owns Natural Affinity Garden Design, a landscape design and garden maintenance firm servicing Toronto and the Eastern GTA. Together, Joanne and Matthew do their best to bring you interesting, relevant and helpful topics. Their goal is to help you keep your garden as low maintenance as possible. | |||
| 13 Aug 2024 | Applying Nematodes | 00:59:56 | |
In this encore presentation of Down the Garden Path, landscape designers Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing discuss applying nematodes, the primary method homeowners in Canada use to control pests such as grubs on our lawns. It’s been a heavy Japanese beetle season in the Greater Toronto Area, with a lot of damage done to the foliage of our trees and shrubs. As the hot days of summer come to an end, so will they! However, where there are Japanese beetles, there are white grubs. And right now, those white grubs are beginning to hatch and eat our lawns, growing and becoming next summer’s Japanese beetles. So, what can we do? This is where applying nematodes comes in.
If you've been seeing the effects of Japanese beetles in your garden this summer, you won't want to miss this podcast. We offer lots of great tips to help your garden and lawn thrive into the fall and prepare it for success in the spring. Where to find us:Find Down the Garden Path on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube: @downthegardenpathpodcast. You can also email your questions and comments to downthegardenpathpodcast@hotmail.com, or connect with Joanne and Matthew via their websites: Joanne Shaw: down2earth.ca Matthew Dressing: naturalaffinity.ca Other helpful resources:Applying Nematodes (blog post) Down the Garden Path PodcastOn Down The Garden Path, professional landscape designer Joanne Shaw discusses 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. She does her best to bring you interesting, relevant and useful topics to help you keep your garden as low maintenance as possible. In Down the Garden Path: A Step-By-Step Guide to Your Ontario Garden, Joanne and fellow landscape designer Matthew Dressing 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. Get your copy today on Amazon. Don't forget to check out Down the Garden Path on your favourite podcast app and subscribe! You can now catch the podcast on YouTube. | |||
| 29 Jul 2020 | Shrubs: Nativars | 01:01:22 | |
In this week's episode of Down the Garden Path, we reach the end of our month-long discussion on deciduous and evergreen shrubs. Each week in July, we discussed a variety of shrub-related topics including how to prune your shrubs and new and noteworthy deciduous and evergreen shrubs. On this week’s podcast, we continue the discussion about shrubs with a look at nativars. Tune into this week's podcast as we discuss nativars.Here are some of the topics we cover this week:
Tune in each Monday in August on the Down The Garden Path podcast as we shift our focus from growing deciduous and evergreen shrubs to trees. Join us on August 3rd for our first episode featuring native trees. 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. You can follow Joanne on Facebook and Instagram for daily inspiration for your home's landscape and garden all year long. And Matthew Dressing is a horticulturist and landscape designer. He owns Natural Affinity Garden Design, a landscape design and garden maintenance firm servicing Toronto and the Eastern GTA. Together, Joanne and Matthew do their best to bring you interesting, relevant and helpful topics. Their goal is to help you keep your garden as low maintenance as possible. | |||
| 21 Jul 2021 | Ninebarks | 00:58:46 | |
This month on Down the Garden Path, landscape designers Matthew Dressing and Joanne Shaw explore some of the most popular shrubs to grace nursery benches and gardens. In this episode, they discuss the many colourful ninebarks, their multiple seasons of interest, and the different cultivars which fit perfectly in any garden. Tune in to learn more about how you can include ninebarks in your garden.Matt and Joanne review:
Enjoy last year's Down the Garden Path podcast episodes on shrubs:Upcoming Shows:August: A month dedicated to flowering trees, including standard trees, flowering dogwoods and large flowering trees. About Your HostsEach week on Down The Garden Path podcast, 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. And Matthew Dressing is a horticulturist and landscape designer. He owns Natural Affinity Garden Design, a landscape design and garden maintenance firm servicing Toronto and the Eastern GTA. Together, Joanne and Matthew do their best to bring you interesting, relevant and helpful topics. Their goal is to help you keep your garden as low maintenance as possible. | |||
| 15 Apr 2024 | New Plants and Products for 2024 with Katie Dubow | 00:34:59 | |
This week on Down the Garden Path, Joanne Shaw welcomes Garden Media's Katie Dubow back to the podcast to discuss new plants and products for 2024. About Katie Dubow Katie Dubow is the president of Garden Media Group, a women-owned and run public relations firm specializing in the home and garden industry and celebrating its 31st year in business. Author of the annual Garden Trends Report, Dubow travels the world scouting and presenting garden trends to audiences from Italy to Chicago. Some of the questions and topics covered:
Follow Katie Dubow online: Facebook: KatieGardenGirl Instagram: KatieGMG Find Garden Media Group online: Website: www.gardenmediagroup.com Facebook: Garden Media Group Instagram: GardenMedia Pinterest: GardenMedia LinkedIn: Garden Media Group Twitter: GardenMedia Find Down the Garden Path online: Find Down the Garden Path on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube: @downthegardenpathpodcast. You can also email your questions and comments to downthegardenpathpodcast@hotmail.com, or connect with Joanne via her website: down2earth.ca Down the Garden Path PodcastOn Down The Garden Path, professional landscape designer Joanne Shaw discusses 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. She does her best to bring you interesting, relevant and useful topics to help you keep your garden as low maintenance as possible. In Down the Garden Path: A Step-By-Step Guide to Your Ontario Garden, Joanne and fellow landscape designer Matthew Dressing distill their horticultural and design expertise and combined experiences in helping others create and maintain thriving gardens into one easy-to-read monthly reference guide. Get your copy today on Amazon. Don't forget to check out Down the Garden Path on your favourite podcast app and subscribe! You can now catch the podcast on YouTube. | |||
| 18 Oct 2022 | Heirloom Heather Flower Farm | 00:58:53 | |
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 to create a cut flower garden of your own. About Heirloom Heather Flower FarmHeirloom Heather started as a small-scale flower farm in 2021. Dedicated to farming sustainably and using organic methods, they preach low waste and try to be as eco-conscious as they can when making decisions about the farm. Currently, they are learning about soil health, low tiling, and regenerative farming. Named after the Scottish flower, Heather is the Head Farmer Florist at Heirloom Heather. She does all the planning, prepping, and planting. She has a background in Graphic Design and loves to make stunning colour palettes with flowers. In 2020, newly sober Heather found solace in gardening when the world was basically turned upside down. Heirloom Heather started as a way to spread happiness and joy through flowers when people needed it most. Tune in to hear Joanne and Matt speak with Heather Moran of Heirloom Heather Flower Farm.Here are some of the questions and topics covered in this episode:
Other resources discussed: www.johnnyseeds.com Where to find Heather:
Down the Garden Path PodcastEach 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. | |||
| 08 Mar 2022 | Growing Herbs with Julia Dimakos | 00:59:21 | |
This month on Down the Garden Path podcast, landscape designers Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing begin their month-long look at edible gardening. In this episode, all-star guest Julia Dimakos returns to the podcast to discuss growing herbs and her new e-book How to Plan a Vegetable Garden, available now at www.juliadimakos.com About Julia Dimakos Julia gardens in 7000 square feet in Mono, Ontario, continuing in the formal kitchen garden style. She has been growing vegetables and writing about gardening for over 10 years and has been published in Canadian Organic Grower magazine twice. She loves to inspire others to have their own vegetable gardens by showing them the simpler side of gardening. She enjoys teaching others, speaking, and holding workshops. You can read her blog at www.juliadimakos.com. Don't miss our conversation on growing herbs with Gardening Girl Julia Dimakos.Some of the questions and topics covered:
You can find Julia online here, as well as on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest. You can also listen to past Down the Garden Path podcasts featuring Julia: 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. And Matthew Dressing is a horticulturist and landscape designer. He owns Natural Affinity Garden Design, a landscape design and garden maintenance firm servicing Toronto and the Eastern GTA. Together, Joanne and Matthew do their best to bring you interesting, relevant and helpful topics. Their goal is to help you keep your garden as low maintenance as possible. | |||
| 10 Nov 2023 | Grow Fruit Trees Fast | 00:31:14 | |
In this episode of Down the Garden Path, Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing welcome back author Susan Poizner, this time to discuss her new book Grow Fruit Trees Fast: A Beginner's Guide. Susan is an urban orchardist, the creator of the fruit tree care training website OrchardPeople.com, and the author of the fruit tree care book Growing Urban Orchards. She has trained thousands of new growers worldwide in her in-person workshops and online courses. Susan is an ISA Certified Arborist and an instructor of Fruit Production at Niagara College in Ontario, Canada. Here are some of the topics covered in this episode:
Where you can find Susan Poizner:
Find Down the Garden Path on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube: @downthegardenpathpodcast. You can also email your questions and comments to downthegardenpathpodcast@hotmail.com, or connect with Joanne and Matthew via their websites: Joanne Shaw: down2earth.ca Matthew Dressing: naturalaffinity.ca Resources mentioned during the showGrow Fruit Trees Fast: A Beginner's Guide Down the Garden Path Podcast: Growing Exotic Apples with Susan Poizner Down the Garden Path: A Step-By-Step Guide to Your Ontario Garden Down the Garden Path PodcastEach 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 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. Don't forget to check out Down the Garden Path on your favourite podcast app and subscribe to be notified of new content. You can now catch the podcast on YouTube and Patreon. | |||
| 05 Nov 2019 | Ask us Anything! | 00:58:59 | |
The Down the Garden Path podcast is five years old this month! In this special "Ask Us Anything" episode, Joanne and Matthew celebrated by inviting listeners to write or call in with their gardening, landscape design or podcast-related questions. Some of the topics they covered include:
Thanks to everyone who called or wrote in with questions and well-wishes. In the spirit of celebration, each listener who reached out was entered to win a prize and five prizes were awarded. Each week on the Down the Garden Path podcast, professional landscape designers Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing share tips and to-dos for your garden, answer listener questions and share with you what’s happening in the garden centre and in their own gardens. | |||
| 12 Feb 2019 | Not Far From the Tree | 00:57:36 | |
Not Far From The Tree is a Toronto-based fruit picking project inspired by 3 things: the spirit of sharing, the desire to give back to our community, and a passion for environmentally sustainable living. Lucus Meilach-Boston from 'Not far from the Tree' joins us on this episode to discuss the amazing efforts local volunteers are doing to harvest and protect Toronto's fruit trees. Torontonians with fruit-bearing trees often have fruit to spare – everything from apples, pears and grapes to sumac, apricots and elderberry! Once they register their tree, we’ll pick their fruit and divvy up the harvest 3 ways: between the homeowner, our volunteers, and local food banks, shelters and community kitchens. Fruit Trees bring us Spring flowers, shade, shelter for wildlife, a sustainable source of food. These are just a few of ways fruiting trees and shrubs add value to nature and our urban landscapes. In Toronto however, losing these beautiful specimens and the added value they provide Torontonians is becoming a reality. We learn how Not Far From the Tree is taking steps to address the health of Toronto's Fruit trees. They are partnering with Susan Poizner from https://orchardpeople.com/ to create a program of educating volunteers and homeowners about Fruit Tree care. Find out more info here: https://notfarfromthetree.org/orchardstewards/ We enjoy doing Down the Garden path each week to bring you interesting, relevant and helpful topics to help you achieve a great garden or learn about environmental topics. We learn right along with you from each other, from our research or from the guests like Lucas, that join us here. | |||
| 06 Apr 2022 | Organic Pest Control with David Smorenburg | 00:59:36 | |
This month on Down the Garden Path podcast, landscape designers Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing gear up for spring by taking a look at some garden products that will help you enjoy your garden to the fullest. In this episode, they welcome David Smorenburg from Upper Canada Organic Products to discuss their line of pest control products. About David Smorenburg and Upper Canada Organic Products David is the founder and president of Upper Canada Organic Products, Inc. Upper Canada Organic Products (U C Organic Products) has been a family-run business since 2002. They register, develop, and distribute the least-toxic pest control products in Canada and are a pioneer in bringing plant-based pest control products to Canada. Don't miss Joanne and Matt's conversation on organic pest control with David Smorenburg.Some of the questions and topics covered:
You can find Upper Canada Organic Products online here, as well as on Facebook. 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. And Matthew Dressing is a horticulturist and landscape designer. He owns Natural Affinity Garden Design, a landscape design and garden maintenance firm servicing Toronto and the Eastern GTA. Together, Joanne and Matthew do their best to bring you interesting, relevant and helpful topics. Their goal is to help you keep your garden as low maintenance as possible. | |||
| 07 Dec 2021 | Looking Back at 2021 | 00:59:08 | |
In the second-last episode of Down the Garden Path for the year, Matt and Joanne take a look back at the popular topics and guests of 2021. Don't miss Joanne and Matt as they take a look back at the popular topics and guests of 2021 on the Down the Garden Path podcast. They also answer some listener questions:
Looking for the perfect gift for the gardener on your list? Tune in next week for Garden Gift Ideas. 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. And Matthew Dressing is a horticulturist and landscape designer. He owns Natural Affinity Garden Design, a landscape design and garden maintenance firm servicing Toronto and the Eastern GTA. Together, Joanne and Matthew do their best to bring you interesting, relevant and helpful topics. Their goal is to help you keep your garden as low maintenance as possible. | |||
| 26 Oct 2017 | Daniel Eggert from Harris Seeds | 00:52:53 | |
Daniel Eggert, the brand manager for Harris Seeds joins us for this episode of Down the Garden Path. Do you know how seeds get chosen to go to market? Neither did we until Daniel taught us all about it! We discuss the overview of seed packaging. The difference between non-organic and organic seeds. The most popular seed varieties being sold at Harris Seeds. The plants you should be planting in the Fall. What the best way to order your seeds is and more on this episode.
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| 09 Jul 2018 | Garden Walk Buffalo | 01:00:10 | |
We were very excited to talk to Jim Charlier all about the Garden Walk Buffalo. Jim is a well-traveled garden tourism advocate/consultant, having been a seven-term past president of Garden Walk Buffalo, America’s largest garden tour. Jim has written a gardening blog since 2008, covering his garden travels, the great gardens of Buffalo Niagara, and his own garden successes and failures. We learned about Garden Walk Buffalos early beginning as a local block party and how it has grown to the largest tour of its kind in North America with over 400 gardens. This year's free self-guided tour is July 28- 29. Jim explained many of the features of the tour, how the homeowners participate, how attendees can download the free map. Where to pick up the shuttles so that you can maximize your time and see as many gardens as possible. Tune in now to learn more and to plan your visit.
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| 23 Sep 2023 | What's Wrong with My Garden? | 00:40:58 | |
In this episode of Down the Garden Path, landscape designers Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing discuss some of the pest, disease, and environmental issues which may be causing your fall garden to be a little lacklustre this year. Here are some of the topics covered in this episode:
Find Down the Garden Path on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube: @downthegardenpathpodcast. You can also email your questions and comments to downthegardenpathpodcast@hotmail.com, or connect with Joanne and Matthew via their websites: Joanne Shaw: down2earth.ca Matthew Dressing: naturalaffinity.ca Resources mentioned during the showDown the Garden Path: A Step-By-Step Guide to Your Ontario Garden Down the Garden Path PodcastEach 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 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. Don't forget to check out Down the Garden Path on your favourite podcast app and subscribe to be notified of new content. You can now catch the podcast on YouTube and Patreon. | |||
| 08 Apr 2024 | Hellebores with Dawn Golloher from Gardens Plus | 00:40:04 | |
In this episode of Down the Garden Path, landscape designer Joanne Shaw discusses hellebores with returning guest Dawn Golloher from Gardens Plus. Dawn Golloher is the owner-operator of Gardens Plus, an independent garden centre in Peterborough, Ontario, specializing in easy-care perennials. Here are some of the questions and topics covered in this episode:
Find Gardens Plus online:
Find Down the Garden Path online: Find Down the Garden Path on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube: @downthegardenpathpodcast. You can also email your questions and comments to downthegardenpathpodcast@hotmail.com, or connect with Joanne via her website: down2earth.ca Down the Garden Path PodcastOn Down The Garden Path, professional landscape designer Joanne Shaw discusses 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. She does her best to bring you interesting, relevant and useful topics to help you keep your garden as low maintenance as possible. Her book Down the Garden Path: A Step-By-Step Guide to Your Ontario Garden is available on Amazon. Don't forget to check out Down the Garden Path on your favourite podcast app and subscribe! You can now catch the podcast on YouTube. | |||
| 30 Apr 2020 | Lawn Care: Lawn Alternatives | 00:58:57 | |
This month on Down The Garden Path, we're talking all about lawn alternatives. When it comes to our lawns, we’re all a bit fanatical. So, this month we’re going discuss what it takes to get a beautiful lawn. From lawn care 101, to artificial turf, pest and diseases, and everything in between, we’ve got the tips and tricks to get you growing a green oasis that’ll make you the talk of the neighbourhood. Tune into this week's podcast to learn more about lawn alternatives.
Join us in May for our "Gardening Beyond the Basics" themed podcasts:
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. We do our best to bring you interesting, relevant and helpful topics to help you keep your garden as low maintenance as possible. | |||
| 20 Apr 2021 | Lawn Fertilizer | 00:59:32 | |
This week on Down the Garden Path, landscape designers Matthew Dressing and Joanne Shaw continue their month-long discussion on lawn care by looking at the different lawn fertilizers and what works best when. Joanne and Matt answer your questions on lawn fertilizer.
Matt and Joanne discuss the importance of renewing the “good” organisms in your lawn by using good quality top dressers, compost or manure. And how that helps organic fertilizers succeed. They also answer a listener's question about if we should mix fertilizers with grass seed when spreading it. Tune in to hear Matt's success stories about revamping a lawn with synthetic fertilizer and once established, successfully transitioning to organic fertilizers. More Down the Garden Path Lawn Care episodes About Your HostsEach week on Down The Garden Path podcast, 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. And Matthew Dressing is a horticulturist and landscape designer. He owns Natural Affinity Garden Design, a landscape design and garden maintenance firm servicing Toronto and the Eastern GTA. Together, Joanne and Matthew do their best to bring you interesting, relevant and helpful topics. Their goal is to help you keep your garden as low maintenance as possible. Thanks for listening! Don't forget to check out Down the Garden Path on your favourite podcast app and subscribe! | |||
| 17 May 2019 | Gardening Question Period | 00:58:07 | |
We created a Gardening Question Period. Each week on Down the Garden Path we discuss down to earth tips and advice for your plants, gardens and landscapes. As Landscape Designers and gardeners we think it is important and possible to have great gardens that are low maintenance. Thanks for joining us here. On this episode Matthew and Joanne answer listener questions. We had a jam-packed Gardening Question period answering listener questions to help them with their low maintenance gardens. Questions about pruning, planting veggies, lawns of course and even insects. Tune in for this really informative show. | |||
| 29 Oct 2019 | November in the Garden | 00:59:55 | |
It's November in the garden! As the gardening season slows down, there are still a few gardening chores to accomplish. 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 you need to do in your garden this month so you'll see the results you want in the spring. Each month in our “In the Garden” podcast, professional landscape designers Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing do their best to help you keep your garden as low maintenance as possible. In this episode of Down the Garden Path, we share tips and to-dos for your November garden, answer listener questions and share with you what's happening in the garden centre and in our own gardens. Some of the topics we cover this month:
As landscape designers and gardeners themselves, Joanne and Matthew think it is important and possible to have great gardens that are low maintenance and we want to help you make it happen. | |||
| 29 Jun 2021 | Perennial Geraniums | 00:59:24 | |
This week on Down the Garden Path, landscape designers Matthew Dressing and Joanne Shaw wrapped up their deep dive into some of the colourful and resilient staples of the perennial garden with a look at a favourite of many, perennial geraniums, or cranesbills. Tune in to learn more about perennial geraniums.Matt and Joanne explain:
Matt gives a great overview of :
Check out Joanne’s pictures of her Rozanne and the cuttings she shared with a neighbour in the past two years on the @downthegardenpathpodcast Instagram account. Joanne and Matt answered listener questions about Rozanne: Is it invasive? Does it grow in the shade? Tune in to hear their answers to these questions and more! Enjoy past perennial Down the Garden Path podcast episodes:Perennials: Ornamental Grasses Perennials: Attracting Beneficial Insects Upcoming Shows:July: A month dedicated to popular shrubs, including hydrangeas, ninebarks and weigela. August: A month dedicated to flowering trees, including standard trees, flowering dogwoods and large flowering trees. About Your HostsEach week on Down The Garden Path podcast, 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. And Matthew Dressing is a horticulturist and landscape designer. He owns Natural Affinity Garden Design, a landscape design and garden maintenance firm servicing Toronto and the Eastern GTA. Together, Joanne and Matthew do their best to bring you interesting, relevant and helpful topics. Their goal is to help you keep your garden as low maintenance as possible. | |||
| 02 May 2023 | Monrovia's Design Trends with Katie Tamony | 00:59:20 | |
In this episode of Down the Garden Path podcast, landscape designers Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing welcome Katie Tamony of Monrovia to discuss Monrovia’s design trends and new plants for 2023. About Katie Tamony Katie’s official title is Chief Marketing Officer, but she really is Monrovia's chief storyteller and trendspotter. She has more than 25 years of expertise in the lifestyle and leisure industries. Here are some of the questions and topics covered in this episode:
Timeless Design Trends and Must-Have Plants
Find Monrovia online:
Resources mentioned during the showDown the Garden Path: A Step-By-Step Guide to Your Ontario Garden Down the Garden Path PodcastEach 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. Don't forget to check out Down the Garden Path on your favourite podcast app and subscribe! You can now catch the podcast on YouTube and Patreon. | |||
| 03 Mar 2021 | Your Hardscaping Questions Answered | 00:59:12 | |
Goodbye February and welcome to March! With spring just a few weeks away and warmer weather creeping into our forecasts, we're looking ahead to landscape design projects. This week on Down the Garden Path, landscape designers Matthew Dressing and Joanne Shaw answer your (many!) hardscaping questions. Tune into this week's podcast and get Your Hardscaping Questions Answered.Matt and Joanne fielded a record 22 questions during their hour-long show. They start by answering the basics:
Matt and Joanne also answered listener questions about:
About Your HostsEach week on Down The Garden Path podcast, 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. And Matthew Dressing is a horticulturist and landscape designer. He owns Natural Affinity Garden Design, a landscape design and garden maintenance firm servicing Toronto and the Eastern GTA. Together, Joanne and Matthew do their best to bring you interesting, relevant and helpful topics. Their goal is to help you keep your garden as low maintenance as possible. | |||
| 20 Feb 2024 | Looking Back: Water Features for the Garden | 00:55:19 | |
Before Down the Garden Path became a podcast, it was a weekly radio show on RealityRadio101.com! In this "vintage" episode from April 2017, Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing discuss some common misconceptions about water features with Aquascape's Ernest Williams. They also talk about the different liner options and how to calculate the correct size pump. (Yes, they had to do some MATH!) Tune in to learn more about what Aquascape has to offer. Find Down the Garden Path on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube: @downthegardenpathpodcast. Email your questions and comments to downthegardenpathpodcast@hotmail.com, or connect with Joanne via her website: down2earth.ca Down the Garden Path PodcastOn Down The Garden Path, professional landscape designer Joanne Shaw discusses 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. She does her best to bring you interesting, relevant and useful topics to help you keep your garden as low maintenance as possible. In Down the Garden Path: A Step-By-Step Guide to Your Ontario Garden, Joanne and fellow landscape designer Matthew Dressing 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. Get your copy today on Amazon. Don't forget to check out Down the Garden Path on your favourite podcast app and subscribe! You can now catch the podcast on YouTube. | |||
| 20 May 2022 | May in the Garden | 00:56:01 | |
This week, we present an encore presentation of our May in the Garden podcast from 2019. Tune in to hear Joanne and Matthew discuss the do's and don'ts for your May garden.May in the garden brings many inspiring ideas, but there are many not-so-inspiring May to-do's you will also need to get done to give your garden its best chance in the season ahead. Joanne and Matthew discuss garden trends which feature some of May’s Stars of the Garden. The Stars of the Garden plants for this month happen to be the plants of the year for 2019: Hosta, Shrub, Perennial and Annual of 2019. 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. And Matthew Dressing is a horticulturist and landscape designer. He owns Natural Affinity Garden Design, a landscape design and garden maintenance firm servicing Toronto and the Eastern GTA. Together, Joanne and Matthew do their best to bring you interesting, relevant and helpful topics. Their goal is to help you keep your garden as low maintenance as possible. | |||
| 12 Mar 2019 | Dreaming Of Spring | 01:00:21 | |
Spring is in the air and Matthew and I have been dreaming about spring. Tonight we’re talking about my visit to Canada Blooms, new plant introductions from Proven Winners and Bloomin Easy plants for 2019, what to do in the garden after the snow melts, and more. Each week on Down the Garden Path we discuss down to earth tips and advice for your plants, gardens and landscapes. As Landscape Designers and gardeners we think it is important and possible to have great gardens that are low maintenance. Thanks for joining us here. Remember to check out Down the Garden Path on your favourite podcast app and subscribe. | |||
| 23 Jan 2024 | Looking Back: The Orchid Whisperer | 00:56:25 | |
Before Down the Garden Path became a podcast, it was a weekly radio show on RealityRadio101.com! In this "vintage" episode from February 2016, Joanne Shaw discusses orchid growing tips and tricks with Bruce Rogers, owner of Bruce Rogers Orchids and author of The Orchid Whisperer. They also discuss tips for beginners, as well as a few of Bruce's favourite tricks. Listen and enjoy! Find Down the Garden Path on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube: @downthegardenpathpodcast. You can also email your questions and comments to downthegardenpathpodcast@hotmail.com, or connect with Joanne via her website: down2earth.ca Down the Garden Path PodcastOn Down The Garden Path, professional landscape designer Joanne Shaw discusses 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. She does her best to bring you interesting, relevant and useful topics to help you keep your garden as low maintenance as possible. In Down the Garden Path: A Step-By-Step Guide to Your Ontario Garden, Joanne and fellow landscape designer Matthew Dressing 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. Get your copy today on Amazon. | |||
| 30 Jul 2019 | August in the Garden | 00:59:04 | |
August can be a challenging month in the garden. The heat is unrelenting and the weeds are growing strong. It’s right around now that our plants can start to look a little tired or spent, and as gardeners, it can be a difficult time because we may be a little tired and spent ourselves! In our weekly Down the Garden Path podcast, we discuss down-to-earth tips and advice for your plants, gardens and landscapes. As professional landscape designers and passionate gardeners, Matthew Dressing and I believe it’s not just important but possible to have beautiful gardens that are low maintenance. We know you love your gardens, too, and want to help you make it happen. We are loving our regular feature, the monthly “In the Garden” episode. In this last show of each month, we discuss the tasks you should undertake in the garden the next month. We do our best to give you all the information you’ll need to keep your garden thriving and as low maintenance as possible. In this episode, Matthew and I talk about the do’s and don’ts for the challenging August garden. From watering tips to weed and insect control, we cover it all. | |||
| 25 Jun 2018 | July in the Garden | 01:00:29 | |
There is a lot to do in the July Garden and there is a lot to enjoy, that is what we are talking about in this episode of Down the Garden Path. Our monthly feature shows are really meant to help you keep your garden as low maintenance as possible. Tune in to hear about a variety of todo's in your garden this month. Some of the highlights:
And to continue the watering and fertilizing theme we also discussed vegetable gardens Time to prepare for Japanese Beetle's, they are coming! And last but not least, we discussed the Stars of the July Garden. Some wonderful plants add to your garden to extend the blooms throughout the season. Matthew and I are sure there is something in this show for everyone!
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| 07 Jun 2019 | Climate Change in Our Community | 00:59:06 | |
This week on Down the Garden Path, we tackle a more serious topic: Climate Change in Our Community. Entrepreneur Richard Gauder joins Matthew and Joanne for a candid conversation on how climate change is affecting our community. Richard and his wife Sandi are co-founders of CMS Web Solutions. They use gardening as a way to counter the effects of electronics and their endless hours at the office. For over 25 years, climate change has been Richard's hobby. Five years ago, he was approached by the Region of Durham to serve on the Durham Region Roundtable on Climate Change. This group consists of senior Regional political leaders, senior staff and local climate and industry experts. They advise the Region on climate mitigation and adaptation. For three years, Richard served as Chair, leaving only after a move to Kawartha Lakes. In this episode, we discuss the greenhouse effect and how changing weather patterns affect our community. Richard feels that sometimes politics need to be put aside and that now is the time for individual action. It is his belief that there is magic in keeping it simple and we need to stop waiting for government to fix things. Individuals need to act. Richard and Sandi Gauder took this sentiment to heart and founded Plant a Forest. This new grassroots organization focuses on replacing trees to combat flooding from runoff. These are trees we've lost due to housing developments, expanding agricultural lands, disease and bugs. To learn more about Richard and Sandi's venture, follow along at www.plantaforest.ca. We hope you enjoy our conversation.
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| 18 Dec 2019 | All About Christmas | 00:58:21 | |
In this week’s episode of Down the Garden Path, we’re talking all about Christmas! 'Tis the season to give and receive holiday plants. But how do you care for them? In this podcast, we provide an in-depth overview of some of the most popular plants of the season including Christmas Cactus, Cyclamen, Poinsettia, Amaryllis and Norfolk Pines to name a few. Here are some of the questions Joanne and Matthew tackle in this week's episode of Down the Garden Path:
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. We do our best to bring you interesting, relevant and helpful topics to help you keep your garden as low maintenance as possible. | |||
| 11 Dec 2019 | Gifts for Gardeners | 00:59:28 | |
With the holidays fast approaching, it’s sometimes hard to find that special gift for the gardener in your life. What do they already have? Are they missing anything? What do they want for their garden? In this week’s episode of Down The Garden Path, we take a look at some gift ideas and garden must-haves for the garden enthusiast in your life. Joining the conversation is Kristin Beane Sullivan, Executive Managing Editor of Garden Gate magazine. In her 23 years at Garden Gate magazine, Kristin Beane Sullivan has been lucky enough to meet hundreds (if not thousands) of gardeners. In fact, she has toured and photographed countless gardens and learns something from every single gardener she meets. Kristin comes from a long line of farmers and gardeners. Today, she tends an ever-expanding urban garden with her husband and three teenagers, who she admits are a lot more help in the garden than she was at their age. Garden Gate magazine is one of the most widely distributed magazines devoted strictly to gardening in North America, arriving in readers’ mailboxes and on newsstands six times each year. It offers expert advice on garden design, how-to plant information, inspiring backyard projects plenty of reader-shared garden tips both in print and through its website and social media channels. Looking for a special gift for the gardener in your life?Read Garden Gate's favorite gardening products. Where to find Garden Gate magazine online:Website: www.gardengatemagazine.com Remember to check out Down the Garden Path on your favourite podcast app and subscribe. | |||
| 23 Sep 2020 | Extending Your Gardening Season | 01:00:59 | |
This month on Down the Garden Path, we look at how to extend your gardening season. We'll discuss everything from fall annuals to fall bulbs, lifting your summer bulbs, and bringing in your tropical plants. We'll answer your questions on fall lawn care, as well as provide tips and tricks on getting the most out of the fall season. In this week's episode, we take a look at fall annuals. Tune into this week's podcast to learn more about how to extend your gardening season with fall annuals.Some topics we cover in this week's podcast:
Stay tuned in the coming weeks for our tips on lifting your tropical bulbs and bringing in your houseplants. 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. And Matthew Dressing is a horticulturist and landscape designer. He owns Natural Affinity Garden Design, a landscape design and garden maintenance firm servicing Toronto and the Eastern GTA. Together, Joanne and Matthew do their best to bring you interesting, relevant and helpful topics. Their goal is to help you keep your garden as low maintenance as possible. | |||
| 18 Jun 2024 | From Seed to Spoon & GrowBot | 00:59:27 | |
AI has moved into the world of gardening! In this encore presentation of Down the Garden Path podcast, Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing speak with Dale and Carrie Spoonemore, creators of the new garden AI app, Seed to Spoon. Here are some of the questions and topics covered in this episode:
Find From Seed to Spoon online:
Find Down the Garden Path on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube: @downthegardenpathpodcast. You can also email your questions and comments to downthegardenpathpodcast@hotmail.com, or connect with Joanne via her website: down2earth.ca Down the Garden Path PodcastOn Down The Garden Path, professional landscape designer Joanne Shaw discusses 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. She does her best to bring you interesting, relevant and useful topics to help you keep your garden as low maintenance as possible. In Down the Garden Path: A Step-By-Step Guide to Your Ontario Garden, Joanne and fellow landscape designer Matthew Dressing 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. Get your copy today on Amazon. | |||
| 09 Jul 2020 | Shrubs: Pruning | 01:00:33 | |
A new month means a new topic on the Down the Garden Path podcast. This month, we’re talking all about deciduous and evergreen shrubs. Join us each week as we discuss native shrubs, when and how to prune, and new and noteworthy deciduous and evergreen shrubs. On this week's podcast, we discuss pruning. Tune into this week's podcast as we discuss pruning deciduous and evergreen shrubs.Here are some of the topics we cover this week: Evergreens:
Deciduous:
Tune into the Down The Garden Path podcast each week in July for our discussions on deciduous and evergreen shrubs.
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. And Matthew Dressing is a horticulturist and landscape designer. He owns Natural Affinity Garden Design, a landscape design and garden maintenance firm servicing Toronto and the Eastern GTA. Together, Joanne and Matthew do their best to bring you interesting, relevant and helpful topics. Their goal is to help you keep your garden as low maintenance as possible. Don't forget to check out Down the Garden Path on your favourite podcast app and subscribe! | |||
| 04 Feb 2020 | House Plants : Orchids | 00:58:57 | |
Welcome to the jungle, everyone! It's houseplant month on Down The Garden Path. In this week's episode, Terry Kennedy of the Southern Ontario Orchid Society joins us to discuss how to successfully grow orchids in your home. Terry lives in Vandorf, Ontario, with her husband Doug. During the cold and snowy winter months, they grow thousands of orchids in their greenhouse. Terry’s love of orchids began nearly 50 years ago when she and Doug stumbled across a meeting of the Southern Ontario Orchid Society while visiting a botanical garden. Over the years, they’ve grown nearly every genus of orchid and have exhibited their plants in numerous orchid shows from coast to coast. Throughout their orchid journey, Terry has been an active member of the Southern Ontario Orchid Society. She has served as their past-president and director for many years as well as serving on the organizing committee of the annual orchid show since its inception over 35 years ago. She is the immediate past chair of the Toronto Judging Center, the first American Orchid Society outside of the U.S. Tune into this week's podcast for Houseplants & Orchids 101 with our guest, Terry Kennedy.Terry joins us to discuss a variety of noteworthy topics:
For more information, visit www.orchidsinourtropics.com, www.soos.ca and www.canadianorchidcongress.ca. Houseplants & Orchids is just the beginning! Our houseplant theme continues for all of February. Join us later this month for more helpful houseplant podcasts on Succulents & Cacti, Air Plants, and Bonsai. Remember to check out Down the Garden Path on your favourite podcast app and subscribe. | |||
| 29 Aug 2023 | September in the Garden | 00:34:19 | |
In this episode of Down the Garden Path, landscape designers Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing provide some tips and tricks and do’s and don'ts for your September garden. Here are some of the topics covered in this episode:
Find Down the Garden Path on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube: @downthegardenpathpodcast. You can also email your questions and comments to downthegardenpathpodcast@hotmail.com, or connect with Joanne and Matthew via their websites: Joanne Shaw: down2earth.ca Matthew Dressing: naturalaffinity.ca Resources mentioned during the showDown the Garden Path: A Step-By-Step Guide to Your Ontario Garden Down the Garden Path PodcastEach 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 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. Don't forget to check out Down the Garden Path on your favourite podcast app and subscribe to be notified of new content. You can now catch the podcast on YouTube and Patreon. | |||
| 05 Jun 2018 | Vivacious Vines | 00:59:33 | |
All about vines in this episode of Down the Garden Path. We know you will find this episode very informative. We discuss perennial and annual vines. The difference between clinging and twining vines and some words of caution, especially about Virginia Creeper. We described flowering vines like Trumpet vine and Honeysuckle the many ways they can be used in the garden. Also some foliage vines for added interest in the garden. What is your favourite flowering vine? There is so much to discuss about vines that we are saving Clematis for its own show. Stay tuned for the Clematis show next week. | |||
| 08 Dec 2022 | How to Grow Amaryllis | 00:21:29 | |
In this episode of Down the Garden Path podcast, professional landscape designers Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing spotlight the classic holiday plant, Amaryllis. These easy-to-grow bulbs make great gifts or additions to your own holiday decorating. Some of the topics they cover in this episode:
Down the Garden Path PodcastEach 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. Don't forget to check out Down the Garden Path on your favourite podcast app and subscribe! | |||
| 30 Jan 2018 | Southern Ontario Orchid Society | 00:58:43 | |
All about Orchids on this episode of Down the Garden Path. Manuela Poli, is an avid gardener, plant collector and she holds a Garden Design certificate from George Brown College. She is also a member of the Southern Ontario Orchid Society. ( S.O.O.S.). Manuela joined us to talk about the Society and to discuss the upcoming Southern Ontario Orchid Society Show and Sale. It is taking place on February 10 & 11, 2018. It the largest Annual Public Orchid Show in Canada. It is being held at the Toronto Botanical Gardens. Tune in to hear all that is happening at the show this year. The Society's objectives are orchid & habitat conservation and education and each year the S.O.O.S. are able to contribute a large donation to support these causes. Manuela also shared some wonderful tips regarding growing Orchids, we are sure there is a lot to learn during this show. | |||
| 13 Sep 2018 | September in the Garden | 00:57:11 | |
Gardening chores change so much from month to month. Each week on Down the Garden Path Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing, discuss down to earth tips and advice for your plants, gardens and landscapes. In each episode, we bring you interesting, relevant and helpful topics to help you achieve a great garden. We learn right along with you from each other, from our research or from the guests that join us here. If you have a garden and want to make it as low maintenance as possible then this podcast is for you. As Landscape Designers and gardeners themselves, Joanne and Matthew think it is important and possible to have great gardens that are low maintenance and they want to help you make it happen. On this episode, we discuss garden to do's and don'ts in your September Garden. The best plants for September blooms for your gardens including a few lesser known but really interesting ones as well. We really enjoy providing you with as much information as possible to help you with your gardens. | |||
| 24 Jun 2019 | Shade: Beyond the Hosta | 00:57:03 | |
Shade gardening: just the thought of it makes some gardeners cringe, with images of hostas racing through their mind. In this episode of Down the Garden Path, Matthew and I shed some light on the issue of shade gardening, offering tips and looking at a variety of interesting shade plants to brighten the dark recesses of your yard. Believe it or not, it’s easy to have a beautiful, colourful shade garden filled with more than just hostas. Shade Gardening Tips and Defining ShadeWe discuss how to define shade, as it is different in every garden. What's the best way to measure it? We also highlight some tips for shade gardening, including:
What plants thrive in the shade?Matthew and I discuss what shrubs and perennials truly thrive when planted in the shade. Tune in to find out our favourites and learn more tips for planting in the shady areas of your garden.
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| 03 Nov 2017 | November in the Garden | 00:57:41 | |
In our regularly scheduled monthly episode on Down the Garden Path. Matthew and Joanne discuss many of the to do's in the November Garden. The importance of continuing to water, especially for newly planted evergreens. Now is also a good time to transplant trees, shrubs and perennials. Find out the perfect window for planting bulbs, some tips for Fall Lawn and Pond care... listen in for the details! | |||
| 09 Jan 2023 | The Landscape Ontario Podcast | 00:27:23 | |
In this episode of the Down the Garden Path podcast, landscape designers Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing answer questions about their book, Down the Garden Path: A Step-By-Step Guide to Your Ontario Garden, on The Landscape Ontario Podcast. In this monthly podcast, host Scott Barber has conversations on the issues shaping landscaping and horticulture in Ontario. Scott asks Matt and Joanne a variety of questions:
Listen to Landscape Ontario on the Down the Garden Path podcast:Landscape OntarioFind them online at www.landscapeontario.com, on Instagram, Facebook and YouTube. Down the Garden Path PodcastEach 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. | |||
| 09 Feb 2021 | Seed Starting 101 | 01:00:38 | |
This week, we're continuing our "growing inside" themed episodes of Down the Garden Path. In Seed Starting 101, Matthew Dressing and Joanne Shaw discuss starting seeds for beginners. In Seed Starting 101, Matt and Joanne review your steps for success:
Check out these other podcasts where Matt and Joanne have discussed seeds, seed-starting and seed saving.
Join us in the coming weeks for more "growing inside" themed podcasts:
About Your HostsEach 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. And Matthew Dressing is a horticulturist and landscape designer. He owns Natural Affinity Garden Design, a landscape design and garden maintenance firm servicing Toronto and the Eastern GTA. Together, Joanne and Matthew do their best to bring you interesting, relevant and helpful topics. Their goal is to help you keep your garden as low maintenance as possible. | |||
| 02 Nov 2023 | The Garden Bloggers Fling | 00:24:30 | |
In this episode of Down the Garden Path, Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing discuss Joanne's experience at the Garden Bloggers Fling in Philadelphia this September. The Garden Bloggers Fling began in Spring 2008 as a meet-up for garden bloggers across the U.S. It soon became a must-attend, blogger-run annual event (paused only by the pandemic) hosted by organizers in a different city each year. Today the Fling has grown — while the name has been shortened — to include content creators across the international online garden media. Joanne was one of almost 100 gardeners who visited 15 private and public gardens in three and a half days. Here are some of the topics covered in this episode:
Learn more at www.gardenfling.org or search online for #thefling. Find Down the Garden Path on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube: @downthegardenpathpodcast. You can also email your questions and comments to downthegardenpathpodcast@hotmail.com, or connect with Joanne and Matthew via their websites: Joanne Shaw: down2earth.ca Matthew Dressing: naturalaffinity.ca Resources mentioned during the showDown the Garden Path: A Step-By-Step Guide to Your Ontario Garden Down the Garden Path PodcastEach 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 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. Don't forget to check out Down the Garden Path on your favourite podcast app and subscribe to be notified of new content. You can now catch the podcast on YouTube and Patreon. | |||
| 13 Sep 2018 | Tree Care | 01:02:09 | |
There is always more to learn about trees. Each week on Down the Garden Path Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing, discuss down to earth tips and advice for your plants, gardens and landscapes. In each episode, we bring you interesting, relevant and helpful topics to help you achieve a great garden. We learn right along with you from each other, from our research or from the guests that join us here. If you have a garden and want to make it as low maintenance as possible then this podcast is for you. As Landscape Designers and gardeners themselves, Joanne and Matthew think it is important and possible to have great gardens that are low maintenance and they want to help you make it happen. On this episode, we welcome ISA Certified Arborist, Mark Irwin with Bartlett Tree Experts to talk about Tree care. We learn from Mark, some best practices and tips for planting and maintaining trees. A lot of practical info in this episode and we look forward to having Mark back again! | |||
| 15 Mar 2022 | Talking Tomatoes with Emma Biggs | 00:59:11 | |
In this episode of Down the Garden Path podcast, landscape designers Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing continue their month-long look at edible gardening by talking tomatoes with author, speaker, and blogger Emma Biggs. About Emma Biggs Emma is a 16-year-old gardener, author, speaker, and blogger. Her passion is growing tomatoes, trying new, unusual crops, and saving seeds. She has raised over 150 tomato varieties in her Toronto garden and loves to try weird and wonderful plant projects. Emma gives talks at libraries, seed exchanges, garden clubs, and garden events. She is the co-host of The Food Garden Life Show, and her latest book is Gardening with Emma. Don't miss Joanne and Matt's conversation on growing tomatoes with author Emma Biggs.Some of the questions and topics covered:
You can find Emma online here, as well as on Instagram. You can order her book Gardening with Emma here. 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. And Matthew Dressing is a horticulturist and landscape designer. He owns Natural Affinity Garden Design, a landscape design and garden maintenance firm servicing Toronto and the Eastern GTA. Together, Joanne and Matthew do their best to bring you interesting, relevant and helpful topics. Their goal is to help you keep your garden as low maintenance as possible. | |||
| 08 Mar 2018 | The Branch Ranch - Jill Pillsworth | 00:55:49 | |
Jill Pillsworth, horticulturist, gardener & co-founder of Warkworth Willow Works, joins us to talk all things living willow. Warkworth Willow Works is a division of The Branch Ranch formed in 2013 specializing in varieties of willow specifically for basketry and living willow projects. In this episode, Jill shares with us many creative ways to use living willow, both in the landscape and as well as in handmade crafts. Looking for inspiration for a new creative garden project? Journey with us into the world of living willow! | |||
| 29 Jul 2022 | Ask Us Anything! | 00:57:50 | |
This week on the Down the Garden Path podcast, landscape designers Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing answer listener questions in this "Ask Us Anything!" episode. Tune in to hear Joanne and Matt respond to listener questions.Some of the questions listeners asked:
Down the Garden Path PodcastEach 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. | |||
| 25 Nov 2017 | 3rd Anniversary Show | 01:00:20 | |
On this very special third anniversary episode of the Down the Garden Path podcast, my co-host Matthew Dressing and I discuss our favourite guests from the shows three year run so far. We discuss some upcoming guests that we look forward to talking to in the new year. We also take some phone calls from our live listeners. | |||
| 12 Mar 2023 | Spring Houseplant Care | 00:58:19 | |
With spring only a week away, our houseplants -- like us -- can tell the days are growing longer. This means it’ll soon be time to transplant, propagate, and prune our indoor jungle. This week on Down the Garden Path, Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing provide spring houseplant care tips to keep your collection looking fresh. Topics and questions discussed in this episode:
Resources mentioned during the showDown the Garden Path: A Step-By-Step Guide to Your Ontario Garden Down the Garden Path PodcastEach 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. | |||
| 07 Feb 2023 | From Seed to Spoon & GrowBot | 00:58:42 | |
AI has moved into the world of gardening! This week on the Down the Garden Path podcast, Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing speak with Dale and Carrie Spoonemore, creators of the new garden AI app, Seed to Spoon. Here are some of the questions and topics covered in this episode:
Find From Seed to Spoon online:
Down the Garden Path PodcastEach 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. Don't forget to check out Down the Garden Path on your favourite podcast app and subscribe! | |||
| 19 Nov 2019 | Oh, the Weather Outside | 00:57:36 | |
Oh, the weather outside! Snow came early to southern Ontario last week and put an abrupt end to many of our gardening chores. 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. We do our best to bring you interesting, relevant and helpful topics to help you keep your garden as low maintenance as possible. Here are some of the topics Joanne and Matthew tackle in "Oh, the Weather Outside," this week's episode of Down the Garden Path:
Thanks for joining us here! Remember to check out Down the Garden Path on your favourite podcast app and subscribe. | |||
| 02 Oct 2018 | Starting & Saving Seeds: Grow the Perfect Vegetables, Fruits, Herbs and Flowers for Your Garden | 00:56:50 | |
Have you ever been curious about saving seeds from your veggies or flowers? Do you like the idea of growing flowers from seeds that you harvested? We are and we do! Each week on Down the Garden Path Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing, discuss down to earth tips and advice for your plants, gardens and landscapes. In each episode, we bring you interesting, relevant and helpful topics to help you achieve a great garden. We learn right along with you from each other, from our research or from the guests that join us here. If you have a garden and want to make it as low maintenance as possible then this podcast is for you. As Landscape Designers and gardeners themselves, Joanne and Matthew think it is important and possible to have great gardens that are low maintenance and they want to help you make it happen. This week we talk with new Author Julie Thompson - Adolf about her new book Starting & Saving Seeds: Grow the Perfect Vegetables, Fruits, Herbs and Flowers for Your Garden. Given that it is Fall right now, we decided to focus on Seed Saving. Julie shared with some tips on distinguishing seeds that are 'Open' pollinated, heirloom or hybrid. We also chat about the benefits of ensuring ' pure' seeds and why that may not matter as much to the home gardener. Starting & Saving Seeds: Grow the Perfect Vegetables, Fruits, Herbs and Flowers for Your Garden, does a wonderful job outlining all the necessary information for a large variety of plants in a clear and concise way for all gardeners. We discuss tips for storing your seeds and learn all about Winter sowing. Tune in now to learn all about it.
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| 16 Jan 2018 | 2018 Landscape Designer Conference Recap | 00:54:17 | |
2018 Landscape Designers’ Conference Recap We welcome everyone back to our first show of 2018. The previous week Matthew and I attended the 2018 Landscape Designer Conference in Toronto. On this episode of Down the Garden Path, Matthew and I shared all about the Landscape Designer Conference. An annual conference that takes place in Toronto. It is then followed by 3 days for Landscape Ontario Congress, more workshops and a trade show for the industry. We chatted about the Speakers for the day and what inspiration they left us with. We also introduced a new segment to the show that we hope will be a hit. Down the Garden Path Design Dilemmas. Since we are both Landscape Designers we thought it would be nice to help others with their " Design Dilemma's" on the show. Feel free to email us your dilemma and you can even include a picture. instudio101@yahoo.com is the email for when we are in the studio otherwise you can get in touch: Twitter: @joanneshaw_d2e and @nataffinity Instagram: @joanneshaw_d2e and @naturalaffinitydesigns Facebook : http://bit.ly/Down2EarthPage | |||
| 10 Apr 2023 | Organic Pest Control with David Smorenburg | 00:59:36 | |
In this encore presentation of Down the Garden Path podcast, landscape designers Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing welcome David Smorenburg from Upper Canada Organic Products to discuss their line of pest control products. About David Smorenburg and Upper Canada Organic Products David is the founder and president of Upper Canada Organic Products, Inc. Upper Canada Organic Products (U C Organic Products) has been a family-run business since 2002. They register, develop, and distribute the least-toxic pest control products in Canada and are a pioneer in bringing plant-based pest control products to Canada. Some of the questions and topics covered:
You can find Upper Canada Organic Products online here, as well as on Facebook. Down the Garden Path PodcastEach 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. Don't forget to check out Down the Garden Path on your favourite podcast app and subscribe! You can now catch the podcast on YouTube and Patreon. | |||
| 25 Apr 2023 | May in the Garden | 00:58:43 | |
This week on the Down the Garden Path podcast, landscape designers Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing discuss the do’s and don’ts for your May garden. Here are some of the questions and topics covered in this episode:
Resources mentioned during the showDown the Garden Path: A Step-By-Step Guide to Your Ontario Garden Down the Garden Path PodcastEach 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. Don't forget to check out Down the Garden Path on your favourite podcast app and subscribe! You can now catch the podcast on YouTube and Patreon. | |||
| 06 May 2022 | Lilacs | 00:59:01 | |
This month on the Down the Garden Path podcast, landscape designers Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing take a look at flowering shrubs, a few classics and a couple of superstars you might be meeting for the first time. In this week's episode, they talk about lilacs. Tune in to hear Joanne and Matt talk about lilacs.Some of the questions and topics covered:
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| 28 Mar 2022 | Designing Your Edible Spaces | 00:56:14 | |
In this episode of Down the Garden Path podcast, landscape designers Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing continue March's edible gardening theme with a look into the ways we can make our vegetable gardens more beautiful with ideas on how to incorporate vegetables with our ornamental gardens. This week, learn how to make your vegetable gardens more beautiful and explore ways to incorporate vegetables with ornamental gardens.Some of the topics covered:
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. And Matthew Dressing is a horticulturist and landscape designer. He owns Natural Affinity Garden Design, a landscape design and garden maintenance firm servicing Toronto and the Eastern GTA. Together, Joanne and Matthew do their best to bring you interesting, relevant and helpful topics. Their goal is to help you keep your garden as low maintenance as possible. | |||
| 28 May 2019 | Trees in the June Garden | 01:00:17 | |
Our show this week is all about Trees in the June Garden. Each week on Down the Garden Path we discuss down to earth tips and advice for your plants, gardens and landscapes. As Landscape Designers and gardeners we think it is important and possible to have great gardens that are low maintenance. Thanks for joining us here. In our regular monthly " In the Garden " show we like to help you prepare for garden tasks in the upcoming month. We also know that timing is everything in the garden and there is a definite right time for many things, especially trees. Mark Irwin, arbourist with Bartlett Trees Experts joins us in the studio again. This time we focus on trees in the June Garden. As all our Spring Flowering trees, wind down their beautiful displays now is the time to pay closer attention to them. Mark gives some tips on what to look for as far as insects and diseases and the importance to get on a program so that the tree is treated for them at the correct time of year. We also discussed best practices to care for some of the most popular small evergreens and small trees in a typical garden. Boxwood, Yews and Japanese Maples. Have a listen and learn along with us on this timely show. | |||
| 12 Apr 2019 | Irrigation | 00:58:29 | |
Irrigation is a hot topic when it comes to low maintenance gardening. Each week on Down the Garden Path we discuss down to earth tips and advice for your plants, gardens and landscapes. As Landscape Designers and gardeners we think it is important and possible to have great gardens that are low maintenance. Thanks for joining us here. We were really excited to talk to Daniel Domingues General Manager at Aquaman Irrigation. on this episode of Down the Garden Path. Aquaman Irrigation is a family business that has been serving the Irrigation industry in Southern Ontario for over 35 years. Daniel is a LEED certified professional who has built numerous LEED construction projects and more recently has become WSIP certified. (Water Smart Irrigation Professional) He Daniel shared with us the basics of what is involved in an irrigation installation. He also shared the benefits of the New SMART controllers for irrigation systems. SMART controllers can be installed in existing systems to improve their efficiencies. Learning that irrigation can be part of a smart water conservation plan was really interesting. It was also interesting to learn about the trend away from hard surfaces into more gardens but also the need to be more efficient with our water conservation. Listen in to learn more about irrigation systems and Aquaman Irrigations and how they can help you. Remember to check out Down the Garden Path on your favourite podcast app and subscribe. | |||
| 18 Aug 2021 | Flowering Dogwoods | 00:59:34 | |
In this episode of Down the Garden Path, landscape designers Matthew Dressing and Joanne Shaw continue their month-long discussion on flowering trees with a look at some of the popular flowering species of dogwood. Tune in to learn more about how to successfully include dogwoods in your garden.Joanne and Matt discuss:
Past tree-related episodes:Upcoming Shows:August 23rd: Large Flowering Trees August 30th: Your Questions, Our Answers About Your HostsEach week on Down The Garden Path podcast, 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. And Matthew Dressing is a horticulturist and landscape designer. He owns Natural Affinity Garden Design, a landscape design and garden maintenance firm servicing Toronto and the Eastern GTA. Together, Joanne and Matthew do their best to bring you interesting, relevant and helpful topics. Their goal is to help you keep your garden as low maintenance as possible. | |||
| 04 Jun 2020 | Intro to Perennials | 01:00:54 | |
With a new month, comes a new topic on Down the Garden Path. This month we’re talking all about perennials! From caring for your perennials and new perennials for 2020, to peonies and ornamental grasses, this month we’ll have you growing back for more. Tonight, we begin our month-long perennial discussion with an intro to perennials, their care and what’s new for 2020. Tune into this week's podcast as we begin with an intro to perennials:
Join us in June for our "Perennial" themed podcasts.
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. We do our best to bring you interesting, relevant and helpful topics to help you keep your garden as low maintenance as possible. | |||
| 20 Nov 2018 | Garden Trends Report 2019 | 00:59:33 | |
Curious about the Garden Trends coming up for 2019? We are! Join Matthew Dressing and Joanne Shaw on Down the Garden Path where each week they enjoy discussing down to earth tips and advice for your plants, gardens and landscapes. In each episode, we bring you interesting, relevant and helpful topics to help you achieve a great garden. We learn right along with you from each other, from our research or from the guests that join us here. If you have a garden and want to make it as low maintenance as possible then this podcast is for you. As Landscape Designers and gardeners themselves, Joanne and Matthew think it is important and possible to have great gardens that are low maintenance and they want to help you make it happen. This week we are excited to discuss Garden Trends with Katie Dubow with The Garden Media Group. a public relations firm that specializes in the lawn and garden industry. Garden Media have put together once again their annual trends report which is one of the most widely read in the industry. Listen in as we discuss the Garden Trends for 2019. | |||
| 26 Mar 2019 | Our Urban Forests | 00:59:38 | |
“Our Urban forests are more than just the last remaining ravines and parks. Our urban forests include our street trees, trees and shrubs we plant in our yards, and our gardens. Today we’re joined Janet McKay of LEAF (Local Enhancement & Appreciation of Forests) to discuss their mission and their many programs on how to plant, care and support our urban forests.” We learn about our Urban Forests and the major threats that are affecting them. Janet explains that Urban Forests are not just found in large cities, they are also in suburban areas as well. There are a few things that individuals can do to help their communities. One of those simple things is to plant trees. LEAF has a Backyard Tree Planting Program. They are currently serving 12 Municipalities that are involved in this program. The LEAF program offers native trees and shrubs to property owners at a subsidized cost. LEAF also have many other programs from the Young Urban Forest Leaders Program, the Bees love Trees program to the TCHC Planting and Stewardship Initiative. Please enjoy this podcast and visit their site and see if there is a way for you to get your municipality or community involved. | |||
| 17 Feb 2021 | Electric Cars | 01:00:19 | |
This week on Down the Garden Path, we continue to explore ways we can have a positive impact on our environment with a discussion about electric cars with Tim Burrows. We enjoyed learning more about the topic and realize it is an important discussion to have. Change is coming but will be happening slowly. Tim has owned and driven battery-electric cars for the past seven years and has logged over 250,000 kilometres without the need for gasoline or diesel fuel. He now enjoys sharing his EV experience with others and breaks down many myths and misconceptions about electric vehicle ownership. Tim is a member of the Electric Vehicle Society, a non-profit organization that works to promote the understanding and adoption of electric mobility in Canada. In his role there, he chairs the EV Society’s Mississauga Chapter. Join us this week for our conversation with electric car enthusiast Tim Burrows.Tim fielded a lot of questions from our radio audience in this popular episode and answered some of our own.
Despite the high upfront cost involved in purchasing an electric car, there are many factors that contribute to you saving money in the long run. A lot of the concern seems to surround the batteries. Tim discusses the length of the charge, and how the cars actually work to conserve the energy they have in them. He also points out that you start with a full charge every morning.
Tim is an enthusiast in the electric car industry and has no affiliation with any company. You can check him out at TimTalksTesla.com Join us next week for our final February podcast:
About Your HostsEach 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. And Matthew Dressing is a horticulturist and landscape designer. He owns Natural Affinity Garden Design, a landscape design and garden maintenance firm servicing Toronto and the Eastern GTA. Together, Joanne and Matthew do their best to bring you interesting, relevant and helpful topics. Their goal is to help you keep your garden as low maintenance as possible. | |||
| 31 Oct 2018 | November in the Garden | 01:02:07 | |
As the Gardening season slows down there are still a few gardening chores to accomplish. Each week on Down the Garden Path Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing, discuss down to earth tips and advice for your plants, gardens and landscapes. In each episode, we bring you interesting, relevant and helpful topics to help you achieve a great garden. We learn right along with you from each other, from our research or from the guests that join us here. If you have a garden and want to make it as low maintenance as possible then this podcast is for you. As Landscape Designers and gardeners themselves, Joanne and Matthew think it is important and possible to have great gardens that are low maintenance and they want to help you make it happen. On this episode, we discuss some late Fall To Dos in your November Garden. | |||
| 06 Feb 2019 | Fusion Landscaping | 00:57:45 | |
Have you heard of Fusion Landscaping? Are you concerned with water management on your property? “Fusion Landscapes work in harmony with the natural conditions of your property to create beautiful outdoor spaces while helping to reduce watering needs and the impacts of flooding” On this episode, we’re joined by Professional Landscape Contractor Chris Ray from Humber Valley Landscaping to teach us all about Fusion Landscapes. We discuss Fusion Elements that you can add to your property; including permeable pavers, rain chains, rain gardens and more. Learn all about this program, and training available through Landscape Ontario. The Region of Peel and York Region are supporters of this initiative. They are in the process of providing incentives to homeowners. Each week on Down the Garden Path we discuss down to earth tips and advice for your plants, gardens and landscapes. As Landscape Designers and gardeners we think it is important and possible to have great gardens that are low maintenance. Thanks for joining us here. Remember to check out Down the Garden Path on your favourite podcast app and subscribe.
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| 31 Jan 2023 | February in the Garden | 00:58:45 | |
If you’re not lucky enough to be living somewhere tropical, mid-winter has you in its grasp and you may be wondering what you can be doing in February in the garden. Although there’s not much to do outside, there are several activities you can work on inside to get you ready for a new growing season. Suggestions from Joanne and Matt in this episode:
Resources mentioned during the showDown the Garden Path PodcastEach 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 17 years. A horticulturist, college educator 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. You can find it on Amazon. | |||
| 27 Jun 2022 | Hidden Gems: Perennials | 00:54:56 | |
This week on the Down the Garden Path podcast, landscape designers Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing wrap up their look at perennials with an episode dedicated to some of their favourites. These hidden gems of the perennial garden work hard but are often overlooked. Join Joanne and Matt as they reveal their top five perennial favourites.Joanne's hidden gems:
Matt's hidden gems:
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. | |||
| 10 Feb 2025 | What to Expect in Season 11 | 00:15:55 | |
Welcome back to season 11 of Down the Garden Path podcast! After a winter hiatus, landscape designer Joanne Shaw is excited to kick off a new podcast season revisiting new topics and old favourites while gaining valuable wisdom and advice from industry experts. Here are some of the topics covered in this episode:
Have a topic you'd like Joanne to discuss?Email your questions and comments to downthegardenpathpodcast@hotmail.com, or connect via her website at down2earth.ca Find Down the Garden Path on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube: @downthegardenpathpodcast. Resources mentioned during the showDown the Garden Path: A Step-By-Step Guide to Your Ontario Garden What's Wrong With Your Boxwood? Down the Garden Path PodcastOn Down The Garden Path, professional landscape designer Joanne Shaw discusses 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. She does her best to bring you interesting, relevant and useful topics to help you keep your garden as low maintenance as possible. In Down the Garden Path: A Step-By-Step Guide to Your Ontario Garden, Joanne and fellow landscape designer Matthew Dressing 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. Get your copy today on Amazon. Don't forget to check out Down the Garden Path on your favourite podcast app and subscribe! You can now catch the podcast on YouTube. | |||
| 25 Jan 2022 | Home Hydroponics with Tyler Baras | 00:58:51 | |
In this week’s episode of the Down the Garden Path podcast, landscape designers Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing speak with Tyler Baras, chief science officer and co-founder of Area 2 Farms in Arlington, Virginia, about home hydroponics. Tyler has a range of urban agricultural experiences from homesteading to commercial hydroponics. He has worked as a grower for 3 Boys Farm Inc., one of the first certified organic hydroponic farms in the United States. In 2015, Tyler wrote one of the best-selling hobby hydroponic books, DIY Hydroponic Gardens: How to Design and Build an Inexpensive System for Growing Plants in Water. In 2017, Tyler wrote Roadmap to Growing Leafy Greens and Herbs, an educational book for new growers and investors interested in commercial hydroponic production of leafy greens in greenhouses and indoor farms. In 2021, he wrote Home Hydroponics: Small-space DIY Growing Systems for the kitchen, dining room, living room, bedroom, and bath. For more on Tyler Baras, please visit FarmerTyler.com. Don't miss Joanne and Matt's conversation with Tyler Baras about home hydroponics.Some of the questions and topics covered:
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. And Matthew Dressing is a horticulturist and landscape designer. He owns Natural Affinity Garden Design, a landscape design and garden maintenance firm servicing Toronto and the Eastern GTA. Together, Joanne and Matthew do their best to bring you interesting, relevant and helpful topics. Their goal is to help you keep your garden as low maintenance as possible. | |||
| 13 Apr 2021 | Lawn Care Q & A | 00:58:46 | |
This week on Down the Garden Path, landscape designers Matthew Dressing and Joanne Shaw kick off their month-long discussion on lawn care by looking at where we are now with our lawn care and answering your questions. Joanne and Matt answer your questions and discuss where the lawn care season is so far.
About Your HostsEach week on Down The Garden Path podcast, 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. And Matthew Dressing is a horticulturist and landscape designer. He owns Natural Affinity Garden Design, a landscape design and garden maintenance firm servicing Toronto and the Eastern GTA. Together, Joanne and Matthew do their best to bring you interesting, relevant and helpful topics. Their goal is to help you keep your garden as low maintenance as possible. | |||
| 28 Jan 2021 | Looking Forward to 2021 | 00:56:04 | |
Happy New Year! We're closing out the month of January with our first Down the Garden Path podcast of the year. Join us as we take a look forward to 2021. In this week's podcast, learn more about:
About Your HostsEach 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. And Matthew Dressing is a horticulturist and landscape designer. He owns Natural Affinity Garden Design, a landscape design and garden maintenance firm servicing Toronto and the Eastern GTA. Together, Joanne and Matthew do their best to bring you interesting, relevant and helpful topics. Their goal is to help you keep your garden as low maintenance as possible. Did you know that Down The Garden Path made Garden Media Group's "Best Gardening Podcasts of 2020" list?Special thanks to all of our listeners, whether you listen to the podcast on your favorite podcast app or tune into the live show each Monday at 7 p.m. ET on www.realityradio101.com. We appreciate your continued support and inspiration. For the full list of gardening podcasts, click here. | |||
| 19 May 2021 | Caring for Annuals | 00:59:28 | |
This week on Down the Garden Path, landscape designers Matthew Dressing and Joanne Shaw take a look at new and unusual annuals in the garden and the best way to care for them. Joanne and Matt discuss new and unusual annuals and how to care for them.Some of the topics include:
Listener questions and feedback:
Matt and Joanne also discuss the importance of water for annuals and how simply putting the right annual in the right spot can lead to greater success. About Your HostsEach week on Down The Garden Path podcast, 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. And Matthew Dressing is a horticulturist and landscape designer. He owns Natural Affinity Garden Design, a landscape design and garden maintenance firm servicing Toronto and the Eastern GTA. Together, Joanne and Matthew do their best to bring you interesting, relevant and helpful topics. Their goal is to help you keep your garden as low maintenance as possible. | |||
| 04 Oct 2022 | Soil Health with BIOS Nutrients with Aaron Deacon | 00:58:17 | |
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 DeaconAaron first learned about the environmental damage caused by synthetic fertilizers and pesticides during college and set out after graduation to begin growing for himself. He received a license from Health Canada to grow medicinal cannabis and decided to go completely organic. He was discouraged by the results from products that were available on the market and began studying soil to learn how plants grow naturally. After discovering biology within soil that feed on organic matter is what feeds plants, he began practicing fermentation to add biology and organic matter back to the soil and mimic mother nature. Through six years of research and testing, he now makes completely natural fertilizers and pesticides that heal soil and educates communities on how mother nature grows. Tune in to hear Joanne and Matt speak with Aaron Deacon feeding your indoor plants naturally improves their soil health.Here are some of the questions and topics covered in this episode:
Get a free sample of BIOS Visit www.biosnutrients.ca and sign up to get your free sample of BIOS. Enter coupon code DTGP15 in the order comments to let Aaron know where you heard about BIOS and use DTGP15 at checkout to receive 15% off all of your purchases. Down the Garden Path PodcastEach 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. | |||
| 25 Nov 2017 | Everlasting vs Real Christmas Trees | 00:58:24 | |
This episode of Down the Garden path is all about Everlasting vs Real Christmas trees, Matthew talks all about it with our station manager, Gary. They have a great time discussing the pros and cons of Everlasting or Artificial Christmas trees vs purchasing a Real Christmas tree. Everlasting ones have come along way in how they look and the varieties available. But if the environmental aspect is important to you then you will learn why going with a Real tree IS more sustainable and environmentally friendly. Listen in to find out why along with a few other interesting tidbits. | |||
| 30 Aug 2022 | Seasonal Stressors | 00:58:16 | |
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 and topics covered in this episode:
Resources mentioned during the showSuzanne Poizner's Urban Forestry Show on RealityRadio101.com. Down the Garden Path PodcastEach 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. | |||
| 26 Oct 2017 | Monarch Butterflies with Author Kylee Baumle | 00:57:30 | |
In this episode of Down the Garden Path, Author and Monarch Butterfly expert Kylee Baumle joins us to discuss new book “The Monarch: Saving Our Most Loved Butterfly”.
Learn about her trip to Mexico, one of the Monarch's special spots. The importance of Milkweed to the Monarch Butterfly. How you can help the Monarch Butterfly and more on this episode. | |||
| 03 Mar 2020 | Growing: Indoors | 00:58:51 | |
With a new month comes a new topic on Down The Garden Path! Every week in March, we'll answer your questions about growing. We all like to grow plants in many different places besides in the ground. So this month, we'll discuss what it takes to get growing indoors in different places. From starting seeds indoors to raised beds and containers, the possibilities are endless! Tune into this week's podcast to learn more Growing Indoors:We answer some common questions:
It is still a little early to start most plants from seed. Make sure you check your seed packet for more information. In Zone 5b, our last frost day is May 24th. Growing: Indoors - Episode LinksDown The Garden Path podcasts mentioned in this episode: Growing Cannabis and Growing Lemons Available on Amazon: Start & Saving Seeds: Grow the Perfect Vegetables, Fruits, Herbs, and Flowers for your Garden Our growing theme continues for all of March. Join us later this month for more helpful "growing" podcasts:
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. We do our best to bring you interesting, relevant and helpful topics to help you keep your garden as low maintenance as possible. | |||
| 15 Dec 2021 | Garden Gift Ideas | 00:59:00 | |
In the final Down the Garden Path episode of the year, Matt and Joanne look at some of their favourite gift ideas for the gardeners in your life, or maybe even for yourself. Looking for gift ideas for the gardener in your life? Here are some of Joanne and Matt's favourites.Joanne's favourite gift ideas for gardeners:
Matt's favourite gift ideas for gardeners:
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. And Matthew Dressing is a horticulturist and landscape designer. He owns Natural Affinity Garden Design, a landscape design and garden maintenance firm servicing Toronto and the Eastern GTA. Together, Joanne and Matthew do their best to bring you interesting, relevant and helpful topics. Their goal is to help you keep your garden as low maintenance as possible. | |||
| 02 Jul 2018 | Roses in the Garden | 01:00:31 | |
Welcome to our Roses show. The month of July is THE month for Roses in the Garden. During this episode of Down the Garden Path Matthew and I chat about the different varieties of roses. We discuss Rosa Rugosa, Shrub Roses, Carpet Roses, Hybrid Tea Roses and some new varieties like Knock out and The Canadian Shield Rose to name just a few. We also touch on fertilizing roses, pruning roses and winter protection for roses. We really wanted to demystify growing roses and encourage everyone to give them a try. We believe there is a spot for roses in everyone's garden. Enjoy the show! | |||
| 06 Feb 2018 | View from a Landscape Contractor - Humber Valley Landscaping | 00:57:20 | |
This week I wanted to speak with a Landscape Contractor. Chris Ray from Humber Valley Landscaping joined me live to discuss all things landscaping. Humber Valley is a dedicated, creative landscape design and build team servicing the Toronto, Richmond Hill, York Region, West Durham regions. At Humber Valley Landscaping, they want to create beautiful, functional outdoor spaces that fit your lifestyle. They know that each project requires specific expertise, a keen creative eye and quality products and materials. Their team will take a professional and personable approach toward creating your own outdoor oasis. As we head into another landscaping season I thought it would be helpful to talk directly to a Landscape Contractor. We focused on the Landscape process and client expectations as well as the benefits of investing in a Landscape Design. Have a listen and let me know your thoughts. | |||
| 01 Dec 2017 | Decorating with Live Plant Material for the Holidays | 00:59:00 | |
Are you tired of decorating with artificial greens for the holidays? No storage space for all the decorations the other 11 months of the year? Well, there is a lot of Christmas holiday decorating you can do with live plants and live plant material, like evergreen boughs and shrub branches. On this episode Matthew and I discuss decorating with a variety of holiday plants: Pointsettia Amaryllis Christmas Cactus Norfolk Pine In addition to adding holiday decorating to your space all of these plants are excellent for gift giving. We discussed best practices to successfully bring evergreen boughs inside for decorating your: - Mantle - Staircase banister - Table centrepiece Why sometimes it is better to purchase a centrepiece from a florist for even more longevity Then we shared tips for your outdoor urns like using Wilt-pruf and reasons why we no longer use oasis for our outdoor urns. Thanks to the listeners that wrote in during our show. I know they were sad to hear this was the last show of the season but we are looking forward to being back with even more great shows on Jan 22, 2018. | |||
| 03 Dec 2019 | Feng Shui: An Introduction | 00:57:58 | |
As the days get shorter and the temperature drops, it's only natural that we begin to focus more on the inside of our homes. In this week's episode of Down The Garden Path, Trish John of Your Spiritual Connection joins us to give us an introduction to Feng Shui and how we can use it in all areas of our home. Trish John is an Inspired Feng Shui (pronounced FUNG SHWAY) Practitioner and Professional Organizer. She has been studying Feng Shui for over 20 years and she is the founder of Your Spiritual Connection. She has been helping people get their homes and offices organized and Feng Shui'd since 2005. Trish's passion in life is to help people make connections in their life through Feng Shui. For that reason, she teaches her clients and the participants at her classes and workshops its benefits in their indoor and outdoor environments. Tune into this week's podcast to hear Trish give us an introduction to Feng Shui and answer our questions:
Trish offers consultations to fit everyone's budget, as well as classes and workshops throughout Durham Region. Similarly, she can even help with virtual consultations. To learn more about the services that Your Spiritual Connection has to offer, please check out www.yourspiritualconnection.ca. To book a consultation, please contact Trish at yourspiritualconnection@hotmail.com or call or text her at 905-391-8801. You can find Trish on Facebook at www.facebook.com/YourSpiritualConnection. Remember to check out Down the Garden Path on your favourite podcast app and subscribe. | |||
| 18 Nov 2020 | Garden Alchemy | 01:00:33 | |
We are halfway through November on Down the Garden Path, and this month we're speaking with gardening authors. In this episode, we head to our bookshelves to take a closer look at Garden Alchemy by author, blogger and www.gardentherapy.ca's Stephanie Rose. Stephanie Rose is an award-winning author, freelance writer, instructor, and international speaker who aims to encourage healing and wellness through gardening. For over ten years, she has been both a student and teacher of organic gardening, permaculture design, herbalism, and natural skincare formulation. She is a member of Garden Communicators International, the Permaculture Institute of North America, the International Herb Association, and volunteers to develop children's gardens as a Vancouver Master Gardener. She shares stories, recipes, and projects on her inspiring website, www.gardentherapy.ca. Stephanie spends her time as an organic gardener, writer, and artist in Vancouver, B.C. She is passionate about organic gardening, natural healing, and art as part of life. Stephanie lives with her family and a motley crew of animals, which provide her with inspiration and delight both in and out of the garden. Garden Alchemy is a hands-on guide for do-it-yourself gardeners who want to turn their garden into gold using natural recipes and herbal concoctions (while saving both time and money). This gardening recipe and project book is packed with over 80 ideas to naturally beautify your garden, using organic methods that regenerate your soil and revitalize your plants. By following the processes that are closest to nature, it brings the gardener in sync with the garden, allowing plants to thrive with less effort and less cost. Tune into this week's podcast as we learn more about the book Garden Alchemy with our guest, author Stephanie Rose.Stephanie answers a few of our questions:
You can learn more about how to purchase Stephanie's books here, find her online at www.gardentherapy.ca and on social media:
Join us in November for more conversations with gardening authors:
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. And Matthew Dressing is a horticulturist and landscape designer. He owns Natural Affinity Garden Design, a landscape design and garden maintenance firm servicing Toronto and the Eastern GTA. Together, Joanne and Matthew do their best to bring you interesting, relevant and helpful topics. Their goal is to help you keep your garden as low maintenance as possible. | |||
| 23 Sep 2024 | Adding Asters to Your Garden | 00:17:34 | |
In this episode of Down the Garden Path, Joanne Shaw discusses how to extend the blooming season in your garden by adding asters. Topics covered in this week's episode:
Here are the five asters discussed:
Resources Mentioned in the Show:Down the Garden Path: A Step-By-Step Guide to Your Ontario Garden Have a topic you'd like me to discuss?Please let me know what other topics you would like me to discuss. Email your questions and comments to downthegardenpathpodcast@hotmail.com, or connect with me on my website: down2earth.ca Find Down the Garden Path on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube: @downthegardenpathpodcast. Down the Garden Path PodcastOn Down The Garden Path, professional landscape designer Joanne Shaw discusses 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. She does her best to bring you interesting, relevant and useful topics to help you keep your garden as low maintenance as possible. In Down the Garden Path: A Step-By-Step Guide to Your Ontario Garden, Joanne and fellow landscape designer Matthew Dressing 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. Get your copy today on Amazon. Don't forget to check out Down the Garden Path on your favourite podcast app and subscribe! You can now catch the podcast on YouTube. | |||
| 26 Aug 2024 | What's Wrong With My Hydrangea? | 00:18:50 | |
In this episode of Down the Garden Path, Joanne Shaw discusses some of the issues you may be experiencing with your hydrangeas this month and what you can do about them. Topics covered in this week's episode: Hydrangeas not blooming
Hydrangeas getting too large/floppy
Related Episodes/Resources Mentioned in the Show:Tips To Extend The Blooming Season Of Your Endless Summer Hydrangea BLOG POST -- Hydrangeas: When They Don’t Work And What You Can Do About It Down the Garden Path: A Step-By-Step Guide to Your Ontario Garden Have a topic you'd like me to discuss?Please let me know what other topics you would like me to discuss. Email your questions and comments to downthegardenpathpodcast@hotmail.com, or connect with me on my website: down2earth.ca Find Down the Garden Path on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube: @downthegardenpathpodcast. Down the Garden Path PodcastOn Down The Garden Path, professional landscape designer Joanne Shaw discusses 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. She does her best to bring you interesting, relevant and useful topics to help you keep your garden as low maintenance as possible. In Down the Garden Path: A Step-By-Step Guide to Your Ontario Garden, Joanne and fellow landscape designer Matthew Dressing 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. Get your copy today on Amazon. Don't forget to check out Down the Garden Path on your favourite podcast app and subscribe! You can now catch the podcast on YouTube. | |||
| 20 Aug 2020 | Trees: Questions & Answers | 01:01:11 | |
August is in full swing and we’re well into exploring our latest topic on the Down the Garden Path podcast. This month, we’re talking all about deciduous trees and upright evergreens. In this episode, we mixed it up a bit by opening the floor to our listeners. This special trees Q & A also marks the third anniversary of the release of Down the Garden Path as a podcast. We're so grateful to all our listeners. Thanks for joining us each week! Tune into this week's podcast as we answer your questions on trees.In addition to taking listeners' questions, we discuss All About Trees! A Webinar Series from Local Enhancement & Appreciation of Forests (LEAF). Discover over 35 species of trees native to the Greater Toronto Area through this free four-part webinar series. Learn how to identify different tree species, their importance for urban wildlife, common urban stressors, and how to care for the trees in your community. A new species will be showcased each night:
To learn more and register for this free webinar series, visit yourleaf.org. Join us each week on Down The Garden Path, as 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. And Matthew Dressing is a horticulturist and landscape designer. He owns Natural Affinity Garden Design, a landscape design and garden maintenance firm servicing Toronto and the Eastern GTA. Together, Joanne and Matthew do their best to bring you interesting, relevant and helpful topics. Their goal is to help you keep your garden as low maintenance as possible. | |||
| 01 Jun 2021 | Digging Deep with Veggies | 00:57:36 | |
In this week's episode of Down the Garden Path, Matt and Joanne welcome returning guest Gardening Girl Julia Dimakos to discuss digging deep with veggies. Julia started growing food after having children and fell in love with it! She gardens organically and tries to keep things simple while growing new and uncommon vegetables each year. Her garden is located in Mono, Ontario, on 25 acres on the Niagara Escarpment. Two years ago, Julia expanded her vegetable garden from 2000 to 7000 square feet, continuing in the formal kitchen garden style. Julia has been growing vegetables and writing about gardening for over 10 years and has been published twice in the Canadian Organic Grower magazine. She loves to inspire others to have their own vegetable gardens by showing them the simpler side of gardening. Don't miss our conversation on "digging deep with veggies" with Gardening Girl Julia Dimakos.Julia answers a few of our questions:
Julia discusses her favourite tomato varieties and helps Joanne understand the difference between determinate and indeterminate tomato plants. She also gives some excellent advice on growing lettuce and answers a listener's question about growing strawberries. There's so much valuable information in this show, you won't want to miss it! You can find Julia online here, as well as on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest. 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. And Matthew Dressing is a horticulturist and landscape designer. He owns Natural Affinity Garden Design, a landscape design and garden maintenance firm servicing Toronto and the Eastern GTA. Together, Joanne and Matthew do their best to bring you interesting, relevant and helpful topics. Their goal is to help you keep your garden as low maintenance as possible. | |||
| 27 Nov 2018 | Holiday Plants | 01:00:59 | |
In this episode of Down the Garden Path we are talking about Holiday Plants. Each week on Down the Garden Path Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing, discuss down to earth tips and advice for your plants, gardens and landscapes. In each episode, we bring you interesting, relevant and helpful topics to help you achieve a great garden. We learn right along with you from each other, from our research or from the guests that join us here. If you have a garden and want to make it as low maintenance as possible then this podcast is for you. As Landscape Designers and gardeners themselves, Joanne and Matthew think it is important and possible to have great gardens that are low maintenance. They want to help you make it happen. This week Joanne and Matthew bring it inside by talking about indoor holiday plants. It is the season for Holiday Plants, for decorating and gift giving. We give an in-depth overview of some of the most popular plants of the season like Christmas Cactus, Cyclamen, Poinsettia, Amaryllis and Norfolk Pines to name a few. We even let you know which ones are poisonous to pets. We had a blast answering listener questions and exploring decorating options with your plants. Have a listen I am confident you will enjoy it! | |||
| 12 Apr 2022 | Root Rescue with Bob Reeves | 00:59:50 | |
This month on Down the Garden Path podcast, landscape designers Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing continue their "critter month" with a look into the soil and its diverse life. In this episode, they welcome Root Rescue's Bob Reeves to talk about how you can put little critters to use in your garden. About Bob Reeves Bob has come to believe that the secret to plant success is hiding in the soil beneath our feet. He began the Soil Health/Root Rescue project in 2005 with a discovery made at Reeves Florist & Nursery, his family's garden centre in Woodbridge, Ontario. Bob is the founder and CEO of Root Rescue Environmental Products. He also serves as a Soil Microbiome Advisor to Flash Forest, a leading innovator in drone-powered reforestation. Don't miss Joanne and Matt's conversation with Root Rescue's Bob Reeves.Some of the questions and topics covered:
You can find Root Rescue online here, as well as on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube. 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. And Matthew Dressing is a horticulturist and landscape designer. He owns Natural Affinity Garden Design, a landscape design and garden maintenance firm servicing Toronto and the Eastern GTA. Together, Joanne and Matthew do their best to bring you interesting, relevant and helpful topics. Their goal is to help you keep your garden as low maintenance as possible. | |||
| 22 Apr 2024 | Hosta Virus X with Dawn Golloher from Gardens Plus | 00:39:34 | |
In this episode of Down the Garden Path, landscape designer Joanne Shaw discusses Hosta Virus X with returning guest Dawn Golloher from Gardens Plus. Dawn Golloher is the owner-operator of Gardens Plus, an independent garden centre in Peterborough, Ontario, specializing in easy-care perennials. Here are some of the questions and topics covered in this episode:
Find Gardens Plus online:
Find Down the Garden Path online: Find Down the Garden Path on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube: @downthegardenpathpodcast. You can also email your questions and comments to downthegardenpathpodcast@hotmail.com, or connect with Joanne via her website: down2earth.ca Down the Garden Path PodcastOn Down The Garden Path, professional landscape designer Joanne Shaw discusses 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. She does her best to bring you interesting, relevant and useful topics to help you keep your garden as low maintenance as possible. In Down the Garden Path: A Step-By-Step Guide to Your Ontario Garden, Joanne and fellow landscape designer Matthew Dressing distill their horticultural and design expertise and combined experiences in helping others create and maintain thriving gardens into one easy-to-read monthly reference guide. Get your copy today on Amazon. Don't forget to check out Down the Garden Path on your favourite podcast app and subscribe! You can now catch the podcast on YouTube. | |||
| 20 Mar 2018 | Natural Insect Control | 00:58:29 | |
In this info-packed episode, John Robertson from N.I.C. joins us to discuss Natural Insect Control and the variety of Beneficial Insects that are available for our home gardens. N.I.C. is the only source of Canadian Nemotodes and they happen to be their top selling product. We learn about how they create them and some excellent information on how to best apply them to our yards. Tune in to listen to John share with us a ton of information on other beneficial insects like Ladybugs, Praying Mantis and Mason Bees all native and really important to our environment. N.I.C have all these items for sale on their website http://www.naturalinsectcontrol.com/ or they are available at a Garden Centre near you. | |||
| 26 Oct 2021 | Garden Insect Concerns | 00:59:33 | |
Every fall on Down the Garden Path, landscape designers Matthew Dressing and Joanne Shaw review the benefits of not cleaning up the garden as plants and leaf debris overwinter many beneficial insects. There are, however, some pest concerns in the garden you can take steps to manage now. In this episode, Joanne and Matt discuss a few major garden pests which have been causing some trouble in their own gardens, some of which you may have heard of and some new ones. Tune in to learn more about what you can do to manage pests in your garden.Matt and Joanne discuss:
Resources mentioned in the show: https://onnurserycrops.com/author/jenllewellyn/ https://landscapeontario.com/box-tree-moth-help About Your HostsEach week on Down The Garden Path podcast, 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. And Matthew Dressing is a horticulturist and landscape designer. He owns Natural Affinity Garden Design, a landscape design and garden maintenance firm servicing Toronto and the Eastern GTA. Together, Joanne and Matthew do their best to bring you interesting, relevant and helpful topics. Their goal is to help you keep your garden as low maintenance as possible. Thanks for listening! Don't forget to check out Down the Garden Path on your favourite podcast app and subscribe! | |||
| 30 May 2022 | Ask Us Anything! | 00:59:02 | |
This week on the Down the Garden Path podcast, landscape designers Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing wrap up May's focus on wonderful landscape shrubs with an "Ask Us Anything!" episode -- and an exciting announcement! Tune in to hear Joanne and Matt respond to listener questions.Some of the questions listeners asked:
Joanne and Matt also announce that their book, Down the Garden Path: A Step-By-Step Guide to Your Ontario Garden, is now available on Amazon.
In Down the Garden Path: A Step-By-Step Guide to Your Ontario Garden, landscape designers Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing 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. Packed with timely seasonal tips for each month to help you create the low-maintenance garden of your dreams, Joanne and Matthew take the guesswork out of what to do and when to do it. You’ll get valuable information on a variety of topics they address each week in their Down the Garden Path podcast:
They're throwing a launch party!Join Joanne and Matt as they simulcast live on Facebook and realityradio101.com to celebrate the release of their new book. You can win a copy of the book or some Down the Garden Path Podcast swag! When: Monday, June 6th at 7 pm ET Where: @downthegardenpathpodcast 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. And Matthew Dressing is a horticulturist and landscape designer. He owns Natural Affinity Garden Design, a landscape design and garden maintenance firm servicing Toronto and the Eastern GTA. Together, Joanne and Matthew do their best to bring you interesting, relevant and helpful topics. Their goal is to help you keep your garden as low maintenance as possible. | |||
| 26 Feb 2018 | Starting Seeds Indoors : Daniel Eggert | 00:58:19 | |
Daniel Eggert, Organic Brand Manager at Harris seeds teamed up with Matthew on this episode of Down the Garden Path to discuss starting seeds indoors. With Daniels experience at Harris Seeds, it was good to hear him explain the difference between Organic and Non-Organic seed. With seed starting time right around the corner, it was the perfect opportunity to discuss some seed starting tips. Everything from the choice of seed, recommended growing medium to choosing the best location. A lot to learn on this show, tune in for more details | |||
