Saturday March 11
Small Space Saturday
Big ideas for tiny spaces, from balconies to beds
11am EST
Good Morning Garden Tours
Grab a hot cup of tea and greet the day while enjoying an inspirational look at public and botanic gardens across the US and Canada. Special thanks to our partners at the American Public Garden Association for their assistance showcasing these beautiful spaces.
11:30am EST
Ryan McEnaney
First Editions
Steal The Look
Ever watched a garden tour on YouTube and wondered how you can get that exact look at home? Wonder no more! Garden Gate Magazine and Ryan McEnaney from Bailey’s First Editions are taking you through a beautiful home garden each morning of the Great Grow Along and providing style commentary and plant suggestions so you can easily recreate these beautiful gardens at home.
12pm EST
Rashae Burns
Growing Gardens
Fundamentals: How to Build a Basic Raised Bed
In this fundamentals session, learn the basics of building a raised bed – what wood to use, how to site it, assembly hacks and more.
1pm EST
Jill Ragan
Whispering Willow Farm
Lose the Lawn: Grow Food Instead
Want a more productive front yard, back yard, side yard… any yard? Jill Ragan – author of Tiny But Mighty Farm – walks you through planning your productive, food growing space no matter how large (or small) it is.
Among other important points, this session dives into the sometimes confusing topic of “succession planting” so you can maximize production year round.
2pm EST
Wendi Phan
Wendiland
Trellising Tips & Tricks
Growing up is a great strategy whether you’re short on space or not. Trellising keeps plants tidy and off the ground, improves air circulation, reduces disease and maximizes growing space.
Wendi shares her tips and tools to take advantage of all these good outcomes and more.
3pm EST
Graham Gardner
Landscape Designer
Tiny & Wild: Build a Small-scale Meadow
With as little as a few square feet of space, you can create a beautiful, low-maintenance naturalistic planting that supports a diversity of plants, pollinators, and a plethora of other living things, not to mention its visual appeal in your home garden.
4pm EST
Jacques Lyakov
Epic Gardening
Transplanting vs. Direct Sowing
Understand the pros and cons of transplanting seedlings – perhaps those you have grown yourself – versus direct sowing.
5pm EST
Niki Jabbour
Get Growing
Four Season Gardening
Your food garden doesn’t have to conclude at the first frost date! Niki shares techniques for year-round gardening from her snow covered Nova Scotia home.
No matter where you grow, her advice will help you enjoy a year-round harvest.
Sunday March 12
Seeds & Soil Sunday
All the dirt on soil and seeds
11am EST
Good Morning Garden Tours
Grab a hot cup of tea and greet the day while enjoying an inspirational look at public and botanic gardens across the US and Canada. Special thanks to our partners at the American Public Garden Association for their assistance showcasing these beautiful spaces.
11:30am EST
Ryan McEnaney
First Editions
Steal The Look
Ever watched a garden tour on YouTube and wondered how you can get that exact look at home? Wonder no more! Garden Gate Magazine and Ryan McEnaney from Bailey’s First Editions are taking you through a beautiful home garden each morning of the Great Grow Along and providing style commentary and plant suggestions so you can easily recreate these beautiful gardens at home.
12pm EST
Carrie & Dale Spoonemore
From Seed to Spoon
Fundamentals: Seed Basics
How long do seeds last? How do I know my seeds are still good? How do I store them? Learn the answers to these questions and more in this fundamentals class on seeds.
1pm EST
Jesse Frost
Rough Draft Farm
Home Garden Soil Secrets From a No-till Farmer
Learn how to apply no-till soil principles to your home garden. Jesse will share his experience and experimentation with no-till practices from his Kentucky farm and make them applicable to your home garden no matter how small it might be.
2pm EST
Linda Ly
Garden Betty
Seed Starting
There are many advantages to starting your own seeds but the number one reason people start from seed is to experiment with varieties that can’t be found as plants anywhere else.
Linda Ly demonstrates good seed starting practices to ensure you’ll be growing that weird and delicious veggie in no time.
3pm EST
Marco Thomas
Microbes by Marco
Do I Have Bad Soil?
Good soil is the foundation of a healthy garden. And it is a complex topic, too. Marco breaks it down so you can determine what your soil needs for maximum health and productivity. Spoiler: there will be talk of microbes.
8pm EST
Kamili Bell Hill
PlantBlerd
Houseplant Happy Hour: Custom Soil Recipes
Just like people, houseplants need unique conditions to thrive. In this session, Kamili will share her custom soil mix recipes for different types of houseplants. Anyone say “aroid mix”? Yes, we hear you! Find out the best blends for aroids and more.
Monday March 13
Mindful Monday
Magic and mindfulness in the garden
11am EST
Good Morning Garden Tours
Grab a hot cup of tea and greet the day while enjoying an inspirational look at public and botanic gardens across the US and Canada. Special thanks to our partners at the American Public Garden Association for their assistance showcasing these beautiful spaces.
11:30am EST
Ryan McEnaney
First Editions
Steal The Look
Ever watched a garden tour on YouTube and wondered how you can get that exact look at home? Wonder no more! Garden Gate Magazine and Ryan McEnaney from Bailey’s First Editions are taking you through a beautiful home garden each morning of the Great Grow Along and providing style commentary and plant suggestions so you can easily recreate these beautiful gardens at home.
12pm EST
Jovan Sage
Sage's Larder
Fundamentals: Basics of Garden-based Wellness
Gardens have long been used as a refuge from the world. As we seek to increase mindfulness in our daily lives, home gardens become even more important.
Learn how incorporating sound, fragrance and other elements into your garden space – no matter how small – can create an oasis of tranquility.
1pm EST
Stephanie Rose
Garden Therapy
The Power & Beauty of Creating Garden Art: Healing Through Garden Projects
Gardens grow food, medicinal herbs, and cut flowers, but they can also be packed full of crafting materials! Learn what to grow in a ‘crafting garden’ and how to personalize your space with creative handmade projects.
3pm EST
Leo Carver
Ayurvedic Counselor
Growing Consciousness
Leo shares an accessible path to self-discovery and truth; one that can apply to a small herb garden on the windowsill just as well as it would to a Buddhist Zen garden.
Explore the spiritual qualities of gardening and how one can marry meditation, spiritual growth and gardens to cultivate a more conscious and satisfying existence.
8pm EST
Maria Fallia
Bloom & Grow Radio
Houseplant Happy Hour: Growing Joy
Learn to transform plant care into self-care. Discover the power of plants to help you disconnect from the stress and anxiety of modern life and grow more joy in your world.
Maria shares practices to help plant lovers step away from their screens and cultivate delight and peace of mind with plants.
Tuesday March 14
Take It Easy Tuesday
Tips and tricks for the time-strapped gardener
11am EST
Good Morning Garden Tours
Grab a hot cup of tea and greet the day while enjoying an inspirational look at public and botanic gardens across the US and Canada. Special thanks to our partners at the American Public Garden Association for their assistance showcasing these beautiful spaces.
11:30am EST
Ryan McEnaney
First Editions
Steal The Look
Ever watched a garden tour on YouTube and wondered how you can get that exact look at home? Wonder no more! Garden Gate Magazine and Ryan McEnaney from Bailey’s First Editions are taking you through a beautiful home garden each morning of the Great Grow Along and providing style commentary and plant suggestions so you can easily recreate these beautiful gardens at home.
12pm EST
Dominique Charles
Plots and Pans
Fundamentals: Garden Easy Hacks
In this fundamentals session, learn easy, time-saving hacks to keep your garden beautiful and productive with limited time or ability.
1pm EST
Tasha Greer
Author
Weed-free Gardening
Learn an easy-to-implement plan of attack to get even the most tenacious weeds under control without the need for potentially harmful synthetic herbicides.
Tasha’s weed prevention and control strategies will have you growing flowers, vegetables, shrubs, and trees with little to no weed competition.
2pm EST
Diego Footer
Epic Gardening
Wednesday March 15
Wildlife Wednesday
Welcome birds, bees, bats and more
11am EST
Good Morning Garden Tours
Grab a hot cup of tea and greet the day while enjoying an inspirational look at public and botanic gardens across the US and Canada. Special thanks to our partners at the American Public Garden Association for their assistance showcasing these beautiful spaces.
11:30am EST
Ryan McEnaney
First Editions
Steal The Look
Ever watched a garden tour on YouTube and wondered how you can get that exact look at home? Wonder no more! Garden Gate Magazine and Ryan McEnaney from Bailey’s First Editions are taking you through a beautiful home garden each morning of the Great Grow Along and providing style commentary and plant suggestions so you can easily recreate these beautiful gardens at home.
12pm EST
Kelly Norris
Three Oaks Garden
Fundamentals: What Is a Native Plant?
In this fundamentals class, learn the basics of native plants as a planting concept and how you can select the correct ones for your region and use them in your gardening spaces to create beautiful and beneficial environments for humans, insects and animals.
1pm EST
Heather Andrews
Garden Thoughtfully
Designing with Pollinators In Mind
While planning a new garden, or overhauling an existing one, you can build in elements that create positive spaces for humans and pollinators.
This session explores techniques for creating a beautiful environment that meets many needs.
3pm EST
Owen Wormser
Landscape Designer
Lawns Into Meadows
Learn how to convert your lawn into a low maintenance, eco-friendly meadow. In a world where lawns have wreaked havoc on our natural ecosystems, meadows offer a compelling solution.
It is garden landscaping that is beautiful and easy-care, all year round.
8pm EST
Josh Brown
Predatory Plants
Houseplant Happy Hour: Carnivorous Plants
The ultimate native plant, learn how to care for carnivorous house plants and enjoy the side benefit of pest control. This session also shares the critical importance of where you should purchase carnivorous plants to protect diminishing stands in the wild.
Thursday March 16
Transformation Thursday
All about landscaping from dreaming to doing
11am EST
Good Morning Garden Tours
Grab a hot cup of tea and greet the day while enjoying an inspirational look at public and botanic gardens across the US and Canada. Special thanks to our partners at the American Public Garden Association for their assistance showcasing these beautiful spaces.
11:30am EST
Ryan McEnaney
First Editions
Steal The Look
Ever watched a garden tour on YouTube and wondered how you can get that exact look at home? Wonder no more! Garden Gate Magazine and Ryan McEnaney from Bailey’s First Editions are taking you through a beautiful home garden each morning of the Great Grow Along and providing style commentary and plant suggestions so you can easily recreate these beautiful gardens at home.
12pm EST
Scott Zona
Author
Gardener's Guide to Botany
In this fundamentals class, learn the basics of plant botany so you can make wiser decisions while planning or caring for your outdoor environment.
Focusing on the home landscape, this session breaks down the fundamentals of botany so you can easily apply them to your everyday (garden) life.
1pm EST
Ryan McEnaney
First Editions
Field Guide to Outside Style
Learn to personalize your outdoor living space with the right plants, furnishings, and other design elements to create a space that reflects YOU perfectly, even if you’ve never sunk a shovel into the soil before.
2pm EST
Linda Vater
lindavater.com
Design a Perfect Potager
Learn the design elements of a French “potager” (kitchen) garden to create a space that is formal, beautiful and productive.
A great solution for an alternative “manicured” front yard or anywhere you want pattern and style for your garden. (PS if you love boxwoods, this is the session for you).
3pm EST
Chris Chung
Epic Gardening
Great Groundcovers = Perennial Success
Perennial groundcovers are the unsung heroes in the landscape and food garden! You can “set them and forget them” (to some degree) and enjoy their low-maintenance beauty year after year while saving water, preventing erosion and having new and interesting things to eat, too. Bonus: ground covers are super easy to propagate – free plants!
4pm EST
Jim Putnam
HortTube
Flowering Shrubs
Flowering shrubs are a powerful way to add joy and interest to your garden. In this session, learn about the most popular and easy to care for flowering shrubs to add that special pop to your landscape.
8pm EST
Darryl Cheng
Houseplant Journal
Friday March 17
Flower Friday
Growing and arranging all the beautiful blossoms
11am EST
Good Morning Garden Tours
Grab a hot cup of tea and greet the day while enjoying an inspirational look at public and botanic gardens across the US and Canada. Special thanks to our partners at the American Public Garden Association for their assistance showcasing these beautiful spaces.
11:30am EST
Ryan McEnaney
First Editions
Steal The Look
Ever watched a garden tour on YouTube and wondered how you can get that exact look at home? Wonder no more! Garden Gate Magazine and Ryan McEnaney from Bailey’s First Editions are taking you through a beautiful home garden each morning of the Great Grow Along and providing style commentary and plant suggestions so you can easily recreate these beautiful gardens at home.
12pm EST
Sean & Allison McManus
Spoken Garden
Fundamentals: Flowering Bulb Basics
Don’t know the difference between a rhizome and a corm? A spring-planted bulb vs. a fall-planted bulb? How to plant them? How they “naturalize”? It’s ok. Sean and Allison McManus have the answers. Once you learn a few basics about spring (and fall) flowering bulbs a whole new and exciting world of color and fragrance open up for your garden.
1pm EST
Yan Skates
Author
Big Flower Designs
Inspriation! Inspiration! Inspiration! Big! Big! Big! (Did we mention big inspiration?!) Get inspiration and ideas for your next occasion that requires over-the-top arrangements.
2pm EST
Briana Bosch
Epic Gardening
Planting a Cutting Garden
Please don’t stop supporting your local flower grower but why not grow your own?
Learn how to plan, plant and tend your own cut flower garden for months of bouquets to enjoy and share all not using chemicals and supporting earth-friendly practices.
3pm EST
Teri Speight + Panel
Cottage in the Court
Black Flora Creator Panel
Teri Speight, author of Black Flora, hosts a panel of Black floral creators showcasing their design styles and aesthetic.
8pm EST
Lisa Eldred Steinkopf
Houseplant Guru
Houseplant Happy Hour: Secrets of Flowering Houseplants
Flowering houseplants are a fun and beautiful way to expand your growing skills and the number of specimens in your houseplant family.
Want to see the colorful, intricate and sometimes fragrant blooms houseplants can offer? This session dispels the unfair reputation that flowering houseplants are tricky and offers simple insider strategies to coax blossoms out of your houseplants.
Saturday March 18
Small Space Saturday 2
Big ideas for tiny spaces, from balconies to beds
11am EST
Good Morning Garden Tours
Grab a hot cup of tea and greet the day while enjoying an inspirational look at public and botanic gardens across the US and Canada. Special thanks to our partners at the American Public Garden Association for their assistance showcasing these beautiful spaces.
11:30am EST
Ryan McEnaney
First Editions
Steal The Look
Ever watched a garden tour on YouTube and wondered how you can get that exact look at home? Wonder no more! Garden Gate Magazine and Ryan McEnaney from Bailey’s First Editions are taking you through a beautiful home garden each morning of the Great Grow Along and providing style commentary and plant suggestions so you can easily recreate these beautiful gardens at home.
12pm EST
Liliana Morgan
Portland Fruit Tree Project
Fundamentals: Easy Fruit Trees for Small Spaces
Want to add fruit trees to your growing situation but you’re short on space? Enter espaliers! This ancient training technique creates space saving trees that produce big harvests.
Up against a fence, by a wall… there are many places an espalier can be out of the way and add beauty and fruit to your life. In this fundamentals session, learn the basics of selecting, planting and caring for espalier fruit trees.
1pm EST
Mark Ridsdill Smith
Vertical Veg Guy
Vertical Veg Guide to Container Gardening
If you long to grow your own tomatoes, zucchini, or strawberries, but thought you didn’t have enough space, this session teaches how to make the most of walls, balconies, patios, arches, and windowsills.
3pm EST
Jessica Damiano
The Weekly Dirt
Companion Planting for Beginners
Can growing specific types of plants together increase productivity, pest resistance and longevity?
Yes. This session demystifies the “old gardener tales” with evidence-based examples of which plants like growing together and why.
4pm EST
Kevin Espiritu
Epic Gardening
Microgreens at Home
Whether you can’t garden due to weather or space constraints, microgreens add joy and a nutritional bang to your diet.
Easy to grow, tasty and productive, learn how to grow this powerful addition to your diet – and tastebuds – no matter where you grow.
Sunday March 19
Sustainability Sunday
Garden for a Brighter Future
11am EST
Good Morning Garden Tours
Grab a hot cup of tea and greet the day while enjoying an inspirational look at public and botanic gardens across the US and Canada. Special thanks to our partners at the American Public Garden Association for their assistance showcasing these beautiful spaces.
11:30am EST
Ryan McEnaney
First Editions
Steal The Look
Ever watched a garden tour on YouTube and wondered how you can get that exact look at home? Wonder no more! Garden Gate Magazine and Ryan McEnaney from Bailey’s First Editions are taking you through a beautiful home garden each morning of the Great Grow Along and providing style commentary and plant suggestions so you can easily recreate these beautiful gardens at home.
12pm EST
Speaker to be announced
Fundamentals: Gardening & Sustainability
We can all do our part to support the environment with our home gardens. In this fundamentals class, learn basic approaches to engrain sustainability practices into your garden and life.
1pm EST
Sally Morgan & Kim Stoddart
The Climate Change Garden
Create a resilient, climate-wise garden and learn how to adapt your garden to cope with volatile weather extremes and other effects of a rapidly changing climate.
2pm EST
Andre Baptiste
Permaculture Life
Food Forest: Basics of Permaculture
Take a tour of Andre’s food forest and learn how it’s built on permaculture fundamentals.
Based in Florida, this native Canadian has ideas that work no matter where you live to integrate permaculture principles for resilient, natural gardens.
4pm EST
Janet Sluis
Sunset Western Garden
Water-wise Gardening
You don’t need to live in drought conditions to benefit from water-wise gardening. Learn how to select water-wise plants and group them together to encourage more efficient water use as well as other water-wise principles.