Down the Garden Path: Through the Years

Jun 19, 2023

After nine seasons and over 340 episodes, Down the Garden Path Podcast is ending its live broadcast on Reality Radio 101. In this episode, Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing look back at Down the Garden Path through the years and recount some of their favourite episodes, topics, guests, and moments since the show first aired on Monday, November 17th, 2014.

What are Joanne and Matthew's future plans for Down the Garden Path Podcast? Tune in to find out!

Here are some of the questions and topics covered in this episode:

• How did Down the Garden Path start nine years ago?
• Where can listeners tune into past radio show episodes?
• Why did Joanne and Matt enter the world of podcasting?
• Why did they decide to leave internet radio?
• What’s next for Down the Garden Path Podcast?
• What are some of Joanne's favourite topics?
  • Straw Bale Gardening with Joel Karsten
  • Hellstrip Gardening with Evelyn Hadden
• What are some of Matt’s favourite topics?
  • Author’s month – great books on several great topics.
• Who are some of Joanne's favourite guests?
  • Repeat guests Jan Johnsen, Julia Dimakos (Gardening Girl), Lisa Steinkopf (The Houseplant Guru) Stephanie Rose (Gardentherapy.ca) Dawn Golloher (Gardens Plus)
• Who are some of Matt's favourite guests?
  • Julia Dimakos (Tea Gardening for Beginners): Their first official, and only other, ‘co-host.’
  • Katie Dubow (Garden Trends Reports).
• What are some of Joanne’s favourite episodes?
  • Plant-specific shows where they do deep dives
  • Month-in-the-garden episodes
• What are some of Matt’s favourite episodes?
  • Launch Party: They announced that they’d published their book based on their month-in-the-garden series.
  • Ask Us Anything and month-in-the-garden series: Matt loved getting questions from listeners, hearing where they’re from, and what’s exciting in their gardens.
• Other favourites included:
  • From Joanne:
    • The beginning of the radio show with Gary.
    • Recording in the studio
  • From Matt:
    • Finding out about their birthdays.
    • Matt’s first episode.
    • The first episode of Down the Garden Path.
• Where can listeners tune into Down the Garden Path Podcast after the last episode airs on June 26th, 2023?
• Can listeners still send in gardening questions? Yes! Let’s continue the discussion on Facebook!

Resources mentioned during the show

Down the Garden Path: A Step-By-Step Guide to Your Ontario Garden

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Down the Garden Path Podcast

Each week on Down The Garden Path, professional landscape designers Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing discuss down-to-earth tips and advice for your plants, gardens and landscapes.

As the owner of Down2Earth Landscape Design, Joanne Shaw has been designing beautiful gardens for homeowners east of Toronto for over a decade. A horticulturist and landscape designer, Matthew Dressing owns Natural Affinity Garden Design, a landscape design and garden maintenance firm servicing Toronto and the Eastern GTA. Together, they do their best to bring you interesting, relevant and useful topics to help you keep your garden as low maintenance as possible.

In their new book, Down the Garden Path: A Step-By-Step Guide to Your Ontario Garden, Joanne and Matthew distill their horticultural and design expertise and their combined experiences in helping others create and maintain thriving gardens into one easy-to-read monthly reference guide. It's now available on Amazon.

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