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On the Down the Garden Path Radio Show and Podcast, landscape designers Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing discuss down-to-earth tips and advice for your plants, gardens, and landscapes.

Joanne and Matthew believe it's important and possible to have great gardens that are low maintenance.

Each week, they educate their listeners on how to seasonally manage their gardens and landscapes. Joanne and Matt learn right along with their listeners, from each other, from their research, and from the many guests who join them on their show. 

Listen live at www.realityradio101.com on Monday’s at 7 pm ET or subscribe to download this show and past episodes from your favourite podcast app. 

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Launch Party!

Jun 7, 2022

In this episode of the Down the Garden Path podcast, landscape designers Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing kick off the month with a launch party to celebrate their new book, Down the Garden Path: A Step-By-Step Guide to Your Ontario Garden.  

Joanne and Matthew's new book, Down the Garden Path: A Step-By-Step Guide to Your Ontario Garden, is now available on Amazon.

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

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:

  • How to grow a robust green lawn year-round.
  • When to start seeds indoors and hardening-off young plants.
  • Tips for choosing and caring for upright cedars.
  • How and when to prune to get the most out of your plants.
  • And much more.

Tune in to listen to their virtual launch party -- simulcast on Facebook Live and www.realityradio1010.com --  to learn more:

  • Why did Joanne and Matt decide to write the book?
  • What's inside?
    • How are the sections devised so gardeners can find the information they need quickly and easily?
      • Spring/Summer/Fall/Winter
    • What are Matt and Joanne's favourite sections?
  • What are the larger sections of the book dedicated to?
    • Cedars
    • Fertilizing
    • Nematodes/White Grubs
    • Clematis
    • Spreading Grass Seed
    • Laying Sod
    • Lasagna Gardening
    • How to Do a Soil Test
    • Glossary

Down the Garden Path: A Step-By-Step Guide to Your Ontario Garden is your roadmap to creating and maintaining a low-maintenance, sustainable garden, and Joanne and Matthew want to help you make it happen.

Order your copy today! 

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.