INNOVATIVE gardeners share their stories.
Visionary Gardeners is a cinematic documentary series filmed across Canada. We visit beautiful gardens and meet their creators. Travelling from a remote bog on Vancouver Island, over the southern Gulf Islands, through the BC interior, a touch down in the prairies, to a twelfth-floor balcony garden in downtown Toronto, and ending in the breathtaking Eastern Townships of Quebec. Along the way, we’re introduced to the expansive minds of those who have brought their personal, innovative visions to gardening.
In each episode, we meet two visionary gardeners with different, yet related, visions. They reveal personal stories of their first experiences in a garden. They may tell us of their ‘eureka’ moment, when they discovered something. It is their exceptional ideas that set them on their individual gardening paths. The series captures the state of being that inspires their horticultural creativity by delving into the minds, beliefs, and motivations of the true visionary.
Visionary Gardeners, Season 2
Watch the World Premiere on VisionTV
Mondays starting May 6, 2024 (9:00pm ET / 6:00pm PT)
Meet a best-selling garden writer who makes the decision to downsize and say farewell to her beloved home garden of over fifty years, and a garden designer who creates lush, meditative gardens inspired by Chinese and Japanese aesthetics. Visit a poet who remembers her late husband through the garden they created together, and an artist who creates sculptural works that honour the history of the land on which they reside. Tour an orchard collection of hundreds of varietals of apples that are shared with the greater community through an annual festival, and see how a waterfront gardener celebrates the serendipity and wildness of her drought-resistant plants. Find out how a Prairie tree breeder committed decades of his life to testing thousands of trees, seeking a remedy for Dutch Elm Disease. Learn from a no-nonsense teacher who uses practical gardening to connect with her students. Meet an accountant who uses her garden to sustain the livelihoods of performing artists through musical performances, and travel with a collector of carnivorous plants who surveys the unexplored mountain bog ecosystems of Vancouver Island.
Visionary Gardeners, Season 1
Produced with the participation of
The Province of British Columbia
Film Incentive BC
The Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit
Visionary Gardeners, Season 2
Produced with the participation of
The Province of British Columbia
Film Incentive BC
The Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit
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