Visionary Gardeners, Season III (2026)
(Documentary Series, Seasons I-III, 15x30 minutes)
Innovative gardeners share how and why they garden.
Visionary Gardeners is a cinematic documentary series filmed across Canada. In this, the third season, we visit beautiful gardens and meet their creators. The series travels to gardens in Victoria and across Vancouver Island and the idyllic southern Gulf Islands, across the country to a downtown Toronto tower and a Montreal walk-up. Along the way, we’re introduced to the expansive minds of those who have brought their personal, innovative visions to gardening.
S3E301: "Garden Creativity"
An award-winning garden designer starts to think about retirement, but continues to cultivate her vast garden, which changes almost daily—year-round. A contemplative gardener downsizes from a large home garden to a collection of potted succulents. These in turn, inspire a series of visual art collages.
S3E302: "Once a Gardener, Always a Gardener"
A retired couple have tended a 5-acre garden for decades. It features drifts of the rare meconopsis poppy, rhododendrons, and primula vulgaris—growing in a meadow larger than most people’s entire garden. A gardener’s lifetime of experience working in different regions culminates in a garden filled with international plants that testify to her credo “blooms every day.”
S3E303: "Growing Like No Other"
A horticulturist singlehandedly maintains a complex regenerative agricultural system and greenhouse. There she produces 35 varieties of citrus, as well as avocados, passionfruit, and other tree fruits. A conifer and rare plant collector has operated his dream nursery of unusual plants for over 45 years.
S3E304: "The Pure Joy of Gardening"
A renowned writer considers gardening one of “the great pleasures of life,” as it has provided her a career, continues to offer daily gratifications, and ultimately contentment. A garden designer finds fulfilment in both his own home garden, and those of his clients. His daily engagement with plants, connects him to a higher level of consciousness and happiness.
S3E305: "The Native Plant Nursery"
Two Biologists run a nursery, specializing exclusively on native plants from their region of Vancouver Island. They also work directly on numerous restoration and naturalizing projects each year, provide workshops and guidance for individuals and organizations, as well as contribute to citizen science. Their goals are to educate the public, engage their community, and celebrate the joy of nature as seen in native plants.
