The series Ageless Gardens is a visual celebration of gardens, with a special emphasis on the role gardens can play in healthy aging.

The physical, mental, and social aspects of gardening can be important therapeutic factors in health and wellness. Gardening can bring us food, physical exercise, and keep our minds sharp as we age. Learning to adapt to changing physical, familial, and social situations is key to continuing to garden into our retirement years.

Ageless Gardens, Season 5 continues to prove that gardening is an important therapeutic activity, no matter your age.

Season 5 travels from Canadian coast to coast. We visit inspiring people whose gardens and stories are a testament to their health and vitality. We meet a seed-saving collective, student gardeners, a Governor General’s Award-winning textile artist, a non-traditional florist, a cottage gardener, a Prairie fruit tree grower, and a northern mother-daughter market gardening team.

They all have in common a shared love of gardening, which creates family bonds, a sense of community, and contributes to their health and wellness.

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WATCH SEASON 5 TRAILER

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SEASON 5 EPISODES

Episode 1: A Healthy Future

A group of women in Gibsons, BC form a collective to spread local knowledge about seed saving, while elementary school children learn the value of nature and food growing in a teaching garden nestled on the edge of the coastal rainforest. A Vancouver Island University instructor prepares her students to enter the horticulture industry.

Episode 2: Gardening with Family

Amid the bustling industrial region of Hudson’s Hope, BC, we find a tireless mother & daughter team who market garden. An exotic plant buyer/seller collaborates with his partner to turn their small Surrey, BC garden space into a tropical getaway. A Victoria, BC father & son work together to maintain an arrestingly beautiful garden.

Episode 3: Gardening for All Seasons

A rural gardener and lily connoisseur in Neepawa, MB identifies hidden and rare plants left by the previous owner. A protected woodland and public-cultivated garden on Vancouver Island welcome year-round volunteers, students, and visitors. Writing about his travels to international gardens helps a Waterloo, ON gardener to appreciate the experiences in his own exquisite garden.

Episode 4: Gardening Heritage

A Bolton, ON couple grows food in their garden to use in traditional Italian recipes. An Edmonton, AB gardener pushes climactic limits, growing gingko, Japanese maples, figs, peaches, and sweet cherries in a region as cold as Central Siberia. Building on her grandparent’s achievements, an award-winning rhododendron grower in Nanaimo, BC continues to spread plant knowledge to the community.

Episode 5: Art in the Garden

A photographer celebrates the botanical landscape of her lake cottage and her big-city Toronto, ON home garden. In a small Maritime village (Baie Verte, NB), a Governor General’s Award-winning textile artist weaves her garden and family life together with inspiring tapestries. A woman quits her high-powered Silicon Valley job to start a Victoria, BC flower farm specializing in non-traditional bouquets.

Visit the series’ official website: agelessgardens.ca

Ageless Gardens was co-produced by Mark Bradley | Ian Toews – Ageless Gardens Productions Inc.

LISTEN TO AUTHOR AND GARDENING EXPERT MARJORIE HARRIS’ CHAT WITH CLASSICAL 96.3 FM’s ALEXA PETRENKO ABOUT AGELESS GARDENS