Ageless Gardens, Season IV (2023)
(Documentary Series, Seasons I-IV, 20x30 minutes)
Gardening brings you back to what is really important about living.
Ageless Gardens, Season 4 features a wide-range of gardeners from across Canada, including obsessed plant collectors, lawn bowlers, and nature sanctuary volunteers, marathon runners, writers, renowned visual artists. Their shared love of gardening helps contribute to their personal health and vitality.
Nominated for four Leo Awards (2023)
S4E401: “The World in a Garden”
A retired flight attendant grows tropicals at a lawn bowling club, amid the beauty of Vancouver’s skyline. A limit-pushing gardener brings the exotic plants together in one place, only to reconsider when an unusually frigid winter occurs. A collector of thousands of heritage plants stays busy in the garden all year long.
S4E402: “Gardening for the Joy of It”
A journalist with a life-threatening illness creates a garden to help overcome it. A conservationist demonstrates how stamina gained in the garden helps her run marathons. A 90-year-old continues to do all of her own gardening. A jovial life-long gardener shares his garden’s abundance with friends and family.
S4E403: “Environmental Gardens”
An IT dad designs an innovative high-tech growing system, that helps provide for people in need. A pioneering garden advocate shows how front yard gardens lessen the environmental impact of a regular lawn. A volunteer learns patience, while restoring a nature sanctuary. A mother discusses the ecological balance of her family vegetable garden.
S4E404: “The Garden as Teacher”
A master gardener and life-long learner inspires a younger generation with her latest children’s book about bees. A gardener tends native plants in a natural educational garden. A garden designer listens to what the garden teaches her.
S4E405: “Art in the Garden”
A printmaker turns her lush garden into a living art gallery, where dancers, visual artists, and musicians all come together. A cosmopolitan artist combines floral imagery in playful and complex works, and finds inspiration growing in his back alley.
