Ageless Gardens, Season V (2025)
(Documentary Series, Seasons I-V, 25x30 minutes)
Gardening is therapeutic at any age.
Ageless Gardens 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.
S5E501: “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.
S5E502: “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.
S5E503: “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.
S5E504: “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.
S5E505: “Harmony and 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.
