Hosted by Matt McFarland · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 205 episodes
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The lighter side of landscaping. Jack, Lynne and Matt McFarland, chat about horticulture served with a hearty helping of humour. With over 70 years of design and installation experience the McFarland boys dig into topics in a way you've rarely heard. Packed full of guests that represent various corners of the industry, The Growing Season is smile worthy.The Growing Season: No politics or pulpits, just plants and muddy workboots.
Matt McFarland hosts The Growing Season, a leisure show with 205 episodes published.
“Questions, concerns, queries?” Lets chat! We know that many things bloom in June, but it behooves us to highlight some of the lesser known plants. The Growing Season are over the moon for the June blooms on this week's
“Questions, concerns, queries?” Lets chat! GO BIG OR GO...BIGGER. Yup! That's the deal this week. Jack, Lynne and Matt McFarland talk about "Aircraft Carriers" - their slang for insanely large shade trees. MORE gardens f
“Questions, concerns, queries?” Lets chat! Rockeries and alpines are on your plate this week! It'll be tough chew on this week's episode of The Growing Season. Jack, Lynne and Matt McFarland are all about AC/DC - they ar
“Questions, concerns, queries?” Lets chat! On this week’s episode of The Growing Season, the McFarland’s say hello to yellow. One of the most divisive colours, Jack, Lynne, and Matt discussed using yellow in landscape, d
“Questions, concerns, queries?” Lets chat! It's our annual annual show that annually talks about annuals. Get out them trowels cuz its time to plant. Jack, Lynne and Matt McFarland dive into annuals 2026 on this week's e
“Questions, concerns, queries?” Lets chat! "It's Gonna Be May!!!" You can almost picture Justin Timberlake crooning it. On this weeks episode of The Growing Season, Jack, Lynne and Matt McFarland dive into the All-Stars
“Questions, concerns, queries?” Lets chat! Its all by design... Literally. Jack, Lynne and Matt McFarland continue their Landscape Design chat on this week's episode of The Growing Season. "95% of all designs need a tree
“Questions, concerns, queries?” Lets chat! Let's design, shall we? The Growing Season discusses a major facet of their horticultural business on this week's episode of the show. Strap in. Jack, Lynne and Matt McFarland t
“Questions, concerns, queries?” Lets chat! The drums of war can be heard on lawns throughout the country. That's right. They're coming... The silent insurgence will rob you of your verdant green carpet and replace it wit
“Questions, concerns, queries?” Lets chat! Lets do it again, shall we? Picking up where last week's show left off, Jack, Lynne and Matt McFarland put a final cut on their spring pruning series for 2026. The show starts w
“Questions, concerns, queries?” Lets chat! The McFarland's guide The Growing Season into the three groups of Clematis and how/when to prune them. Its a simple little chat that makes things easy to understand. Enjoy! Look
“Questions, concerns, queries?” Lets chat! Lets get clippy, clippy, shall we? Jack, Lynne and Matt McFarland prune off the crossers, rubbers, dead, broken, malformed and diseased part of your emerging plants on this week
“Questions, concerns, queries?” Lets chat! POP QUIZ TIME!!! Matt McFarland is about to teach a course on turf at Humber College and decided that his students' first assignment could be incorporated into this week's episo
“Questions, concerns, queries?” Lets chat! DON'T EAT THOSE CHOCOLATE RAISINS. Its that time of year that chocolate raisins, aka Bunny Poop, comes into focus horticulturally. The largest bunny of them all appears this wee
“Questions, concerns, queries?” Lets chat! No! It's not Halloween yet. But, "THEY'RE HERE!" That famous line uttered in Steven Spielberg's 1982 classic "Poltergeist" becomes the jumping off point for this week's episode
“Questions, concerns, queries?” Lets chat! Jack McFarland is built to survive! Jack calls in for the final time from Sunnybrook's St. John's rehab facility for final time on this week's episode of The Growing Season. Jac
“Questions, concerns, queries?” Lets chat! Lets get EPIC for this year's Spring Break. Jack, Lynne and Matt McFarland board a plane and take off for New Zealand on this week's episode of The Growing Season. Matt confuses
“Questions, concerns, queries?” Lets chat! We get by with a little help from our friends. Toronto's own Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre comes in with the ultimate save this week. Jack McFarland, fresh off of a shoulder
“Questions, concerns, queries?” Lets chat! RETREAT! The winter has been so harsh maybe we should just accept our fate. Jack, Lynne and Matt McFarland retreat to the joys of interior horticulture on this week's episode of
“Questions, concerns, queries?” Lets chat! Sodium, sodium, they showed from their podium! Jack, Lynne and Matt McFarland add another grain to their pile of salt with this week's Salt And Horticulture Pt. 2 on The Growing
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