Can you believe it's December already? Another year has gone by and what a year it has been! A new month means a new topic here on Down the Garden Path. however, this month, we'll only be recording one live show. This month's theme and this episode's topic is Lessons from 2020. But before we hop into the recap of this week's podcast...

We're excited to announce that Down The Garden Path made Garden Media Group's "Best Gardening Podcasts of 2020" list.

Thank you to all of our listeners, whether you listen to the podcast on your favorite podcast app or tune into the live show each Monday at 7 p.m. ET on www.realityradio101.com. We appreciate your continued support and inspiration. For the full list of gardening podcasts, click here.

Our increased following is just one of the things we discussed in this week's show:

• We've gained over 1,500 listeners since the beginning of 2020! (8,316 at last count!)
• Garden trends: grow your own, sustainability, vertical gardening in small spaces, low maintenance gardening, Cannabis.
• Climate: Our climate is changing and we must, too.
• Some of our favourite shows: Low Maintenance Gardening, Attracting Beneficials, Nativars, and Gardening Authors month.

Each week on Down The Garden Path, professional landscape designers Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing discuss down-to-earth tips and advice for your plants, gardens and landscapes.

As the owner of Down2Earth Landscape Design, Joanne Shaw has been designing beautiful gardens for homeowners east of Toronto for over a decade.

And Matthew Dressing is a horticulturist and landscape designer. He owns Natural Affinity Garden Design, a landscape design and garden maintenance firm servicing Toronto and the Eastern GTA. Together, Joanne and Matthew do their best to bring you interesting, relevant and helpful topics. Their goal is to help you keep your garden as low maintenance as possible.