The Garden Question

It’s the details that matter when design, building, or maintaining your hardscape outdoor living spaces.

Our guest for this episode, Aaron Phifer entered the hardscape industry in 2012. He is now the director of US Sales for Techniseal an industry leader and innovator for hardscape accessories.

He talks about why properly built hardscapes should last multiple generations.

We also discuss innovations that will stimulate your creative juices and make your next hardscape project easier to install.

Arron reveals the focal point of his family’s future hardscape outdoor living space project. The story begins with a newly acquired championship size Japanese Maple.

Doug Scott’s path to his own landscape design firm is anything but typical.

After earning a BA degree from Vanderbilt University and an MBA from Emory University he worked with several consulting firms.

In his spare time Doug feed his true passions for family, the outdoors, and all things regarding landscape design. He began creating outdoor living spaces for friends that reflected how they wish to live.

The positive family impacts encouraged him in his leap of faith in starting an exterior design studio Redeem Your Ground.

Doug completed Emory University’s Landscape Design Program to complement his personal experience along with his natural abilities in design and client engagement.

The “Why” behind Doug’s efforts have not gone unnoticed. Redeem Your Ground  and his family's story have been featured in both Southern Living  magazine & on a TV episode of Growing a Greener World. The Scott's family home & garden blog was also voted Best New Blog at the 2015 Garden Bloggers Conference.

You will often find David Brown studying plants in the gardens at Hills and Dales Estate.

He seeks to acquire the perfect cutting for his amazing indoor arrangements. In our conversation he tells us how you may accomplish the same with your garden plants.

Before coming to Hills & Dales Estate, David taught high school horticulture for 30 years and then was an adjunct instructor at Southern Crescent Technical College for 8 years.

On top of all that he and his wife also owned and operated their own floral shop.

David has a BS degree in Horticulture and Agriculture Education from Purdue University.

Now he is the Greenhouse Manager and Floral Designer for Hills & Dales Estate where he is always applying his wealth of knowledge and creative expertise.

So much of Charles Daniel’s garden world revolves around camellias. In this episode he talks about how to be successful with Camellias and their surprising history.

He shares why Camellias are a key plant for year-round blooms. We also talk about how to overcome garden challenges.

This lawyer, banker, and successful business owner “retired” to his new passion for gardening. He reveals his journey that led him to the ongoing development and caring for some of the most unique gardens in Savannah, Georgia area.

Charles is a University of Georgia Certified Plant Professional and a Georgia Certified Landscape Professional.

This is episode 029 - Why Camellias Work in Your Garden with Charles Daniel on The Garden Question Podcast.

Dewayne Gallatin earned his nickname “King of Containers” while overseeing The Sibley Horticultural Center at Callaway Gardens.

His primary horticultural focus today is managing and developing future projects for private gardens and estates.

A close friend once suggested he enter a container gardening contest that ended up attracting over 1,000 entries. Little did he know a whole TV episode of PBS’s “The Southern Gardener” would be produced around his winning entry.

He earned Horticulture Associates Degrees in Landscape Design, Ornamental Production, and Commercial Turf Management from ABAC Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College.

He followed up those studies with internships at Chicago Botanic Garden and Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania. 

For decades Eric King has been designing award-winning landscapes. By working with nature his designs encourage people to be outside.

He is a landscape architect and co-owner of the residential design + build firm King Landscaping, which serves the Atlanta area.

Eric often appears on local and national garden shows. He is a noted contributor for a variety of online and print media.

King earned a master’s degree in landscape architecture from The University of Georgia and a MBA from Georgia State University.

He is the founder of The Landscape Design Program at Emory Continuing Education Center.

Jutt Howard loves what he does. Every day is a new adventure when growing hundreds of acres of grass for your home and athletic venues.

In this episode he talks about how you can be successful also. How years of constant research pursues the perfect sod. Also an amazing bald eagle story that happened right on his family’s farm. 

Jutt grew up in the landscape business and is now the VP of business operations for NG Turf. Since 2010 he has grown with the company and learned the values of producing high quality turf grasses.

He serves as Chairmen of the Advisory Board for AGL. Advancing Georgia Leaders in Agriculture and Forestry which is a 2-year leadership program.

He also serves as a board member of the (GCIA) Georgia Crop Improvement Association . They are responsible for Certification Programs involving crop seeds and turf grasses along with  Organic Certification Program.

Jutt is a University of Georgia Certified Turf Grass Professional  and a 2010 University of West Georgia Marketing Degree Graduate.

Dr. Bethany Harris is the Director of Education at Callaway Gardens, where she oversees the Cecil B. Day Butterfly Center and the Callaway Gardens Discovery Center.

She leads the horticultural educational programs and workshops for guests and visiting school children.

She is also the Director of the Callaway Gardens Volunteer Program.

Dr. Harris is passionate about teaching horticulture and pollinator roles in our environment along with the use of floral resources for insects.

She has earned BS, MS, and PHD degrees in Horticulture and Entomology from the University of Georgia which makes her a “triple UGA dawg”.

Today we are having a conversation with Dr. Richard La Fleur about the importance of healing gardens. We will discover how they promote physical, mental, and spiritual healing as well as encourage self-care.

Dr. La Fleur is an author, international speaker, researcher and educator in the discipline of Psychology at the University of West Georgia. He currently teaches various courses in Psychology and Integrative Healthcare.

This is episode 023 Lisa’s Garden Revealed on The Garden Question Podcast. A follow up to episode 22 Communicating Your Garden Ideas on Paper with Lisa Nunamaker. 

Lisa reveals her strategy in designing her new garden under the shade of massive white oak trees.

She is an Award-winning designer, artist and educator. In this episode we will explore her garden and design effluences.

Lisa is a master at teaching others how to communicate garden design and landscape graphic ideas on paper.

Her website Paper Garden Workshop.com is a fun and spirited place to begin learning new amazing drawing and design technique.

Lisa teaches her beautiful illustration skills and landscape design on her website and in the Department of Horticulture at Iowa State University.

Lisa also holds degrees in landscape architecture, is registered in the state of Iowa and formally served on the Association of Professional Landscape Designers National Board of Directors.