The Growing Season
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.
Episodes
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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 show.
Matt's adoration of June Cleaver is touched on. He still has a crush. Is the name June still popular?
What is the Summer Solstice and why is it important? The Campfire Rose is...
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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 for the McFarlands, and this time its Lynne's fault. There's some new tree-tech about to hit the McFarland household.
The benefits of having large shade trees as part of your landscape...
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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 are about to rock, they have rocked, they would like you to rock with them...
Shall we!?
A modern-classic build kicks off the show. Matt draws elements from what Jack was doing in the 1970's ...
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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, designs and installs.
Matt details and interesting estimating exercise that he’s been doing with his students at Humber College.
From the design perspective, yellow can overwhelm a space if ...
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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 episode of The Growing Season.
Matt has to walk his cat. Its not by choice. Otherwise its chaos.
Why are annual geraniums called geraniums? They aren't geraniums. The ...
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"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 of one of the most beautiful months on the calendar.
" The mistakes of May" kick the show off in style. Matt runs down the weather and why it may not be the right time to plant annuals outdoors.
What do...
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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, even on the small designs." Matt discusses why he feels this is the case.
We have to bring down the immensity of the house - that's a Mattism.
Lilacs, Baby Blue Eyes Spruce, Cumulus Serviceberry and Apollo S...
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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 talk about step 1 of your horticultural renovation.
Martial Arts kicks off the show. Matt's daughter is learning to break boards with her feet.
Design work from last fall = const...
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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 with a votive of yellow blooms.
Jack, Lynne and Matt McFarland dive into weed warfare on this week's episode of The Growing Season.
Rats have become a problem in gardens across the country and...
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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 with a marijuana chat. What? Bear cubs abound in Canada and Matt takes the time to make a joke about hibernating.
Platypus...Matt gushes.
TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADER!
A broken tree leader ti...
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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!
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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's episode of The Growing Season.
Pruning is front and centre at this time of year and The McFarlands dive, secateurs first, into the subject.
It's still too early to be out in the gardens. ...
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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 episode of The Growing Season.
The McFarland's dive into some wonderful, and unknown, facts regarding that green carpet that covers your lawn.
Jack kicks off the show with a "new age" discussion that ...
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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 weekend - The EASTER BUNNY.
Jack, Lynne and Matt McFarland detail what Easter means to their family. Jack and Lynne have an especially important event tied to the Easter weekend.
The tree that...
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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 of The Growing Season.
Jack, Lynne and Matt McFarland dive into all the horticultural items that are current emerging at this time of the year.
"This is not the time to be out ...
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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.
Jack, Lynne and Matt highlight the plants that can tolerate the wild swings in weather and temperature that are common at this time of the year.
There are so many that respond with "is that a...
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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 New Zealand and Australia. Jack and Lynne correct his mistake.
"The father south you go in New Zealand the cooler it is..." RIGHT. Time to recalibrate the operating system.
Humans, sheep, ...
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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 replacement surgery, joins Lynne and Matt, by phone, for this week's episode of The Growing Season.
Calling in from a patient lounge, Jack details the ins and outs of how to make a construction projec...
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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 The Growing Season.
Houseplants take centre stage as the snow continues to dominate our landscapes. How to water and WHAT to water with kicks off the proceedings.
"Snow Water" vs. tap wat...
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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 Season.
With the level of ice on walking and driving surfaces all across the GTA the trio felt it prudent to discuss salt tolerant plant materials.
Jack discusses an upcoming surgery. He's...
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