Recreating Eden Episode Guide

Episode Guide

• Against All North Atlantic Odds

  Gudridur Helgadottir dedicates herself to greening up Iceland through her television gardening show.

• Allowing Eden to Grow

  Lucinda Vardey opens Migliara, a 500-year old farmhouse in Italy, to those in need of spiritual and physical renewal.

• The Alpine Hunter

  Growing alpine plants in the most difficult conditions.

• The Art of Gardening

  Hair stylist Art Luna considers himself a garden designer.

• Barrie Strohman: The Lily King

  Barrie Strohman built all the houses in Barrie's Heights and has 2,000 varieties of lilies.

• A Calgary Cowgirl in King Arthur's Court

  Joanne Schofield moved from Calgary to an English estate in Cornwall and is reviving gardens dating back to the 12th century.

• Cassie Scott: Teaching to Grow

  Cassie Scott helps an impoverished neighborhood learn to garden.

• Charles Jencks: The Garden of Cosmic

  Charles Jencks' 30-acre garden.

• A Charmed Life

  Beauty in orchids in Vancouver.

• The Colour of Love

  The Popes, a Canadian couple, move to England to restore Hadspen Gardens.

• Cultivating Writers

  The Santa Maddalena Foundation, a garden haven where writers and botanists come for inspiration.

• Designing Paradise
• Designing Paradise
• Designing Paradise

  John Hardy draws inspiration from Bali artisans for his jewelry and home furnishings designs.

• Eden, Italian Style

  Susan McKenna Grant is restoring LaPetraia, an abandoned farm in mountains of Tuscany.

• A Family Garden

  Butchart Gardens on Vancouver Island is a designated historic site and has remained in the family since being founded in 1904 by Jennie Butchart.

• Fariborz Sahba: Gardens of Worship

  Iranian born Canadian architect Fariborz Sahba, known around the world as the designer and builder of two of the holiest sites.

• Finding Kishida

  Paul Allison, present-day gardener for Hatley Park at Royal Roads University in Victoria, B.C., seeks to find out more about its designer Isaburo Kishida.

• A Garden Gallery

  A visit to the Puget Sound garden of artists David Lewis and George Little.

• A Garden Legacy

  Renovating the garden at Park House on the Island of Mull.

• Garden of Controversy
• Garden of Earthy Delights

  Artist Marcia Donahue uses earth and plants to create a unique canvas in her backyard.

• The Garden of Egan

  A Zen garden in Vancouver, BC.

• Garden of Hope

  David Kemp creates a healing garden at the 911 memorial in Pennsylvania.

• A Garden of One's Own

  Douglas Chambers combines his passion for literature and gardening on his family's 150-year-old homestead near Walkerton, Ont.

• Garden of the Gods
• Garden of the She-Wolves

  The garden tapestry 'La Louve' is kept true to its original designer's conception.

• Garden Sanctuary Where Activism Blooms

  Former monk Des Kennedy's passion for gardening inspires his writings.

• A Garden Symphony

  Lady Susanna Wilton created 'La Mortella' to give her composer husband harmony and inspiration.

• The Garden That Love Built

  The Abkhazi gardens.

• The Garden Tourist

  Donna Dawson, founder of the internet web site ICanGarden.com, leads tours of famous gardens in Europe.

• Gardener By Duty

  Computer engineer Axel Bonaert inherits a castle in Belgium.

• A Growing Community
• Growing Up

  Birgit Piskor's award-winning garden in the heritage district of Victoria, B.C. has changed her life.

• Gwynne Basen: Tomato Royale

  A visit to a tomato festival in Loire Valley.

• A Healing Tradition

  Psychiatric nurse becomes an herbal gardener.

• Horticultural Impresario

  Humanity's dependence on the plant world.

• An Island Eden

  Melanie and Colehour Bondera operate Kanalani Ohana, a successful organic coffee farm in Hawaii.

• Jack Hutton: A Therapeutic Community

  A community garden project to help people cope with disabilities.

• John Grassl: On Grassl's Pond

  John Grassl tends to his underwater garden in a lagoon.

• The Jurassic Gardener

  Former CFL football player Gerry Herron trades in the fast life for gardening.

• Keeper of a Dream
• La Maison Verte

  A domain in a small town in the south of France is turned into an artist's retreat.

• A Life in a Landscape

  Kim Ondaatje claims her greatest work is Blueroof Farm, north of Kingston, Ont., which has served an as organic farm and haven for Canadian artists.

• Living the Dream

  Jane Walker and Barry Robbins have created their own paradise after moving to Panama.

• The Lost Pears
• Lucinda Flemer: The Giving Garden

  A woman helps troubled people while overseeing the construction of a public garden.

• Marcia Donahue: The Garden of Earthly Delights

  American artist and gardener, Marcia Donahue.

• Mike Moody: A Garden in the Sky

  Mike Moody had sworn off gardening, but is now surrounded by rooftop gardens he created.

• The Mona Lisa of Parterres

  Princess Claudia Ruspoli took over her family estate in Italy.

• A Mother's Legacy

  Lois Hole combined gardening and public service, founding Hole's Greenhouse and Gardens while authoring books and serving as Alberta's Lieutenant Governor.

• The Namer of Names

  Anna Pavord, the gardening correspondent for The Independent, is known throughout Great Britain for her love of the plant world.

• Natalie Zaiden: Gardens in Paradise

  Profile of Montreal-born landscape artist Natalie Zaiden.

• Orchids in the Snow

  Paradise of natural beauty in the midst of the prairie snow.

• Perfect Life

  How Marjorie Harris' urban garden in Toronto changed her life.

• Phillippe Levesque: The Simple Life

  Phillippe Levesque moves to Sicily to restore an old terraced garden and turn it into an organic vegetable nursery.

• Planting Peace

  The Rhododendron flower.

• Reflections of the Soul

  Poets' garden inspires their writing.

• The Renaissance Gardener

  A nursery owner uses bees for cross-pollination and the result is award-winning perennial hybrids.

• The Renegade Scientist

  Diana Beresford-Kroeger combines her medical training with gardening and feels her garden holds the cure for cancer and other illnesses.

• Robert Bateman: The Hand of Man and Nature

  Renowned artist Robert Bateman is a naturalist and ecologist.

• Saving Cities

  Geoff Cape and his organization Evergreen aids communities in designing green spaces for everyone.

• Seed of Hope
• Spirits of Nature

  A visit to Scotland's Findhorn Garden to see the mystery of 40-pound cabbages.

• Tending to My Soul

  Trish Oktober uses her experiences from growing up in Australia and turns them into art.

• The Tomato Royale

  Gwynne Basen's love of tomatoes leads her to France.

• Touched by Luck

  Taking a risk for one young American couple in Bali.

• A Tuscan Dream

  A 17th-century villa in Tuscany is restored.

• When Everything That's Old Is New Again

  After Rosemary Verey's death, her humble home is transformed into a five-star luxury hotel.

• You Grow Girl

  Toronto-based Gayla Trail has created garden paradises in many unique urban locations.