The Growing Season, June 6, 2026 - TGS Colour Series: Yellow 2026

About this episode

The episode discusses the use of yellow in landscape design and features an estimating exercise from Matt's class.

“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, 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 used in copious amounts. Black Eyed Suzie’s, Yarrow and Marigold‘s are just some of the ...

People in this episode

Host: Matt McFarland

Topics covered

• landscape design
• color theory
• yellow plants
• education
• gardening

Keywords

• yellow
• landscape
• design
• gardening
• Humber College
• plants
• color

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Humber College

Books & works: Black Eyed Suzie’s, Yarrow, Marigold

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