Garden Designer Ken Swarner shares his five tips for getting the most out of road trips to see gardens and pray in them.

Garden designer Ken Swarner (roomtogrowdesigns.com and Ken Swarner's Christian Family & Garden Show on YouTube) chats about the garden shows in the UK that taught him everything he knows about gardens and design.

Garden Designer & Christian Parenting Humorist Ken Swarner Offers Ten Reasons Every Christian Should Start and Maintain a Garden.  See his new show, Christian Family & Gardens at YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqTSajRrWKrMkbAtxyEyBKg

Garden Designer Ken Swarner (roomtogrowdesigns.com) takes the Five Finger Prayer from the halls of Sunday School and suggests how to do the same in our garden spaces.  Also see Ken's Christian work at kenswarner.com (sign up for his daily prayer for parents, too).

Ken Swarner with roomtogrowdesigns.com and kenswarner.com chats with Shelley Cramm who writes a blog and devotional to bring the Bible into our gardens.  She helps us connect to Scripture through plants in our yards by telling us their meaning and more.  

Ken Swarner with roomtogrowdesigns.com and kenswarner.com discusses his favorite Christian devotionals for gardeners, and HOW to get the most out of them.  In the show, he discusses the following:

Devotions from the Garden: Finding Peace and Rest in Your Hurried Life
By: Miriam Drennan. 2015

Living Earth Devotional: 365 Green Practices for Sacred Connection 

By Clea Danaan (Author) 

God’s Word for Gardeners Bible 

By Shelley S. Cramm

Lessons From The Garden Devotional: Conversations with God 

By Dr. Katheryn Beavers Arterberry 

I Come to the Garden Alone: A Devotional for Men and Women 

By C. Hope Flinchbaugh 

The One-Year Home & Garden Devotions

By: Sandra Byrd

Glory in the Garden: 31 Days of Devotionals: bringing us closer to the Father through the beauty of his creation

By Jill McSheehy 

Life Lessons from My Garden

By Cathy Bryant 

Garden designer Ken Swarner (roomtogrowdesigns.com) discusses all of the critical elements for creating prayer space in the garden - the 411 to bring you closer to God.  ALSO see my Christian humor site kenswarner.com.

Garden designer Ken Swarner (roomtogrowdesigns.com and kenswarner.com) discusses his favorite reads for getting closer to God, becoming a better gardener, and just plain geeking-out ... here is the list of my favorites mentioned in this show:

Monty Don. Gardening at Longmeadow

The Biophilia Hypothesis

What Plant Where. Roy Lancaster

Healing Gardens. Romy Rawlings

Real Gardens. Adam Frost

Gardening at the Dragon’s Gate. Wendy Johnson

Sacred Landscapes. Mann, Davis

Dear Friend & Gardener. Chatto, Lloyd.

Sissinghurst. Sackville-West, Raven

The Layered Garden, David Culp

Growing with My Garden. Rolland Hein

Heaven is a Garden. Jan Johnsen

We chat about the studies around Biophilia and their relationships to Christians, and then chat with North Texas gardener Sonja Bradshaw who beautifully ties together the aspects of Biophilia and God.  Garden designer Ken Swarner can be seen at roomtogrowdesigns.com and at his Christian humor site kenswarner.com.