Today's guest on Grow! with Katie is self-taught garden designer, speaker, writer, and garden media personality, Linda Vater!

She has lived and gardened in Oklahoma City for the last 27 years. She designed, maintains, and now shares daily insights into the gardens at her historic, urban home, drawing daily inspiration from practical and metaphorical lessons of her garden.

Happy Arbor Day! Today on Grow! with Katie we got to hangout with Steve Nagy and Jess Running from Davey Tree Expert Company.

Today’s guest on Grow! with Katie is Mark Highland of the Organic Mechanic Soil Company!

Mark began his green-thumb journey at a young age digging around his grandmother’s vegetable garden, pulling weeds, picking caterpillars off plants, and harvesting ripe fruit. He knew he was hooked the moment he turned over his first forkful of rick Illinois soil.

Today’s guest on Grow! with Katie is houseplant expert and social media extraordinaire, Darryl Cheng!

Darryl is a Toronto, Canada based influencer who has grown his social media following to a whopping 400k with his never-ending knowledge of houseplants and how honest and real he is about indoor growing!

Follow him on Instagram! @houseplantjournal

Today’s guest on Grow! with Katie is the Executive Director of the National Garden Bureau, Diane Blazek.

This year the National Garden Bureau is celebrating 100 years! NGB is a non-profit organization that exists to educate, inspire, and motivate people to increase the use of plants in homes, gardens, and workplaces by being the marketing arm of the gardening industry. Their members are experts in the field of horticulture.

Today’s guest on Grow! with Katie is powerhouse and indoor growing expert, Leslie Halleck of Halleck Horticulture.Leslie Halleck has 27 years of experience in different segments of horticulture; from research and trials, to landscaping, to garden center retail, to green industry marketing and business development.

Leslie’s main focus now is to help companies grow with her consulting services and educating consumers through her books and social media.

Today on Grow! with Katie, we got to hang out with Rachel Stein from Kid’s Gardening and do a fun gardening project with Katie's 5 year old daughter, Quinn!

Today’s guest on Grow! With Katie is an incredible woman who is a self-proclaimed horticulturist extraordinaire that is half country bumpkin, half bougie, occasionally extra, and inherently Southern. It’s Abre Lee!

Today’s guest on Grow! with Katie is Farmer Nick! He is a “plantrepreneur”, based in New York, who is passionate about all things green. 

Nick’s mission is to make the world more sustainable by giving people the knowledge and confidence they need to create their own green spaces.

Today’s guest on Grow! with Katie is a backyard organic gardener from Southern California who is thriving on her multiple social media platforms and influencing millions of gardeners and people around the world. It’s CaliKim!