Laura LeBoutillier (Garden Answer) – Detailed Biography

Laura LeBoutillier is a popular gardener and YouTuber.

She has over two million subscribers on her YouTube channel Garden Answer.

Introduction-

Laura LeBoutillier was born in 1984.

She hails from Ontario, Oregon, United States and grew up in a Christ-centered home there.

Both her parents, Michael and Susan Kurth, love gardening and run Andrews Seed Co., a garden center in Ontario.

Laura has a sister, Monica, and a brother, Joseph. He is a history professor.

Gardening-

Laura grew up gardening and loved growing freckled lettuce.

Her parents started getting involved with the Andrews Seed Co. in 1990 and the then 6-year-old Laura started helping her parents with gardening.

After working at Andrews Seed Co., her parents bought it from the old owner, David.

The young Laura used to do daily chores at the garden center like watering, weeding, cutting thistles out of the pasture and felt working in the center to be a total slave labor and decided to never end up doing gardening as her job.

But eventually she fell in love with gardening and made a successful career out of it.

Laura learned a lot about gardening from working at her parents’ garden center and large garden.

Thanks to working there, she studied numerous plants and learnt plant names, plant varieties and how they grow.

Education & career-

Laura went to a community college, to be a registered nurse, for two years but didn’t complete the course.

Then, she moved to England to attend a Bible College there but didn’t stay even for a whole semester.

Laura returned to the US and started working as a secretary at the church where Aaron’s father was the pastor.

Then, she worked in business banking and at a vet clinic for a few years.

Later, she started working part-time on Garden Answer along with helping her parents at the garden center and later became a full-time YouTuber.

Laura doesn’t have any formal training in horticulture.

Starting Garden Answer-

Aaron was interested in videography and he bought a MacBook Pro and a Canon camera.

At the time, as he was interested in video editing, he wanted some video footage.

So, he asked Laura to stand and talk about plants.

Even though she didn’t like being in front of a camera and was feeling nervous and vulnerable, she agreed to be in the video as she was being supportive to him.

Aaron started filming Laura’s garden projects and they started the Garden Answer YouTube channel on 23 May 2014 as a hobby.

This channel was born out of Aaron’s love for videography and Laura’s love for gardening. At the time, both were working full-time.

Inspirations-

Initially, Aaron was inspired by Marques Brownlee (MKBHD) and his presentation style.

After a couple of years, he got inspired by Casey Neistat.

Aaron observed Casey daily vlogging all by himself and thought that he too could publish a video daily as he had the support of Laura.

So, they started posting as much content as possible and Aaron realized that not only the content but consistency is also the king.

Initially, they were posting a video once a week but later, they bumped it up to twice a week.

The couple wanted the Garden Answer to succeed and they were seriously working on it on nights, weekends and holidays.

Succeeding-

In 2015, Cindy of The Succulent Perch Facebook page connected with Laura and Aaron.

At the time, the page had over 200K followers and Cindy started sharing some Garden Answer Facebook videos on the page and this helped in their initial growth.

When the Garden Answer first started, Laura gave Aaron one year to figure it out as she felt uncomfortable appearing on the camera.

Even though they didn’t have many followers at that time on their FB page, some of their videos had crossed a million views and Proven Winners took notice of this.

And just two days before the year anniversary, Proven Winners reached out and started working with them and in 2016, Proven Winners finalized a year-long contract with them.

At the time, they were working in full-time jobs and Aaron was about to quit his job to focus on Garden Answer while Laura was going to start phasing out of her job and the contract with Proven Winners gave them financial security.

Initially, the Garden Answer YouTube channel didn’t go anywhere even after they put in a lot of effort but they persisted and started publishing more frequently. Eventually the channel gained momentum.

As of May 2026, Garden Answer has 2.06 million subscribers on YouTube and 4 million followers on the Facebook page.

Aaron edits the videos with Final Cut Pro.

They also have two other YouTube channels, Garden Answer Highlights and Garden Answer Español.

Prior to working on the Garden Answer channel, Laura did a few music videos on Aaron LeBoutillier YouTube channel.

On the verge of being homeless-

A few months before signing the contract with Proven Winners, in 2016, they sold their townhouse and had nowhere to go. They were going to be homeless in five months.

Also, at the time, they needed fast internet to work but as they were living in a very small town, it was elusive.

Dennis and Mary, their close family friends, learnt about their need for a house and they offered to sell theirs to Laura and Aaron.

The house seemed out of reach but Dennis gave Aaron the number to a loan officer.

Laura and Aaron having two incomes without any kids, being diligent for many years and saving the extra money in a forced savings plan greatly helped and they had enough down payment to barely get into the house.

They moved into the house in May 2016. By that time, Aaron had quit his job for Garden Answer and Laura was still working at her parents’ garden center for two days a week.

But that summer, she quit that job as she found it difficult to focus on Garden Answer and also, she had to do the landscape work and cut the weeds.

So, two years after starting the Garden Answer YouTube channel, they quit their jobs to become full-time content creators.

They have a small team for helping with their content creation and online store.

First solo attempt-

After getting married, Laura and Aaron moved into their first townhouse.

Even though the house was small, it had an 8-by-10-foot gardening space and an 8-foot-long by 2-foot-deep flower bed with gravel.

After pulling out the gravel, Laura did mulch and plants and did a pot right by the garage and this was her first solo attempt at gardening.

Personal life-

At 17, Laura started going to the church where Aaron’s father was a pastor. There, she and Aaron first met and they started hanging out in their early twenties.

Later, Laura took his secretary job and he hung around and taught her some computer programs.

After dating for ten months, they married on 24 September 2006.

They have a son, Benjamin and a daughter, Samantha Grace.

Laura follows Christianity and lives in Ontario.

Tidbits-

• Laura’s favourite flowers are tulips, lavenders, acacias, double-flowered roses, ballerinas and David Austin Roses and her favourite houseplants are ferns.
• She is an ailurophile and loves Thai food.
• Laura was trained in classical piano for 17 years and her hobbies are playing piano and knitting.
• Her favourite book is Down the Garden Path, authored by Beverley Nichols and her favourite magazines are The English Garden and Victoria Magazine.

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