Tropical San Diego Garden
SAN DIEGO, CA From San Diego’s gardening TV show “A Growing Passion.” In this episode: Join garden expert Nan Sterman as she visits a lush, tropical garden filled with unusual plants and garden art. This garden was created by San Diego’s legendary designer known as “Sinjen,” who, during his lifetime, was a close family friend …Read more »
Erica Glasener Visits a Formal Garden in Georgia
GEORGIA One of the hard-to-get episodes of “A Gardener’s Diary” by horticulturist Erica Glasener. The show ran for 14 years on HGTV and is much missed.
Go Wild, Go Native
MINNEAPOLIS, MN By the Nature Conservancy Get Wild, Go Native! Native gardening is good for our air, our water and us. Join our “Go Native” group to learn about all of the ways you can “Get Wild” in your life! Sign up at nature.org/GoNative to receive monthly “Plant This, Not That” gardening tips and updates …Read more »
Urban Chinese Vegetable Garden in New Haven, CT
NEW HAVEN, CONN By GardenClips. A visit to an urban Chinese vegetable garden in New Haven, CT – an example of urban guerilla gardening. With host Eric Larson of the Marsh Botanical Garden at Yale University.
Small-Garden Design, Part 1: Townhouse Front Yard Garden
GREENBELT, MD Video description from Garden Clips: Susan Harris of Garden Rant shows us her small townhouse front yard garden. Susan removed the existing lawn and put in a small patio to serve as a seating area. She planted the surrounding beds with easy-to-care-for perennials and potted annuals and provided a sense of enclosure with arborvitaes …Read more »
Claude Monet’s Garden in Giverny, France
FRANCE by Michael Moller on Floratube Monet’s Garden, around the big house, where the famous artist lived the last half of his life, is a beautiful place. You can’t help falling in love with that place. Monet was a famous artist already when he lived, and he earned good ´money. He hired 7 gardeners to …Read more »
Tony Avent: Plant Hunter
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA PlantPop takes a trip to Raleigh, NC to visit Tony Avent, proprietor of Juniper Level Botanical Garden and Plant Delights Nursery. Tony has traveled the world many times over to find plants to add to his growing collection.
David Culp’s Layered Garden
PENNSYLVANIA Known as Brandywine Cottage, this two acre garden is the creation of David Culp (plantsmen, lecturer, instructor and author). David and his partner Michael Alderfer maintain the property that includes a woodland garden, perennial border garden, kitchen garden, roof garden, a ruined garden, and a 1790’s farmhouse. David is author of The Layered Garden: …Read more »
Front Yard Make-Over with Vines and Paint
GREENBELT, MARYLAND Front-yard make-over of Modernist home in Greenbelt, Maryland, using vines and paint. ARCHITECTURE Iconic example of the ‘International Style,’ a modernist style rarely seen in the U.S. With the old siding removed and the concrete block façade repaired, the unit is fully restored – except for the original color, which was white. (NOT …Read more »
Hillside Garden of Artistic Levels
AUSTIN, TX, from Central Texas Gardener on PBS Landscape Architect Tait Moring is into recycling. From native stones to ashe juniper branches, he frames his rocky hilltop home with respect for the earth. He’s cycled native plants and wildlife back in since he first arrived to Bermuda grass and a chain link fence. In his multi-layered garden, artistic …Read more »
A Weaving Garden on Many Levels
SAN MARCOS, TX From KLUR’s Central Texas Gardener: In San Marcos, weaver Lydia Kendrick unites multi-level gardens with vivacious color. As she re-graded her sloping yard to control flooding, she designed cozy corners and uplifting views with recycled finds, fragrance and hand-made weavings, even from recycled plastic bags.
Erica Glasener Visits Dan Crow’s Garden, Part 2
PERRY, MICHIGAN The 2nd of 4 “Gardener’s Diary” shows by horticulturist Erica Glasener about the garden of Dan Crow in Perry, Michigan. He’s owner of Outdoor Expressions. The show “A Gardener’s Diary” lasted for 14 years on HGTV and is much missed.