Drought Design for Wildlife Habitat
TEXAS From Central Texas Gardener on KLRU-TV in Austin. In Hudson Bend overlooking Lake Travis, Bruce McDonald saw the lake vanish before his eyes. To respond to drought, he ripped out his front lawn for waterwise plants. In back, he cleared a wildfire jungle for serene outdoor living rooms around ponds fed with rainwater collection.
Small Garden Design Part 2 – Townhouse Garden
GREENBELT, MD From Garden Clips: Susan Harris of Garden Rant continues the tour as she shows us her small townhouse back 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 …Read more »
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 »
The Family Garden at Johnson Wildflower Center
AUSTIN, TX At the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. In November 2015, the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center received the John Covert Watson Award for Vision from the Children in Nature Collaborative of Austin. This short video was produced to show how the center’s new Luci and Ian Family Garden is transforming the center and …Read more »
Gangsta Gardening: Transforming a Neighborhood through Gardening
SOUTH CENTRAL LOS ANGELES, CA A TED Talk Ron Finley plants vegetable gardens in South Central LA — in abandoned lots, traffic medians, along the curbs. Why? For fun, for defiance, for beauty and to offer some alternative to fast food in a community where “the drive-thrus are killing more people than the drive-bys.” Learn …Read more »
The Vegetable Garden at Monticello
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA Take a walk through Thomas Jefferson’s immense vegetable garden and see some of prized varieties. With P. Allen Smith. Subscribe to P. Allen Smith on Youtube.
Chanticleer’s Teacup Garden
CHANTICLEER GARDEN IN WAYNE, PA Horticulturist Dan Benarcik offers insight and a look at the Teacup Garden in early summer. Produced by Jonathan Monkmeyer & Bryan Christ. Music by Adhita Sofyan.
From Turfgrass to Central Florida Native Plant Landscape
CENTRAL FLORIDA This 12,000 ft² residential lot which faces a golf course was transformed from a typical builder-installed turf grass lawn into a diverse native plant landscape. All changes were made with full approval of the architectural review committee in this deed restricted community. Only two “islands” (600 ft² total) of grass remain in functional …Read more »
Tour a REAL School Garden
By the national nonprofit REAL School Gardens.
Ketcham Elementary’s Big Dig
WASHINGTON, D.C. The “Big Dig” at Ketcham Elementary School in the Anacostia neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The national nonprofit REAL School Gardens works with the Office of the State Superintendent of Education, Hilton Worldwide , D.C. United MAXIMUS Foundation, and American Association of Medical Colleges to build a new learning garden.
Children’s Garden in Iowa City
IOWA CITY, IOWA Published May 17, 2013. The City Plaza Children’s Garden was planted on June 8, 2013, as part of the Iowa City Public Library’s Children’s Day events. This downtown garden is the result of collaboration between New Pioneer Co-op and the city of Iowa City. Scott Koepke, the education and outreach coordinator for …Read more »
Morton Arboretum Children’s Garden
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS Mike Nowak’s “Dig in Chicago” takes us to the Morton Arboretum Children’s Garden.