Growing Orchids – The Basics

Orchids are annuals, with a bloom period of about 3 months per year. With proper care, they can live for many years. Tammy Algood visits Stones [...]

Garden Treasures

Troy Marden is awed by the beautiful plant selections found at Garden Treasures, a retail and mail-order nursery that specializes in rare and ob [...]

Daffodil Collection-Mid to Late Season Bloomers

Come along on a visit to the home gardens of a horticulture power couple who have planted and now enjoy an extensive daffodil collection. They s [...]

Lath House

A Lath House is a protected open air structure made chiefly of slats used for nurturing plants. Annette Shrader tours the Lath House at JC Rauls [...]

Enriching the Compost Pile with Herbs and Weeds

Jeff Poppen, an experienced biodynamic farmer, shares his techniques for enhancing the compost pile comprised of hay, manures and plant residue. [...]

Beginnings of a Pollinator Garden

There's a new pollinator garden at Ravenwood High School that was a project of the school's student-led garden club. In it's first season of gro [...]

Agave Selections and Care

Agaves date back 10,000 years. Plant Delights Nursery in Raleigh, North Carolina has one of the most extensive agave collections in the world. R [...]

Wetlands Garden

The Wetlands Garden at the UT Botanical Garden in Knoxville has been established in a low-lying area that once had been a difficult space to mai [...]

Zoo Garden

The team at UT Botanical Garden in Knoxville Tennessee have put together a garden area that is delighting children, and piquing their interest i [...]

Spring Ephemerals

Spring ephemerals are long-lived plants with a very short life cycle or period of active growth. Annette Shrader has found a grand collection of [...]

Southern Cottage Garden

Every bit of this urban yard is part of the garden design, whether its the front yard with a definite 'wow' factor, the planted strip along the [...]

Winterizing Ornamental Beds

Autumn should be a busy time in ornamental garden beds. Tasks are necessary to get plants ready for colder weather, but also looking toward what [...]

Color and Performance Late in the Season

When peak summer blooms begin to fade, there's plenty of annuals and perennials that can offer lots of color and vitality. You can keep those ga [...]

Garden time = family time

What began as a few raised beds in a spot that couldn't grow grass is now a large garden space that's turning out loads of tomatoes, cucumbers, [...]

A garden designed with an artist’s eye

Troy Marden showcases what was once a typical, grassy residential lot that was transformed by the homeowners into a gorgeous collection of displ [...]

Farming in raised beds

Jeff Poppen, market farmer, tours a vegetable garden that's very different from his own. This farmer grows in 35 raised beds situated in seven l [...]

Mums

Peak bloom time for chrysanthemums is September and October. There's a grand selection of these autumn favorites at Grandaddy's Farm in Estill S [...]

Collection of Color and Variety

We tour the home garden of a self-described plant collector. Her goals for the design were cohesiveness, some symmetry, a bit of formality, and [...]

Earthworms: The Good, and the Destructive

Host Jeff Poppen, a biodynamic farmer, uses a lot of compost. By doing that, he is rewarded with a plentiful amount of earthworms that aerate th [...]

A Mindful Landscape

Rita Venable visits with a homeowner who began gardening during the pandemic. She had inherited her landscaping when she purchased the home. Now [...]

Native Groundcovers

Autumn is a good time to evaluate the worthiness of ground cover plants, as the strength of the plant and its foliage is evident. Marty DeHart v [...]

Healthy Yards Clarksville

Residents of Montgomery County Tennessee who desire a yard that has ecological value are finding support and encouragement from Healthy Yards Cl [...]

Garden in the Sky

What a treat to tour the many thoughtful garden beds at a residence that sits on the edge of the Cumberland Plateau at an elevation of 1,900 fee [...]

Container Gardening: Flexibility and Control

Ever thought about the flexibility and control you would have if all of your landscape plants were in individual containers? We tour the unique [...]

Growing Lettuce in Fall

Lettuce is a cool-season crop, so it grows well in autumn. Tammy Algood checks out the beautiful rows of Salanova head lettuce at Red Thread Far [...]