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Daffodil Collection-Mid to Late Season Bloomers on NPT's Volunteer Gardener

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 share their insights into growing and dividing these long-time garden favorites. Host April Moore highlights 10 varieties that are true standouts.


Lath House on NPT's Volunteer Gardener

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 Raulston Arboretum with the director of horticulture to highlight the diverse and unique perennials, shrubs and trees being grown here.


Beginnings of a Pollinator Garden on NPT's Volunteer Gardener

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 growth, it's brimming with native wildflowers. An integral partner in this amazing instillation was the Tennessee Environmental Council who supported it with manpower and specialty seed mixes.


Agave Selections and Care on NPT's Volunteer Gardener

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. Renowned plantsman Tony Avent showcases several varieties with interesting form, size, color and habit. Learn optimum growing conditions plus propagation methods for this historically significant plant.


Spring Ephemerals on NPT's Volunteer Gardener

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 spring blooming ephemerals with interesting form and outstanding color at Plant Delights Nursery in Raleigh North Carolina.


Color and Performance Late in the Season on NPT's Volunteer Gardener

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 garden beds and containers full of interest up until first frost with plants such as Mexican bush sage, pineapple sage, asters, coreopsis and more.


Mums on NPT's Volunteer Gardener

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 Springs, Tennessee. Tammy Algood gets tips on how to keep the flowers looking good all season long, and how to plant them in the landscape for autumn color every year.


Native Groundcovers on NPT's Volunteer Gardener

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 visits a mature garden to profile a dozen different native ground covers. Most of these plants have a season of bloom. Marty considers each one to be worthy of a spot in your garden.


Healthy Yards Clarksville on NPT's Volunteer Gardener

Healthy Yards Clarksville

Residents of Montgomery County Tennessee who desire a yard that has ecological value are finding support and encouragement from Healthy Yards Clarksville. This initiative promotes the use of native perennials, shrubs and trees in the home landscape to support insects and birds. We tour a participant's yard that has had tremendous results in a short span of time.


Afrobotany on NPT's Volunteer Gardener

Afrobotany

Host Marty DeHart sits down for a discussion with Ethnobotanist Marc Williams of Botany Every Day. Marc highlights the multitude of contributions that African Americans have made to the farm, garden, herbal, horticultural and scientific traditions in the U.S.


Making a difference with landscape choices on NPT's Volunteer Gardener

Making a difference with landscape choices

Providing a sustainable habitat for wildlife begins with plant selection, and continues with natural gardening methods. Rita Venable introduces us to a native plant enthusiast who is maximizing his efforts by installing garden beds from the curb to the rear property line. He's finding that he's inspiring others too.


A Grand Collection of Conifers on NPT's Volunteer Gardener

A Grand Collection of Conifers

Conifers are trees and shrubs that bear cones. But beyond that common characteristic, they can vary greatly in mature size, foliage type, foliage color, and growth habit. Annette Shrader showcases a variety of beautiful specimens as she tours a private collection belonging to a couple who are conifer enthusiasts.