Recent Volunteer Gardener Clips
Home Landscape Vignettes and Plant Combinations
May 09, 2019
This lovely home landscape begins at the curb and continues throughout the property. The various garden beds and garden vignettes sparkle with combinations of shrubs, trees, and perennials. The variance in height, color and texture speaks to good garden design. The plant palette contains some showy specimens, but none that are difficult to maintain.
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Rohdea: An Evergreen Shade Option
May 09, 2019
One of our landscape designer/host says Rohdea (Sacred Lily) is the most under used dependable performing perennials for shade. The biggest attribute is that it remains evergreen in winter. This plant is native to southeast Asia. It mimics an evergreen hosta in the landscape.Deep green, leathery leaves spring from a central growing point followed by inconspicuous flowers that later provide showy cones of red berries nestled in the foliage. Rohdea tolerates dry shade.
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ROOT Nashville
May 09, 2019
The Mayor of Nashville launched a campaign in October 2018 to plant and care for 500,000 trees across Nashville by 2050. Julie Berbiglia learns about the collaboration behind this effort with various non-profits, government agencies, private companies, philanthropic partners, volunteers, and citizens. The campaign is designed to increase the city’s tree canopy and create a more equitable distribution of the health and sustainability benefits of urban trees across all neighborhoods.
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Creating an Outdoor Living Space
May 02, 2019
One step at a time over several years - that was the approach of this homeowner who set out to create a relaxing, outdoor space to entertain. We get to see the culmination of the choices made along the way with the hardscape, plant palette and focal points for the space.
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Industrial Hemp
April 18, 2019
In 2014, Tennessee established a program of licensing authorized hemp producers. Tammy Algood visits with Bill Corbin, a farmer in Springfield who is growing hemp varieties specifically for CBD oil extraction. We gain insights into why this crop is such a natural and profitable venture.
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Historic Savage Garden
April 11, 2019
Arthur Savage bought a house with 1.7 acres of property in 1917 in what is now Fountain City, TN. He had quite the eye for design, and devoted time and money toward creating a premiere garden. Features include substantial structures, a 280' rock wall, trees, shrubs and flowers. It's heyday was in the late 1920's. With Arthur's death in 1946, this garden fell into disrepair and was neglected. In 1986, an energetic couple bought Savage Garden with the hopes of restoring it back to its former grandeur. It has far exceeded expectations. Annette Shrader leads us on a tour with one of the property's owners, Bill Dohm.
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Indigo: Agriculture Research and Production
April 11, 2019
A goal of Stony Creek Colors is to replace at least 3% of synthetic blue dye with natural indigo produced on Tennessee farms. Currently, TN has the most indigo in research and production than anywhere in the U.S. with all of the biomass coming from within a 60 mile radius of its factory.
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Flower Show of the American Daffodil Society Annual Meeting, 2018
April 04, 2019
We go behind the scenes at the big flower show of the American Daffodil Society annual meeting. From the staging area where flower stems are primped and readied, to the show floor where the judges share their criteria for specimens on exhibit, we see daffodils by the hundreds.