Air Dates: 11 | 18 & 21 | 25 & 28
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Volunteer Gardener is pre-empted 6/4/09 for special programming.

 

Volunteer Gardener: Perennials Edition
Air Dates: 6/11/09, WNPT viewing area ONLY

On this special edition of Volunteer Gardener, hosts Troy Marden and Marty DeHart provide an insider’s guide to creating a beautiful perennial garden from the ground up. They share tips on how to plan, design and properly plant a garden that can turn a ho-hum spot into the focal point of the landscape. And they’ll show how to extend the season of color from early spring through the heat of summer and up until first frost. Tune in for good gardening information, and designer inspiration.

Annuals featured in this show include:
Coleus ‘Kiwi Fern’
Coleus ‘Fireworks’
Coleus ‘Flirting Skirts’
Coleus ‘Palisandra’
Canna ‘Tropicanna’
Canna ‘Bengal Tiger’
Strobilanthes ‘Persian Shield’
Ruellia brittoniana ‘Chi Chi’
Ruellia elegans
Pentas
Zinnia angustifolia ‘Star Gold’
Lantana ‘Athens rose
Lantana ‘Radiation’
Lantana ‘Pink Caprice’
Angelonia
Verbena ‘Temari Violet’
Verbena ‘Temari Burgundy’
Datura ‘Dwarf White’
Scutellaria
Cuphea micropetela

Perennials, vines, woody ornamentals featured:
Aesculus parviflora (Bottle brush buckeye)
Lonicera hectrotti ‘Goldflame’ (honeysuckle)
Melampodium paludosum ‘Million gold’
Hosta x ‘Sum and Substance’
Rudbeckia maxima
Kniphofia varia (Red hot poker)
Echinacea purpurea ‘Magnus’ (purple coneflower)
Achillea x ‘Coronation Gold’
Monarda didyma ‘Jacob Kline’
Verbena bonariensis
Tiarella ‘Cygnet’
Heuchera ‘Amber Waves’
Cimicifuga ‘Hillside Black Beauty’
Thelypteris kunthii (Southern wood fern)
Euphorbia amygdaloides ‘Robbiae’
Zephyranthes rosea

 

 

Episode #1751
Air Dates: 6/18/09 and 6/21/09

Shitake mushrooms are a popular delicacy because of their exotic, hearty flavor, but they can be expensive. Julie Berbiglia investigates how to go about growing these mushrooms yourself. Marty DeHart visits with a daylily hybridizer to find out more about this popular, easy care plant. Troy Marden designs a garden bed for a dry and difficult sloped area at the edge of a property. Sheri Gramer mixes up a batch of fragrant and effective ‘Moth Away’.

Julie’s segment mentioned the HORTICULTURE FOR HOMEOWNERS FIELD DAY. This event is free and open to the public.
Saturday, June 20, 2009
On the campus of Ellington Agricultural Center
5201 Marchant Drive
Nashville, TN 37211
9am-3pm
More information is available on the Davidson County Master Gardener’s website, www.dcmg.org

Information on Shitake Mushroom Production
Recommended Book: Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Save the World by Paul Stamets

Fungus Spore Suppliers:
Mushroom people
mushroom@thefarm.org
Summertown, TN
931-964-4400

Fungi Perfecti, LLC
www.fungi.com
Olympia, WA
360-426-9292

Marty’s segment on daylilies was recorded at
Wrights Daylily Garden
www.wrightsdaylily.com
Located midway between Nashville and Knoxville less than 20 miles from
I-40
1001 Terrapin Ridge Road
Hilham, TN 38568
931-823-4014
Daylilies featured: Cody Boy* / Bountiful Morning* / Just Beyond* / Smoky Mountain Bell / Red Volunteer / Strawberry Candy / Golden Delight
*Bonnie Wright’s hybrids

Troy’s segment featuring plants well-suited for a dry, sloped landscape included yucca / amsonia / baptisia / artemesia “Powis Castle” / yarrow / sedum / rosemary / verbena / salvia

Moth Away
One big bowl
8 cups lavender
8 cups cedar shavings
1 cup cloves
1 cup rosemary
1 TBSP powdered orris root with 1 TBSP lavender essential oil
Plus 1 TBSP powdered orris root with 1 TBSP lemon essential oil

 

Episode #1752
Air Dates: 6/25/09 and 6/28/09

On this episode of Volunteer Gardener, the brand new children’s garden at Memphis Botanic garden is set to open this summer and Troy Marden gives us a sneak peek during the instillation. Annette Shrader finds out what’s new in herbs, and Jeff Poppen demonstrates how to grow celery. Plus Tammy Algood serves up a conversation starter with mushroom caviar.

Memphis Botanic Garden
www.memphisbotanicgarden.com
810 Cherry Road
Memphis, TN 38117
901-576-4100

Annette Shrader’s herb segment was filmed at Diann’s Greenhouse in Clarksville, TN
www.diannsgreenhouse.com

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