Air Dates: 3 & 20 | 24 & 27 | 31 & April 3
Monthly Program Listing

Episode #1309
Air Dates: 3/03/05 and 3/20/05

For this installment of Volunteer Gardener, Julie Berbiglia visits the Nashville city cemetery and sees how volunteers are preserving the original beauty and reverence of the area with heirloom plants and traditional Southern tree selections; Troy Marden introduces us to some hot new perennials; and Annette Shrader tours the many garden beds of a talented and self-taught landscape designer in Clarksville.

Program notes:

For the book “Nashville City Cemetery”, please contact
The Nashville City Cemetery Association, Inc.
P.O. Box 150733
Nashville, TN 37215
www.thenashvillecitycemetery.org

What’s New at the garden center with Troy Marden
Clematis (Blue moon) ‘Evirin’
Heuchera villosa ‘Autumn Bride’
Epimedium niveum/ Epimedium roseum
Ananus lucida (Red pineapple)
Sempervivum cultivars (hens and chicks)
Lewisia
Dianella tasmanica ‘variegata’ (Variegated Flax lily)
Ligularia (Crested leopard plant)
Centaurea ‘Gold Bullion’
Sedum ‘Autumn Fire’

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Episode # 1339

Air Dates: 3/24/05 and 3/27/05

On this episode of Volunteer Gardener, Sheri Gramer learns how one man transformed acres of pasture land into a park-like setting with his eye for design and visions for the future; Marty DeHart showcases a collection of Tennessee spring wildflowers: Annette Shrader visits a wildflower plant sale benefiting a local garden treasure at Cheekwood; and then Annette takes us to the vegetable garden to let us in on her secret for growing beautiful braggin’ tomatoes.

Program notes:

Marty DeHart’s Favorite Tennessee Spring Wildflowers

Shade Plants
Sanguinaria Canadensis (Bloodroot)
Trillium grandiflorum
Mertensia virginica (Virginia Bluebell)
Stylophorum diphyllum (Golden Wood Poppy)
Dicentra eximia (Wild Bleedingheart)
Aquilegia Canadensis ‘Canyon Vista’ (Columbine)
Aquilegia Canadensis ‘Corbett’ (Columbine)
Phacelia bipinnatifida (Purple Phacelia)
Tiarella cordifolia v. cordifolia (Foamflower)
Thalictrum thalictroides (Rue Anemone)
Polemonium reptans (Jacob’s Ladder)
Viola rostrata (Long-spurred Violet)
Viola. pedata (Birds-foot Violet)
Delphinium tricorne (Dwarf larkspur)
Phlox divaricata (Wild Blue Phlox)
Phlox stolonifera (Creeping Phlox) ‘Sherwood Purple’
Phlox stolonifera (Creeping Phlox) ‘Home Fires’
Dodecatheon meadia (Shooting Star)

Sun Plants
Phlox bifida v. stellata (Glade Phlox, Cleft Phlox)
Phlox pilosa (Prairie Phlox)
Houstonia caerulea (Bluets) ‘Homestead Purple’
Verbena Canadensis (Rose Verbena)

Annuals
Collinsea verna (Blue-Eyed Mary)
Leavenworthia stylosa (Glade Cress)

Annette’s Special Tomato Plant Recipe
1 Tablespoon blood meal
1 Tablespoon Epsom salts
1 cup green sand
1 cup bone meal

Mix all ingredients thoroughly and then add into the pre-dug hole for the tomato plant. Mix very thoroughly with the loose soil in and around the hole, then plant the tomato plant and fill in with dirt. Annette gave her plant extra tender loving care by creating a basin around it in the dirt, so water would be retained near the roots and not run off. Water in thoroughly.

Note: Green sand is available locally at the larger garden centers, such as Moore and Moore West Garden Center and Bates Nursery.

The Garden Club of Nashville presents the 13th Annual Wildflower Fair

At Cheekwood Botanical Gardens, Nashville, Tennessee
www.cheekwood.org

A Luncheon and Lecture will be presented on Thursday, April 7 from noon to 2pm with a Wildflower Pre-Sale for luncheon attendees 10:30am to noon, and 2pm to 3:30pm. The guest speaker will be Felder Rushing, author of “’Naked Ladies’ and Other Things to Spice Up Your Beds!” (www.felderrushing.net)  Tickets are $100.

The Wildflower Sale is open to the public April 8 and 9, 2005 from 9:30am to 4:30pm. On April 10, the hours are 11am to 3pm.

All proceeds benefit the Cora B. Howe Wildflower Garden and other projects of the Garden Club of Nashville.

Cheekwood Gate Fees are $10 for adults; $8 for seniors; $5 for college students with ID and Youth (3-13) with a household cap of $30.

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Episode # 1311
Air Dates: 3/31/05 and 4/03/05

This time on Volunteer Gardener, Sheri Gramer demonstrates how to create an eye-catching wreath using hops and lavender; Jeff Poppen, the barefoot farmer, shares his version of compost tea; Annette Shrader has found a way to keep deer from grazing on the hostas; and Tammy Algood shows how to blanch a variety of vegetables to preserve summer’s goodness.

Program note:

The brochure that Tammy recommended is “Preserving Food” and is available for free through your county’s extension agent. For Davidson County, send requests to 800 2nd Avenue North, Nashville, TN 37201.

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