Mel Bartholomews Square Foot Gardening Getting Started Volume 2
August 14, 2009 by Gardening Ideas · Leave a Comment
Mel Bartholomews Square Foot Gardening Getting Started Volume 2
Pruning Matters The Formula for Pruning Mastery DVD Field Guide Combo Pack
August 13, 2009 by Gardening Ideas · Leave a Comment
Pruning Matters The Formula for Pruning Mastery DVD Field Guide Combo Pack
Fran West’s easy-to-learn method, The Formula for Pruning Mastery, will help you enhance the natural beauty of your shrubs and small trees. When you purchase your New, updated and revised DVD, don’t forget to include Fran’s handy Field Guide for a quick reference that fits in your back pocket.
Since 1991, Fran West has been a pruning specialist and lecturer for clubs and businesses nationwide.
“Fran West teaches her pruning techniques with the same clarity and flare that she brings to her work. Using her simple-to-follow directions, any gardener, from novice to professional-can achieve excellent results.”
-Leigh Barnes, Past President, The Horticultural Society of Maryland, Inc.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Pruning does matter
We aren’t born knowing how to prune. Ms. West’s Pruning Matters takes us through a focused approach to learning not only how to prune, but also where to prune, why to prune and when to prune. She distills large projects into manageable parts while maintaining a cohesive view. If you are searching for the proper tutorial for pruning, you should purchase this without reservation.
5 Stars Excellent gardening tool
The field guide and DVD make it easy to understand how to approach pruning even for someone who has no experience. The author’s approach to pruning makes it easy to look at my trees and shrubs and know what to do now. This is the knowledge that I’ve been looking for to enjoy my garden.
Bloomin in the Garden Get the Most Out of you Garden 3 Disc set
August 11, 2009 by Gardening Ideas · Leave a Comment
Bloomin in the Garden Get the Most Out of you Garden 3 Disc set
The Complete Gardener Annuals and Perennials Region 8
August 9, 2009 by Gardening Ideas · Leave a Comment
The Complete Gardener Annuals and Perennials Region 8
In this informative three-part DVD, host Joe Maiden shows you how to create and maintain a beautiful flower garden for year-round color. Maiden also includes tips on mixed borders, flower patios, heathers, and rock gardens, plus useful advice on growing roses, sweet peas, container gardening, and much more! · Horticulturist, writer, and broadcaster Joe Maiden is world renowned for his no-nonsense, non-technical approach and inexhaustible wealth of gardening tips and techniques. · Apprx 90 mins, color, interactive menus.
DVD Chapters PART 1: Mixed Borders, Bedding Plants & Annuals Mixed Borders · Half Hardy Annual Border · Annual Border · Maintaining the Garden · The Flower Patio
PART 2: Alpines, Heathers & Rock Gardens Heathers · Building a Rock Garden · A Sandstone Rock Garden · A Tufa Rock Garden · Rock Garden/Autumn Maintenance
PART 3: Patio Gardens Container Gardening · Roses · Growing in the Conservatory · Growing Sweet Peas on the Cordon System · The Stone Trough Patio · Climbing Shrubs · Shrubs · Using Climbers to Cover a Wall
DVD Encyclopedia of Roses
August 7, 2009 by Gardening Ideas · Leave a Comment
In this fact-filled DVD, hosts Peter Seabrook and Anne Swithinbank show how you can produce more roses and better plants than ever before! You will learn to plant bare root and container grown bushes for long-term flowering, the right timing and correct techniques for pruning, the importance of fertilizers for plant growth and flowering, how to select and use products for pest and disease control, why summer deadheading is more than just the removal of faded flowers, and much more! Author, journalist and TV personality Peter Seabrook is one of the best-known faces and voices in the world of horticulture. Anne Swithinbank is a highly regarded gardening authority, book author, and broadcaster. Apprx 60 mins, color, interactive menus.
User Ratings and Reviews
4 Stars Good but dated.
Although the DVD for this program has only recently been released, the original date of the broadcast was in the 1980’s. If you’re a novice like me that doesn’t matter because the basic elements of gardening probably won’t have changed that much and there is a lot of very good information on the DVD. The host is an elderly English gentleman so his use of language is a little bit different than the American English with which we colonists are familiar, but he does not say anything you won’t understand. You might want to consider the “Rebecca’s Garden, Volume 2 - Rose Gardening” DVD as an alternative. The source material is newer and the host speaks in a comfortable (for me) American idiom. Either DVD is about the same in length of time at just under an hour, they both are priced about the same.
