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Visit a nursery developing new blight resistant boxwood cultivars. Meet a garden author committed to sustainable food production and learn how to improve your harvest.
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VPM/VPMGet a close-up view of the microbial life inside of plants and soil at a Cooperative Extension laboratory. Visit a colonial style garden to learn about flowers and herbs grown to make colorful dyes for fabric. -
If you mention plants for the shade garden, one of the first plants that comes to my mind is hosta. This wonderful plant is one of the first plants that got me to become the “plant nerd” I am today. So even as I balance my garden with more native plantings, hosta will be part of my 30%. These plants come in an array of sizes, colors, variegation, leaf shapes and textures. There are even dwarf cultivars, yes, dwarf! Tiny versions of hosta are growing in popularity and as their larger cousins, they have a special place in my heart.
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Once a year the Virginia Home Grown Team is at the RVA Big Market in Richmond’s Bryan Park. We have a wonderful time interacting with everyone who stops by. I particularly enjoy answering gardening questions, and this year a common question was about rain gardens.
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VPM/VPMDiscover popular houseplant varieties and learn about their care. Visit a garden featuring unique herbs and discuss their uses beyond the kitchen.
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I am looking forward to consistently warmer weather so we can plant our heat-loving crops such as tomatoes, peppers, squash, beans, cucumbers and melons. However, what I am not excited about are the increased number of pests and diseases that come along with the warm weather.
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We all know the heat is coming; it’s only a few weeks away. Rather than react, I act now by taking a few simple steps to keep the landscape green, growing and resilient.
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Tim Wright/VPMExplore state and national champion trees at Richmond’s historic Maymont park. Tour Dragon Run on the Middle Peninsula to learn about bald cypress and the old growth forest network.
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PhotoJuthamat - stock.adobe.com/376424661Is your soil ready for your plants? This is a great question and most of us might just look at the soil to say yes — it looks loamy and has that black, rich color, or no — it looks like red Virginia clay to me! There is so much more to soil than meets the eye, and I want to introduce the best way to know more about what is in your dirt: the soil test.
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I garden with deer, where more than a dozen think my gardens are their personal restaurant to browse through. I have gardened with deer for many years, and through research backed by expensive trial and error on my part, I now only buy plants with specific traits.
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As gardeners, during the winter months we start missing our time in the garden. We spend so much time in our gardens during the warm season, that when we are forced to slow down due to frozen ground or uncomfortable cold, we can start feeling depressed and eager to get back to playing in the soil.
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Once winter arrives in Virginia, plant lovers may need to work a little harder to find the botanical beauty that comes so naturally in the warm months. But with a little effort, we can bring that plant pizzazz back into our lives and homes—and one great way to do this is by making fabulous winter wreaths. -
Host Peggy Singlemann talks with Ryan Olsen, Horticulturist at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, about cacti and succulents.Co-host Pat McCafferty visits Chris Fields-Johnson in Scottsville to learn about the benefits of integrating livestock into forest pastures also known as silvopasture.
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As fall sets in, we welcome blustery winds, low ochre suns, and that timeless sweet-sour smell of decomposing leaves. Many of us invite traditions of warm spices and beverages, cozy sweaters, and trips to farms and orchards to select pumpkins and apples—some of our last big harvests of the season. Yet in many ways, fall is a time of saying goodbye—to our summer gardens, to the dog days of swimming, and to many of our migration and hibernation-destined animal friends
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Pat McCafferty learns about the mission of Farfields Farm, a regenerative agriculture endeavor in Afton, Virginia, from Kelly Walsh. He also talks with Lilia Fuquen about the Virginia Humanities program Food and Community, which explores food and food practices in communities throughout the commonwealth.
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Virginia Home Grown host Peggy Singlemann takes us on a tour of an Ashland garden with and Julie Erickson.Learn about tropicals in-studio with Scott Burrell.
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VHG host Peggy Singlemann, Director of Park Operations and Horticulture at Maymont, wades in to explain why healthy ponds need a variety of plant types in order to maintain water quality and provide habitat for fish, reptiles and amphibians.
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I am a shoulder-season person; spring and fall are rejuvenating for me after the long endurance race through winter and summer, just like the garden. In September the garden comes alive with fresh tomatoes on the vine, fruit in the orchard and flowers in the beds. To keep the annual bedding plants blooming until frost, I lightly fertilize the summer annuals.
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Virginia Home Grown host Peggy Singlemann takes a short urban trek with Alison Meehan, creator of Tracks and Roots, to learn about foraging for edible plants.
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Virginia Home Grown Co-host Pat McCafferty visits Tufton, a quarter farm of Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, to learn about some classic and innovative gardening practices.
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Host Peggy Singlemann talks with Marcus Gray, Audubon International’s Monarchs In The Rough Program Manager, about the best types of garden features and plants to use for attracting butterflies.
