• Log In
• Search

PAS Gardens: Color Bursts

Broadcasting the Week of 01-24-11
This episode of P. Allen Smith Gardens features colorful fields of rannunculus, flowering annuals that brighten the garden, an heating system that is powered by the sun and a recipe for shrimp and cucumber soup.

Features:
Shrimp and Cucumber Soup with Dill Cream

Color Corner: Proven Winners® Senorita Rosalita® Cleome
One of the newest cleomes to make its debut is Senorita Rosalita®. Along with a memorable name, this annual is out to prove that less is more. While many of the other cleomes share a list of common traits: spiny stems, foliage with a pungent aroma and flowers that ripen into seedpods that freely reseed themselves; Senorita Rosalita® (2-3 feet), is odorless with sterile flowers that don’t produce seeds, and has no thorns; all qualities that add to its appeal for many gardeners. Senorita Rosalita’s purple-lavender blossoms are smaller than most cleome and unlike other varieties, are produced all along the stem, not just at the top.

People and Places
Michael Cordoza, Farm Manager at The Flower Fields, Carlsbad, CA – Michael discusses the colorful fields of ranunculus at The Flower Fields.  The beautiful display is the result of 70 plus years of breeding.

Jerry Church CEO, EuroAmerican Propagators, Bonsall, CA – Proven Winners Rockapulco impatiens bring sizzling color to the shade garden.  Jerry showcases the beauty of these floriferous, rose-form impatiens.  Jerry also features Vista Bubblegum Supertunia and Diamond Frost Euphorbia

Bill Poleatewich, Dawn Solar – One of the green components at the Garden Home Retreat is the radiant heat system tucked underneath the metal roof.  This system uses solar energy to heat water and the basement floors.  Bill tells us that buy installing a Dawn Solar radiant heat system the homeowner is pre-buying 50 years of energy.  You are locking in your kilowatt hours at 2 or 3 cents below what you would normally pay to heat your water and you’ll continue to pay that same price for the next 50 years.