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PAS Garden Home: Learning from Our Past

This episode of P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home is about learning from history.  Features include Limelight Hydrangeas, lightening rods, heat tolerant plants and utilizing rain runoff.

Garden Home Inside and Out
Hydrangea Limelight – Unlike old-fashioned mophead hydrangeas ‘Limelight’ can take full sun.  It’s a wonderful hydrangea for drying and using indoors.

Garden Home How To
Lightning protection expert Lester Fleming demonstrates how to use lighten rods to protect trees.

The Green Component
Dr. Bob Morgan with the Environmental Quality Program in Fayetteville, AR tells us about residential runoff and what we can do to reduce rain water pollution.

Construction Update
The Country Builder’s Assistant by Asher Benjamin published in the 19th century was instrumental in the design of the cottage at the Garden Home Retreat.  The 19th century details such as the panel molding and fireplace mantels were given a modern, earth friendly update by using a pressed sawdust board called MDF in place of wood.  It’s a great product for using inside, particularly if you're going to apply paint to it. It's very smooth and very stable.

Hands on Gardening
Lemons and Oranges Gaillardia, Coleus, Hyssop, and Mexican Hat (Ratibida columnaris) have been exceptional.  The strawberry groundcover under the espaliered apple trees is so vigorous it’s hard to keep it contained in the bed.

Friends in the Garden
George Strimpel tells us about Coleus and Diamond Frost® Euphorbia, two forgiving plants that can really thrive in summer heat.

Pets in the Garden
White Dorper Sheep are right at home at the Garden Home Retreat because they were bred in South Africa and are better suited to hot temperatures than other breeds.

Virtual Makeover
In this week’s Virtual Makeover Alex in Florida receives advice on how to bump up the color in the front garden of his craftsman style bungalow.