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PAS Garden Home: Structure

In this episode of P. Allen Smith's Garden Home we talk about structure and the many ways it can be used in a garden.  See the different constructed features at the Garden Home Retreat; along with visits to the greenhouse at Churchill Downs; a raised vegetable bed and a butterfly house.  Then learn how to bring the garden indoors by planting a terrarium.

 
Plants:
Renaissance Spirea
Red Spurge (Euphorbia cotinifolia)

Pets in the Garden
The Kate Gorrie Butterfly House in Pennington, New Jersey is a living museum for butterflies and native plants.  It’s part of the Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association.  Jeff Hoagland takes us on a tour.

Garden Home How To
Vegetable gardening expert Sidney Phelps explains how to put together a raised bed with landscape timbers.

Construction Update
See the construction of two tool sheds in the One Acre Vegetable Garden at the Garden Home Retreat.  The lumber for the sheds came from pine trees that were cut to clear the land for the garden.

Hands on Gardening
Building a Tuteur
A tuteur is a three or four sided trellis.   A tuteur place in a flower border serves as a focal point.  You can make a tuteur with three prefabricated trellises purchased at a garden center.  Learn how.

Garden Home Inside and Out
John Backert, Director of Horticulture for Churchill Downs walks us through the greenhouses at this famous race track.

Allen’s Collections
Groupings of terrariums of varying sizes are a low maintenance way to bring the garden indoors.  Directions for making a terrarium.

The Green Component
The chickens in mobile chicken house at the Garden Home Retreat not only produce fresh eggs, they fertilize the orchard and wildflower field.  A solar component is used to electrify the small fence that surrounds and keeps predators out.

Virtual Makeover
Nana in Tennessee wants to enhance the cottage style of her home with a charming garden.