Topics:
Basics of pruning
Edible Landscaping
Grow Wild: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Garden Projects for Children
Dig into Dirt (a program for children ages 5 – 8 on soil, what plants need, and worms)
Everything you wanted to know about tomatoes and more
Nothing better than fresh vegetables
To spray or not to spray (identifying problems, safety, equipment)
Strategies for deer-proofing your garden
Why have a cold frame
Good tools/recommended choices
Four Season Vegetable Gardening
Growing Vegetables, Herbs, and Flowers in Containers
Healthier shrubs (planting, feeding, watering, pruning)
Flowers
Houseplants
Poinsettias
Wild Flowers
Poison Ivy
African Violets
Composting and The Compost Education Center
Raised Beds
Creating a Cutting Garden
Beautiful Containers – planting containers with annuals and perennials
Beyond The Books: Horticulture Apps to Make Your garden Blossom
Self-Seeding flowers and Organizing a Seed Exchange
Drought Tolerant Gardens
Best Choices for Cut flowers
Perennial gardens: Best choices for Long Season Color
Perennials to Add Color and Attract Butterflies to Your Garden
Do Plants Think? Amazing New Insights into Plant Biology (new 2014)
Tick – Borne Illness: Practical Advice for Gardeners and Non – Medical Audiences (new 2014: Joe Pond MD & Bob Miles MD)
“Jeffersoncare”: Thomas Jefferson on Health Care, Doctors, Good Health and His Gardens (new 2013)
Shade Gardening:
- My Shade Garden: A 40 Year Journey (new 2015)
- Blooms that shine in shade (new 2012)
- Shade gardening in Central Virginia:-what works
- Foliage that shines in shade
- Shade perennials
- Shade annuals
- Shade natives
- Shade tropicals
- Trees and shrubs for shade
The genus Hosta: America’s most popular perennial
- Growing Hostas in the South – challenges and rewards
- Growing Hostas in containers
- Diseases and pests of Hostas – identification and control
- Hostas from seed: name your own cultivar
The genus Impatiens: Great plants not for snooty gardeners
Medicinal Plants- Natural is not always better
Succulents: What they are and how to grow them
Paint your Garden with Perennials – making color work in your design
Gardening by the Season – you pick the season
Propagation:
- Something for Nothing – cuttings
- Share the Wealth – division and seeds
- Miracle of Life – germinating seeds
Tropical Punch – tropical plants and wannabe’s in your landscape
Light up your Garden with Nature’s Jewels – attracting butterflies
Create Shangri-La for Hummingbirds and Butterflies
Perennials & Annuals for the Piedmont Area
Virginia Master Gardner program: What is a Master Gardener and how to become one.
Square foot gardening
Growing Grapes in Amherst County
Gardens & Travel:
- The Amazing Public Gardens of New York City
- Bonaire Underwater: Sea life Underwater in Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles
Gardens of the World Series:
- NEW: Italian Gardens: The Beauty’s in the Bones (Architectural Elegance, Sculptural Fascination, and Competitive Grandeur)
- NEW: Southern Caribbean Island Gardens: Cruising Through Tropical Paradise (A Peek into Private Gardens on St. Thomas, St. Lucia, Barbados, Martinique, and Dominica)
- NEW: Our Country Cottage Garden in Forest, VA (A Rustic, Whimsical, Random, and Mostly “Do It Yourself” Oasis Surrounded by Cow Pastures)
- Costa Rica’s Orchid Paradise: Bosque de Pas Botanical Reserve and Lankester Botanical Gardens (Lessons Learned from Native Habitat for Success in Growing Orchids Here at Home)
- The Most Beautiful Garden in Africa: Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden, Cape Town, South Africa (World Showcase for the Cape Floral Kingdom
- The Lingering Garden of Suzhou, China: Harmony of the Spiritual, Natural and Manmade Worlds (A Mystical Place Where Botany, Geology, Art and Architecture Meet)
- Christchurch, New Zealand: The Garden City – A Spunky City’s Charming Competition to be The Best (Floral Carpet and Ikebana Grace Christ Church Cathedral; Even Factories and Nursing Homes Vie for “Best Garden”)
- Water, Water Everywhere! Generalife Garden, The Alhambra of Grenada, Spain (Prototype Castle Garden of the Moors: A Spiritual Sanctuary)
- The Jungle Home of Borneo’s Orangutans (“People of the Forest” and Their Disappearing World)
- English Gardens: A Tour Through Time (Hampton Court Palace Flower Show; Kew Gardens; Chelsea Physic Garden; Oxford Botanical Garden; and the Picturesque Cotswolds Gardens of Hidcote Manor, Kiftsgate Court, Sulgrave Manor, Bourton House, Sudeley Castle, Abbey House, and Blenheim Palace)