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2019 Gardens of Northern Italy Lake District Tour
Enjoy this video composed by Belinda Dickinson of our 2019 Tour of the Gardens of Northern Italy's Lake District.
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Garden and Cultural Tour of Puglia, Italy
Garden & Cultural Tour of Puglia September 9 to 18, 2023 with host Charlie Nardozzi WAITING LIST ONLY! Departure Day: Sep 9, 2023 DAY 1 – Sun, Sep. 10 | Arrival at Bari Airport: Bari Vecchia/Lecce Upon arrival we’ll meet Charlie Nardozzi and our Italian tour host and transfer to Bari Vecchia. Here we will enjoy lunch and a demonstration of how to make traditional orecchiette, a quintessential handmade pasta with a round and concave shape. Afterward, we’ll travel to Lecce and check into our hotel. Dinner this evening will be at...
Garden Tour of Ireland 2023
Gardens of Ireland with Charlie Nardozzi June 2 - 11, 2023 DEPARTURE DAY: Friday, June 2, 2023 Departure from the USA. Day 1 - Saturday, June 3, 2023: DUBLIN Morning arrival at Dublin Airport. After clearing customs, you’ll meet your driver guide and garden host Charlie Nardozzi and board your motorcoach. Upon arrival we’ll enjoy a hearty Irish breakfast at a local restaurant. Afterward we’ll visit Kinsealy Cottage Garden, a small private garden that’s been in the Walsh family for six generations. At the entrance of the...
How to Grow: Helenium
Listen to this podcast on how to Helenium or sneezeweed perennial flower. Watch this video about Helenium: It's August and soon we'll hit that quiet time in our perennial flower garden after the early summer flowers fade, but before the fall flowers shine. We're always looking for plants to fill this late summer void and one of the best is Helenium. Helenium is a hardy, native, aster-family perennial with few pests. It grows in the wild in damp areas in meadows. It also goes by the unfortunate common name of...
How to Grow: Hellebores
Learn how to grow the lenten rose or Hellebore and about some varieties. Listen to Podcast: Although we grow this plant as a perennial flower, it also has other devious uses. During the siege of Kirrha in ancient Greece, the invading armies poisoned the city's water supply with crushed roots and leaves of this flower causing the protecting armies to be weakened by diarrhea and overwhelmed. That's a good reason not to eat the leaves of your Lenten rose. Lenten or Christmas rose is more widely known by its botanical name, hellebore....
How to Grow: Kokedama
Listen to this podcast on how to grow a kokedama indoor houseplant. I'm always looking for new plants and growing techniques. That's why I'm fascinated with kokedama hanging houseplants. What's kokedama? Kokedama is an ancient form of Japanese bonsai. Actually, it's also called poor man's bonsai because it is so easy to do. The idea is to plant a small houseplant in a ball of clay and peat moss surrounded by green sphagnum moss and held together with twine. The ball and plant, can then be hung in a room or in a tray on a table or...
How to Grow: No-Dig Gardening
Listen to this podcast on gardening easier and smarter with no dig gardening. I'm starting to work on a new book. It's on No-Dig Gardening. It's a topic that I've been playing around with in our vegetable and annual flower gardens for years and I'm excited to dive deeper into it. I'm rereading the classic No-Work Gardening by Ruth Stout, checking out No-Dig Gardening experts on Youtube and refreshing my understanding of some permaculture techniques. The idea behind No-Dig Gardening is to retire the tiller and not dig your annual...
Palaces and Gardens of Portugal Tour 2022
Watch our slideshow of the Palaces and Gardens of Portugal Tour from 2022 compliments of my tour co-leader, Deb Flanders.
