How-To Garden Videos

General

Garden Birds of America (VHS)
Author and naturalist George H. Harrison takes the viewer on a tour of flourishing bird gardens throughout the United States. Includes information about how elements of cover, food, and water can be combined effectively to attract a wide variety of bird life.

Gardening Naturally: Getting Started (VHS)
Learn how to site your garden, design a layout, sow seeds, and pick tools.

Gardening Naturally: Preparing for Spring (VHS)
Learn how to pick and plant bulbs, start a garden indoors, and tend young plants.

Jerry Baker's Gardening Wisdom (DVD)
A master gardener presents tips on landscape and vegetable gardening, covering preparation and planting, with insights on dirt, sowing seeds, composting, and gardening tools. A production of Detroit Public Television.

Lawn Power Tools (VHS)
Informational video about yard power tools, including chain saws, chipper/shredders, weed eaters, line trimmers, and lawn mowers. Covers features to look for, safe operation, and maintenance. Also includes gardening tip segments.

Rebecca's Garden: Basic Gardening (DVD)
An overview of gardening basics such as: the garden calendar; zones; tools; soil testing; designing and planting a vegetable garden; fertilizing annuals and perennials; garden center shopping strategies; bringing outdoor plants indoors; flower garden care; and lawn care.

Rebecca's Garden: Spring Gardening (DVD)
An overview of spring gardening basics, including: the seed rack; sterilizing pots; jumpstarting warm season vegetables; early spring chores; new plants and vegetables for the garden; blooming spring shrubs; spring lawn care; shopping for annuals; planting summer bulbs; deadheading bulbs; and selecting a lawnmower.

Rebecca's Garden: Summer in the Garden (DVD)
Presents expert advice on gardening during the summer months, including: "beating the heat" gardening tips; xeriscaping; drought-tolerant plants; summer bulbs; gardening in small places; sunflowers and sunflower wreaths; preserving the summer; vegetable garden maintenance; and "elephant ears" foliage for shade.

Squirrel Wars: and How to Win Them (DVD)
Describes the little-known dangers posed by squirrels to homeowners and presents safe, practical ways of getting rid of them.

Landscape Gardening

Environmental Landscaping: Making the Change (VHS)
Focusing on the watersheds of Pennsylvania, this short program explains the need to practice lawn care that makes as little negative impact upon the environment as possible, highlighting the environmental benefits of introducing native plants, which need no specialized care, chemicals, or fertilizers.

How-to DVD Guide to Landscaping (DVD)
Step-by-step demonstration of backyard projects, including: trees, shrubs, and beds; pavers; tree-ring retaining wall; three-tier retaining wall; privacy fence; picket fence; chain link fence.

Ponds: Construction & Natural Filtration (VHS)
Instruction in building and maintaining a water garden.

Container Gardening

Rebecca's Garden: Container Gardening (DVD)
Presents an overview of container gardening basics, covering: clay vs. plastic containers; planting in large pots; caring for container plants; out-of-box planting designs; evergreen window boxes; planning pots with designer flair; growing baby greens in whiskey barrels; paperwhites for holiday gifts; hanging baskets for winter; multi-tiered pots of plants; pots of potted plants; and turning a rusted watering can into a container.

Flower Gardening

Rebecca's Garden: Rose Gardening (DVD)
Presents an overview of rose gardening basics, covering: planting and caring for roses; propagating roses; pruning roses; heirloom roses; easy care roses; putting roses to bed; and pruning tools.

Roses & Bulbs (VHS)
An introduction to gardening with roses and bulbs. Topics covered: varieties of roses; characteristics of the rose plant; choosing a location and soil preparation; maintaining a rose garden, including trimming and pruning, fertilizing, insect and disease control; winterizing roses; planting bulbs (traditional methods, naturalizing, designing plantings); and maintaining bulbs.

Secrets of the Rose Gardener (VHS)
Filmed at New York's historic Planting Fields Arboretum, this program presents a comprehensive overview of what constitutes good stewardship of rose gardens, covering pruning, planting, shaping, and feeding.

Spring Flowering Bulbs (VHS)
Three prominent experts give advice and tips on making bulb planting successful and easy.

The Victory Garden. Popular Perennials (VHS)
A presentation on growing and hybridizing perennials, including peonies and day lilies.

Herb Gardening

Jerry Baker's Garden of Herbal delights (DVD)
Presents information on growing and using herbs, covering: the herb garden plan; growing herbs outdoors; growing herbs indoors; harvesting, drying, and storing herbs; herbal remedies, teas, baths, and cleaning concoctions. A production of Detroit Public Television.

Rebecca's Garden: Herb Gardening (DVD)
An overview of herb gardening basics, covering: planting an herb garden; harvesting, drying, and storing herbs; herbal knot garden; kitchen gardens; starting an indoor herb garden; making herbal soaps; making an herb basket; cooking with herbs; herb topiary; aromatherapy; and recipes.

The Urban Garden (VHS)
Learn the basics to growing an indoor or terrace herb garden.

Vegetable Gardening

The Victory Garden. Vegetable Video (VHS)
Master gardeners Bob Thomson and Jim Wilson show how to grow a successful vegetable garden.

How to Grow Cool-Weather Vegetables (VHS)
Expert gardener Jeff Ball gives detailed instruction on how to harvest an extra crop of vegetables each season by way of intensive cool-weather growing techniques.

How to Design & Build a Vegetable Garden (VHS)
Jeff Ball shows how to design and build a vegetable garden.

How to Grow Warm-Weather Vegetables (VHS)
Gardening expert Jeff Ball gives detailed instruction on maximizing your summer crop.

Inspiration

View beautiful gardens from around the world to stimulate your own gardening creativity.

Gardens of the World (DVD)
Host Audrey Hepburn shows a number of different kinds of gardens filmed in different parts of the world to the accompaniment of lyrical narration and a selection of classical music's most famous pieces.

Diarmuid Gavin's Irish Garden (VHS)
Garden designer Diarmuid Gavin leads the viewer on a tour of some of Ireland's most beautiful gardens.

Monet's Garden at Giverny (VHS)
A vivid presentation of the garden in Giverny where Monet spent the second half of his life and which served as an inspiration for many of his works.

A Journey Through Kew Gardens (VHS)
An official video highlighting the landscape and architecture of the Gardens.

The Great Gardens of England (VHS)
An extensive tour of Major Lawrence Johnson's garden in the Cotswolds, Graham Stuart Thomas's antique rose garden in a medieval English Abbey, and Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson's garden on the edge of the Kentish Weald.