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Gardening playlist from Douglas’ YouTube Channel

You can find mangy garden videos over on my YouTube Channel. You can subscribe to that channel to get notice of new videos. You can also watch all the garden-related videos using the playlist shown below. If you can’t see the video above, please watch the playlist on YouTube     Subscribe to my YouTube [...]

Video: California Carnivores from CoolHunting.com

Typically Cool Hunting focuses on art and style type of stories, but this recent video on Carnivorous plants caught my eye for sharing here on A Gardener’s Notebook. Enjoy! — Douglas From CoolHunting.com… “In our latest video we trekked out into the beautiful farmland outside Sebastopol, California to visit California Carnivores, North America’s largest carnivorous [...]

Video: Garden Tip – Seed leaves vs. true leaves

http://youtu.be/XZoCIKBLdgY

Podcast: Play in new window | Download In this tip, Douglas shows the difference between seed leaves and true leaves on his seedlings. Standard advice is to thin or re-pot your seedlings once they develop their first set of true leaves.  Can’t see the video above? Watch “Garden Tip – Seed leaves vs. true leaves” on [...]

Video: What Douglas Dug – Show 001 – Podcast

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download This episode of “What Douglas Dug” is the first in a series of shows where I highlight some of my most recently shared gardening items to my Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest accounts. When I share something I don’t often get much of a chance to tell you WHY I found something interesting or useful, so [...]

Video: Southern California Spring Garden Show 2012

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Here is a short montage (3 mins) of scenes from this year’s Southern California Spring Garden Show in Costa Mesa, California. I visited the show on April 28, 2012 and had a great time. There was much to see and learn and I also took a host of [...]

TV/Web: Beechgrove Garden from BBC Scotland

Here is another great gardening show from the UK, Beechgrove Garden. Beechgrove Garden is basically the Gardener’s World for Scotland. If you have similar climate and planting conditions, there could be some very useful information here for you, even if you aren’t in the UK. Unlike Gardener’s World, there are a few video clips here [...]

Updated: Coming this weekend! — Tomatomania 2012 dates announced!

Podcast: Play in new window | Download {EAV:f454b6e09db07d70} Tomatomania, the annual tomato seedling extravaganza has just announced it’s dates for 2012. It looks like they have added a few new locations, too. Each Tomatomania has hundreds of different varieties of tomatoes ready to take home to your own garden and kick start your Summer growing. [...]

UK: A new season of Gardener’s World begins

For those of you in the UK, a new series of Gardener’s World, BBC’s venerable gardening series. While the online video is only viewable in the UK, US readers might find other ways of getting this content. I find that the climate of the UK is similar enough to the US and other areas that [...]

New Sunset Western Garden Book available

I have written about the Sunset Western Garden Book in the past and always consider it my go-to guide for gardening info. The great news is that there is now a new edition of the book available. My own copy is a bit old now, probably from around 1996, so it might just be time [...]

Video: Vertical Garden Installation at Descanso Gardens, La Cañada Flintridge, CA

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We haven’t made a trip out to Descanso recently, but this would certainly be cool to see in person. There is a lot of interest in vertical gardening lately and this does it on a grand scale. Link: Descanso Gardens Web Site Vertical Garden Installation at Descanso Gardens from Descanso Gardens on Vimeo.