PEOPLE: QUEEN OF (THE) BALL - Paul Tukey gains insight into the world?s largest horticultural company with its owner, Anna Ball. PLACES: THE CITY AS A GARDEN - Paul heads to the windy city, where a green-minded may has transformed the downtown with plants. PLANTS: THE VEGETABLE GARDEN, HOT & COLD - As summer wanes, Roger shifts our focus from heat-loving crops to those that will be harvested and enjoyed after frost. FOOD FOR THOUGHT: OUT OF BLOOM - Roger reminds us to choose your plants with an eye to the foliage so that, however fleeting the flowers of perennials may be, your garden will look lovely throughout the growing season. watch
PEOPLE: CHRISTMAS TREE FARMERS - Paul Tukey visits Bill and Mary Lou Schmidt of Dummerston, Vermont, who are preserving a pristine corner of Vermont by planting holiday trees. PLACES: HOLIDAY AT THE GARDEN CENTER - Paul returns to his childhood home of Falmouth, Maine, where the local garden center, Skillins Greenhouses, has been celebrating the holidays with plants for 120 years. PLANTS: GARDEN FROST - With the garden at the final stages of production at Weston Nurseries for the season, Roger Swain begin the process of tidying up for the winter. FOOD FOR THOUGHT: EVERGREEN COMPANIONS - Roger reminds us to appreciate those trees and shrubs whose foliage endures through winters dark and cold. watch