Video Wednesday: Heritage Harvest Festival at Monticello in Charlottesville, VA

Here is a video I made of the Heritage Harvest Festival at Monticello in Charlottesville, VA in September 2011. Yes, it was a bit chilly on top of the mountain that year. I hope many of you can join us at the 2014 festival this weekend!

Video Wednesday: Franciscan Monastery Gardens

Here is a terrific video of one of my favorite gardens in the Mid-Atlantic region, the Franciscan Monastery in the Brookland neighborhood of Washington, DC. I visit it several times a year as each season brings more to see and explore there. I recently took my garden club along for a formal tour of the grounds and they raved about the bulb displays. The garden grounds are open to the public every day of the year. Best of all, it is FREE and accessible by public transit!

Find out about how you can schedule your own garden tour at http://www.myfranciscan.org/monastery...

Video Wednesday: Scenes at the US National Arboretum

Local garden writer and Garden Rant blogger, Susan Harris, put together this video encouraging visitors to come to the US National Arboretum in Washington, DC. "I’ve long had the notion that somehow short, viral-going videos showing the fabulousness of a garden that’s open to the public might increase visitorship – and thereby support for the garden," writes Susan. "And here in the D.C. area the poster child for a fabulous garden that could use some support is the National  Arboretum, which was hit hard by the last sequester (when WAS that?  And what the hell IS a sequester, anyway?).  Since then it’s been open just 4 days a week, and Arboretum-lovers would dearly love to get that situation corrected and back to normal – open seven days as week and FREE, just like most gardens in this city (museums, too!)"

Video Wednesday: White House Kitchen Garden

A quick video overview of what was growing in the White House Kitchen Garden during October 2012.

Video Wednesday: Historic Virginia Gardens

From the Smithsonian Institutions' Archives of American Gardens, Garden Club of America Collections.