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The Big Flower Fight: Season 1 - all episodes  Season 1, Ep 0

Ten pairs of florists, sculptors and garden designers face off in a friendly floral fight to see who can build the biggest, boldest garden sculptures. (Netflix) [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! on May 24, 2020 - 6 comments

Book: One Magic Square Vegetable Gardening

Lolo Houbein has 40 years’ worth of gardening wisdom to share—on how to coax an abundance of organic food from a plot that is just 3 feet square! [more inside]
posted by aniola on May 1, 2020 - 1 comment

Podcast: Garden Plots with Skeletor: All

Tremble before the terrifying Garden Plots With Skeletor, as the titular conqueror takes time away from his inevitable conquest of Eternia to deign to educate you about his true passion: gardening. [more inside]
posted by Etrigan on Feb 17, 2020 - 1 comment

Book: Down to Earth

Unrivalled gardening wisdom from Monty Don, including essential tips, knowledge and musings from his 50 years of gardening experience. Written as he talks, this is Monty Don right beside you in the garden, challenging norms and sharing advice. Month-by-month, Monty reveals the jobs he does in his own garden, that he hopes are relevant to you. Discover Monty's thoughts and musings on nature, seasons, colour, design, pests, flowering shrubs, containers, and much more. Monty's intimate and lyrical writing is accompanied by photos of his own garden. The perfect gift for the gardener in your life. [more inside]
posted by Homo neanderthalensis on Apr 5, 2019 - 5 comments

Book: Our Native Bees

Honey bees get all the press, but the fascinating story of North America’s native bees—several endangered species essential to our ecosystems and food supplies—is just as crucial. Through interviews with farmers, gardeners, scientists, and bee experts, Our Native Bees explores the importance of native bees and focuses on why they play a key role in gardening and agriculture. [more inside]
posted by Homo neanderthalensis on Mar 8, 2019 - 2 comments

Movie: Being There

A simple-minded gardener named Chance (Peter Sellers) has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television. After a run in with a limousine, he ends up a guest of a Ben (Melvyn Douglas), an influential but sickly businessman, and his wife, Eve (Shirley MacLaine). Now called Chauncey Gardner, Chance becomes friend and confidante to Ben and an unlikely political insider.
posted by Going To Maine on Feb 6, 2017 - 19 comments

New Tricks: Bermondsey Boy  Season 11, Ep 1

Gerry's mate, Paxton (an ex-con predictably enough), wants him to investigate the death of his grandson, Jake. Apparently, Paxton hid some ill-gotten gains in a building that was going to be torn down. He sends his grandson to retrieve the goods. The grandson falls to his death. Paxton believes a former accomplice, Pelham, followed Jake and killed him.  Gerry also comes to terms with a daughter who is a beat cop, and her marriage to a earnest solicitor. ‎ In a never-before-seen plot twist, DCI Miller sharks the guys at pool. [more inside]
posted by Ik ben afgesneden on Aug 19, 2014 - 1 comment

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