This episode is short and sweet but loaded with great gardening information.

This episode discusses cutting back ornamental grasses, establishing wildflowers and a few other timely fall gardenng topics.......

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With this episode, we begin our new format which allows us to cover a variety of gardening topics from tools, to watergarden and garden design. So stop by and take a journey down the garden path with us.

This is the conclusion of our two part conversation with Hoichi Kurisu who worked with The Andersons to design and develop Anderson's Japanese Gardens located in Rockford, Illinois.

This episode discusses beneficial insects, our passive viewing of our resident Bald Eagles and updates on our video podcasts.

This is the first in a series of episodes reviewing my visit with Hoichi Kurisu at Anderson's Japanese Gardens.  Visit our website at http://www.hedgerowpodcast.com to see extended notes for this podcast as well as photographs of and links to Anderson's Japanese Gardens and Hoichi Kurisu's outstanding site. 

Do you have a leak in your pond, then this podacst will tell you how to find it, patch and start enjoyting your pond again.

We also discuss netting for your pond and I believe, when talking about stream netting, I may have said to use 1" bases and 1 1/2" supports which obviously would not work.  You need to use 1" bases and 1/2" supports since they will need to bend fairly well to span the narrower streams. 

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This episode discusses the types of watergarden plants and their individual importance in a crystal clear water garden.

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This episode discusses how watergardens, which were initially for the very wealthy, have become available to anyone who has a passion for gardening.  We also review the early development of watergardens and how they lead to the systems and products we use today, to create watergardens and pondless waterfalls. 

Upcoming espisodes in this series will discuss pond construction techniques & options, aquatic plant selection and pond maintenance and how these water features can turn a great garden into an outstanding garden with the dynamic movement of water.

Please enjoy this pond story which is based on our early pond building experiences, some good.....some bad, which in the end, lead us down the path to being as passionate about water in a garden as we are about plants! 

This episode discusses a couple of must have gardening books:

Manual of Woody Landscape Plant by Michael Dirr

Herbaceous Ornamental Plants by Stephen Still

The Taylor Series of Gardening Books

Don't forget the Philadelphia Flower show MAr 4th to 11th

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This is simply a test of our first podcast