Second Week of TV Shooting

We spent our second week filming for our upcoming TV show. I couldn't be there all week, so I didn't get too many pictures. It's been crazy at work lately and my blogging is suffering for it.

There is a great rose trial garden at the Plant City Campus. I really liked this rose. Sydney Park Brown did a segment on low maintenance roses. I have a knock out in my yard, but I love these old Florida varieties.



Here's our American Gothic Gardeners - Walter Reeves, our show host, and Sydney Park Brown, our consumer horticulture specialist. I love this picture of them.

Day 2 of Shooting

Yesterday went really well. Here's a short recap. We did two segments on protecting the waterfront (fertilizer selection and spreader differences, and segments on butterfly container gardening, herbs in the garden, and mimosas. We also did a segment on building bat houses and bats as insect control. We visited the big UF bat house (more than 150,000 bats!) and I got bat gauna on me. Overall, a very successful day. Unfortunately, I didn't take too many pictures since I was busy most of the day. I'll try to do better today.

I'm really excited about today's scheduled shooting. We should be doing segments on making a tire planter, creating your own succulent dish, tub gardening, caring for house plants, and probably one more. I'm really excited about the tub gardening one - I think it's really cool and something I can do at home. I'll keep you posted!

Shooting Starts Today!

Kanapaha
Originally uploaded by Gardening in a Minute

We start shooting today and we may do a piece on crinum rust. Here's an example of it. Walter (the host from Georgia) wasn't as familiar with crinum rust, but I'm sure one of our Florida horticulturists will be able to help him out!

The crinum garden at Kanapaha is pretty good. It's a large area with several different cultivars of crinum. Not many were in bloom right now, but they're still pretty - rust and everything! If I learn how to treat rust today, I'll add to the post.

Exciting News for the Florida Gardening Community!

University of Florida and University of Georgia will be working together to produce a gardening TV show! It will begin airing in 2009, but we're going to be shooting some segments next week. We'll be highlighting some of our specialists and special Florida stuff as well as doing Georgia stuff and general stuff. I can't tell you too much right now, but I'll document the filming for everyone next week.

In anticipation of the film crew arriving next week, we did a site visit to Kanapaha Botanical Gardens to to take pictures for the producer. Kanapaha looks great at the moment. Here are a few of my favorite pictures. You can see the rest at our Flickr site.

I love gazebos and Kanapaha has a bunch of them.


The herb garden looks amazing right now. They've got someone volunteering out there full time. He's made some really big improvements to it.


Kim took this picture. Isn't it great?


I can tell you that Felder Rushing may be one of our guests this time. And, in his honor, I'm showing you a picture of the bottle tree at Kanapaha.


Oh, and between now and next Tuesday, I have to find Felder a tire that does this? Do you know what for?