Amy delves into landscape design with Scott Price of Snow Knows while visiting a private garden near Ivy. Watch Now

Peggy steps into the James River to participate in a water grass conservation program run by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. Participants in the program grow wild celery (Vallisneria americana), a type of underwater grass, in a simple grow-out system in their homes for 10-12 weeks.

In the first installment of Season 13, Amy visits Solliden Garden, a private garden near Wintergreen that is featured in the 80th Historic Garden Week sponsored by the Garden Club of Virginia. A representative from the Garden Club will be one of our studio guests during the live portion of the program. Watch Now

At some point recently I ran out of winter. Enjoying a late winter snow then being tossed around by piercing winds for a few days only to land on a weekend of blue skies and sunny temperatures has my gardening clock in a quandary.

While many people consider winter the time of rest for a gardener it is actually quite the contrary. This is a season of varying tasks such as insect control, disease control, pruning and bed preparation in Central Virginia. For instance, the springtime Tent Caterpillars (Malacosoma americanum) can be controlled by spying for and removing the egg masses attached to branches of plants in the Rosaceae family: such as cherry, pear, crabapple, apple and apricots.