Bonsai!

As a retirement gift after hosting five years of the "The Victory Garden" on PBS, our producer gave me the only extant VHS copy of Thalassa Cruso's iconic 60s gardening program, "Making Things Grow," transferred before the original reel-to-reel tapes went into the GBH archives, never, seemingly, to emerge again. Thalassa was my childhood hero -- the horticultural equivalent, and more, of Julia Child -- an indomitable Brit who taught me how to garden. I've treasured this tape ever since I received it, though the sound quality was horrible and the sequences of what turned out to be not one, but three episodes, appeared cut up and out of order. As a labor of love, and after tracking down Thalassa's heirs to obtain permission, AND, after overcoming countless formatting difficulties, I've now managed to digitalize and restore these three programs -- of the original 56 show series -- to accompany my tribute to this great lady in my column at: http://michaelweishan.com/gardenblog/... and at http://michaelweishan.com/gardenblog/.... Here she is with noted bonsai expert Connie Derderian from Bostn's Arnold Arboretum. For more fun gardening tips, please visit me on facebook:   / michael.weishan.and.associates   I comment there several times a week on new and interesting plants, techniques, and more.