December brings the official start of winter and the year's shortest day. Despite this, gardens in the South are full of color and interesting plants that look their best in the winter. Tour around the JC Raulston Arboretum's grounds virtually as Doug shows us some of his favorite plants with winter interest.

Marianne North was an English biologist and botanical artist. She is noted for her plant and landscape paintings, many of which reside in the Marianne North Gallery at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Marianne traveled extensively and discovered new plants along the way. Learn more about her during this week's Midweek with Mark.

The first half of Deborah Chud 's "Piet Oudolf Story" traces her discovery of Piet Oudolf's work, her research on his plant combinations, and her use of that research to create a garden in his style. The second half covers the historical context in which he emerged as a landscape designer and his basic principles of landscape design.

Learn about the reproductive cycle of ferns and how to propagate them from spores in this hands-on workshop. Participants will be introduced to terms like gametophyte and sporophyte and will clean and sow spores and divide gametophytes and sporophytes. Each participant will take home a variety of ferns in various stages of development.

Midweek with Mark presentations is recorded and posted to the JC Raulston Arboretum's YouTube Channel the following Monday. Be sure to subscribe to our Channel for updates.

Midweek with Mark presentations is recorded and posted to the JC Raulston Arboretum's YouTube Channel the following Monday. Be sure to subscribe to our Channel for updates.