As the days grow short and the icy hand of winter descends, we put away the gardening tools, kick off our muddy boots and head indoors. Make a little popcorn, settle onto the couch, plunk our feet up on the coffee table and aim the remote at the television screen. So what’s on? Just another week of old favourites on the Gardener’s Movie Network.

• Days of Twine and Roses
  Thorny problems faced by gardener with hard-to-stake shrubs.
  

• Driving Missed Daisies
  Golfer finds unique way of ridding lawn of weedy English daisies too short for lawnmower blades.
  

• How Green is My Valley
  Residents of low-lying village worry about adverse effects of huge cattle ranch on slope nearby.
  

• Leafing Las Vegas
  Documentary about planting shade trees on this Nevada city’s boulevard of broken dreams.
  

• My Pear Lady
  Juicy biography of Madame Poirette Anjou.
  

• On Golden Frond
  Gripping martial arts drama with swaying bamboo-treetop fight scene by director of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon .
  

• Singin’ in the Grain
  Gene Kelly croons, tap-dances and sows a few wild oats in this corny love story of a music-loving wheat farmer.
  

• Snowdrops Falling on Cedars
  A story of love and loss filmed in the balmy Pacific Northwest where snowdrops grow tall as conifers.
  

• The Canna Mutiny
  Thousands of tall plants with bright blossoms object to being imprisoned in a park flowerbed and refuse to remain in their assigned rows.
  

• The Gourdfather
  Mob leader vows to squash his enemies.
  

• The Silence of the Yams
  Psychopath tortures, kills, then eats innocent potatoes.
  

• Twenty Thousand Leeks Under the Sea
  Onion farmer loses control of semi-trailer on ocean-side highway.

Story & Photo © Janet Davis