SERIES I: How Does Your Garden Grow?
Abstract
Episodes and elements related to John Nash Ott's television show How Does Your Garden Grow?.
Series identifier
S.2022-09-0001
Description
Ott began hosting the weekly gardening show on Chicago TV in 1948. It included advice about growing flowers, time-lapse films of plants growing, and answers to readers’ mail. One reporter wrote in 1952 that How Does Your Garden Grow? was “a combination of the Fountain of Youth, a trip to California, and a sunny 70 degree morning in May. … The program is the very stuff of life for hog tied Chicago area gardeners who spend winters despondently riffling fingers thru the barren earth of a window box. Ott not only feeds house plants, he nourishes twitching green thumbs, too.” An article in an April 1954 issue of TV Guide titled “His Treasure’s in a Jam Closet” begins, “No Chicago TV star is looking forward to color television more than WNBQ’s wizard of time-lapse photography, John Ott. The striking films of blossoming plants and flowers that enhance his popular show How Does Your Garden Grow? are impressive even in black-and-white. Transmitted in color, they’ll carry a powerful impact.” In March 1955, How Does Your Garden Grow? was the first show broadcast in color by Chicago’s NBC affiliate.
Extent
66
reels
Series Items
Film
[How Does Your Garden Grow Excerpt] Delphinium II
circa 1952
Film
[How Does Your Garden Grow Excerpt] Delphinium II
circa 1952
Film
How Does Your Garden Grow: African Violets
1953
Film
How Does Your Garden Grow: Dahlias
circa 1953
Film
How Does Your Garden Grow: From Blossom to Bottle
1953
Film
How Does Your Garden Grow: Introduction
1952
Film
How Does Your Garden Grow: Iris
circa 1953
Film
How Does Your Garden Grow: Peonies
circa 1953
Film
How Does Your Garden Grow: Roses
circa 1953
Film
Dr. Tilden Roberts Archer Fish Intro
circa 1955
Film
Dr. Tilden Roberts Archer Fish [Outro]
circa 1955
Film
Time-Lapse African Violets
circa 1952
Film
Story of Wheat
1955
Film
Wheat Farmer Neg.
circa 1955
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SERIES I: How Does Your Garden Grow?
- Blossom to Bottle
- Blossom to Bottle Negative Soundtrack
- Blossoms to Bottle
- Blossoms to Bottle [A-Roll]
- Blossoms to Bottle [B-Roll]
- Delphinium [A-Roll]
- Delphinium II
- Delphinium II
- Dr. Tilden Roberts Archer Fish Intro
- Dr. Tilden Roberts Archer Fish [Outro]
- How Does Your Garden Grow #20 - Day Lilies - Kodachrome Original - A Roll
- How Does Your Garden Grow #20 Day Lilies - Original Kodachrome - B Roll
- How Does Your Garden Grow #26 Dahlias - Orig Koda - A-Roll
- How Does Your Garden Grow #26 Dahlias - Orig Koda - B-Roll
- How Does Your Garden Grow - #26 Dahlias - Positive Track
- How Does Your Garden Grow: African Violets
- How Does Your Garden Grow: African Violets
- [How Does Your Garden Grow] African Violets [A-Roll]
- [How Does Your Garden Grow] African Violets [B-Roll]
- [How Does Your Garden Grow] African Violets [Negative Optical Track]
- [How Does Your Garden Grow] African Violets [Positive Optical Track]
- [How Does Your Garden Grow Closing Title Sequence]
- [How Does Your Garden Grow Closing Title Sequence]
- How Does Your Garden Grow: Dahlias
- How Does Your Garden Grow: Dahlias
- How Does Your Garden Grow: Dahlias
- How Does Your Garden Grow - Dahlias - B Negative
- [How Does Your Garden Grow] Day Lilies [Negative Optical Soundtrack]
- [How Does Your Garden Grow] Delphinium [B-Roll]
- [How Does Your Garden Grow] Delphinium [Positive Optical Track]
- [How Does Your Garden Grow Excerpt] Delphinium II
- [How Does Your Garden Grow Excerpt] Delphinium II
- [How Does Your Garden Grow Excerpt] Delphinium II [Optical Track]
- [How Does Your Garden Grow Excerpt] Delphinium II [Optical Track]
- [How Does Your Garden Grow] Flower Boxes [A-Roll]
- [How Does Your Garden Grow] Flower Boxes [B-Roll]
- [How Does Your Garden Grow] Flower Boxes [Positive Optical Track]
- How Does Your Garden Grow: From Blossom to Bottle
- [How Does Your Garden Grow] Gladiolas [Negative Optical Soundtrack]
- How Does Your Garden Grow - Gladiolas - Original Kodachrome - A-Roll
- How Does Your Garden Grow: Introduction
- How Does Your Garden Grow - Introduction - [A-Roll]
- How Does Your Garden Grow: Introduction [Negative Optical Track]
- How Does Your Garden Grow - Introduction - Picture B-Roll
- How Does Your Garden Grow: Iris
- How Does Your Garden Grow - Iris - Koda Orig - A Roll
- How Does Your Garden Grow - Iris - Koda Orig - B Roll
- How Does Your Garden Grow - Iris - Neg Track
- How Does Your Garden Grow - Orchids
- How Does Your Garden Grow - Orchids - Neg Track
- How Does Your Garden Grow: Peonies
- [How Does Your Garden Grow] Peonies [Optical Track]
- [How Does Your Garden Grow] Rock Gardens #11 - Orig. Koda - B-Roll
- [How Does Your Garden Grow] Rock Gardens [Neg Track]
- How Does Your Garden Grow: Roses
- How Does Your Garden Grow: Roses [Negative Optical Soundtrack]
- How Does Your Garden Grow: Roses [Negative Optical Soundtrack]
- How Does Your Garden Grow - Roses - Original Kodachrome A Roll
- How Does Your Garden Grow - Roses - Original Kodachrome B Roll
- [How Does Your Garden Grow] Snaps and Stocks - Kodachrome Original - B-Roll
- [How Does Your Garden Grow] Snaps and Stocks [Negative Optical Soundtrack]
- [How Does Your Garden Grow Title Sequence]
- [How Does Your Garden Grow Title Sequence]
- [How Does Your Garden Grow Title Sequence]
- How Does Your Garden Grow Title Sequence
- Peonies [A-Roll]
- Peonies [B-Roll]
- Peonies [HDYGG Excerpt]
- Peonies [Negative Optical Track]
- Story of Wheat
- Story of Wheat [A-Roll]
- Story of Wheat [Negative Optical Soundtrack]
- Story of Wheat Section
- Time-Lapse African Violets
- Wheat Farmer Neg.