How to Help Hummingbirds and the Age of the Brussels Sprouts
This week we talk about one of the feistiest little birds out there, the hummingbird! Learn how you can help support hummingbirds - from plants to use in your garden to food you can easily make yourse...
11 Mar 202340min
Tips for Selecting and Growing Tomatoes and Shrub Madness the Ultimate Plant Bracket
Spring is in the air and in the studio! Today we talk all about tomatoes, including best practices for selecting and growing. Instead of putting just one plant on trial today, we’re putting 64 plants ...
4 Mar 202342min
Tips for Specimen Plants, Spring Bulbs Emerging, and Flaco the Owl
Specimen plants are those that transform your landscape from one that merely exists to one that grabs everyone's attention. We discuss our favorites, those that have been little more than fads, and th...
25 Feb 202342min
Favorite Fragrant Plants and Planning for Canning With the Canning Diva, Diane Devereaux
It's the fragrance show! Join us as we discuss the phenomenon of fragrance, our favorite fragrant plants (including today's plant on trial, Scentara Double Blue lilac). Finally, we start "planning for...
18 Feb 202342min
How to Keep House Plants Happy, When to Prune Mountain Hydrangeas, and Much More!
Whether you call them indoor plants or house plants, we've got the tips to keep them looking their best - although that may involve mayonnaise (seriously!). We also talk about a super cold tolerant na...
11 Feb 202342min
How to Make Your Garden Benefit Monarch Butterflies
Butterflies visiting your backyard is one of the true joys of gardening - learn what to plant and how to maintain your garden to make it a true haven. Plus, bees eating mushrooms to heal themselves? Y...
4 Feb 202341min
The Buzz About Bees – How to Make Your Garden Bee Friendly, Interview with Beekeeper Don Snoeyink
It's the bee show! Rick and Stacey talk bees: honeybees, bumblebees, native bees, through the show and with special guest, beekeeper Don Snoeyink. Find out what bees eat through the season and what to...
28 Jan 20231h
Dormancy vs Hibernation, Shrubs that Hit Snooze on Spring, and Frozen Succulents
Learn why plants go dormant yet animals hibernate, meet a flowering shrub that likes to sleep late on spring, plus succulent rescue after a freeze, and a harrowing video showing a man rescuing a deer ...
21 Jan 202341min
