Kate Daly is a flower farmer who picked up stakes last year and moved to Alabama to start a new farm. She brought her love of monarch butterflies with her and in this episode she discusses what to do to welcome them into your yard and why.

Jenny and Tom Williams inherited a most unusual space to garden: the former laundry of a large estate in Northern Wales. It would be very daunting to make something magical out of a large flat space, but they have done it, and when you peak behind their alluring blue door that takes you through the high wall, you are in for a treat.

Besides the soul sucking noise of mowers and blowers in your neighborhood, are you aware that the internal combustion engines that make these machines run contribute more than their fair share of pollutants to our air? Matt Berry of Dos Amigos Landscaping is doing something about it.

When one of the busiest and best flower shows in the world is actually the means to implement community service gardening events all over the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, I become an even bigger fan than I would have been. Seth Pearsoll explains all about the show…

Tea time? Amanda the Ever Hopeful Gardener and I discuss compost tea— what it is, how to make, how to use and if to bother. Bring your crumpets and pull up a chair!

Have you ever been faced with the dilemma of choosing WHICH type of plant you want, exactly? Agastache ‘Blue Boa’ or ‘Blue Fortune’? Which of the myriad nepeta choices is right? Is there a phlox that is LESS prone to mildew? Etc etc etc… Richard Hawke’s work at the Chicago Botanic Garden trials can bring illumination to all of these mysteries.

I asked gardening pals what they do in their garden that didn’t used to do— something that is a bit more earth friendly. We get lots of input from these fine gardeners in episode 85.

It’s almost Christmas so we need help from a professional. Susan Nock runs Thistle Containers, a garden design firm that specializes in container gardening, and her Christmas game is strong. Whether you are going at it last minute or you need a better plan for next year, Susan has the inspiration for us.