Introducing Gardening Simplified, a new radio show and podcast from Proven Winners ColorChoice Shrubs. Hosted by life-long gardeners Rick Vuyst and Stacey Hirvela, the Gardening Simplified show is designed to share our love of plants and gardening. Whatever your skill or experience level, you’ll find something interesting, useful, and just plain fascinating in every episode.
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Need a kick in the Plants? The Flowerland Garden Show with Rick, Doug, and Dusty Miller can help you with their useful advice.
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Garden Tools: Is Your Shed Properly Stocked?
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The right tools for the task are just as important in the garden as they are in the shop. Learn our must-haves and favorites. Plus, pruning whorled hydrangeas and Supertunias. Featured plant: 'Aphrodite' sweetshrub.By Newsradio WOOD 1300 and 106.9 FM (WOOD-AM)
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From bugs to bunnies, pests are part and parcel of gardening. And IPM - integrated pest management - gives us the tools to resolve issues using smarts and strategy. Learn what IPM is and how it can help you problem-solve, indoors and out. Featured plant: Ginger Wine ninebark.By Newsradio WOOD 1300 and 106.9 FM (WOOD-AM)
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Cool Plants for Wet Soils and Celebrating Meteorological Spring!
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Whether it's from poor drainage or a high water table, wet soils can be hard to deal with. But there are lots of beautiful plants that will thrive in them! Learn what they are and other tips for dealing with soggy situations. Featured plant: Sugar Shack buttonbush.By Newsradio WOOD 1300 and 106.9 FM (WOOD-AM)
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Pruning Demystified & How Honey Bees Handle a Weird Spring
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Should you be pruning now? Today we talk about what you should prune in spring and what you should not. Hear how this unusual spring is affecting honey bees and tapping maple trees for maple syrup with beekeeper and expert, Don Snoeyink. Featured plant: Rise Up Lilac Days climbing rose.By Newsradio WOOD 1300 and 106.9 FM (WOOD-AM)
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The When and Where of Growing from Seed & Interview on Leafjoy® Houseplants
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When spring fever hits, the temptation to start seeds becomes irresistible. But when is the right time? What's the right equipment? We'll tell you! Featured plant: Still Waters clematis.By Newsradio WOOD 1300 and 106.9 FM (WOOD-AM)
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Sun, Shade, Part-Shade - Explaining Plant Light Needs
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Are those recommendations for light on plant tags arbitrary, or do they mean something? Find out in this episode, where we also discuss spring fertilizing and animal weather prognosticators. Featured plant: Fairytrail Bride Cascade Hydrangea.By Newsradio WOOD 1300 and 106.9 FM (WOOD-AM)
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Drought Tolerant Plants & Taking the Irritation Out of Irrigation - Interview with Tim DeGeest
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Drought: it's dusty. It's dry. And plants can help make it a whole lot prettier. Learn about what makes a plant drought tolerant, and how you can alleviate drought with a DIY drip irrigation system. Featured plant: Double Take Scarlet flowering quince.By Newsradio WOOD 1300 and 106.9 FM (WOOD-AM)
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Happiness with Houseplants (even gardenias!)
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How many houseplants do you have? Whether it's one or one hundred, we're celebrating the indoor gardening renaissance. Plus, learn the secret to success with gardenias indoors (and outdoors), and hear about the rise in bonsai theft. Featured plant: Steady As She Goes gardenia.By Newsradio WOOD 1300 and 106.9 FM (WOOD-AM)
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Layering Plants in the Garden and Landscape
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A garden planted in layers is dynamic, interesting, and beautiful. Learn what it means and how to do it! Plus, plant cold hardiness, pruning elderberries, and biophilia. Featured plant: Cesky Gold dwarf birch.By Newsradio WOOD 1300 and 106.9 FM (WOOD-AM)
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Meet the 2024 Proven Winners all-star team: the Plants of the Year! Learn about each variety and how they are chosen. Plus, causes of brown arborvitae, planting bulbs in January, and the Pantone Color of the Year. Featured shrub: Fizzy Mizzy itea.By Newsradio WOOD 1300 and 106.9 FM (WOOD-AM)
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Stacey and Rick’s New Year’s (Gardening) Resolutions
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Do you have new year’s resolutions for 2024? Or maybe, your new year’s resolution is to avoid new year’s resolutions – either way, we’d love to hear your thoughts! Learn about different types of fertilizers, which is best for your plants, and when to apply it. Featured plant: Just Chill Red Tip camellia.…
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Do you have a gardening playlist? Listen in for our favorite plant and outdoor-related songs. Plus, using pine needles as mulch, planting around black walnuts, and a winter update from Birdman Bill Stovall. Featured plant: White Album wintercreeper.By Newsradio WOOD 1300 and 106.9 FM (WOOD-AM)
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Everything Evergreen and Talking Tea With Debra Knapke
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Evergreens lift our spirits during the holidays and carry our landscape through winter. Learn the two types of evergreens, and the benefits they bring to the landscape. Plus, snowload on trees and shrubs and a guest on herbal teas. Featured plant: Castle Spire blue holly.By Newsradio WOOD 1300 and 106.9 FM (WOOD-AM)
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The New USDA Zone Map, and What It Means for You
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In mid-November, the USDA put out a new hardiness zone map, the first since 2012. Learn what's new in it, and why, and what it might mean for what you can grow. Plus, hydrangea growing questions and a waterless waterpark. Featured plant: Blue Diddley vitex.By Newsradio WOOD 1300 and 106.9 FM (WOOD-AM)
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Plant-Based Holiday Decor, Indoors and Out
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December is here, and along with it, holiday decorating. Grace your containers, windowboxes, and maybe even a few spots indoors with cut branches and greens! Hear our suggestions and get advice from designer Deborah Silver.By Newsradio WOOD 1300 and 106.9 FM (WOOD-AM)
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Cape Cod is synonymous with hydrangeas, but as Rick discovered at this year's Hydrangea festival, polar conditions threatened the display. We talk hydrangeas that stand up to the cold and other solutions. Plus, hydrangeas blooming in fall and javalinas. Featured plant: Tuff Stuff hydrangea.By Newsradio WOOD 1300 and 106.9 FM (WOOD-AM)
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Vegetables: The Plants You Put On Your Plate
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When cooking and eating vegetables, it can be easy to forget they started as plants. We discuss the joys of growing veg and sharing them on your holiday table - and maybe even getting kids to eat them. Author and ethnobotanist Lisa Rose joins us to talk about her new book, Urban Foraging. Featured plant: Arctic Fire Yellow dogwood.…
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Gardening with native plants gets a lot of talk these days, but what does it really mean? We explore the possibilities, benefits, and myths of gardening with natives in what may be our most controversial episode yet. Featured plant: Low Scape Snowfire aronia.By Newsradio WOOD 1300 and 106.9 FM (WOOD-AM)
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Autumn Leaves Abound. Here’s How to Use Them to Your Advantage
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They're colorful, they're abundant, they're...useful? Yes! Fallen leaves are perfect for improving soil. Find out what to do with yours, plus, mystery fungus, a fence-climbing Chihuahua, and new vocabulary words about leaves. Featured plant: Tiny Wine ninebark.By Newsradio WOOD 1300 and 106.9 FM (WOOD-AM)
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It’s Plant Moving Time, so Let’s Get a Move On!
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Whatever your reason for moving a shrub or perennial - the site has become too shady, the plant outgrew the spot, or you just don't like where it is - now is the perfect time to move it. Learn how in this episode. Plus, overwintering plants in containers and fall foliage that can be seen from space. Featured plant: Oso Easy Italian Ice rose.…
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Choose Your Path Wisely - All About Garden Paths
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A garden path gets you from point A to point B, but it's the path materials, the shape of the path, and of course, the plants, that make the journey worthwhile. Hear our favorite path materials, along with bumblebee pollination, crabgrass prevention, and why Rick made an Amazon delivery driver cry. Featured plant: Midnight Sun weigela.…
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Mistakes Made and Lessons Learned in the Garden
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No one likes to make a mistake, but the mistakes you make in gardening tend to be the lessons that stick with you most. Hear the mistakes Rick and Stacey have made and what they've learned from them. We end the show with an extended in-studio interview with the one and only Birdman Bill Stovall. Featured plant: Let's Dance Can Do hydrangea.…
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To Prune or Not to Prune? Cleaning-up the Garden in Fall
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In this week’s episode, Stacey and Rick discuss what perennials you should be pruning in fall, and which you shouldn’t. Stacey reminds gardeners when in doubt, don’t prune! If you’ve noticed more acorns this year, it isn’t just you - Rick talks about Oak Mast and explains what’s happening. Plus, learn why a rose of Sharon may not bloom and more in …
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It's time to plant fall bulbs! Learn how you can be successful selecting, planting, and growing bulbs. Stacey shares a shrub perfect for planting next to your bulbs for a stellar spring display. Stacey and Rick talk about gardening next to Black Walnut trees and how to handle the presence of juglone in soil.…
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As gardeners, we tend to enjoy working in our gardens. But we should also take the time to enjoy being in them, looking at them, and appreciating our hard work. Plus, gravel in flower beds and removing annuals in fall. Featured plant: Gatsby Gal hydrangea.By Newsradio WOOD 1300 and 106.9 FM (WOOD-AM)
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Thank you to all of our listeners who send us in their gardening questions! In this bonus episode, Stacey and Rick answer questions from the mailbag that haven’t had a chance to be answered on the show yet.By Newsradio WOOD 1300 and 106.9 FM (WOOD-AM)
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Rocking the Establishment: What It Means to Get a Plant “Established”
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"Once it's established" is oft repeated about plants but seldom explained. In today's episode, we change that and cover what it actually means. Plus, Japanese beetle resistance and garden trends. Featured plant: Kodiak Orange diervilla.By Newsradio WOOD 1300 and 106.9 FM (WOOD-AM)
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Fall-ing Into Place – Celebrating Our Second Year!
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As we head into our second year, we look back at all that we’ve discussed on and look forward towards what’s to come. Our Plant on Trial is one the Fonz would approve of – Perfecto Mundo® Double Pink reblooming azalea. Learn about hydrophobic soil and whether or not you should protect your panicle hydrangea in winter.…
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Reach Out and Touch Somebody’s Plants (Plants You Want to Touch and Ones You Don’t)
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So many plants have an inviting, touchable texture - we share our favorites, as well as those you should definitely avoid touching. Plus, a beautiful, bouncy hydrangea, pruning boxwood, and printing photos on foliage. Featured plant: Little Lime Punch hydrangea.By Newsradio WOOD 1300 and 106.9 FM (WOOD-AM)
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Getting Edgy: The Pain and Necessity of Your Garden’s Edges
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Edging your garden beds is a crucial part of maintaining a landscape, but a good edge? That's easier said than done. Find out why, plus we talk favorite vines, deterring dogs, and Stinky the Owl.By Newsradio WOOD 1300 and 106.9 FM (WOOD-AM)
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Building Better Relationships With Your Neighbors Through Plants and Preventing Powdery Mildew
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Do you know your neighbors? If not, plants can change that! Plant something that sparks conversation and make connections within your community. Plus, dealing with powdery mildew, cleaning pruners, and another bear story. Featured plant: Sweet Summer Love clematis.By Newsradio WOOD 1300 and 106.9 FM (WOOD-AM)
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We love self-sowers! Far from weeds, these plants pop up where they will thrive best, making you look like a design superstar. Plus, saving tomato seed and an interview with PHS vice president for horticulture, Andrew Bunting. Featured plant: Sunny Boulevard St. John's-wort.By Newsradio WOOD 1300 and 106.9 FM (WOOD-AM)
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Plants That Beat the Heat and Interview With Brie The Plant Lady
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It’s not just people that get sunburned, plants can too! Learn about damage that sun can do to plants, how you can avoid it, and about plants’ natural sunscreen. Rick and Stacey interview with a special guest, Brie Arthur aka Brie The Plant Lady. Brie talks about an outstanding tomato and the benefits of incorporating edibles into the garden.…
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Dive into the world of blue plants and learn how bigleaf and mountain hydrangeas can turn blue. In Plants on Trial, Stacey introduces a new, easy to grow blue hydrangea. Rick discusses news regarding rising temperatures and a 97 year old who finally got the tractor she deserves.By Newsradio WOOD 1300 and 106.9 FM (WOOD-AM)
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Yes, summer gardening is actually harder. Today we explore problems gardeners are facing in the dog days of summer and tips to work through them. In Plants on Trial, Stacey and Rick talk about a plant that makes gardening easy. Learn about plant reversion and what to do if you notice it.By Newsradio WOOD 1300 and 106.9 FM (WOOD-AM)
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Mid-Summer Vegetable Tips, Junipers as Hedging, and Growing Castor Beans
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It's the height of summer, which means the vegetable garden is in full swing. Learn how to keep it looking, and producing, its best. Plus, growing showy castor bean plants, and the elements of curb appeal. Featured plant: Gin Fizz juniper.By Newsradio WOOD 1300 and 106.9 FM (WOOD-AM)
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How to Pamper Your Plants, a Revolutionary Rose, and Interviewing Dr. Judson LeCompte
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Learn various ways you can give your plants a spa day and why you shouldn’t add Epsom salts in your garden. At Last, a groundbreaking rose is put on trial and Dr. Judson LeCompte joins us to talk about plant genetics and the differences between gardening in the South vs North.By Newsradio WOOD 1300 and 106.9 FM (WOOD-AM)
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Do Plants Repel Mosquitoes? Plus: Why Your Hydrangea Isn’t Blooming, and Meet One That Definitely Does
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Do plants really repel mosquitoes? We look at the evidence. Plus, learn why your hydrangea might not be blooming, and how police used a YouTube video to save ducklings. Featured plant: Incrediball Blush hydrangea.By Newsradio WOOD 1300 and 106.9 FM (WOOD-AM)
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South vs. North Gardening, Managing Fire Ants, and Garden Photography With Adriana
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Are you a Southern gardener longing for the North? Or perhaps the other way around? We break down the pros and cons of gardening in hot climates. We move on to a gardener with fire ants in her potted lemon tree, then Adriana, our producer, shares garden photography tips. Featured plant: Center Stage Red crapemyrtle.…
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Vivacious Variegation, the Truth About Milky Spore, and Plant Breeder Megan Mathey
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Variegation: love it or hate it, we discuss this unique plant mutation from a scientific and aesthetic standpoint. Plus, we dive into the truth about controlling Japanese beetles using milky spore, and end with an interview with Proven Winners ColorChoice plant breeder, Megan Mathey. Featured shrub: My Monet weigela.…
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Watering Advice, a Game-Changing Spirea, Native Ferns, and the “Chelsea Chop”
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We're suffering through dryness not seen in 100+ years here in Michigan, so watering is on our minds. Join us as we talk water conservation tips, a high performance, drought tolerant spirea, controlling cucumber beetles, and the time-honored tradition of the "Chelsea Chop."By Newsradio WOOD 1300 and 106.9 FM (WOOD-AM)
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Favorite Herbs, the Secret to Cilantro, and a New, Non-toxic Way to Manage Slugs
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Whether it's just a pot of basil or a whole garden's-worth, having fragrant herbs as close as your backyard is luxury. Learn our favorites, plus how to grow cilantro successfully, a trick for more chives, and a brand new slug solution from Oregon State University.By Newsradio WOOD 1300 and 106.9 FM (WOOD-AM)
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Advanced Annuals, Innovative Plants, Plant a Tree, Save a Bee! - Interviewing a Pollinator Expert
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Planting annuals is one of the most joyful parts of gardening - listen in as we share our thoughts on this time-honored tradition, and our favorite plants. Plus, learn what it means to be an innovative plant and how to manage hydrangea leaftiers. We end with an interview with Mike Connor, who shares his extensive knowledge of pollinators with us.…
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Why the Right Soil Matters, Hardening Off Plants, and Avoiding Oak Wilt
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Learn why the right soil matters, especially when it comes to plants like our Plant on Trial today, Dandy Man® Purple rhododendron. Now is a great time to start hardening off plants! Hear tips on how to get your plants ready for their new home outdoors. In Questions Answered, we talk about the danger of Oak Wilt and how you can help avoid this drea…
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The Best Plants to Give Mom for Mother’s Day and a Rose Unlike Any Other
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Gifting plants to Mom on Mother’s Day has been a go-to for most people. In this episode, Stacey and Rick talk about what plants make a good gift, including a revolutionary new rose. Find out if you can grow garlic and spring and still get a harvest. In Branching News, Rick talks about a “novel” idea if you enjoy houseplants and reading.…
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The Fundamentals of Container Gardening and the Birdman is Back!
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Container gardening has come a long way in the last few years! Learn our tips and favorite plants for containers, plus how to use your containers for flowering shrubs and evergreens. And by popular demand, Birdman Bill Stovall is back! The Birdman gives an update on his Loons, talks about a few other quirky feathered friends, and discusses migratio…
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Flower Farming, Forsythia, and Fabulous Container Design Tips with Renee Clermont
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In today’s episode, we talk about the cut flower trend. Rick and Stacey talk about the rising popularity of growing your own cut flowers and which types they recommend. Our Plant on Trial this week is a sure sign that spring is here, Show Off® forsythia. Get helpful tips on designing and growing plants in containers during our interview with Renee …
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The Appeal of Perennials - Favorites, Care Tips, and More!
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Learn all about perennials in today's episode! Stacey and Rick discuss the best care practices, what their favorite perennials are, and why. Stacey highlights a compact butterfly bush that fits perfectly into any perennial garden. In Branching News, Rick tells us about a moose on the loose!By Newsradio WOOD 1300 and 106.9 FM (WOOD-AM)
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Spring Blooming Trees and Interview With Amphibian Expert - The Gator
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Spring blooming trees are ubiquitous and a welcome splash of color before warmer days start to come in. Stacey and Rick talk all about spring blooming trees and highlight the beautiful and shade tolerant Golden Shadows® Pagoda Dogwood. Learn about fun facts about frogs and how they help a garden's ecosystem during our interview with amphibian exper…
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