The Garden Lady
The Garden Lady is a weekly, hour-long call-in radio program hosted by plant expert C.L. Fornari. It airs on WCAI 90.1, WNAN 91.1, and WZAI 94.3, Saturdays at 1 p.m. On The Garden Lady, Fornari takes listener questions and discusses a wide range of topics around gardening, horticulture, and nature, with a special focus on helping the Cape and Islands community make the most of every season, regardless of their level of plant experience.
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Latest Episodes
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On the Fourth of July The Garden Lady shares four things that are essential for plants, and four approaches to good soil health for gardens. Listeners called in with questions about rose pruning, watering gardens, and transplanting perennials in the middle of the summer. -
C.L. starts this program off with a postcard about the myth that sunlight though water droplets burns leaves. Then she speaks with Mason Vollmer, author of Apple Gardening - Easily Grow Apples Without Big Tree Problems, and takes listener's calls about grapevines, rot on summer squash and watering new landscaping. -
On The Garden Lady today, C.L. starts off with a postcard about holes in leaves. Then she welcomes Dabney Day, Writer, Producer and Director of the film “The Gardener.” This movie, screening in selected theaters, invites the audience to slow down, listen and feel. Then the program moves from the metaphorical to the practical with plant questions from listeners about herbs, potatoes, blueberries and other June gardening matters. -
The Garden Lady was broadcast live from the CAI Studios today. C.L. Fornari's guest was Horticulturalist George Chapman, who is the Director of the gardens at Highfield Hall in Falmouth, MA. Members of the audience asked questions about hydrangeas, a birch tree that is dropping leaves, and Rhododendrons that aren't flowering. -
The Garden Lady spoke to the Insect Lady today as Margie Patlak, author of Insect Safari, was C.L. Fornari's guest. C.L. took calls from listeners who were asking about squirrels, woodchucks, peonies and more. -
This episode began with a postcard from American Holly, a plant that is naturally shedding the old leaves as it grows new foliage. C.L. welcomes Jim Long, author of Wildcrafter Garden Structure: Making Bentwood Trellises, Arbors, Gates and Fences. Listeners called in with questions about lilacs, azalea pruning, tomatoes and more. -
In this episode of The Garden Lady C.L. starts off program with a postcard from azalea gall. She discusses favorite herbs and where to plant them, and takes calls from listeners about rejuvenating lilacs, boxwood problems, and why dahlias dried up in storage. -
This program starts off with a postcard from Robin's plantain, aka fleabane. C.L. explains the advantages and disadvantages to tilling or not tilling vegetable gardens, and callers asked questions about peony buds filled with ants, invasive perennials and a Japanese maple tree that has some dieback. -
The Garden Lady opens the program with a postcard from plants for the cutting garden. C.L. then focused on pruning of hydrangeas, explaining that different species get pruned in separate ways. Calls from listeners covered many topics, from great varieties of tomatoes to black spot on roses, and possible suggestions for replacement shrubs where a burning bush once grew. -
The guest on The Garden Lady was Jon Laurie, Director of Municipal Outreach for the Black Earth Compost Company. Among other spring topics, callers to the program asked about squirrels eating the new growth on trees, groundcover for hot, dry areas, and getting rid of pea-gravel mulch.
