The Garden Lady

The Garden Lady - Episode 34

By C.L. Fornari

Published August 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM EDT

In this episode of The Garden Lady, C.L. Fornari talks about weeds and an approach to weeding. She discusses the benefits of including garden visits when you’re in new areas, and mentions some garden festivals where you can see landscapes that are not commonly open to the public. C.L. also shares a favorite garden tomato and rice recipe that she learned from her Italian mother-in-law. It’s a late-summer celebration of plants plus some problem solving.

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C.L. Fornari

C.L. Fornari is the author of eight books, including Coffee for Roses and The Cocktail Hour Garden. She’s a professional speaker, the former host of GardenLine on WXTK, and co-host of the Plantrama podcast. She is a frequent speaker to groups nationwide, and has worked for a family-owned independent garden center for 25 years. C.L. grows vegetables, flowers, shrubs, trees and numerous other plants at Poison Ivy Acres on Cape Cod. In 2015 C.L. launched the Cape Cod Hydrangea Festival, a ten-day regional celebration of gardens that typically raises over $100,000.00 for local non-profits every year and draws public attention to Hydrangeas and gardening.

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