Designing your garden

By C.L. Fornari

Published April 4, 2026 at 4:58 PM EDT

The Garden Lady begins with a postcard about appreciating rainfall, then C.L. Fornari welcomes her guest Andrew Fisher Tomlin author of The Modern Professional Planting Designer. We talked about a few ways that garden owners can use design processes that the pros employ, and C.L. answered listener calls.

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C.L. Fornari

C.L. Fornari is host of The Garden Lady on CAI. She 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 $50,000.00 for local non-profits every year and draws public attention to Hydrangeas and gardening.

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