Garden inspiration and winter damage

By C.L. Fornari

Published April 11, 2026 at 4:12 PM EDT

On The Garden Lady host C.L. Fornari welcomed Stephen Orr, author of The Gardener's Mindset: Connecting With Nature Through Plants. They spoke about finding inspiration for gardens, the best practices for weeding, and making habitat piles and dead hedges. Listeners called with questions about winter damaged plants and dealing with invasive weeds.

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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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