The Garden Lady on CAI

On today's program C.L. talks about mid-summer fertilizing, the Cape Cod Hydrangea Festival, and takes listener calls about perennial plants, July plant care, and the growth of trees.

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.

C.L. talks with Stephen Orr, author of The Gardener's Mindset: Connecting With Nature Through Plants and answers your calls.

C.L. talks with Andrew Fisher Tomlin author of The Modern Professional Planting Designer and answers your calls.

C.L. speaks with Mikel Folcarelli, the co-owner of Sakonnet Garden in Little Compton, Rhode Island and answers your calls.

C.L. gives tips on planting peas, talks with Allison Dush, Director of Programs and Education at the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, and answers your calls.

C.L. gives tips on planting peas, talks with Allison Dush, Director of Programs and Education at the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, and answers your calls.