I used to think that woodchips could not be used as mulch because they would fix nitrogen in the soil as they broke down. Turns out it’s true— for the first centimeter or so! Ben Raskin teaches us all how we could be using this accessible and sustainable medium in our gardens, even before it composts.

Bill Quade has been part of the gardens at America’s Largest Home, the Biltmore, for decades, and he was recently named the Director of Horticulture there. Bill tells us what it’s like to work at an amazing garden with an historic heritage.

Joseph Tychonievich is a plant breeder, author, speaker and artist (if you count stick figures, and I do). In our chat we did a shallow dive into many of the wide range of horticultural topics that he likes to talk about. Even when you just scratch the surface with Joseph, you still learn plenty.

What would it be like to conceptualize and begin a botanic garden in your town? Consi Palmer and Carol Carter, the current and past presidents of the board of the directors of The Botanic Garden of the Piedmont, tell me about the journey of a public garden, right here in Charlottesville, Virginia.

We know that Steph Green can pull together a beautiful collection of plants in a container. But now she wants to share her skills with everyone!

Marian Boswall says that the gardening “journey begins by deciding that you'd prefer to be in the garden rather than just look at it.” The designs that her studio carries out, the projects that her book outlines, and her very ethos all put sustainability first, not at the expense of beauty, but to the enhancement of it.

We think that the aches and pains of gardening are inevitable. But what if they weren’t? What if there were physical ‘fixes’ that you could see demonstrated on a gardening television show? Madeline the gardener and Jeff the fitness guru takes us all over the country to see gardens and help sore gardeners.

Bunny Williams is back on the show to talk about Treillage, her new line of indoor/outdoor furniture, and how she has enjoyed her garden lately.