The Horticulturati

Hey Horticulturati listeners, Colleen has a new podcast! Stop stressing about your yard! Each week, landscape consultant Colleen Dieter with ATXGardens.com shares exactly what you should be doing right now to keep your plants and trees happy. With 20+ years of experience helping Central Texans, Colleen is a certified arborist, sustainable landscape designer, and founder of Central Texas Seed Saver...

John Dromgoole wears a lot of hats. Sun hats mostly, but also figurative ones: founder of the Natural Gardener , former host of the long-running garden call-in radio show Gardening Naturally on Newsradio KLBJ, regular TV presenter on PBS' Central Texas Gardener and KXAN's The Weekend Gardener ; the list goes on. On this episode, your hosts (both former employees of the Natural Gardener), sit down...

In this episode, we talk about seed sharing and food justice with Hayden Kesterson and DJ Needelman from the Cooperative Gardens Commission . The CGC is an international grassroots collective of volunteers working to increase community food production, resource-sharing, and food sovereignty. Founded in 2020 in response to the Covid pandemic, one of the CGC's main projects is seed distribution: sou...

New developments are afoot here at Horticulturati HQ! More episodes of this podcast are on the way. In the meantime, you will find Colleen's radio show, Horticulture Hangover , on a separate podcast feed . Please subscribe to Hangover to get your weekly dose gardening advice:  Apple podcasts Spotify Audible/Amazon Podcasts  Player for web browser Leah will also be releasing Season 2 of her other p...

Colleen Dieter, co-host of the Horticulturati podcast also hosts the Horticulture Hangover Radio Show, a call-in (or text-in) show for gardening questions. Tune in to Horticulture Hangover live on Saturdays at 8-9 am CST: 99.7 AM and 590 FM. ATXgardens.com

Colleen Dieter, co-host of the Horticulturati podcast also hosts the Horticulture Hangover Radio Show, a call-in (or text-in) show for gardening questions. Tune in to Horticulture Hangover live on Saturdays at 8-9 am CST: 99.7 AM and 590 FM. ATXgardens.com

Colleen Dieter, co-host of the Horticulturati podcast also hosts the Horticulture Hangover Radio Show, a call-in (or text-in) show for gardening questions. Tune in to Horticulture Hangover live on Saturdays at 8-9 am CST: 99.7 AM and 590 FM. ATXgardens.com

Colleen Dieter, co-host of the Horticulturati podcast also hosts the Horticulture Hangover Radio Show, a call-in (or text-in) show for gardening questions. Tune in to Horticulture Hangover live on Saturdays at 8-9 am CST: 99.7 AM and 590 FM. ATXgardens.com

Colleen Dieter, co-host of the Horticulturati podcast also hosts the Horticulture Hangover Radio Show, a call-in (or text-in) show for gardening questions. Tune in to Horticulture Hangover live on Saturdays at 8-9 am CST: 99.7 AM and 590 FM. ATXgardens.com

Colleen Dieter, co-host of the Horticulturati podcast, also hosts the Horticulture Hangover Radio Show, a call-in (or text-in) show for gardening questions. Tune in to Horticulture Hangover live on Saturdays at 8-9 am CST: 99.7 AM and 590 FM. ATXgardens.com

What can we plant in the vegetable garden now? How should I fertilize my fruit trees? Get the answers for Central Texas now!  Colleen Dieter, co-host of the Horticulturati podcast also hosts the Horticulture Hangover Radio Show, a call-in (or text-in) show for gardening questions. Tune in to Horticulture Hangover live on Saturdays at 8-9 am CST: 99.7 AM and 590 FM. ATXgardens.com

Colleen Dieter, co-host of the Horticulturati podcast also hosts the Horticulture Hangover Radio Show, a call-in (or text-in) show for gardening questions. Tune in to Horticulture Hangover live on Saturdays at 8-9 am CST: 99.7 AM and 590 FM. ATXgardens.com

Colleen Dieter, co-host of the Horticulturati podcast also hosts the Horticulture Hangover Radio Show, a call-in (or text-in) show for gardening questions. Tune in to Horticulture Hangover live on Saturdays at 8-9 am CST: 99.7 AM and 590 FM. ATXgardens.com

Colleen Dieter, co-host of the Horticulturati podcast also hosts the Horticulture Hangover Radio Show, a call-in (or text-in) show for gardening questions. Tune in to Horticulture Hangover live on Saturdays at 8-9 am CST: 99.7 AM and 590 FM. ATXgardens.com

On this episode, we're sinking our toes into St. Augustine grass ( Stenotaphrum secundatu m), icon of the Texas lawn from Hank Hill's house to the State Capitol grounds. Millions of acres of prime farmland and front yards are dedicated to this non-edible crop. St. Augustine is so ubiquitous in our landscape it's almost invisible. But what paradoxes are hiding in plain sight? This coastal pioneer s...

We're back with an Old Farmers' Almanac episode! Continuously published since 1792, the Almanac is an American institution, rife with weather forecasts, recipes, gardening tips, and snake oil. Long advertised on its cover as "useful, with a pleasant degree of humor," the new edition provides tips on the best days in 2024 to wash your floors, perm your hair, and make jams or jellies – according to...

Here's the September 24 episode of Horticulture Hangover, our radio broadcast on KLBJ. Colleen reports back from the International Society of Arboriculture's Texas Tree Conference, and we take questions about Texas Madrones, hardy hibiscus, night-blooming cereus, and more.  Check out the Austin Organic Gardeners' Fall Plant Fundraiser on September 30 from 10am-2pm at Zilker Botanical Gardens. More...

  This week, Colleen is out of town, so Leah invited a guest host, horticulturist  Willy Glenn from It's Your Nature and @yournativenursery. We discuss adapting our plant palette due to climate change, the challenges of propagating natives, and the beauty of grasses in the landscape. We also field some questions about planting wildflowers.   Tune in to Horticulture Hangover live on Saturdays at 8-...

When you picture a butterfly garden, you probably envision big, colorful flowers. But did you know that over 100 butterfly species in Texas use native grasses and sedges as their larval host plants? In this episode, Leah makes the case for adding grasses to your pollinator garden. The majority of grass-obligate butterflies – skippers and satyrs—are small, brown, and understudied. Leah argues that...

On this week's radio show, landscape designer Michele Fonzi joins Leah to talk about framing the garden with hardscaping. Michelle is a landscape construction expert, horticulturist, and project manager who builds commercial and residential spaces with her company,  Michele Fonzi Designs . We discuss the architectural side of garden design -- dry creek beds, pathways, stairs, and stonework -- and...

Here's the July 29 episode of Horticulture Hangover, our radio broadcast on KLBJ.  Leah reports on her visit to Braken Cave -- the world's largest bat colony! -- summer home to 15-20 million bats, then we talk about multi-trunked red oaks tendency to fall apart, watering trees, dealing with invasive grasses (KR bluestem and Johnsongrass), and the marvelous mistflowers.  Tune in to Horticulture Han...

  When the phones are down, the show must go on! Here's the July 22 episode of Horticulture Hangover, our radio broadcast on KLBJ.  We talk about ants and aphids, when to pick melons, growing grapes, and transplanting stuff when it's not quite the right time.   Tune in to Horticulture Hangover live on Saturdays at 8-9 am CST online here , or on the airwaves: 99.7 AM and 590 FM. Join our Patreon  f...

Can a native plant garden be maintained without year-round pruning? In this episode, Colleen articulates her front-yard scheme for a super-low-maintenance native garden design for Central Texas, a cumulative idea inspired by past episodes of this very podcast. Her working title is "The Everything Garden." First, we introduce a corrections segment called the "Concession Stand," and Leah wonders wha...

Here's the July 15 episode of Horticulture Hangover, our radio broadcast on KLBJ. We talk about karst ecosystems, ticks in Texas, Navajo or "Indian" peaches , harvesting figs, and a native plant that's on our wish list: velvet leaf mallow ( Allowissadula holosericea).  Tune in to Horticulture Hangover live on Saturdays at 8-9 am CST online here , or on the airwaves: 99.7 AM and 590 FM.  Join our P...

Here's the July 8 episode of Horticulture Hangover, our radio broadcast on KLBJ. We talk about measuring a tree's critical root zone, when to cut back canna lilies to keep them blooming, and how to root-prune trees in pots.   Tune in to Horticulture Hangover live on Saturdays at 8-9 am CST online here , or on the airwaves: 99.7 AM and 590 FM. Join our Patreon  for early access to Horticulturati ep...