Clematis is the ultimate vine, and we dedicate today’s show to celebrating and demystifying it. Plus, managing Japanese beetles, composting advice, and cherry blossom-related traffic jams.

It’s finally, officially spring, and the weather’s vine! We dedicate much of today’s show to climbers and twiners, and spotlight a woody vine in the midst of an identity crisis. Stay to the end for a fascinating interview with birdman Bill Stovall, where we talk loons, cranes, bluebirds, and orioles.

Let’s talk hedges! Whether they’re evergreen or deciduous, used to screen off an ugly view or to add structure to your landscape, they’re incredibly useful. Plus, learn about a fast-growing arborvitae for hedges, growing ferns indoors, and an interview from a professional composter.

Hummingbird season will soon be returning to many us in the US – learn how to welcome them with plants and feeders. We talk a hot-climate shrub that brings in hummingbirds by the score, answer questions about eco-friendly lawns. Plus, snowdrop theft and a weasel that made its way indoors.

Spring is in the air and in the studio! Today we talk all about tomatoes, including best practices for selecting and growing. Instead of putting just one plant on trial today, we’re putting 64 plants on trial in our Shrub Madness competition. Learn what Shrub Madness is all about, how you can participate, and hear about the awesome plant prizes. We’ve talked about eating in bed, but today we talk about what people are eating in their showers.

Specimen plants are those that transform your landscape from one that merely exists to one that grabs everyone’s attention. We discuss our favorites, those that have been little more than fads, and those that have truly stood the test of time, like the oak tree that Olympic champion Cornelius Johnson planted outside his Los Angeles home. Plus, we talk spring emergence of bulbs and Mr. Mustard Ural false-spirea, answer listener questions on lilacs, and the latest on Central Park’s escaped owl, Flaco.

It’s the fragrance show! Join us as we discuss the phenomenon of fragrance, our favorite fragrant plants (including today’s plant on trial, Scentara Double Blue lilac). Finally, we start “planning for canning” with The Canning Diva, Diane Devereaux.

Whether you call them indoor plants or house plants, we’ve got the tips to keep them looking their best – although that may involve mayonnaise (seriously!). We also talk about a super cold tolerant native shrub that blooms all summer, gardening with your partner, and a California woodpecker who has been very, very busy.

Butterflies visiting your backyard is one of the true joys of gardening – learn what to plant and how to maintain your garden to make it a true haven. Plus, bees eating mushrooms to heal themselves? Yes! Hear all about it in this episode of Gardening Simplified.

It’s the bee show! Today, Rick and Stacey talk bees: honeybees, bumblebees, native bees, through the show and with special guest, beekeeper Don Snoeyink. Find out what bees eat through the season and what to plant to make your yard bee-friendly.

Learn why plants go dormant yet animals hibernate, meet a flowering shrub that likes to sleep late on spring, plus succulent rescue after a freeze, and a harrowing video showing a man rescuing a deer with a paint can stuck on its head.

Meet the 2023 Plants of the Year, learn about a new colorful new option for attracting hummingbirds, why you needn’t panic if your bulbs are emerging in January, and the antics of Elvis, the crocodile who stole a lawnmower.