Ken Druse Real Dirt

Matthew Shephard of the Xerces Society on attracting native pollinators to your garden, and helping them to thrive there.

Feed your plants -- bugs. Jason Austin of Rare Find Nursery tells us how to grow carnivorous plants.

Great garden writer and plant expert, Ruth Clausen, on "50 Beautiful Deer-Resistant Plants" -- a must-have manual.

Revisiting the meadow-meister Neil Diboll. More about planting a prairie (and reducing lawn).

This week's rebroadcast features Marci Martin who oversees the famous rose garden at the Elizabeth Park in Hartford, CT.

Chanticleer: A Pleasure Garden is the name of a place and of a new book by Adrian Higgins of the Washington Post -- my guest today.

Richard Tighe is a lawn expert from Canada who offers advice on improving lawn, soil testing and lawn how-to DVDs.

This weeks show: artist and landscape architect Jeffrey Bale on his famous pebble mosaic gardens and books -- like Moroccan Gardens.

Bart Ziegler, the on-line garden columnist for the Wall Street Journal, raises more questions: do we really need new plants?

Popular potter Frances Palmer on the evolution of her art, and gardening -- including dahlias and other cut flowers that star in her unique vases.

Ken Druse's radio show guest Amy Stewart on Wicked Bugs -- in our gardens, our homes, politics, wars -- the world.

Sue Reed presents advice for the future in Energy-Wise Landscape Design -- a manual that even addresses producing water and wind power.

Author/gardener Michele Owens joins Ken to discuss the food industry and growing your own veggies.

This week's guest is Margaret Roach, author of "and I shall have some peace there" -- a memoir about trading in the fast lane for her own dirt road.

Ellen Ecker Ogden, co-founder of Cook's Garden, talks about kitchen gardens that have good taste, and good tastes.

Doug Hall, senior editor of Organic Gardening, on the April/May issue's article about growing potatoes trying seven different methods.

Author and editor Stephen Orr discusses his new book Tomorrow’s Garden: Design and Inspiration for a New Age of Sustainable Gardening

Ken welcomes Uli Lorimer, Curator of Native Flora at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. They discuss spring ephemerals and Uli's Native Flora Garden at BBG.

Broken Arrow Nursery's propagation and plant development manager Adam Wheeler discusses with Ken his favorite new plants

Philadelphia Horticultural Society President Drew Becher joins Ken to discuss the Philadelphia International Flower Show and the other activities of the Society.