Landscape architect Jennifer Bartley is from Granville, Ohio and owns the design firm American Potager. Her newly released book, The Kitchen Gardener's Handbook, shows how a well-designed landscape combining edible with ornamental plants can yield both bounty for the table and beauty for the soul. For gardeners who want it all - the freshness of homegrown fruits and vegetables plus the beauty and simplicity of flowers, be sure to tune in for her helpful thoughts about garden design, plant selection and recipe ideas. Call John, Sharon and Bryan with your gardening questions at 1-866-606-TALK (8255). 

 

 Sunday, August 7  

  8am - 10 am PDT  ---  11am - 1pm EDT

Originally from Oxford, England, Andrew Wyatt has worked at the botanic gardens at Kew, University of Oxford and Chicago. This past spring, Andrew became vice president of horticulture at the esteemed Missouri Botanical Garden. Today he will be our learned guide through the garden's Climatron, a geodesic dome conservatory inspired by the designs of Buckminster Fuller and filled with more than 2,800 tropical rainforest plants as well as other specialty displays found at the St. Louis 79-acre botanical paradise.

 

As the granddaughter of Italian farmer immigrants whose last name meant, "to work with the tools of the earth," Denise Schreiber is appropriately recognized as the expert gardener "Mrs. Know-It-All," on Pittsburgh's radio show, The Organic Gardener. After a trip to the gardens of Great Britain, she began experimenting with edible flowers. This morning she will discuss how we can have our flowers and eat them too, based on her recently published book, Eat Your Roses...Pansies, Lavender and 49 other Delicious Edible Flowers. Call John, Sharon and Bryan with your gardening questions at 1-866-606-TALK (8255).