The focus of this podcast is the 2010 Northwest Flower & Garden Show in Seattle, Washington. There I found many wonderful garden accents that not only serve a function, but provide beauty to the landscape. You can find photos of my trip in the February Gallery of What's Blooming. I'll then answer gardener's questions on Osage orange.  With that I'll give a little historical significance on this tree. A great website to follow up on the history of American trees is historictrees.org. I'll talk Cedar Apple Rust in my pest tip. Then, I'll finish with a great tool for digging, planting, weeding and soil prep -  the Hoedag.

Keeping the theme of new plant varieties, I'd like to discuss some newer shrub and tree introductions. Johnson's Nursery and Proven Winners Color Choice Shrubs have some exciting new varieties. I'll follow that up by answering  gardeners' questions on growing radicchio and removing cattails and restoring lake shoreline. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources offers some great information on Aquascaping on their website.

Photo courtesy of Proven Winners - www.provenwinners.com

In this podcast I'll talk about my visit to the 2010 Mid-America Horticultural Trade Show in Chicago. I found many exciting plant introductions on display and I'd like to share them with you. Then I'll answer gardeners' questions on getting amaryllis to rebloom and splitting arborvitaes caused by snow load. I'll wrap it up by discussing wildlife damage and the different control measures to prevent their feeding.