Episodes

27 minutes ago
🐇 Rabbit Proof Plants Perfect for Every Garden
27 minutes ago
27 minutes ago
Rabbits are cute, but they can decimate your garden, especially if you have a lot of these critters in your landscape! Now you can enjoy the wildlife and your garden at the same time!
Mountain Gardeners Ken and Lisa Lain tell us the best, most beautiful plants that the rabbits will leave alone!
🪴Ken & Lisa Lain, the Mountain Gardeners
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2 days ago
2 days ago
The right organic fertilizer can make a spectacular difference in the health and beauty of your garden, from flowers to vegetables to trees and shrubs. Learn from Mountain Gardener Ken Lain about the organic fertilizers at Watters Garden Center, formulated for our area and safe for the environment. Learn how you can have your best garden ever with these plant foods.
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Ken Lain, The Mountain Gardener
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3 days ago
3 days ago
Aspen trees are known for their distinctive, shimmering leaves. They also have smooth, greenish-white bark, and their leaves turn a vibrant yellow in the fall. These distinctive, medium-sized deciduous trees add a lovely touch to your landscape. But which one is better for your landscape – a single or multi-trunked variety? Mountain Gardener Ken Lain shares how to pick the right aspen for your landscape and how to care for it for years to come!
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🌹Ken & Lisa Lain, The Mountain Gardeners
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4 days ago
4 days ago
Lavender is the perfect fragrant, flowering plant for Central Highlands gardens. If you have one of these in your landscape, you’ll want more. Mountain Gardener Ken Lain shares the five best Lavender plants for local gardens, and how to keep them blooming all season.
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🥕Ken Lain, The Mountain Gardener
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5 days ago
5 days ago
Hey garden enthusiasts, Ken & Lisa Watters Lain, The Mountain Gardeners here!
Get ready to catch Ken and Lisa's gardening bug! They're bursting with knowledge and passion for growing beautiful things, and they're ready to share it all with you.
Don't miss out on this chance to level up your gardening game!
Included in This Week’s Show:
🌳 How to Bring Your Stressed Trees Back to Life
🌺 Q and A: How to Keep Flowers Blooming Through Summer
🌳 How to Tell if a Tree is Truly Dead
🌺 Summer Flowers That Bloom in Hot Sun
🌸 Best Growing Vines for Beauty, Hummingbirds and Arbors
🍅Up Your Garden Game With Free Summer Classes!
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🎙️Ken & Lisa Lain, The Mountain Gardeners
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6 days ago
6 days ago
Are you new to the area, or have you been here for awhile and still want to learn to garden better in the unique conditions of the Central Highlands? Join Watters Garden Center each Saturday through the summer for Free classes that will help you to become a garden expert! You’ll learn something new each week from Watters garden experts and be able to ask your garden questions.
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7 days ago
7 days ago
🌸 Best Growing Vines for Beauty, Hummingbirds and Arbors
Would you love to add an arbor to your garden, want to attract more hummingbirds, or simply enjoy the beauty of climbing, flowering vines? Mountain Gardener Ken Lain tells us the most beautiful vines for arbors, attracting hummingbirds and pollinators, and how to plant and care for them.
🌺Ken Lain, The Mountain Gardener
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Thursday Jun 26, 2025
🌺 Summer Flowers That Bloom in Hot Sun
Thursday Jun 26, 2025
Thursday Jun 26, 2025
If you love sitting in your garden and enjoying the colors and fragrance of your blooming flowers, you might be looking at which flowers can take harsh summer conditions and still bloom with vigor. Mountain Gardener Ken Lain shares the summer flowers that add spectacular color and fragrance to your garden and still bloom in summer’s heat.
🪴Ken & Lisa Lain, the Mountain Gardeners
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#WattersGardenCenter, #GardeningTips, #TheMountainGardener, #KenLain, #SummerFlowers, #FlowersThatLoveTheSun, #FlowersThatLoveSummerHeat

Wednesday Jun 25, 2025
🌳 How to Tell if a Tree is Truly Dead
Wednesday Jun 25, 2025
Wednesday Jun 25, 2025
If you have a hard time giving up on a tree that appears to be dead, take heart! Sometimes they are just sick! Mountain Gardener Ken Lain shares how to tell if your tree is really dead, or if it just needs some tender loving care. Learn about this and other tree care tips in today’s podcast.
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Ken Lain, The Mountain Gardener
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Tuesday Jun 24, 2025
🌺 Q and A: How to Keep Flowers Blooming Through Summer
Tuesday Jun 24, 2025
Tuesday Jun 24, 2025
It’s so satisfying to see your garden work coming to fruition with big, colorful blooms, but it’s sometimes hard to keep them blooming through summer’s heat, wind and dry conditions. Mountain Gardeners Ken and Lisa Lain share with us how to keep your garden vibrant, healthy and colorful through the summer, and answer more garden questions!
Not already a Garden Club Member? Click Below to Join and be notified of Plant Preorders and other Special Offers!
https://wattersgardencenter.com/pages/garden-care-advantages
🌹Ken & Lisa Lain, The Mountain Gardeners
#WattersGardenCenter, #GardeningTips, #TheMountainGardener, #KenLain, #SummerFlowers, #BestSummerBlooms, #SummerGardenCare, #SummerGardenColor

Monday Jun 23, 2025
🌳 How to Bring Your Stressed Trees Back to Life
Monday Jun 23, 2025
Monday Jun 23, 2025
Arizona’s Central Highlands have challenging weather conditions of wind, drought and poor soils that can stress your trees. Learn this week from Mountain Gardener Ken Lain how to give your trees a new lease on life, and the best trees to plant for our unique climate and soils!
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🥕Ken Lain, The Mountain Gardener
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Sunday Jun 22, 2025
Sunday Jun 22, 2025
Hey garden enthusiasts, Ken & Lisa Watters Lain, The Mountain Gardeners here!
Get ready to catch Ken and Lisa's gardening bug! They're bursting with knowledge and passion for growing beautiful things, and they're ready to share it all with you.
Don't miss out on this chance to level up your gardening game!
Included in This Week’s Show:
🪴 Top 10 Vines that Cover Fast
🌳 Q and A: Top 10 Screening Plants for Windy Locations
🫛Growing Better Beans & Peas in the Garden
🌺 Top 10 Shrubs for Summer Sizzling Fragrance
🌳 Top 10 Trees for Fast Shade in the Backyard
🐛Garden Alert: Pests are Ready to Destroy Your Plants!
Subscribe to The Top 10 Gardener Podcast today and get your hands dirty with expert tips and tricks. You'll find it on all your favorite podcast platforms. To Watch the Entire Podcast Show, Tap or Click on the Link Below Subscribe for Top 10 Gardener updates!
https://themountaingardener.podbean.com/
🎙️Ken & Lisa Lain, The Mountain Gardeners
#WattersGardenCenter, #WattersGardencenterAZ, #TheMountainGardener, #GardeningTips, #KenLain, #GardenPestControl, #DroughtTolerantShadeTrees, #GrowingBeans&Peas, #FastGrowingShadeTrees, #FloweringShrubs, #FragrantShrubs

Saturday Jun 21, 2025
🐛Garden Alert: Pests are Ready to Destroy Your Plants!
Saturday Jun 21, 2025
Saturday Jun 21, 2025
Are you seeing signs of destruction in your garden? Curling leaves and flowers, something eating your fruits and vegetables, plants and leaves not thriving? It could be the army of pests just waiting to feast on all of your hard work! Mountain Gardener Ken Lain shares all of the hungry pests wreaking havoc on your garden – aphids, thrips, worms, squash bugs, and more. But the good news is that Ken has the answers to solve your pest problems so your garden will thrive again!
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Friday Jun 20, 2025
🌳 Top 10 Trees for Fast Shade in the Backyard
Friday Jun 20, 2025
Friday Jun 20, 2025
In Arizona’s sometimes brutal heat, great shade trees can make your yard a comforting oasis. If you’ve moved to a new or different home, or you’d like to have more shade in your landscape, Mountain Gardener Ken Lain tells us the best quickly growing shade trees and how to plant and care for them.
🌺Ken Lain, The Mountain Gardener
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Thursday Jun 19, 2025
🌺 Top 10 Shrubs for Summer Sizzling Fragrance
Thursday Jun 19, 2025
Thursday Jun 19, 2025
If you love sitting in your garden and enjoying the fruits of your labors, why not add more color and fragrance to the landscape? Mountain Gardener Ken Lain shares the top 10 shrubs that add spectacular color and fragrance to your garden!
🌺Ken & Lisa Lain, the Mountain Gardeners
Not already a Garden Club Member? Click Below to Join and be notified of Plant Preorders and other Special Offers!
https://wattersgardencenter.com/pages/garden-care-advantages
#WattersGardenCenter, #GardeningTips, #TheMountainGardener, #KenLain, #FloweringShrubs, #FragrantShrubs, #Butterflies, #SummerBloomingShrubs, #Bees