Episodes
Tuesday Jun 10, 2025
🌸 Q and A: Top 10 Perennial Groundcovers for Hillsides
Tuesday Jun 10, 2025
Tuesday Jun 10, 2025
Hillsides present a challenge to gardeners – watering is more difficult and finding the right groundcover that you don’t have to replace every year can be tough. Mountain Gardeners Ken and Lisa Lain talk about the top 10 perennials that can solve this landscape dilemma, and answer more garden questions from local gardeners in this week’s edition!
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🌹Ken & Lisa Lain, The Mountain Gardeners
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Monday Jun 09, 2025
🍅 How to Prevent Soil Sunburn while Promoting more Tomatoes and Peppers
Monday Jun 09, 2025
Monday Jun 09, 2025
One of summer’s greatest pleasures is fresh, delicious tomatoes and peppers straight from your garden to your table. We’re always looking for ways to grow more and better tomatoes and peppers, and Mountain Gardener Ken Lain tells us the best ways to have the best yield of these summer garden staples that you’ve ever had!
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🥕Ken Lain, The Mountain Gardener
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Sunday Jun 08, 2025
Sunday Jun 08, 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 Plants that Attract more Butterflies into Gardens
🌳 Q and A: Fast Growing Shade Trees Make a Great Father’s Day Gift
🪴 How to Care for Garden Topiary Structures
🦋Summer Flowers that Bloom in Summer Sun & Attract Pollinators
🐝 Jim Rupe, Monrovia Growers, on pollinator gardens
🌻 Don’t Miss This Year’s Alta Vista Garden Club Tour!
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🎙️Ken & Lisa Lain, The Mountain Gardeners
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Saturday Jun 07, 2025
🌻 Don’t Miss This Year’s Alta Vista Garden Club Tour!
Saturday Jun 07, 2025
Saturday Jun 07, 2025
It only happens every two years, so save the date for the 2025 Alta Vista Garden Club Tour! You’ll have the opportunity to visit and tour four specially curated Prescott area gardens and see what other experienced gardeners are doing in their garden spaces. Find out about this exciting event and more garden wisdom today from Mountain Gardener Ken Lain!
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Friday Jun 06, 2025
🐝 Jim Rupe, Monrovia Growers, on pollinator gardens
Friday Jun 06, 2025
Friday Jun 06, 2025
Meet Jim Rupe of Monrovia Growers, who talks with Mountain Gardener Ken Lain about the importance of pollinator gardens to attract and feed our important bees, butterflies and hummingbirds. Whether it’s a pot of flowers on your deck or a garden full of flowers and blooming shrubs, Jim and Ken will talk about the best pollinator plants
🌺Ken Lain, The Mountain Gardener
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Thursday Jun 05, 2025
🐝 Summer Flowers that Bloom in Summer Sun & Attract Pollinators
Thursday Jun 05, 2025
Thursday Jun 05, 2025
One of the most frequent questions Mountain Gardeners Ken and Lisa Lain receive this time of year is “How can I attract more butterflies and hummingbirds?” Learn what flowers and plants are pollinator magnets, and how to plant to attract these “garden fairies” to your landscape!
🌺Ken & Lisa Lain, the Mountain Gardeners
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Wednesday Jun 04, 2025
🌳 How to Care for Garden Topiary Structures
Wednesday Jun 04, 2025
Wednesday Jun 04, 2025
If you are intrigued by those great shapes of trees and shrubs in landscapes, and think you might never be able to maintain one, you’ll be surprised how easy it is to care for them! Mountain Gardener Ken Lain reveals the secrets of caring for garden topiaries to add interest to your landscape! You’ll want to add a topiary to your garden this year!
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Tuesday Jun 03, 2025
🌳 Q and A: Fast Growing Shade Trees Make a Great Father’s Day Gift
Tuesday Jun 03, 2025
Tuesday Jun 03, 2025
What better gift is there for the father or father figure in your life than a fast-growing shade tree? This week, Ken and Lisa Lain answer your garden questions this week, with an emphasis on great Father’s Day gifts! Learn about fast growing trees that will thrive in the unique climate and soils of the Central Arizona highlands area.
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Monday Jun 02, 2025
🦋 Top 10 Plants that Attract more Butterflies into Gardens
Monday Jun 02, 2025
Monday Jun 02, 2025
Do you love colorful butterflies? Mountain Gardener Ken Lain tells us how to attract these jewels of the garden into your landscape. Get to know the most attractive perennials and annuals that will have butterflies flocking to your garden!
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Sunday Jun 01, 2025
Sunday Jun 01, 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:
🌺How to Grow Crepe Myrtle and More for Bright Summer Color
🍅Garden Q & A With Ken & Lisa Lain: Watering Wisdom and More!
🪴How Much Water Does a New Container Garden Need to be Healthy?
🌵Top 10 Cactus & Desert Agave for Mountain Gardens
🌳 Bright Blooming Shrubs in the Summer Garden this Year
🌸 Growing Hardy Gardenia for Garden Fragrance
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🎙️Ken & Lisa Lain, The Mountain Gardeners
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Saturday May 31, 2025
🌸 Growing Hardy Gardenia for Garden Fragrance
Saturday May 31, 2025
Saturday May 31, 2025
It’s hardy, you can grow it in containers, and it smells wonderful! What’s not to love? Mountain Gardener Ken Lain gives us all the details on Hardy Gardenia for your garden. Waxy, creamy white flowers show off against dark green leaves, and they love the summer heat! They’ll winter over and show off again next year!
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Friday May 30, 2025
🌳 Bright Blooming Shrubs in the Summer Garden this Year
Friday May 30, 2025
Friday May 30, 2025
Mountain Gardener Ken Lain shares blooming shrubs – these hardy varieties will accent your summer landscape with color and beauty, and best of all, come back next year! Learn what colorful shrubs are preparing to bloom right now to brighten your summer garden, and how to care for them. From honeysuckle to Rose of Sharon, Snowball Vine to Crepe Myrtle, there’s so much to choose from!
🌺Ken Lain, The Mountain Gardener
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Thursday May 29, 2025
🌵Top 10 Cactus & Desert Agave for Mountain Gardens
Thursday May 29, 2025
Thursday May 29, 2025
If you’re used to thinking cactus only grow in southern Arizona, we have some good news for you! Ken and Lisa Lain talk today about the Top 10 Cactus & Desert Agave varieties that thrive in our mountain gardens. Many cactus and agave blooms also draw butterflies and hummingbirds. These spectacular cactus and agaves will make you the envy of your neighborhood as they thrive and bloom, and add texture to your landscape!
🌺Ken & Lisa Lain, the Mountain Gardeners
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Wednesday May 28, 2025
🪴How Much Water Does a New Container Garden Need to be Healthy?
Wednesday May 28, 2025
Wednesday May 28, 2025
One of the best ways to have an easier, but still spectacular garden is to grow in containers. Raised gardens are kinder to your back and easier to plant, water, weed and feed. Once it’s planted, how much water is truly needed? Mountain Gardener Ken Lain, who loves to garden in containers, shares his knowledge on the best watering practices for your beautiful gardens.
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Tuesday May 27, 2025
🍅Garden Q & A With Ken & Lisa Lain: Watering Wisdom and More!
Tuesday May 27, 2025
Tuesday May 27, 2025
This week, Ken and Lisa Lain answer your gardening questions with a focus on watering – our soil in the Central Highlands is varied and challenging, and how you water can be the difference in whether your trees and plants thrive or struggle! Additionally, learn about grubs, those hungry little white things that like to eat your aspens, and oh no! those grasshoppers are already out and hungry! Learn how to control those hungry critters this summer.
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