Episodes

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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🌹Ken & Lisa Lain, The Mountain Gardeners
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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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🥕Ken Lain, The Mountain Gardener
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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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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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Monday May 26, 2025
🌺How to Grow Crepe Myrtle and More for Bright Summer Color
Monday May 26, 2025
Monday May 26, 2025
Mountain Gardener Ken Lain gives us the inside scoop this week on the beautiful Crepe Myrtle. This hardy, drought resistant shrub is beginning to leaf out, getting ready for a great summer show! Learn about the new Crepe Myrtle with beautiful dark foliage that will set off summer blooms to perfection, and the dwarf Crepe Myrtles for smaller spaces.
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Sunday May 25, 2025
Sunday May 25, 2025
🎙️Welcome to Episode 25 – 20 of The Mountain Gardener Podcast with Ken and Lisa Lain!
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:
🌲 Evergreens for Privacy to Screen Prying Eyes
🍅 Garden Q & A With Ken & Lisa Lain: Growing Terrific Tomatoes
🪻 How to Grow Butterfly Bush for more Pollinators
🦋 Fragrant Flowers that Attract Hummingbirds and Butterflies
🎥 Interview with Bill Jones – Hi-Yield Turf Ranger
🌻 What’s Pretty for This Weekend’s Gardening
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Saturday May 24, 2025
🌻What’s Pretty for This Weekend’s Gardening
Saturday May 24, 2025
Saturday May 24, 2025
Come take a walk through the Garden Center with Mountain Gardener Ken Lain and find out what’s just waiting for you to take home to your garden this weekend! From Purple Fountain Grass to spectacular Cannas, stunning Mandevilla, colorful Portulaca, and so much more, Ken will have you hurrying in to find your weekend garden treasure!
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Friday May 23, 2025
🎥 Interview with Bill Jones - Hi Yield Turf Ranger
Friday May 23, 2025
Friday May 23, 2025
Bill Jones with Fertilome joins us today to talk about Hi Yield products that will make your gardening and landscaping easier. Hi-Yield offers products such as Turf Ranger that will help you control insects such as grasshoppers before they destroy your landscape, and Turf & Ornamental Weed & Grass Stopper that can keep weeds and grass seeds from taking over your rock and stone landscaping. These products are safe for pets if applied correctly.
🌺Ken Lain, The Mountain Gardener
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Thursday May 22, 2025
🦋Fragrant Flowers that Attract Hummingbirds and Butterflies
Thursday May 22, 2025
Thursday May 22, 2025
🦋Fragrant Flowers that Attract Hummingbirds and Butterflies
There’s nothing more satisfying than a spring, summer & fall garden full of fragrant non-stop, colorful blooms that attract hummingbirds and butterflies! Ken and Lisa Lain tell us the best perennials and annuals that will fill your garden with wonderful scents, and bring hummingbirds and butterflies all season long.
🌺Ken & Lisa Lain, the Mountain Gardeners
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Wednesday May 21, 2025
🪻How to Grow Butterfly Bush for more Pollinators
Wednesday May 21, 2025
Wednesday May 21, 2025
Do you love to see butterflies and bees in your garden? Butterfly Bush is one of the best ways to attract pollinators. Learn from Mountain Gardener Ken Lain the best butterfly bushes for our climate, the best soils, fertilizer, and watering practices to grow these beautiful bushes and attract more pollinators. Ken also tells us what exciting new varieties are available for your garden in 2025!
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