Bloomers in the Garden•2.22.25•Veggies By Seed?•Hellebore•Winter Pruning• Hotline Mice Caller & More!
Release Date: 02/20/2025
06/21/25 "No-See-Ums" Cucumber Beetle & Sothern Magnolias
Bloomers in the Garden
1: See the Damage but you can’t find the Insects! No See Em’s we’ll bring them in to focus! 2: If you see how an insect feeds you will know how to control it! 3: Southern Magnolias are a beautiful versatile Flowering Evergreen Tree! 4: So what’s buggin you?? Cucumber beetles! 5: Professor Steve called the Hotline with some inside information we’d like to share with all of you.
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Is It Too Late To Plant Trees & Shrubs? • Vincent's Iris Hotline Call • Caterpillar Candy • Privet Poison • What's Buggin U?!? Deer!!! & More!
Bloomers in the Garden
Is It Too Late To Plant Trees & Shrubs? • Vincent's Iris Hotline Call • Caterpillar Candy • Privet Poison • What's Buggin U?!? Deer!!! & More! 1. Can You Still Plant Trees & Shrubs? That Question drives me Crazy! Find out why in our 1st segment! 2. Vincent from Paramus called the Bloomers in the Garden Hotline and his Iris' didn’t Bloom this year. Hear all about Iris in our 2nd segment! 3. We always talk about pollinator and Butterfly Gardens which focuses on the flowers! Centerton Nursery thought this through and developed a line of plants to feed caterpillars called...
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Bloomers in the Garden • 6.7.25 • Tom’s Potted Hydrangea Question • Doug’s Neighbor has Browning Holly Hedge • Weeds Gone Wild • Water Garden Plants • Sounding the Alarm On Bagworms!! & More!
Bloomers in the Garden
Bloomers in the Garden • 6.7.25 • Tom’s Potted Hydrangea Question • Doug’s Neighbor has Browning Holly Hedge • Weeds Gone Wild • Water Garden Plants • Sounding the Alarm On Bagworms!! & More! 1. Tom emailed us about planting a Hydrangea in a container! We’ll explain the does & don’ts in our 1st segment! 2. In our 2nd segment! Doug from Bristol, PA sent a picture of his neighbor's browning Japanese Hollies! Hear what’s happening in our 2nd segment. 3. Weeds have gone crazy in the last few weeks!! We have solutions to control your “Weeds Gone Wild” in our 3rd...
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Bloomers in the Garden • 5.31.25 • What's a Pollinator? • Deep Dive on Butterflies • Beloved Busy Bees • Native Plants • Best Practices for Pollinators
Bloomers in the Garden
Bloomers in the Garden • 5.31.25 • What's a Pollinator? • Deep Dive on Butterflies • Beloved Busy Bees • Native Plants • Best Practices for Pollinators 1. June is National Pollinator’s Month!! Have you ever wondered what the heck a pollinator is? That’s what our 1st segment is all about!! 2. Butterflies are the most popular of the Garden Pollinators. It’s a strange Dichotomy because those same butterflies pollinating your plants start off as caterpillars that eat your plants. We’ll take a deep dive into what came 1st…the caterpillars or the butterfly in our 2nd segment!!...
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Bloomers in the Garden • 5.24.25 • Rhododendron Care (Hotline Call & Email) • Attracting Hummingbirds to Your Yard • Mushrooms In Your Lawn • and More!
Bloomers in the Garden
Bloomers in the Garden • 5.24.25 • Rhododendron Care (Hotline Call & Email) • Attracting Hummingbirds to Your Yard • Mushrooms In Your Lawn • and More! 1. It seems to be Rhododendron Week! PJMs and Azaleas have dropped most of their blossoms! Rhododendrons are gloriously blooming. In our first segment we’re going to tell you how to care for these spectacular landscape plants! 2. Kurt and his wife listen to Bloomers in the Garden and they sent us an email about their Rhododendron having browned out branches. That will be next up in our second segment! 3. Hummingbirds are fun and...
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Bloomers in the Garden • 5.17.25 • Buy Insecticide when You Buy These Plants • Types of Roses & Placement • Feeding Your Roses • Cutting Garden Plants • What’s Buggin’ U?!? Ticks! • and More!
Bloomers in the Garden
1. I’ve always wanted to do a segment about when you buy these particular plants…just buy the insecticide for disease control with it at the same time! In our first segment I’m telling you not to Avoid these popular plants! Just know you will need to keep them sprayed in order to keep them looking their best!! 2. Our 2nd Segment is the first part of a two part rose segment. First up we're going to discuss the different types of roses and where they should be used! 3. Next up in our third segment is how roses should be fed and pampered. It’s not hard, it's just easier if you go in...
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BITG 5.10.25 • Properly Watering Your Mother's Day Gifts • DIY Custom Combos • Flowering Patio Tropicals • Getting Rid of Poison Ivy • Hotline Text About A Non-Blooming PJM Rhododendron
Bloomers in the Garden
BITG 5.10.25 • Properly Watering Your Mother's Day Gifts • DIY Custom Combos • Flowering Patio Tropicals • Getting Rid of Poison Ivy • Hotline Text About A Non-Blooming PJM Rhododendron 1. It’s Mother’s Day weekend and there are a lot of combination pots and hanging baskets being given as gifts. Watering correctly is life and death to these beautiful gifts…Listen in on how to care for these beauties during our 1st Segment! 2. How about you plant a real custom Combination Pot, one of your own design? We’ll explain how in our second segment! 3. Patio Tropical Plants are...
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BITG 5.3.25 • The Vegetable Garden Show!!! • By Plant or By Seed? • Soil Prep • Feeding Your Baby Veggies • Placement and Staking • Controlling Disease and Insects • & More!
Bloomers in the Garden
BITG 5.3.25 • The Vegetable Garden Show!!! • By Plant or By Seed? • Soil Prep • Feeding Your Baby Veggies • Placement and Staking • Controlling Disease and Insects • & More! Philadelphia, South Jersey, & Delaware Valley Saturdays at 8am 860am | WWDB-AM Saturday at 6am & 5pm | 93.5FM & 1540am WNWR "The Word".... NYC Tri-State Area Sundays at 8am | 1250 AM "Classic Oldies" WMTR Bloomers in the Garden helps you and your neighbors have more beautiful yards, gardens and landscapes. Len is your “go-to” source for practical information, solid “local” advice...
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Bloomers in the Garden • 4.26.25 Dwarf Korean Lilacs • How Hot is Hot? The Scoville Scale & Peppers • Plant Jargon • Blossom End Rot & Tomatoes • What's Buggin' U? Chinch Bugs • & More!
Bloomers in the Garden
Bloomers in the Garden • 4.26.25 • Dwarf Korean Lilacs • How Hot is Hot? The Scoville Scale & Peppers • Plant Jargon • Blossom End Rot & Tomatoes • What's Buggin' U? Chinch Bugs • & More! Philadelphia, South Jersey, & Delaware Valley Saturdays at 8am 860am | WWDB-AM Saturday at 6am & 5pm | 93.5FM & 1540am WNWR "The Word".... NYC Tri-State Area Sundays at 8am | 1250 AM "Classic Oldies" WMTR Bloomers in the Garden helps you and your neighbors have more beautiful yards, gardens and landscapes. Len is your “go-to” source for practical information, solid...
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Bloomers in the Garden • 4.19.25 • Too Late for Crabgrass Preventer? • Dandelions are Popping Up! • Azaleas in Your Landscape • Hotline Text About Planting Seeds in Soil • Caller Prof. Steve in the Garden • & More!
Bloomers in the Garden
1. The forsythia are finishing up blooming. Are you wondering if it’s too late to put down a Crabgrass Preventer?! We’ll give you the answer in our 1st Segment! 2. Have you seen yellow blooms thru your lawn? Dandelions!! Where there’s one you can expect hundreds to move in. We’ll explain the best way to control Dandelions and other broadleaved weeds in our 2nd segment!! 3. Azaleas are coming into full bloom right now. There is a reason why you should plant Azaleas in your landscape! We’ll discuss the benefits of this most beautiful landscape plant In our...
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- We’re spending Todays Show in the Vegetable Garden! Wondering what vegetables you should start from seed, and what vegetables you should buy as plants? We’ll have the answers in our 1st segment.
- In our second segment I’ll tell you which vegetables you should just sow directly in the ground!
- One of the earliest flowering plants is the Hellebore. It is an old perennial variety known by your grandparents as the Lenten Rose! What’s Old is NEW again thanks to new varieties! We’ll introduce you to this old perennial with a new birth in our 3rd segment!
- It’s time to make Summer Flowers by Winter Pruning. Not everything should be pruned! We’ll give you the guidelines what to winter prune for summer bouquets in our 4th segment.
- Lorraine is a listener who called the Bloomers in the Garden Hotline. She was listening to our segment on mice. She didn’t catch the product we mentioned. We’ll share her call and the information in our final segment!
Philadelphia, South Jersey, & Delaware Valley
Saturdays at 8am 860am | WWDB-AM
Saturday at 6am & 5pm |93.5FM & 1540am WNWR "The Word"....
NYC Tri-State Area
Sundays at 8am 1250 AM "Classic Oldies" WMTR
Bloomers in the Garden helps you and your neighbors have more beautiful yards, gardens and landscapes. Len is your “go-to” source for practical information, solid “local” advice that applies to the Delaware Valley. Learn about products and plants you can pronounce that are available at local Independent Garden Centers. Get inspired and confident to try new things, building on our past successful recommendations. Len Schroeder has a rich family heritage of horticulture dating back over 100 years. His own experience spans over 30 years as Owner of Bloomers Home & Garden Center.
Bloomers is a Retail Garden Center that caters to the home gardener and the do-it-yourself landscaper. Bloomers prides itself on its staff training. We translate the often confusing gardening information into easy to understand, executable tasks. Len brings a professional lifetime of sorting out plants and products that work when customers get them home. Have a question for us or a topic you like us to discuss? Have a question for us or a topic you like us to discuss? Call the Bloomer’s Garden Hotline” at (609)685-1880 to leave your question, your name and the town you’re from! You can also write to [email protected] ....