Flower Power Garden Hour

Musings with people in the world of gardening, botany, horticulture and nature. Marlene takes her years of gardening experience, success and failures and turns it into an unpretentious, humorous listen. From organic vegetable gardening, houseplants, bee keeping, flowers, and everything in between -- this podcast covers it.

FPGH 227: February To Do List 02/08/2026

FPGH 226: Top 10 Easiest Houseplants To Grow 01/31/2026

FPGH 225: Welwitschia, with Gianluca Bacci of rareplantcatalog.com 01/25/2026

FPGH 224: January To Do List & Listener Q&A 12/31/2025

FPGH.223: Holiday Plants 12/21/2025

FPGH 222: December To Do & Listener Q&A 12/08/2025

FPGH 220: Brendan Wilce, of the California Native Plant Society 12/06/2025

FPGH 219: Between Two Shrubs, with Shelley & Christy 11/03/2025

Flower Power Garden Hour 218: October To Do List and Listener Q & A 10/15/2025

FPGH 217: Kayden Rsenbauer of the Sacramento Tree Foundation 10/01/2025

Flower Power Garden Hour 216: All about Staghorn Ferns 09/10/2025

FPGH 215: September Garden To-Do’s and Q & A 09/03/2025

FPGH 214: Top 10 Drought Tolerant Plants for a Tropical Look 08/31/2025

Flower Power Garden Hour 213: Farmer Fred Hoffman of Garden Basics 08/23/2025

Flower Power Garden Hour 212: August To Do List & Listener Q&A 08/09/2025

Flower Power Garden Hour 211: Creating a cool (heat-wise) yard, with Cheryl Buckwalter 07/31/2025

Flower Power Garden Hour 210: Top 10 Money Wasters 07/10/2025

Flower Power Garden Hour 209: Flowers, with Amber Villarreal of Redhead Flowerbed 07/04/2025

Flower Power Garden Hour 208: July To Do List 07/01/2025

Flower Power Garden Hour 207: June To Do List 06/13/2025

Flower Power Garden Hour 208: Flowers, with Amber Villarreal of Redhead Flowerbed 06/13/2025

Flower Power Garden Hour 206: Purple tomato development with Norfolk Healthy Produce 03/15/2025

Flower Power Garden Hour 205: Peaches and Nectarines with Ed Laivo of @ed_able_solutions 03/07/2025

Flower Power Garden Hour 204: March To Do List 03/01/2025

FPGH 203: Anthony Dal Ben, Be Water Smart #summerstrong competition 11/05/2024

FPGH 202: Elaine Fitzgerald, Be Water Smart #summerstrong competition 10/27/2024

Flower Power Garden Hour 201: Janelle Auyeung, Be Water Smart #summerstrong competition 10/19/2024

FPGH 200: September To Do, Listener Q&A 09/18/2024

FPGH 200: September To Do, Listener Q&A It is the September To Do List – believe it or not, we are in full Fall prep time. Lots of cool weather vegetables to start planting, and tons of clean up and pruning. It was quite a hot summer and time may have been sparse in the garden, but it’s time to get the gloves on and get to work. Episode includes Listener Q&A. It is time to plant: Beets (seeds or plants) Bok choy (seeds or plants) Broccoli (plants) Brussel sprouts Cabbage (seeds or plants) Carrots (seeds) Cauliflower (plants) Celery Collards/Swiss chard (seeds or plants) Kale (seeds or plants) Kohlrabi (seeds or plants) Garlic Leek Lettuce (seeds or plants) Onion sets Peas (seeds or plants) Radish/radicchio/daikon/turnips Spinach Natives, Perennials, citrus – towards the end of September when it cools down Chores include: Transplant/divide irises, grasses, tuberous plants Buy bulbs Collect seeds Clean up – pull out vegetables which are done, fallen fruit Prune lavender, hydrangeas Pests – whiteflies may be setting in…..keep an eye on Listener Q&A section. Topics covered include: Aloe – odd white material on the soil underneath? Morning glory – how to get rid of invasive overgrowth? Century plant – now that it is blooming, how to care for? Fiddle leaf fig – how to prune? Tomato – can cuttings be taken for next year? Help support feral cat rescue/spay-neuter/finding good homes by contributing at To ask questions for future shows, submit them at: email Marlene at Find Marlene over on , and /episode/index/show/flowerpowergardenhour/id/33103582

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