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Garden Gossip
garden and landscape radio
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July 2010
Garden Gossip, garden and landscape radioGARDEN GOSSIP - July 17 Join Nancy & Lisa, and special guest co-host Eddie Maldonado, on 'Garden Gossip', Big Blend Radio's home and garden show. Featured guests include: Doreen Pollack 'Garden Goddess' - Down 2 Earth Gardens in Phoenix, AZ will discuss Three Sisters Monsoon Garden; and Dave Jarzynka - President of Briggs Nursery, will talk about their new Pink Lemonade Blueberry Plants and more! Show Airs Live from at 10:50am PT / 2:50pm ET.  Click here to Listen!


Garden Gossip, garden and landscape radioGARDEN GOSSIP - July 12: Join Nancy & Lisa, and plus special guest co-host business coach Therese Skelly, on 'Garden Gossip', Big Blend Radio's home and garden show. Featured guests include Alice Collins - The Liquid Fence Company; plus landscape designer Rick Laughlin who will talk about Water Gardens. Show Airs Live from at 10:45am PT / 1:45pm ET. Click Here to Listen!

 

Garden Gossip, garden and landscape radio

GARDEN GOSSIP - July 10: Join Nancy & Lisa, and special guest co-host HGTV Carpenter Russ Hemmis, on 'Garden Gossip', Big Blend Radio's home and garden show. Featured guests: Regina Leeds 'The Zen Organizer'; Laurie Hallihan - Insurance Specialist; Corena Lea Kessel - Interior Designer; Mike Rimland 'Plant Hunter' - Costa Farms; Mark Highland - Organic Mechanics Soil Company; Don Rosenberg - author 'No Green Thumb Required! Organic Family Gardening Made Easy'. Show Airs Live from at 10am PT / 1pm ET. Click Here to Listen!

June 2010
Garden Gossip, garden and landscape radioGARDEN GOSSIP - June 28: Join Nancy & Lisa on 'Garden Gossip', Big Blend Radio's home and garden show, with special guest Aaron Lubeck who will discuss his book 'Green Restorations: Sustainable Building & Historic Homes'. Show Airs Live from at 10am  PT / 1pm ET. Click Here to Listen!

 

Garden Gossip, garden and landscape radioGARDEN GOSSIP - June 26: Join Nancy & Lisa on 'Garden Gossip', Big Blend Radio's home and garden show, with special guest Don Rosenberg - author 'No Green Thumb Required! Organic Family Gardening Made Easy', who will discuss Composting. Show Airs Live from at 11am  PT / 2pm ET. Click Here to Listen!

 

Garden Gossip, garden and landscape radioGARDEN GOSSIP - June 12: Join Nancy & Lisa on 'Garden Gossip', Big Blend Radio's home and garden show. Special Guests include: HGTV Carpenters Russ Hemmis & Marcus Hunt; Regina Leeds 'The Zen Organizer'; Corena Lea Kessel - Interior Designer; W. Gary Smith - APLD, Landscape Designer; Doreen Pollack 'The Garden Goddess' Down 2 Earth Gardens; Mike Rimland 'Plant Hunter' - Costa Farms; Mark Highland - Organic Mechanics Soil Company. Show airs live on Saturday, June 12, from 10am PT / 1pm ET. Click Here to Listen!

May 2010

Garden Gossip, garden and landscape radioGARDEN GOSSIP - May 15: Join Nancy & Lisa on 'Garden Gossip', Big Blend Radio's home and garden show. Special Guests include: HGTV Carpenters Russ Hemmis & Marcus Hunt; Regina Leeds 'The Zen Organizer'; Mike Rimland - Costa Farms; Barbara Scheer - Jaz Rose Spray; Rick Laughlin - APLD, Laughlin Design Associates; Don Rosenberg - Author of “No Green Thumb Required! Organic Family Gardening Made Easy; Dave Jarzynka - Briggs Nursery; Bobby Blew - Centerton Nursery; and Mark Highland - Organic Mechanics Soil Company. Show Airs Live on May 15, 2010 at 10am PT / 1pm ET. Click Here to Listen To the entire show!

April 2010

Garden Gossip, garden and landscape radioGARDEN GOSSIP - April 10: Join Nancy & Lisa on 'Garden Gossip', Big Blend Radio's home and garden show. Special Guests include: Doreen Pollack 'The Garden Goddess'; Steve Castorani - American Beauties Native Plants; Bobby Blew - Centerton Nursery; Jane Messinger - The Liquid Fence Company; Mark Highland - Organic Mechanics Soil Company; HGTV Carpenters Russ Hemmis & Marcus Hunt 'Team Two Times'; Corena Lea Kessel - Interior Designer; Laura Klein 'The Queen of Green'; Mike Rimland - Costa Farms; and Regina Leeds 'The Zen Organizer'. Show Airs Live on April 10 at 10am PT / 1pm ET.

March 2010

Garden Gossip, garden and landscape radioGarden Gossip - March 13: Join Nancy & Lisa on 'Garden Gossip', Big Blend Radio's home and garden show. Special Guests include: HGTV Carpenters Russ Hemmis & Marcus Hunt 'Team Two Times'; Corena Lea Kessel - Interior Designer; Jacques Ferare - Star Roses & Conrad-Pyle Co. Roses; Dave Jarzynka - Briggs Nursery; Mike Rimland - Costa Farms; Bobby Blew - Centerton Nursery; Margaret Grace - Award winning Landscape Designer; and George Sutton - Sutton's Iris Gardens. Show Airs Live on March 13 at 10am PT / 1pm ET. Click Here to Listen Live!

February 2010

Garden Gossip, garden and landscape radioGarden Gossip 'DIY Home Improvement, Organizing & Gardening' - Feb. 6:  Join Nancy & Lisa on 'Garden Gossip', Big Blend Radio's home and garden show. Special Guests include: HGTV Carpenters Russ Hemmis & Marcus Hunt 'Team Two Times'; Regina Leeds - 'The Zen Organizer' & Author of 'One Year to an Organized Life' series; Matt Freund - CowPots Biodegradable & Green Growing Pots; Don Rosenberg - Author of “No Green Thumb Required! Organic Family Gardening Made Easy"; Doreen Pollack 'The Garden Goddess' Down 2 Earth Gardens; Dr. David Francko - Botanist & Lead developer of FreezePruf; Susan L. Cohan - Award-winning Landscape Designer, Susan Cohan Gardens; and Bobby Blew 'The Daylily & Plant Dude' Centerton Nursery. Show Airs Live on Feb. 6 at 10am PT / 1pm ET.
 

January 2010
Garden Gossip, garden and landscape radioGarden Gossip - Jan. 9: Join Nancy & Lisa on 'Garden Gossip', Big Blend Radio's home and garden show. Special Guests include: HGTV Carpenters Russ Hemmis & Marcus Hunt 'Team Two Times'; Regina Leeds - 'The Zen Organizer'; Corena Lea Kessel - Interior Designer; Don Rosenberg – Organic Gardening Guru; Danilo P. "Dan" Maffei, PCH - Landscape Designer; and Bobby Blew - Centerton Nursery. Show Airs Live on Jan. 9 at 9:30am PT / 12:30pm ET. Meet Our Guests & Listen Live!
 

December 2009

Garden Gossip, garden and landscape radioGarden Gossip home & garden radio - Dec. 12: Join Nancy and Lisa on Big Blend Radio's 'Garden Gossip' home and garden show. Special Guests include Corena Lea Kessel - Interior Designer & President of Design Wise in San Diego, CA; Matt Freund - CowPots Biodegradable & Green Growing Pots from The Liquid Fence Company; Doreen Pollack 'The Garden Goddess' - Owner of Down 2 Earth Gardens garden consulting company in Phoenix, AZ; and Susan L. Cohan - award winning Landscape Designer & Owner of Susan Cohan Gardens in Chatham, NJ. Show airs live at 10am PT / 1pm ET. Click Here to Listen Live!

November 2009
Garden Gossip, garden and landscape radioGarden Gossip home & garden radio - Nov. 14: Join Nancy and Lisa on Big Blend Radio's 'Garden Gossip' home and garden show. Peter Cilio - VP & Creative Director of Campania International; Corena Lea Kessel - Interior Designer & President of Design Wise in San Diego; Don Rosenberg – Author of ‘No Green Thumb Required! Organic Family Gardening Made Easy’; and Josh Juhasz - VP of BioChar Brokers. Show airs live at 10am PT / 1pm ET.

 

October 2009
Garden Gossip, garden and landscape radioGarden Gossip home & garden radio - Oct. 20: Join Nancy and Lisa on Big Blend Radio's 'Garden Gossip' home and garden show. Special guests include: Laura Klein - 'The Queen of Green' & Publisher of OrganicAuthority.com; Tracy DiSabto-Aust - Garden Design Guru & Best-selling Garden Author; Margaret Grace - Award winning Landscape Designer & Licensed Landscape Contractor; and Doreen Pollack 'The Garden Goddess' and owner of Down 2 Earth Gardens. Show airs live at 4pm PT / 7pm ET. Meet Our Guests & Listen In!
 

Garden Gossip, garden and landscape radioGarden Gossip - Oct. 10: Join Nancy and Lisa on Big Blend radio's 'Garden Gossip' home and garden show. Special guests include:  Mike Rimland - Research Director for Costa Farms; Wendy Talaro - Sustainability Integration Specialist & Ecological Landscape Designer of Fruits to Nuts. Show airs live from 10am PT / 1pm ET. 

 

August 2009
Green Home Improvement
Join Nancy & Lisa on Garden Gossip home & garden radio and find out how to Recycle, Refurbish & Rethink Home Improvement with Jared Walker Dostie - Carpenter on HGTV's 'Rate My Space,' and Lorenz Schilling - Founder of Deconstruction & Building Materials ReUse Network, Inc.

June 2009
Garden Gossip Radio – June 30: Join Nancy & Lisa and listen to our readers gardening questions being answered by Big Blend Garden Gurus: Don Rosenberg - Author of “No Green Thumb Required! Organic Family Gardening Made Easy"; Doreen Pollack 'The Garden Goddess' & owner of Down 2 Earth Gardens; Wendy Talaro - Sustainability Integration Specialist, Ecological Landscape Designer & Consultant of Fruits to Nuts. Other special guests include Dennis Frommeyer - inventor of 'The Pruning Partner'; and Anne Spafford & Helen Kraus - authors of 'Rain Gardening in the South: Ecologically Designed Gardens for Drought, Deluge & Everything in Between'.

DIY 101 with HGTV Hosts & Carpenters – June 6: Join hosts Nancy & Lisa (BigBlendMagazine.com editors) as they chat with Hunky HGTV hosts and carpenters 'Team Two Times' - Marcus Hunt & Russ Hemmis. Marcus Hunt is the carpenter and host on HGTV shows ‘Hammer Heads’ & ‘Designed to Sell’, and Russ Hemmis is the carpenter and host on HGTV shows ’24 Hour Design’ & ‘Design on a Dime’. Click Here to Listen!

 

April 2009
GARDEN GOSSIP RADIO: Roses, Daylilies, Veggies & Container Plants – Apr. 11!
Join Nancy & Lisa (BigBlendMagazine.com Editors) and their Garden Guru guests including Jacques Ferare – Star Roses & Conrad-Pyle Co. Roses; Bobby Blew Family - Centerton Nursery Daylilies; Don Rosenberg – Author of ‘No Green Thumb Required! Organic Family Gardening Made Easy’; Lisa Singer – Inventor of Backyard Botanicals Vegetable Garden Kits; Mark Highland – President of Organic Mechanics Soil Company; and Anne Lighter – Dirty Little Cover-Up Container Plant Protectors. Show airs live on Apr. 11 at 10am PT.
 

March 2009
Organic, Eco & Earth-Friendly Home & Garden – March 21: Join hosts Nancy & Lisa (BigBlendMagazine.com Editors) on Garden Gossip home & garden online radio on March 20 (show starts at 10am PST). Special guests include hunky HGTV Carpenters Russ Hemmis & Marcus Hunt; Don Rosenburg - Author of “No Green Thumb Required! Organic Family Gardening Made Easy"; Laurie Broccolo - Broccolo Tree & Lawn Care; Wendy Talaro - Ecological Designer & Owner of Fruits to Nuts; Rich Sherman - Horticulturist at Myrtle Creek Nursery in Fallbrook, CA; and Nature's Touch Organic Fertilizer.

March 3, Garden Gossip with hosts Nancy & Lisa (BigBlendMagazine.com Editors) as they discuss Eminent Domain with Jeff Benedict – one of America's top investigative journalists, and author of ‘A Little Pink House: A True Story of Defiance and Courage’. On a lighter note, we'll learn how to create a bird & butterfly garden with Steve Castorani – co-creator of the American Beauties Native Plant® brand, plus David Mizejewski - naturalist, author & representative for the National Wildlfe Federation; Garden Design Guru & Best-selling Garden Author - Tracy DiSabato-Aust; and 'Southwest Garden Goddess' - Doreen Pollack of Down 2 Earth Gardens. This show aired live on March 3, 2009.

February 2009
HGTV Carpenters DIY Tips & Creating a Backyard Habitat - Join hosts Nancy & Lisa (BigBlendMagazine.com editors) as they get DIY tips from Hunky HGTV carpenters 'Team Two Times' - Marcus Hunt & Russ Hemmis, and 'The Junk Hunk' - Jared Walker Dostie. Learn how to create a Backyard Habitat to attract birds, bats & butterflies, with special guests: Richard Weddle - Liberty Science Center, NJ; Susanna Reppert-Brill - The Rosemary House, PA; and Betty Pillsbury - Green Spiral Herbs, NY. Show aired live on Feb. 21, from 10am-Noon PST.

January 2009
Gardening, Organizing & DIY Tile Projects!
Join hosts Nancy J. Reid & Lisa D. Smith (BigBlendMagazine.com Editors) for ‘Garden Gossip’ home & garden radio on Saturday, Jan. 24th. Special Guests – Tiling Tips with 'Team Two Times' HGTV carpenters Russ Hemmis & Marcus Hunt; Zen Organizing with Regina Leeds - author of NY Times Best Seller 'One Year to an Organized Life'; High-Impact & Low Care Plants with Best Selling garden writer Tracy DiSabato-Aust; the World’s Largest Garden Party with Brent Ridge & Josh Kilmer-Purcell from Beekman 1802 Farm; and Roses with Rich Sherman the Horticulturist at Myrtle Creek Nursery.
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October 31, 2008 from 2 pm – 4pm Pacific Time
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To Learn More and listen to our Featured Guests – Click on Their Names:
Join hosts Nancy & Lisa, editors of Big Blend Magazine and special guests including Marcus Hunt, carpenter on HGTV’s “Hammer Heads"; Russ Hemmis, carpenter on HGTV’s - “24 Hour Design” and “Design on a Dime”;
Team Times Two
Rich Sherman – Myrtle Creek Nursery, Fallbrook CA 
Baker Morrow – Landscape Architect & Author ‘Best Plants for
New Mexico Gardens & Landscapes’ 
Vanessa Troyer - Architectural Mailboxes

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