Gardening with the Gardiners

Hosts Matt and Hope return from a 12-day family trip to Ireland and begin a multi-episode travelogue focused on gardens, landscape design, history, and local brewing traditions. They share highlights from Dublin’s Guinness Storehouse, the terraced majesty of Powerscourt Estate, Kilkenny Castle, and the Smithwick’s brewery.
The episode blends horticultural observations—big hydrangeas, formal terraces, walled gardens, and arboreal specimens—with cultural notes on Irish water, barley, yeast, and the art of pouring a perfect pint, plus reflections on weather, wildfires, and family travel logistics.
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In this Episode of Gardening with the Gardiners, Matt and Hope Gardiner, discuss creating butterfly gardens. They cover choosing the right site (full sun and wind protection), providing host plants for caterpillars (parsley, dill, fennel, milkweed), nectar plants (zinnias, coneflowers, lantana, bee balm), and supporting the full life cycle with puddling spots, shelter, and year-round bloom. The episode also touches on local conservation programs, monarch waystations, common regional butterfly species, and practical tips for integrating butterfly habitats into home gardens.  Learn how to attract these wonderful and beneficial insects to your garden!
 
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Be ready for July's Heat and all of the potential pest problems that can plague your garden.  In this episode Hope and Matt discuss Bagworms, Japanese Beetles, Aphids, Spider Mites, Scale and more.  We are here to arm you with the knowledge to protect your garden from these damaging creatures!!
 
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Do you want Heavenly Hydrangeas?  Then this is the show for you.   In this episode Hope and Matt discuss all you need to know about one of the Queen's of the flowering shrubs, THE HYDRANGEA!  We discuss the history and origins, Hydrangea plant and flower types, popular varieties, how and where to plant them, pest and disease and more!  From Mopheads, to Oakleafs, to Panicles and more come discover why no garden is perfect without several Hydrangeas in it! 
 
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In this episode Hope and Matt give a farm/ spring update.  Instead of the usual format of one main topic, they discuss many tips and action items for the garden/ landscape right now.  From Garlic (an update from episode 4) to deadheading, watering, bagworms, a great new plant for your garden and much more!  All that after an action packed and funny farm update.  
 
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Strawberries!   In this episode Hope and Matt discuss all you need to know about many people's favorite fruit, the Strawberry!  We discuss the history and origins, strawberry types, popular varieties, how and where to plant them, propagation, pest and disease and more!  Listen in to get your spring strawberry crop growing and producing these delicious fruits for your family.  
 
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The Perfect Peony Podcast.  In this episode Hope and Matt discuss all you need to know about one of the most perfect flowers, the Peony!  We discuss the history and origins, peony plant and flower types, popular varieties, how and where to plant them, propagation, pest and disease and more!  Come discover why no garden is perfect without at least some Peonies in it!  
 
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Conquer your Garden this spring by dividing, perennials that is.  In this episode Hope and Matt discuss all you need to know about how to divide perennial flowers to increase plant health, vigor, blooms and most importantly make more plants, for FREE!  
 
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In this episode Hope and Matt continue to discuss all things Spring in the garden with a focus on Spring Ephemerals.  Those beautiful, fleeting gems of the woodland spring garden.  

In this episode hope and Matt discuss tips for spring cleanups of your garden and your landscape. What to do to get the garden ready for spring and have your Landscape and Garden looking its best this year.   Get a head start on the season with pruning and trimming, weeding, edging, fertilizing, mulching, and more.