Boston Flora

Tag: WRKO

  • Wednesday, August 3, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm – The Cocktail Hour Garden

    Join author C.L. Fornari for a short stroll through the gardens at Tower Hill on the evening of August 3rd, as she talks about the creation of a cocktail hour garden. Learn about great plants for your evening landscape, sip a beverage from the cash bar, and see or purchase C.L.’s new book, The Cocktail Hour Garden. Bring questions about your yard and garden to this celebration of “after hours” plants.

    C.L. Fornari is a creative plant geek who fell into garden communications in 1995. She is the author seven books including her latest, The Cocktail Hour Garden, published by St. Lynn’s Press. C.L. is the host of two radio programs on Saturdays, heard on WXTK and WRKO Boston. She speaks to audiences at horticultural trade shows, garden clubs, botanical gardens, master gardener symposiums, alumni/women’s groups and neighborhood associations. In addition to speaking, radio, and writing, C.L. blogs and runs a consultation service for Hyannis Country Garden, an independent garden center on Cape Cod.

    In 2012 C.L. was awarded the Garden Communicator award from the Perennial Plant Association and in 2013 won three awards from the Garden Writers Association. In 2015 C.L. launched the first annual Cape Cod Hydrangea Festival, a ten-day regional celebration of gardens that raised over $30,000.00 for local non-profits.

    Her not-so-secret mission is to cultivate the gardening revival in the USA…in the meantime she grows multitudes of plants on Poison Ivy Acres in Sandwich, MA. Free with admission to the Garden.

  • Saturdays, 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – The Garden Lady

    Past Garden Club of the Back Bay speaker C.L. Fornari will be hosting a new radio program about plants and gardening on Boston station WRKO, 680 on the AM dial. The Garden Lady will be heard every Saturday afternoon from 1 to 3 PM and she’ll be taking calls during those hours at 617-266-6868.

    “Regular features during this program will be Welcome To The Garden Party when we s explore what’s happening with plants and gardening right now. From the local growing conditions to the latest research, we’ll be talking about what makes the garden the place to be.

    At 1:30 PM From Yard to Table focuses on an aspect of edible landscaping or vegetable gardening.

    We’ll start off the top of the second hour with Have I Got a Plant for You!, my opportunity to rave about a plant that I love. Later in the program I’ll announce horticultural destinations, focus on some garden geek jargon, and take as many phone calls as we can squeeze in.

    I hope you’ll make The Garden Lady a regular part of your weekend and share the information about this program with your friends, garden club members, and fellow plant lovers.”