New Southern Garden

This week, with spring in the air, Nathan talks about ten of the things you ought to do now to get your raised-beds and vegetables garden prepped for spring planting!

This week, Nathan talks about what you should NOT be doing in the garden any time soon: pruning your "old wood" blooming plants! Nathan describes the difference between "old wood" and "new wood" blooming plants and lists out the special spring bloomers you shouldn't prune until after their flowers have faded. If her in doubt, remember, "If it blooms before June, do not prune...until after it blooms."

This week, Nathan talks about the 12 key features of contemporary garden style.

This week, Nathan celebrates Valentine's Day with you by bringing love into the garden! Join him as he talks about garden-themed gift ideas, the "love language" of flowers, garden activities to perform with your loved ones, and how our gardens truly do relate to our lives and relationships.

This week, Nathan helps you remember the things you've been forgetting to do in the garden over the late winter and also draws attention to some things you never even thought about doing.

This week, Nathan helps you add unique interest and pizzazz to your garden by employing some unique pruning techniques. Shaped shrubs, flattened fruit trees, and trees narrowed into tight hedges will all help your garden stand out from the neighborhood while adding some useful function as well.

This week, Nathan talks about new trends in gardening to try in your own landscape! From the new (and strange) bioluminescent petunia, to gravel gardens, modern meadows, kokodama and more, Nathan provides you with some novel and unusual ideas for your 2026 gardening year!

This week, Nathan talks about some things that you might consider doing soon-- taking and submitting a soil sample, working in some new fruit trees or managing existing one, verify if old seed is still viable, and install some of the world's shortest, reblooming azaleas.

This week, Nathan makes a case that wet, soggy soil isn't a crisis but an opportunity to grow some wonderful plants that don't bat an eye at the boggy side of life! With this water-loving native plants, you can create a beautiful garden space that dry soil just can't provide.

This week, Nathan takes a new gardening trend known as "Lemonading", explains what it is and how to employ it into your new 2026 gardening year! Happy new year!

What do you plan to get that gardening friend in your life for Christmas? With just a few days left to decide, Nathan helps you with some great gift ideas for that green thumb in your life. Maybe you should just gift one of these ideas to yourself!

This week, Nathan urges you to test your garden and see if it passes with a stellar grade! Using winter to assess the state of your garden is perfect because you really can see "through" the garden rather than just looking at it. With the 10 checkpoints Nathan provides, you will be able to take your garden from lackluster to filled with luster!

Why keep spending money on a cut Christmas tree that you know will be brown and crispy by the second day of the new year when you could be decorating a living tree that can be planted and enjoyed for the next one hundred years or more? Nathan explains how to take care of a living tree indoors over the holidays and provides you with a list of the top tree kinds to use! He then continues the conversation on evergreens and talks about native evergreens that can be used in a variety of ways including hiding that junk pile your neighbor keeps growing in your direct line of sight!

Right off the bat, Nathan talks about new blueberry varieites that are both dwarf and self-fruitful, meaning if you are limited on space, you can grow these tiny blueberry plants by themselves with no need for a pollinizing partner! Then he explains the benefits of planting "bare-root" plants over winter and why spraying your plants with dormant oil in the cool months can help prevent insect and disease issues over the next growing season. Lastly, if you need to divide, thin out, or transplant hellebores, Nathan explains when and how to do it.

This week, Nathan tackles some concerns that need to be addressed in fall. He explains what the "cold hardiness" of a plant is and how it helps dictate what you can plant in your area and how a plant will act over winter. He gives some guidelines for choosing a mulching material and how to properly mulch. Lastly, should we be pruning over winter? Nathan lets you know the best practices when it comes to pruning.

Fall is often a troubling time of year when it comes to knowing what you can and can't do or should and shouldn't do in the garden. This week, Nathan answers some of the most timely questions he get each autumn.

Last week Nathan gave you ideas for adding outstanding fall color to your garden with native plants. This week, we travel to other parts of the world and discover even more plants to enrich your landscapes autumnal color palette.

Are things looking lack luster in your garden this autumn? This week, Nathan helps you select native trees and shrubs that are going to light up your fall gardening world for years to come!

Sure all plants are pretty with their colorful flowers and textural leaves, but some of them have a dark side. This week, just in time for Halloween, Nathan discusses a list of plants that might seem cute and innocent on the outside, but hide secrets within that can be down right...fatal.

As gardeners it's important for us to cultivate the next generation of gardeners: our own children! This week, Nathan talks about creative and kid-intriguing ways to get the little ones interested in all things gardening.

Whether you have poor sandy soils or poor clay soils, both problems can be remedied naturally! This week, Nathan talks about practical things you can do this season and all year long to improve your plants' forever home: your soil.

If our gardens look like spring during spring, then shouldn't our gardens look like winter in the winter? This week, Nathan discusses ways to enjoy the "winter look" in your garden once temperatures have dropped and days have shortened. There is beauty in all of the decay.

This week, Nathan gives his annual update on the spider that has taken over the south: the East Asian Joro Spider!

Tired of the usual pansies over winter? Join Nathan as he talks about trying your hand at a different kind of annual winter garden!

It's time to plant bulbs. Well, some of them at least. Nathan explains how to get started with bulbs and suggests selections that will give you "bulbilicious" color to your garden across all four seasons.

Winter is coming. Get these herbs going now and they will provide you with delicious flavors all winter long.

If you've been growing and killing plants for years but want to try your green hand at something a bit more challenging, listen in as Nathan gives the advanced garden some new things to try.

Have you ever stuck a shovel in the ground and planted a plant? No? Then listen in, as Nathan talks about ways a new beginner gardener might get started.

Get out your shovel. It's time to do a little late summer planting. Nathan tells you what to plant right now.

Nathan continues the discussion on making your garden a place where ecology can bound and things need a little less attention and input from you.

Have you wanted to make your garden more self-sufficient and ecologically responsible? Nathan clues you in. Listen in.

Late summer. Yikes! What to do? Join Nathan as he gives you a heads up on what to do in the garden in the heat of summer.

Why not dedicate a whole show to growing bananas? Is it even possible to grow bananas in the southeast? Nathan explains it all.

We all think vegetables are tasty, but so do many insects. Join Nathan as he talks about the pests that might need a new pantry to live in.

Celebrate America's birthday by planting a few plants and crops that were important in America's history!

What's that wonderful smell? It could be your garden if you grow these fragrant plants. Let Nathan explain.

Need some help getting your summer garden in shape and looking good? Nathan's got some tips for you.

Native plants are great. Usually. But many times, you just don't see enough of the great ones in the garden center. Join Nathan as he reveals some of the best native plants that you might have never seen!

Hydrangeas are wonderful southern summer plants but they look so much better partnered with others! Join Nathan as he talks about some of the best companion plants for hydrangeas.

Join Nathan as he continues his discussion on how to grow your favorite summer vegetables!

Join Nathan as he talks about growing your favorite summer veggies!

Herbs are those special plants that provide delicious flavors and boast numerous uses. However, we tend to only focus on their tastes and fail to give them credit for their aesthetic beauty and flowering benefits to pollinators. This week, Nathan talks about some of the most beautiful, but also tasty, herbs to try in your garden this year. Don’t just send herbs to the “herb garden”, combine them with all the other wonderfully beautiful flowers blooming in your landscape!

Don't let the word "mint" turn you off from listening to this episode of New Southern Garden! Peppermint and Spearmint have been grown in gardens about as long as their stems spread from one end of your garden to the other. These mints are notoriously aggressive, but their "cousin" mints are not. The mint family of plants is full of diverse and beneficial plants that don't move into every crack and crevice they can find. Join Nathan as he discusses the wonderful side of the mint family and talks about why you should grow them These aren't your granny's mints!

Relationships can be complicated. But in the garden, they are welcomed! This week, Nathan talks about the unique and some times unusual matches between plants and other creatures. Join Nathan as he encourages you to increase the biodiversity in your landscape!

This week, Nathan talks about one of his favorite garden perennials: Baptisia (also known as False Indigo). This native spring-flowering plant is becoming more and more popular in gardens and for good reason. Baptisia is very drought tolerant, provides winter interest with its blackened seed pods, and is becoming more available in a variety of colors and styles. Jump on the Baptisia bus as Nathan tells you all about them!

Perennials are some of our favorite garden plants because they return year after year without replanting. Some of them even seem to live...forever! Join Nathan as he discusses the longest lived perennial plants you could grow. (One of them could live to be 100 years or more!)

Join Nathan as he gardens with artificial intelligence! The world is changing, so why not garden differently? Nathan puts AI to the horticultural test to see if it can provide gardeners with helpful but accurate gardening know-how.

Whether you are a new gardener or have been gardening for one hundred years, pruning can be intimidating but it can be necessary at times. Join Nathan as he guides you through trimming and clipping your way to a beautiful garden.