Gardening Inside Out

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Nashville garden advice with real nursery dirt.

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Gardening Inside Out turns seasonal garden questions into loose, funny conversations from Bates Nursery's Green Room Studio in Nashville. The show is strongest when real yard problems meet lived plant knowledge: late freezes, thirsty hydrangeas, lawn debates, dogwoods, clematis, leaves, ponds, and spring fever.

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Gardening Inside Out is a home-gardening show with the feel of a live conversation drifting out of a working nursery. It comes from Bates Nursery's Green Room Studio in Nashville, and the place matters. The advice is tied to actual weather, actual yards, and the timing pressures that shape gardening in Middle Tennessee. A warm day can trigger a burst of planting. A late cold snap can change the mood fast. Rain is not just weather here; it is relief, strategy, and sometimes disappointment when it only wets the surface. The show moves comfortably between practical plant talk and loose personal storytelling. Dogwoods, shade shrubs, clematis, viburnum, foxglove, Lady Banks rose, pansies, tulips, serviceberry, hydrangeas, peach trees, maples, forsythia, and daffodils all pass through the conversation. So do lawns. Austin Lohan's mowing habits become a running texture, especially when no-mow April and backyard habitat enter the chat. Tyler Blankenship's pond ideas give the show another recurring backyard thread. Caroline Gant brings quick reactions and comic lift, whether the topic is spring fever, stolen daffodils, or the emotional whiplash of a fake farewell. The format is informal, but the plant knowledge is real. Listeners hear people thinking through soil moisture, freeze risk, bed cleanup, plant placement, nursery availability, and the small choices that make a yard work. The show also lets everyday nursery life interrupt the idealized gardening image. There are busy Saturdays, sponsor notes, email questions, travel plans, broken heaters, and a snake in the office. That ordinary messiness is part of the appeal. Gardening Inside Out is not sterile garden media. It is practical, local, goofy, and rooted in the way gardeners actually talk when they are trying to keep plants alive and still enjoy the process.

Made for: Best for home gardeners who like seasonal, practical plant talk with a Middle Tennessee accent. It especially suits people managing lawns, shrubs, perennials, weather swings, and everyday yard experiments.

What sets it apart: The show blends real nursery experience with conversational chemistry, so the advice feels lived rather than packaged. Its local weather awareness and running yard stories give the plant guidance a specific, grounded texture.

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Gardening and plant advice, for any space in your life!Gardening Inside Out is a live morning show and podcast that airs Saturdays from Bates Nursery & Garden Center's Green Room Studio in Nashville, Tennessee.Join hosts David Bates and Josh Cary every week along with our lively panel of expert co-hosts; Austin, Caroline, and Tyler, as they answer your home and garden questions. Sharing knowledge both above and below board, stories, and personal experience, the colorful cast will both inform and entertain.Got questions for the show? Email [email protected] us LIVE Saturday mornings at 8 AM Central! Chime in...

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seasonal answers precise enough to stop you planting pansies in Nashville heat
plant geeks who can pivot from coleus propagation to one lonely corn stalk

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Ep. 139 | Dogwoods, Shade shrubs, The best clematis (according to Austin) | March 28Apr 1, 2026

A prank opens the show before it settles into practical Saturday-morning garden talk.

Gardening Inside Out opens with an April Fool's prank before settling into its familiar Saturday-morning rhythm from Bates Nursery in Nashville.

Ep. 136 | Spring is springing, Tyler's pond choices, Late freeze | March 7Mar 11, 2026

A spring garden chat with lawn talk, no-mow debate, and live-show warmth.

Gardening Inside Out lands just as the yard starts demanding attention: Caroline is back after having four wisdom teeth pulled, Tyler gets a birthday sendoff, and Austin is already talking about the first mow of the season.

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Ep. 164 | It's fall y'all, Where are the woolly aphids?, Groundhogs | Sept 19

Ep. 163 | Splitting bananas, Fall planting window, Spots on boxwood | Sept 12

Garden Snacks WATERING | Ep 6

Ep. 162 | The crew talks Monrovia + Islei, Tyler's eucalyptus props, Transition to fall | Sept 5

Ep. 160 | Our busy week in Hort! Plus irrigation and blister bugs

Staying motivated in the heat, Pruning, Relocating shrubs

Ep. 158 | All about Baptisia, Fall potatoes, Recipes with Tyler and Caroline | Aug 8

Garden Snacks featuring Lauren McDaniel | Ep. 5

Ep. 157 | Tyler's tomato saga round III, Figs, Our favorite blueberries | Aug 1

Garden Snacks featuring Sam Boyette | Ep 4

Ep. 156 | Favorite conifers, Crossvine blooms, Easy houseplant | July 25

Garden Snacks featuring Janet Lefever | Ep. 3

Ep. 155 | Lettuce, Indeterminate tomatoes, Aphids on ficus | July 18

Garden Snacks featuring Jason Sprouls | Ep. 2

Ep. 154 | Hardy Bananas, Dry + sunny native plants, Hornworms | July 11

Garden Snacks featuring Renee Bates | Ep. 1

Ep. 153 | Struggling cucumbers, Harvesting watermelons, Favorite houseplant fern | July 4

Ep. 152 | Renee Bates, Crepe myrtle, Growing zinnias | June 27

Ep. 151 | Dirt Dr Sam Marshall, Pruning lemon trees, Dogwoods June 20

Ep. 150 | Deer Resistant Plants, Austin Tribute, Eating Squash Blooms | June 13

Ep. 149 | Special guest Sara Bates, Rose care, Aphids | June 6

Ep. 148 | Cherokee Purple tomatoes, Lamb's Ear, Dracaena issues | May 30

Ep. 147 | Favorite plants in our gardens, Hardy hibiscus, Mealy bugs on roses | May 23

Ep. 146 | HOSTA, When to water flower beds, Fungus gnats on houseplants | May 16

Ep. 145 | Black spots on tomatoes, Applying chemicals, Transplanting Dancing Queen hosta | May 9th

Ep. 144 | Dollywood annuals, The story of Peggy Martin, Asparagus | May 2

Ep. 143 | Best fruit trees for Mid Tennessee, Half yuck tulips, We got rain | April 25

Ep. 142 | It's vegetable planting time!, Transplanting hosta, Crossvine vs Clematis | April 18

Ep. 141 | Monarchs are appearing, Aphids on Iris, Filler plants | April 11

Ep. 140 | Brent from Monrovia, Helping good bugs, Frogs are back | April 4

Ep. 139 | Dogwoods, Shade shrubs, The best clematis (according to Austin) | March 28

Ep. 138 | Baptisia, ROSES, Planting weeping willows | March 21

Ep. 137 | Cutting Bradford Pear, Trimming crossvine, Tree planting depth | March 14

Ep. 136 | Spring is springing, Tyler's pond choices, Late freeze | March 7

Ep. 135 | Lily of the Valley, Favorite native plants for pollinators, The Smoky Mountains | Feb 28

Ep. 134 | Spring Fever, Tyler's frog pond, Viburnum | Feb 21

Ep. 133 | Miss Huff Lantana, Growing potatoes in TN, Washington Hawthorn | Feb 14

Ep. 132 | Foxglove, Lady Banks Rose, Recovering Pitcher Plants | Feb 7

Ep. 131 | Recovery from the ice storm, Helping cold houseplants, Austin's favorite white flowers | Jan 31

Ep. 130 | Gardening on Ice, The big ice storm, Watering bromeliad | Jan 24

Ep. 129 | Flying Dragon citrus, Winter weather is on the way, Peach trees | Jan 17

Ep. 128 | Blast blooms, Dormant oil, Cutting back oakleaf hydrangeas | Jan 10

Ep. 127 | Happy New Year!, Roses, Spring bulbs | Jan 3

Ep. 126 | 2026 garden talk, What we do with fallen leaves | Dec 27

Ep. 125 | Meaningful cold, Christmas Cactus, Boxwood hedge | Dec 20

Ep. 124 | Preparing for low temps, Austin's Pansy saga, Coral Bells in the winter | Dec 13

Ep. 123 | Christmas tree talk, CORN, Native ground cover | Dec 6

Ep. 122 | Weeping Alaskan Cedar, Cutting back holly, Austin's Christmas lights | Nov 27

Ep. 121 | Citrus trees indoors, Phytopthera, Mulch | Nov 22

Ep. 120 | Cover crops, Austin's Corn, Mealybugs on monstera | Nov 15

Ep. 119 | The first freeze, Brugmansia, Arborvitae shed | Nov 8

Ep. 118 | BulbMania!, Spider mites on houseplants, Trees for hellstrip | Nov 1

Ep. 117 | Special Guest Gabrielle Rota, Our fall mixed containers, Hyacinth | Oct 25

Ep. 116 | Favorite trees for fall color, Transitioning houseplants for winter, Pruning Encore azaleas | Oct 18

Ep. 115 | Growing onions, Snails, Deer season | Oct 11

Ep. 114 | Woolly aphids, When to plant peonies, Don't be scared to prune boxwood | Oct 4

Ep. 113 | Red buckeye, Caroline's dodder vine, Camellia | Sept 27

Ep. 112 | Gingko, Leggy plants, Monarchs | Sept 20

Ep. 111 | Dogwood trees, Mums and asters, Tyler's travels | Sept 13

Ep. 110 | Tulips in Tennessee, Dawn redwood, Pansies | Sept 6

Ep. 109 | Fall Vegetables, Overwintering coleus, Houseplant fall transition | Aug 30

Ep. 108 | Edible figs, Crape Mrytles, Xeriscaping | Aug 23

Ep. 107 | Transition to fall, Cutting grass now, Buds not opening | Aug 16

Ep. 106 | Late blooming and heat loving flowers, Baptisia, Patience in the garden | Aug 9

Ep. 105 | Poke sallet, Chelsea chop, Pruning raspberries | Aug 2

Ep. 104 | Growing large watermelons, When is it time to prune?, Blossom end rot | July 26

Ep 103 | Serviceberry, Austin's big scare, Torching weeds | July 19

Ep. 102 | Removing bananas, powdery mildew, mealy bugs | July 12

Ep. 101 | Peach trees, Throw 'em in the woods, Spots on hydrangeas | July 5

Ep. 100 | Blackberries, Lavender harvesting, Crab grass | June 28

Ep. 99 | Austin's chicken troubles, Water temperature for houseplants, Peach tree issues | June 21

Ep. 98 | Monarch caterpillars, Greg Hall, Peppers | June 14