500 episodes listed below
Georgia garden advice with local roots.
Green and Growing with Ashley Frasca treats lawns, trees, pests, containers, and native plants as everyday neighborhood concerns. Its best moments turn a caller’s Bradford pear, Bermuda lawn, or small raised bed into clear advice for Georgia yards.
PRESS PLAY
Green and Growing with Ashley Frasca is built around the rhythms of Georgia yards. Spring green-up matters. So do Bradford pears, Bermuda grass, deer pressure, songbirds, raised beds, blueberries, Easter weekend rain, and the practical question of what can be planted, pruned, protected, or left alone right now. The show has the shape of live local radio, with Ashley Frasca moving between seasonal notes, caller questions, expert interviews, and reminders about where earlier advice can be found. It is not a sleek lifestyle gardening show. It is closer to an experienced Saturday-morning guide talking through the real problems people bring from their lawns, tree lines, containers, and neighborhood streets. Technical terms show up, but they usually get translated into plain consequences: Bradford pears spread into roadsides, thorny wild growth causes trouble, nonnative trees offer little to songbirds, and warm-season lawns need careful timing. The guest conversations add range. Dr. David Coyle explains invasive species and forest health from the academic and field side. Jutt Howard brings turfgrass advice from NG Turf. Clint Waltz connects grass knowledge to Augusta National grounds work. Trent Ellis appears in the broader outdoor expert series around deer and landscape protection. Callers and submitted questions keep the advice grounded, whether the subject is a nine-by-nine raised bed, ivy, wisteria, or a homeowner trying to understand why a once-popular ornamental tree has become a problem. The show also has a strong memory lane. The Walter Reeves tribute episodes turn the format toward grief, gratitude, and radio inheritance, with stories from friends, family references, and longtime listeners who knew him as the Georgia gardener. Those hours are tender without becoming vague. They remember a specific person, a specific chair at WSB, and a gardening community that carried forward through Ashley Frasca’s program. At its core, Green and Growing is for people who want direct, region-aware help and do not mind a little story on the way to the answer.
Made for: For Georgia gardeners, homeowners, lawn obsessives, and plant-curious radio listeners who want seasonal advice tied to real yards. It also suits longtime WSB listeners who value local voices and shared garden memory.
What sets it apart: The show combines plant education with live-radio warmth, so practical advice arrives through caller problems, expert visits, and local context. Its tribute episodes also preserve the lineage between Ashley Frasca, Walter Reeves, and Georgia’s gardening community.
Green and Growing with Ashley Frasca airs every Saturday morning 6-9:00am on 95.5 WSB.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Ashley Frasca makes Georgia gardening decisions legible through caller questions, seasonal advice, and close attention to plants' wider ecological effects.
Ashley Frasca turns gardening questions into clear, usable decisions. The call-in format keeps Green and Growing with Ashley Frasca close to the yard: callers bring Bradford pears, poison ivy, native azaleas, and difficult growing conditions, while Frasca responds with practical…
A caller's Bradford pear is still standing; Ashley Frasca helps you think about what isn't nesting there.
Press play if you want
Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A garden radio hour shaped by memory, practical ingenuity, and a lasting local legacy.
Ashley Frasca gives Green and Growing a clear sense of occasion by framing it as a tribute to Walter Reeves, the WSB gardener who hosted the Lawn and Garden show for 26 years before retiring and handing the chair to her in 2020.
A relaxed spring gardening hour with useful advice on beds, blueberries, weather, and native plants.
Ashley Frasca's gardening hour frames spring as something gardeners have to adjust to in real time, with cloudy skies and scattered showers sitting beside advice on blueberries, containers, native plants, and a compact enclosed garden.
Spring-break caution, poison ivy help, and a steady reminder to read the label.
Ashley Frasca keeps the hour practical, moving from spring-break traffic caution to garden fixes without losing the thread. With no guest in studio and the phone lines doing most of the work, the conversation stays close to the kind of questions that matter at home: a Japanese…
A practical call-in segment on the risks behind familiar landscape plants.
Traffic updates give way to a practical garden call about plants that look familiar until they escape the bounds of care. Ashley Frasca explains why Bradford pears can become trouble along roadsides and in untended spaces: suckers can turn into new trees, growth can get thorny,…
A warm Saturday garden hour remembers Walter Reeves while keeping his practical advice close.
Green and Growing turns a Saturday morning garden program into a clear, affectionate remembrance of Walter Reeves, the Georgia gardener who hosted WSB's Lawn and Garden show for 26 years.
A grounded spring yard check-in where wildlife, weeds, and local garden events all matter.
Spring yard work is treated here as a steady negotiation between a gardener's plans and what the season, the weeds, and the wildlife are already doing.
Ashley Frasca hosts a special memorial episode for Walter Reeves, the longtime host of the Lawn and Garden show on WSB, who passed away at 74.
Ashley Frasca hosts a gardening radio show, announcing her live talk at Gardening for Life Fest and an upcoming studio interview with UGA turfgrass specialist Clint Waltz.
Joe Lamp’l gives Ashley Frasca a ten-task October checklist, beginning with deer protection for tree trunks under four inches.
Ashley Frasca's Green and Growing episode addresses deer-resistant planting, outdoor cockroaches, and invasive insects in Georgia.
Ashley Frasca hosts a tribute episode to honor Walter Reeves, her predecessor who passed away after hosting the Lawn and Garden show on WSB radio for 26 years.
Ashley Frasca spends the morning remembering Walter Reeves.
This episode revisits expert interviews from March, focusing on lawn care topics like scalping Bermuda grass and invasive species, with insights from turf professionals.
This episode features an interview with Clint Waltz discussing his 31-year involvement with the Masters Golf Tournament at Augusta National, focusing on turfgrass management and grounds crew collaboration.
This episode features an interview with Dr.
This episode is a tribute to Walter Reeves, a beloved Georgia gardener and radio host who passed away, featuring memories and stories from his career and impact.
A homeowner asks about Bradford pears.
Ashley Frasca opens the hour with traffic and garden talk.
Ashley Frasca answers Atlanta-area gardening questions about drought watering, invasive ivy, mulch depth, small-space vegetable production, pine-tree rust, and iris colors.
This episode features an interview with turf expert Clint Waltz from the University of Georgia, discussing his work related to the Master's golf tournament and turf management.
This episode previews a gardening talk on harmonizing with wildlife and announces an upcoming interview with a turfgrass specialist to answer lawn care questions.
This episode features an interview with Edward Morgan, a certified beekeeper and president of the Metro Atlanta Beekeepers Association, discussing his journey into beekeeping and his educational outreach.
The host returns to the studio to discuss gardening topics, replay interviews with Georgia experts, and share listener interactions, while also noting rainy weather conditions.
This episode features an interview with Georgia Agriculture Commissioner Tyler Harper, discussing his political career and role in the state's agriculture department.