Welcome to this weeks edition of Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem; our guest this morning is Cynthia Stewart, of Bloom Nurseries -- a wholesale nursery that supplies neighborhood scale retail nurseries with fresh local plants grown in the Bay Area.

Cynthia and Edie have a friendship formed over many years of being professional colleagues in the nursery industry; this friendly interview explores personal and professional themes as well as practical gardening advice throughout. Toward the end of the show, the pair field a couple of listener calls with practical gardening questions.

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It's Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem; the Bay Area's premier radio talk show about organic gardening! We're open phones this morning and following a monologue, we got calls from gardeners all around the Bay; much of the subject matter revolved around the coming heat wave this week, as well as pollination and propagation questions among others.

This program is lightly edited from the original broadcast, to remove musical interludes.

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Edie Tanem is the host of Bob Tanem In The Garden, which airs on KSFO in San Francisco each Sunday at 9:00 local time. This here is the podcast edition of the show, which has been lightly edited to remove musical content.

Our show is a call-in talk show about organic gardening in the Bay Area and beyond.

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This is the Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem radio show; todays' guest on our air is Cal Agrifolia of Davey, the Tree Experts. You've seen their big green trucks, because this employee owned company has grown throughout the Bay Area region and has teams of expert certified arborists for both residential and commercial deployments. Cal is knowledgeable and a fun guest; the hour went by quickly in a wide ranging interview.

This podcast edition of the program has been edited to prune out musical segments to comply with applicable rules.

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This is Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem; the Bay Area's premier radio show about organic gardening in the San Francisco Bay Area and sometimes beyond. Ours is a live call-in show, broadcast on KSFO 560 AM in San Francisco at 9:00 local (Pacific) time each week on Sunday; you can participate in future shows by calling 415 808-5600 during the live times lot.

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Our guest on Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem this morning is Doug Tallamy, co-author of The Living Landscape: Designing for Beauty and Biodiversity in the Home Garden. Doug is an entomologist with the University of Delaware, and is particularly interested in the interaction between insects and plant life, the "food web" ecosystems in nature, and the like. He spent the full hour with us this morning.

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It's Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem, and here we are on Sunday morning taking calls live on the air. Spring has sprung in the Bay Area and lots of people have questions about their yards, gardens, trees and shrubs. Got Bugs? Call Edie and discuss it on the air!

Musical interludes have been edited out to comply with legal requirements.

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Bob Tanem In The Garden with Edie Tanem is on the air live 9a-10a on Sunday mornings on KSFO 560 San Francisco; it's also on this podcast each week. Todays' show features open phones call-in for gardening questions and general garden information for the Bay Area and beyond. For this podcast edition, the musical elements have been lifted from the show to comply with rules.

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