New Southern Garden
by Nathan Wilson
Each week our host, Nathan Wilson, brings you current gardening topics, how-to’s, and answers your landscape questions. From vegetables to trees and shrubs, soil and seed-starting, Nathan brings you time-tested and researched information to make your southern garden successful. Things are changing in the south, so should the way we garden. Let’s grow something new…together.
Episodes
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Ep. 391 | 3 Plants That Make Autumn Glow
This week, Nathan talks about a special garden "within" your garden: the fall garden. Don't forget that there are several plants you can use in your garden that will bloom over autumn and provide one last "celebration" before the cold of winter arrives. Join Nathan as he talks about three of…
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Ep. 390 | Don't Forget To Do This Over Fall...
From planting new plants, to lawn care, this week Nathan talks about a number of gardening tasks that you might want to consider doing sooner than later.
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Ep. 389 | Plant These Spring Blooming Bulbs NOW!
This week, Nathan takes you underground! Before spring blooming bulbs can bloom, they usually need a period of cool/cold so planting sooner than later is important. Nathan discusses many types of bulbs that will make your garden glow this upcoming spring.
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Ep. 388 | Growing Herbs in the Fall Garden
This week, Nathan walks you through the best herbs to plant in your garden this fall and early winter. He talks about how to grow them and ways you might use them in your kitchen. Just because summer is over doesn't mean your flavorful plants have to be over as well.
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Ep. 387 | Fall Color Explained, Microclimates, Evening Fragrance, Saving Seeds, and Plant Tags
This week, Nathan explains how fall color works and encourages you to look for microclimates in your own landscape in just a few steps. Then, he discusses why some flowers open up at night and release fragrance and talks about ways to use these in your own garden. Lastly, he wraps up the show...
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Ep. 386 | Fall Container Gardens, Late-Summer Pest Watch, and Winter Cover Crops
This week, Nathan starts off talking about how to rejuvenate your summer container gardens and get them looking good for the upcoming cool season. Then, he alerts you about a few pests you might be seeing in your landscape this time of year and talks about whether to be concerned about them or…
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Ep. 385 | Sow These Perennial Plant Seed NOW!
This week, Nathan talks about the importance of sowing your perennial plant seeds now instead of waiting until winter. Many perennial plant seeds need a period of cold, moist conditions in order to stimulate germination in the spring. Nathan talks about just a few of the plants you need to sow…
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Ep. 384 | What's Important for the September Garden
This week, Nathan answers more of your questions as we begin a new month of our gardening calendar: September. Nathan talks about the things you need to be doing this month that most people forget about. Then, he answers a question about mushrooms growing in a lawn. Not sure if your plants are...
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Ep. 383 | Answering Gardeners' Questions
This week, Nathan answers your questions! From keeping perennials blooming through the heat to planting more "natural" and figuring out why your hydrangeas didn't bloom this year, join Nathan as he helps you out in your own, personal garden.
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Ep. 382 | Lessons Our Gardens Teach
This week, Nathan exposes the lessons that our gardens can teach us...as long as we are paying attention. This show is definitely going to feel a little different but it's intended to inspire and uplift gardeners who are fatigued by late summer.
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Ep. 381 | Pet-Friendly Gardening
This week, Nathan talks about ways to keep your pets and garden safe as you garden with your pets! He begins with a list of plants that are quite toxic to pets (and humans) if ingested. Then, discusses ways to help keep your pets out of your garden beds but wraps up the talk with ways to enjoy…
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Ep. 380 | Early August To-Do List
This week, Nathan talks about a number of tasks that you could tackle this week or next in the garden. Some are more critical than another, but all are quite timely.
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Ep. 380 | Plants That Make Your Garden Look Rich
Looking to make your humble abode look as impressive as a mansion? Try these plants that literally make your garden look "rich."
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Ep. 379 | Tomato Tips, Summer Shrub Pruning, Deadheading and Dividing Perennials, and Watering in Summer
This week, Nathan helps you shape up your garden at the end of July. From tomatoes and shrubs, to fall vegetables and perennial deadheading, Nathan reminds you of the things you might want to start doing this weekend!
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Ep. 378 | Late-Summer/Fall Blooming Perennials
This week, Nathan helps your late-summer and fall gardens by revealing some awesome plants that will put on the biggest bloom show for one of the toughest times of year. With plenty of natives on the list, you'll be supporting your local wildlife too at such a critical point their season.
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Ep. 377 | Growing A Native Woodland Garden
This week, Nathan takes you through the many layers of our woodlands to help you grow your own native woodland garden. With a few design principles and many plant options, Nathan guides you down a trail of shady cultivation many people don't think is possible. Embrace the shade and grow a unique...
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Ep. 376 | The Plants That Made America
This week, Nathan celebrates the 250th birthday of the United States by talking about the plants that made this country and how you can grow these same plants in your own garden!
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Ep. 375 | The Problems with Summer Veggies
This week, Nathan talks about some of the common issues you might be finding in your vegetable patch and how to deal with them.
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Ep. 374 | Easiest Houseplants, Easiest Hydrangeas, Easiest Vegetables
This week, Nathan encourages the new and the seasoned gardener to try something new with these super-easy-to-grow plants!
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Ep. 372 | Nathan's New Perennials | Part One
This week, Nathan talks about some of the new perennial plants he has added into his perennial plant borders this year.
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Ep. 371 | Growing Butterfly Bush, Responsibly
This week, Nathan talks about the dangers of growing butterfly bush but gives you ways to counteract those dangers. He discusses a list of butterfly bush cultivars that might be more appropriate for our modern landscapes.
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Ep. 370 | Maintaining Your Slopes, Natively
This week, Nathan helps you tackle one of the most difficult sites in the garden... slopes. Nathan explains the benefits to using plants to help "hold" slopes and describes many native plants that can handle the job!
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Ep. 369 | Controlling Insects Organically
With warmer weather comes more and more insects. Join Nathan as he talks about ways to combat garden pests organically.
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Ep. 368 | Feeding Your Plants, Responsibly
In order for plants to grow their best, they need everything required to grow. This week, Nathan talks about the macro and micro nutrients required by plants to grow well. He also talks about the symptoms to look for if your plants are suffering from a nutrient deficiency.
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Ep. 367 | Welcome These New Plants to Your Hardiness Zone!
With winter temperatures becoming more and more mild, many hardiness zones have been reconsidered by the USDA. Join Nathan as he talks about a list of plants that once weren't able to be grown in parts of the south but now can.
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Ep. 366 | Nathan's Wife Loves Green Beans!
Nathan's wife rarely gives him ideas for the show, but this week is the exception! She tasked Nathan with delivering an entire show about...green beans! But can he fill a whole hour with the intricate details of the green bean and how to grow them successfully? Listen in to find out!
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Ep. 365 | Vegetable Gardening by Family, Watering In Droughts, and Turfgrass Thoughts
This week, Nathan tackles a few gardening topics including grouping your vegetable plants by family, effectively watering in drought times, and just a touch of turf grass thoughts.
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Ep. 364 | The Wonders of "Cutback" Shrubs
For thousands of years, humans have been "cutting back" trees and shrubs...and for good reason! This week, Nathan talks about the reasons why you might want to partake in the wonderful world of "cutback" shrubs.
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Ep. 363 | Easiest Annual Flowers to Start from Seed
This week, Nathan continues a seed-starting talk he began on the previous show except he talks about some of the easiest flowers to start from seeds. They're even easy for the beginning gardener!
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Ep. 362 | Top Tips for Starting Seeds Indoors
This week, Nathan helps you get a jump start on your garden outdoors by giving you his top tips for starting seeds indoors!
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Ep. 361 | Brand New Perennials for 2026
This week, Nathan discusses some exciting new herbaceous perennial releases that can't wait to be grown in your garden!
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Ep. 360 | Add Pre-Spring Garden Pizazz
The time between winter and spring is always an awkward time in the garden. This week, Nathan talks about ways to make your "pre-spring" garden really shine.
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Ep. 359 | Getting Raised Beds Up and Running for 2026
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!
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Ep. 358 | Do NOT Prune These Plants Now!
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…
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Ep. 357 | Contemporary Garden Style
This week, Nathan talks about the 12 key features of contemporary garden style.
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Ep. 356 | Love in the Garden
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.
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Ep. 355 | Late Winter To-Do List
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.
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Ep. 354 | Unique Pruning Techniques to Elevate Your 2026 Garden
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.
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Ep. 353 | Glow-in-the-Dark Petunias and New Garden Styles for 2026
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!
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Ep. 352 | Soil Testing 101, Fruit Tree Basics, Seed Check, and Small Azaleas
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.
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Ep. 351 | Damp, Wet Native Plants
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.
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Ep. 350 | "Lemonading" Your Garden in 2026
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!
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Ep. 349 | Christmas Gifts For the Gardener
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!
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Ep. 348 | Grade Your Garden! 10 Checkpoints for Looking Good
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...
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Ep. 347 | Christmas Trees and Evergreens
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…
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Ep. 346| New Blueberries, Bare-Root Planting, Dormant Oils, and Dividing Hellebore
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…
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Ep. 345| Cold Hardiness, Mulch Mistakes, and Pruning Problems
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…
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Ep. 344| Questions for Fall
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.
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Ep. 343| Even More Plants for Glorious Fall Color
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.
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Ep. 342| The Best Native Trees and Shrubs for Fall Color
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!
About this show
Each week our host, Nathan Wilson, brings you current gardening topics, how-to’s, and answers your landscape questions. From vegetables to trees and shrubs, soil and seed-starting, Nathan brings you time-tested and researched information to make your southern garden successful. Things are changing in the south, so should the way we garden. Let’s grow something new…together.
Hosted by
Nathan Wilson