Bloomers in the Garden

1. The forsythia are finishing up blooming. Are you wondering if it’s too late to put down a Crabgrass Preventer?! We’ll give you the answer in our 1st Segment! 

2. Have you seen yellow blooms thru your lawn? Dandelions!! Where there’s one you can expect hundreds to move in. We’ll explain the best way to control Dandelions and other broadleaved weeds  in our 2nd segment!! 

3. Azaleas are coming into full bloom right now. There is  a reason why you should plant Azaleas in your landscape! We’ll discuss  the benefits of this most beautiful landscape plant In our 3rd segment! 

4. A listener Texted the Bloomers in the Garden Hotline  who bought some seeds that were recommended to plant right in the soil!  Hear all about it in our 4th segment.  

5. Prof. Steve called the Bloomers in the Garden Hotline to give us an update and a request! Hear all about it in Our Final Segment!

Philadelphia, South Jersey, & Delaware Valley

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NYC Tri-State Area

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Bloomers in the Garden helps you and your neighbors have more beautiful yards, gardens and landscapes. Len is your “go-to” source for practical information, solid “local” advice that applies to the Delaware Valley. Learn about products and plants you can pronounce that are available at local Independent Garden Centers. Get inspired and confident to try new things, building on our past successful recommendations. Len Schroeder has a rich family heritage of horticulture dating back over 100 years. His own experience spans over 30 years as Owner of Bloomers Home & Garden Center.

Bloomers is a Retail Garden Center that caters to the home gardener and the do-it-yourself landscaper. Bloomers prides itself on its staff training. We translate the often confusing gardening information into easy to understand, executable tasks. Len brings a professional lifetime of sorting out plants and products that work when customers get them home. Have a question for us or a topic you like us to discuss? Have a question for us or a topic you like us to discuss? Call the Bloomer’s Garden Hotline” at (609)685-1880 to leave your question, your name and the town you’re from! You can also write to [email protected] ....

BITG 4.12.25 • Frost Free Date • Blue Mountain Pinks? • Tomato Time is Coming! • Hotline Strawberry Caller • Easter Flowers & More!

1. The Frost Free Date Shouldn’t be ignored. We had 29° this past week!! In our 1st segment we’re going to discuss the first free date! 

2. How is it possible that there are Blue Mt. Pinks? We’re going to discuss Mt. Pinks also known as Creeping Phlox. We’re going to discuss these landscape favorites in our 2nd segment!!

3. I warned you about planting too early in our first segment. In our 3rd segment we’re going to tempt you with a segment all about Tomatoes! Don’t worry worry Tomato Time is Coming!

4. We recieved a call from a listener about Growing Strawberries. Hear all about it in our 4th segmant.

5. It’s Palm Sunday Weekend and We’ll wrap up todays show talking about Easter Flowers and thier care! 

Philadelphia, South Jersey, & Delaware Valley 

Saturdays at 8am 860am | WWDB-AM

Saturday at 6am & 5pm | 93.5FM & 1540am WNWR "The Word"....

 

NYC Tri-State Area

Sundays at 8am 1250 AM "Classic Oldies"

WMTR Bloomers in the Garden helps you and your neighbors have more beautiful yards, gardens and landscapes. Len is your “go-to” source for practical information, solid “local” advice that applies to the Delaware Valley. Learn about products and plants you can pronounce that are available at local Independent Garden Centers. Get inspired and confident to try new things, building on our past successful recommendations. Len Schroeder has a rich family heritage of horticulture dating back over 100 years. His own experience spans over 30 years as Owner of Bloomers Home & Garden Center.

Bloomers is a Retail Garden Center that caters to the home gardener and the do-it-yourself landscaper. Bloomers prides itself on its staff training. We translate the often confusing gardening information into easy to understand, executable tasks. Len brings a professional lifetime of sorting out plants and products that work when customers get them home. Have a question for us or a topic you like us to discuss? Have a question for us or a topic you like us to discuss? Call the Bloomer’s Garden Hotline” at (609)685-1880 to leave your question, your name and the town you’re from! You can also write to [email protected] ....

Bloomers in the Garden • 4.5.25 • "Is it OK to Plant Yet?" • Crackin' Colors Azaleas & Rhododendrons • "Oh My Deer!" • Bug Eating Birds • You've Got Ants In Your Plants! 

1. This Week We Have been bombarded with the same loaded question, “Is It OK to Plant?” We’ll let you know during our 1st Segment!

2. Azaleas and some Rhododendrons are starting to crack color! In our 2nd segment we’re going to discuss these landscape favoiites!!

3. Urban & Suburban deer have become one of the largest pests in home garden’s and landscape. In our 3rd segment we’ll discuss how to combat them!

4. In our 4th segment we’ll discuss why attracting birds to your garden is a good thing!

5. We’ll wrap up todays show with our “What’s Buggin You” segment!! Ant’s are on the march!!

 

Philadelphia, South Jersey, & Delaware Valley

Saturdays at 8am 860am | WWDB-AM

Saturday at 6am & 5pm |93.5FM & 1540am WNWR "The Word"....

 

NYC Tri-State Area

Sundays at 8am 1250 AM "Classic Oldies" 

WMTR Bloomers in the Garden helps you and your neighbors have more beautiful yards, gardens and landscapes. Len is your “go-to” source for practical information, solid “local” advice that applies to the Delaware Valley. Learn about products and plants you can pronounce that are available at local Independent Garden Centers. Get inspired and confident to try new things, building on our past successful recommendations. Len Schroeder has a rich family heritage of horticulture dating back over 100 years. His own experience spans over 30 years as Owner of Bloomers Home & Garden Center.

Bloomers is a Retail Garden Center that caters to the home gardener and the do-it-yourself landscaper. Bloomers prides itself on its staff training. We translate the often confusing gardening information into easy to understand, executable tasks. Len brings a professional lifetime of sorting out plants and products that work when customers get them home. Have a question for us or a topic you like us to discuss? Have a question for us or a topic you like us to discuss? Call the Bloomer’s Garden Hotline” at (609)685-1880 to leave your question, your name and the town you’re from! You can also write to [email protected] ....

Bloomers in the Garden•3.29.25•Building Super Soil•Landscape Design•Rose Pruning•Lawn Renovation w/Powerful Tools•Mulch Me Much!

1. Soil is the solution! Great Gardens and Landscapes start with great soil! Listen to what the building blocks are for great soil in our 1st segment!
2. In our 2nd segment I’ll explain easy to understand landscape design techniques you can use to plan a beautiful landscape!
3. It’s time to clean up your rose bushes! We’ll discuss pruning, Fertilizing and spraying during our during our 3rd segment!
4. During our 4th segment were going to talk about the power machines you can use to renovate your lawn.
5. In our final segment we’re also going to talk about mulch choices for your landscape beds!

 

Philadelphia, South Jersey, & Delaware Valley

Saturdays at 8am 860am | WWDB-AM

Saturday at 6am & 5pm |93.5FM & 1540am WNWR "The Word"....

 

NYC Tri-State Area Sundays at 8am 1250 AM "Classic Oldies" WMTR Bloomers in the Garden helps you and your neighbors have more beautiful yards, gardens and landscapes. Len is your “go-to” source for practical information, solid “local” advice that applies to the Delaware Valley. Learn about products and plants you can pronounce that are available at local Independent Garden Centers. Get inspired and confident to try new things, building on our past successful recommendations. Len Schroeder has a rich family heritage of horticulture dating back over 100 years. His own experience spans over 30 years as Owner of Bloomers Home & Garden Center.

Bloomers is a Retail Garden Center that caters to the home gardener and the do-it-yourself landscaper. Bloomers prides itself on its staff training. We translate the often confusing gardening information into easy to understand, executable tasks. Len brings a professional lifetime of sorting out plants and products that work when customers get them home. Have a question for us or a topic you like us to discuss? Have a question for us or a topic you like us to discuss? Call the Bloomer’s Garden Hotline” at (609)685-1880 to leave your question, your name and the town you’re from! You can also write to [email protected] ....

BITG • 3.22.25 • Why does Moss grow in Lawns? • Camellias • Skip Laurels • Hollytone Through Mulch? • Early Flowering Shrubs • & More!

Philadelphia, South Jersey, & Delaware Valley 

Saturdays at 8am 860am | WWDB-AM 

Saturday at 6am & 5pm |93.5FM & 1540am WNWR "The Word".... 

NYC Tri-State Area

Sundays at 8am 1250 AM "Classic Oldies" WMTR

Bloomers in the Garden helps you and your neighbors have more beautiful yards, gardens and landscapes. Len is your “go-to” source for practical information, solid “local” advice that applies to the Delaware Valley. Learn about products and plants you can pronounce that are available at local Independent Garden Centers. Get inspired and confident to try new things, building on our past successful recommendations. Len Schroeder has a rich family heritage of horticulture dating back over 100 years. His own experience spans over 30 years as Owner of Bloomers Home & Garden Center.

Bloomers is a Retail Garden Center that caters to the home gardener and the do-it-yourself landscaper. Bloomers prides itself on its staff training. We translate the often confusing gardening information into easy to understand, executable tasks. Len brings a professional lifetime of sorting out plants and products that work when customers get them home. Have a question for us or a topic you like us to discuss? Have a question for us or a topic you like us to discuss? Call the Bloomer’s Garden Hotline” at (609)685-1880 to leave your question, your name and the town you’re from! You can also write to [email protected] ....

Bloomers in the Garden • 3.15.25 • Fruit Tree Must Do Tasks • 50° Soil Temps-Grass Seed & Water Gardening • Song Bird Real Estate & More!

1. Fruit Trees have never been more popular! To have a great harvest there are specific tasks you must do! We’ll tell you what they are during our 1st segment!
2. 50° is a magical temperature and we’ll discuss why in our next 2 segments. 1st up is what affect 50* has on grass seed! Stay tuned and listen in during our 2nd segment !
3. What impact does 50° have on your Water Garden? Find out during our 3rd segment!
4. We recieved an email asking how to properly prune their Crape Myrtle! Hear how during our 4th segment.
5. Did you hear about the housing boom? Open your ears and you’ll hear it. All those songbirds are looking for new homes to nest in. Hear how you can help in our final segment!

Philadelphia, South Jersey, & Delaware Valley 

Saturdays at 8am 860am | WWDB-AM 

Saturday at 6am & 5pm |93.5FM & 1540am WNWR "The Word".... 

NYC Tri-State Area

Sundays at 8am 1250 AM "Classic Oldies" WMTR

Bloomers in the Garden helps you and your neighbors have more beautiful yards, gardens and landscapes. Len is your “go-to” source for practical information, solid “local” advice that applies to the Delaware Valley. Learn about products and plants you can pronounce that are available at local Independent Garden Centers. Get inspired and confident to try new things, building on our past successful recommendations. Len Schroeder has a rich family heritage of horticulture dating back over 100 years. His own experience spans over 30 years as Owner of Bloomers Home & Garden Center.

Bloomers is a Retail Garden Center that caters to the home gardener and the do-it-yourself landscaper. Bloomers prides itself on its staff training. We translate the often confusing gardening information into easy to understand, executable tasks. Len brings a professional lifetime of sorting out plants and products that work when customers get them home. Have a question for us or a topic you like us to discuss? Have a question for us or a topic you like us to discuss? Call the Bloomer’s Garden Hotline” at (609)685-1880 to leave your question, your name and the town you’re from! You can also write to [email protected] ....

Bloomers in the Garden • 3.8.25 • Cold Crop Veggies • Knowing pH is Important! • What a name like Pansy...they have to be Tough! • Secrets to a Weed Free Landscape • Hotline Text on Grubs & Moles

It’s almost time to plant those early cool season vegetables! We’ll tell you what you can plant to get your spring off to a healthy start in our first segment!

During our 2nd segment, we’ll tell you how important PH is to growing great plants!

With a name like pansy, they have to be tough! During our 3rd segment we’re going to talk about growing spring pansies!

Hold off putting down that mulch! There’s a few things you can do to keep your landscape weed free for the whole season! Hear all about it during the 4th segment.

We received a text to the Bloomers in the Garden Hotline asking about controlling Moles & Grubs! Hear all about it in our final segment!

 

Philadelphia, South Jersey, & Delaware Valley 

Saturdays at 8am 860am | WWDB-AM 

Saturday at 6am & 5pm |93.5FM & 1540am WNWR "The Word".... 

NYC Tri-State Area

Sundays at 8am 1250 AM "Classic Oldies" WMTR

Bloomers in the Garden helps you and your neighbors have more beautiful yards, gardens and landscapes. Len is your “go-to” source for practical information, solid “local” advice that applies to the Delaware Valley. Learn about products and plants you can pronounce that are available at local Independent Garden Centers. Get inspired and confident to try new things, building on our past successful recommendations. Len Schroeder has a rich family heritage of horticulture dating back over 100 years. His own experience spans over 30 years as Owner of Bloomers Home & Garden Center.

Bloomers is a Retail Garden Center that caters to the home gardener and the do-it-yourself landscaper. Bloomers prides itself on its staff training. We translate the often confusing gardening information into easy to understand, executable tasks. Len brings a professional lifetime of sorting out plants and products that work when customers get them home. Have a question for us or a topic you like us to discuss? Have a question for us or a topic you like us to discuss? Call the Bloomer’s Garden Hotline” at (609)685-1880 to leave your question, your name and the town you’re from! You can also write to [email protected] ....

Bloomers in the Garden • 3.1.25 • Stinky Skunks Be Gone! • Cutting Back Ornamental Grasses • Whats the Buz w/ Fungus Gnats? • The Ant Scouts Are Out & About • The PHS Philadelphia Flower Show Is Blooming! 

 

1. Our first segment is going to be a real stinker! Skunks are becoming active and they can become a real nusance! We’ll give you some tips how to repel them that don’t stink in our 1st segment!
2. If you have Ornamental Grasses in your landscape it’s time to cut them back. We’ll tell you how in our 2nd Segment!
3. Do you have Fungus Gnats buzing all around your house- plants? Hear how to control them in our 3rd segment!
4. It’s time to prepare for the coming war with Ants! Scouts are soon coming out to find food sources in your home! Here how to prepare for the onslot in our 4th segment.
5. The Philadelphia Flower Show States Today! Hear why you should go in our final segment.

Philadelphia, South Jersey, & Delaware Valley 

Saturdays at 8am 860am | WWDB-AM 

Saturday at 6am & 5pm |93.5FM & 1540am WNWR "The Word".... 

NYC Tri-State Area

Sundays at 8am 1250 AM "Classic Oldies" WMTR

Bloomers in the Garden helps you and your neighbors have more beautiful yards, gardens and landscapes. Len is your “go-to” source for practical information, solid “local” advice that applies to the Delaware Valley. Learn about products and plants you can pronounce that are available at local Independent Garden Centers. Get inspired and confident to try new things, building on our past successful recommendations. Len Schroeder has a rich family heritage of horticulture dating back over 100 years. His own experience spans over 30 years as Owner of Bloomers Home & Garden Center.

Bloomers is a Retail Garden Center that caters to the home gardener and the do-it-yourself landscaper. Bloomers prides itself on its staff training. We translate the often confusing gardening information into easy to understand, executable tasks. Len brings a professional lifetime of sorting out plants and products that work when customers get them home. Have a question for us or a topic you like us to discuss? Have a question for us or a topic you like us to discuss? Call the Bloomer’s Garden Hotline” at (609)685-1880 to leave your question, your name and the town you’re from! You can also write to [email protected] ....

Bloomers in the Garden•2.22.25•Veggies By Seed?•Hellebore•Winter Pruning• Hotline Mice Caller & More!

1. We’re spending Todays Show in the Vegetable Garden! Wondering what vegetables you should start from seed, and what vegetables you should buy as plants? We’ll have the answers in our 1st segment.
2. In our second segment I’ll tell you which vegetables you should just sow directly in the ground!
3. One of the earliest flowering plants is the Hellebore. It is an old perennial variety known by your grandparents as the Lenten Rose! What’s Old is NEW again thanks to new varieties! We’ll introduce you to this old perennial with a new birth in our 3rd segment!
4. It’s time to make Summer Flowers by Winter Pruning. Not everything should be pruned! We’ll give you the guidelines what to winter prune for summer bouquets in our 4th segment.
5. Lorraine is a listener who called the Bloomers in the Garden Hotline. She was listening to our segment on mice. She didn’t catch the product we mentioned. We’ll share her call and the information in our final segment!

Philadelphia, South Jersey, & Delaware Valley 

Saturdays at 8am 860am | WWDB-AM 

Saturday at 6am & 5pm |93.5FM & 1540am WNWR "The Word".... 

NYC Tri-State Area

Sundays at 8am 1250 AM "Classic Oldies" WMTR

Bloomers in the Garden helps you and your neighbors have more beautiful yards, gardens and landscapes. Len is your “go-to” source for practical information, solid “local” advice that applies to the Delaware Valley. Learn about products and plants you can pronounce that are available at local Independent Garden Centers. Get inspired and confident to try new things, building on our past successful recommendations. Len Schroeder has a rich family heritage of horticulture dating back over 100 years. His own experience spans over 30 years as Owner of Bloomers Home & Garden Center.

Bloomers is a Retail Garden Center that caters to the home gardener and the do-it-yourself landscaper. Bloomers prides itself on its staff training. We translate the often confusing gardening information into easy to understand, executable tasks. Len brings a professional lifetime of sorting out plants and products that work when customers get them home. Have a question for us or a topic you like us to discuss? Have a question for us or a topic you like us to discuss? Call the Bloomer’s Garden Hotline” at (609)685-1880 to leave your question, your name and the town you’re from! You can also write to [email protected] ....

Bloomers in the Garden•2.15.25• Special Guest Seth Pearsoll of the PHS Philadelphia Flower Show • The History • Gardens of Tomorrow & The Don't Miss Exhibits • Hybrids or Natives & More!

1. Today We are Joined by Seth Pearsoll Creative Director and Vice President for the Philadelphia Flower Show! Did you know The Philadelphia Flower Show is the oldest and largest indoor flower show in the world. It has also been described as “the country’s oldest, largest, and most prestigious celebration of flowers.” This years show will be heald March 1st thru the 9th.
2. Seth’s position has him traveling extensivly! He brings back those experiences to Philadelphia and puts them in to each flower show.
3. This years Flower Show’s Theme is “Gardens of Tomorrow”! Seth will share with us what to expect and how to get the most out of the 196th Annual Philadelphia Flower Show!
4. In our 4th segment Seth & I are going to discuss one of the hottest topics in the Nursery & Landscape industry! Hybrid Cultivars vs Native plants.
5. In our final segment Seth is going to share with us the “Don’t Miss exhibits and Activities” at this years Philadelphia Flower Show!

 

Philadelphia, South Jersey, & Delaware Valley

Saturdays at 8am 860am WWDB-AM

Saturday at 6am & 5pm 93.5FM & 1540am WNWR "The Word"....

 

NYC Tri-State Area

Sundays at 8am 1250 AM "Classic Oldies" WMTR

Bloomers in the Garden helps you and your neighbors have more beautiful yards, gardens and landscapes. Len is your “go-to” source for practical information, solid “local” advice that applies to the Delaware Valley. Learn about products and plants you can pronounce that are available at local Independent Garden Centers. Get inspired and confident to try new things, building on our past successful recommendations. Len Schroeder has a rich family heritage of horticulture dating back over 100 years. His own experience spans over 30 years as Owner of Bloomers Home & Garden Center.

Bloomers is a Retail Garden Center that caters to the home gardener and the do-it-yourself landscaper. Bloomers prides itself on its staff training. We translate the often confusing gardening information into easy to understand, executable tasks. Len brings a professional lifetime of sorting out plants and products that work when customers get them home. Have a question for us or a topic you like us to discuss? Have a question for us or a topic you like us to discuss? Call the Bloomer’s Garden Hotline” at (609)685-1880 to leave your question, your name and the town you’re from! You can also write to [email protected] ....