Look! Up In The Sky! It's... Orchid Time Again!

OK, they're not up in the sky, they're out at Fort Mason: Pacific Orchid Exposition is on next Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Feb 20 through 22.

To tell us all about it, we had our guest Tom Perlette, one of the San Francisco Orchid Society stalwarts helping to put on the show, took 30 minutes away from the docks to talk about the show with us. Suffice it to say if you live anywhere near San Francisco and you like Orchids, this is the show for you: it is the largest dedicated Orchid show by both attendees and vendors, by far, in the whole country.

Beverley Tanem starts us off in style; her list of Bay Area Gardening Events is unparalleled!

Following Bev it's back to Bob; we're In The Garden on KSFO!

Our guest at 8:30 was Stacy Tornio, editor of Birds and Blooms Magazine and Micro Greens enthusiast. Lets just say these are not your grandmothers bean sprouts.

Beverley Tanem starts us out with a list of gardening events throughout the bay area; then it's America's Happy Gardener, Bob Tanem, answering calls!

Our guest at 8:30 this morning was Kim Eierman of the web site EcoBeneficial. The idea here is to link Earth Day, coming up in April, to the notion of helping nature with what we plant in our gardens.

Kim speaks eloquently and clearly on the case for native plantings, and for tolerating wildlife in our yards and open spaces. Of particular discussion were Monarch Butterflies, and the extent to which their decline can be linked to the lack of available Milkweed in the midwest.

Hour number two of our little secret garden club begins with Bev; she has more secrets than anyone else -- but the secret is, she shares them here each Sunday at 9:06; the Bev Tanem Report lists gardening events all around the bay in the coming weeks. But don't tell anyone, it's a secret!

Following Bev, it's back to Bob; America's Happy Gardener is in fact happy to hold court this morning on KSFO.

Our one-hour show today featured Pamela Bennett as our guest at 8:30. Ms. Bennett is co-author of Garden-pedia: An A-to-Z Guide to Gardening Terms. Brand new this year, this thing is exactly what it says: a handy paperback reference of all the gobbley-gook terms you hear about gardening. What is OMRI anyway, right?

Welcome to the 21st Anniversary edition of the Bob Tanem In The Garden radio show, on KSFO!

Bob came in to the San Francisco Studios with his wife Beverley and daughter Edie, shown with a guest in the KSFO studios.

We gave away prizes to randomly drawn postcards sent in ahead of time here at the station.

Hour #2 of the Anniversary Show edition of Bob Tanem In The Garden.

Shown in the picture are the 450 plus postcards we received to commemorate our 21st year on KSFO

Our guest this morning is the incomparable Claire Splan, locally based gardening enthusiast, lecturer and author of a new book California Month-by-Month Gardening: What to Do Each Month to Have a Beautiful Garden All Year .

She spent half an hour talking about the idea of gardening in different areas, on a month-by-month guided basis using her book; its' tips help home gardeners to set up a gardening system in their yards throughout the year.