Tracy Cheney and Connie Eden love to talk about gardening with you and your audience.
We have fun talking about the ups and downs of gardening. It can be such an amusing topic! But we also enjoy giving practical tips that help your listeners and viewers enjoy their gardening experience more.
We are middle-aged ladies who are very enthusiastic chatting about one of our favorite topics. We don’t have beautiful nails or flawless makeup. We’re real gals who garden.
Producers, please contact us via email. We will promptly return your email or phone call, whichever you prefer.
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pitifulgardener@gmail.com
Radio
Tracy and Connie are available for joint radio interviews via conference call.
You may listen to a portion of an interview done with a host in New York. Technology is so amazing.
Click here to listen to an interview
Television
Tracy lives in Los Angeles. Connie lives in Seattle. With enough notice, we are happy to overcome the logistics to be interviewed together on your show.
We are comfortable with the media. Tracy produced a local public radio show for nearly five years; she is a public speaker and does intermittent acting work. Connie appeared weekly on a live morning show providing gardening tips. She’s given many talks at nurseries and similar venues. Connie and her garden and have been featured on HGTV and in print media.
Some Helpful Hints
We do not pretend to be experts on every gardening topic! A successful show with us is not about diagnosing specific plant problems. We understand that Pitiful Gardeners yearn for that type of help, but it can’t work in this particular setting. After all, we aren’t standing in their yards looking at their dead or dying plants.
We talk first about the mindset of gardening, and the big topics that all gardeners need to deal with. We like to plug in the knowledge gaps that often exist. Gardening may be the #2 hobby in America, but looking around just about any neighborhood will tell you that most people don’t “get” it.
Sample Questions
These types of questions work well for us:
- How do you know if you’re a pitiful gardener?
- In your book, you talk about knowing your gardening style. How do you know what your gardening style is?
- What’s different about your approach to gardening?
- Your book opens with a rather surprising statement: “God doesn’t garden. Neither does Mother Nature.”
- What’s the biggest mistake pitiful gardeners make?
- Why can’t some of us get our yards looking like those in the gorgeous gardening magazines?
Sample text from the book:
Tips to accommodate your gardening style
If you’re an impulsive gardener :
· Know before you buy whether or not you have room for a new plant and what it is going to become.
· Buy only the amount you know you can get planted before they die in their pots.
· Learn to transplant if you overplant.
If you’re a harried gardener :
· Rely on flowering shrubs rather than lots of time-consuming flowers for color because flowers equal work.
· Group plants according to watering needs.
· Refrain from trimming plants into topiary or boxy shapes – let them grow into their natural shapes.
If you’re a just-tell-me-what-to-do gardener:
· Make sure the plants you buy have informative tags.
·Reduce hard-to-garden-in spaces with hardscapes.
· Build on what’s successful already in a particular spot.
· Hire some help for chores or design ideas.
from: The Pitiful Gardener’s Handbook: Successful Gardening in Spite of Yourself
Links to Book Reviews
http://www.amazon.com/review/product/1881409236?showViewpoints=1
http://dogeardiary.blogspot.com/2008/08/pitiful-gardeners-handbook.html
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The Book as a Premium
The Pitiful Gardener’s Handbook makes a fabulous premium for corporate clients. It’s a truly useful book that everyone is happy to receive. If you are in need of a premium for a related product launch, excerpts from the book used as accompanying giveaways help sell your product.
The Pitiful Gardener on NPR
We are seeking underwriting for two-minute modules that will air after regular programming. These humorous gardening moments provide helpful, brief gardening tips to a national radio audience from our point of view.
Reality Show
We have prepared a proposal for The Pitiful Gardener Reality Show. This show fulfills a pitiful gardener’s dream to have an expert help revamp the yard — but within their own budget using their labor. This is not Extreme Garden Makeover. It’s for real people on real budgets.
If you would like more information on any of these opportunities, please ask us. This is a topic we enjoy talking about!
pitifulgardener@gmail.com
Tracy's still smiling after gardening all over the country!
Connie shows off some of her concrete garden art creations that are a big hit in gardens everywhere.
