From away to garden.com and Robinhood Radio.com, this is Away to Garden with Margaret

Roach.

You're a weekly invitation to dig in and grow.

What's your most important gardening tool?

A new public television series reminds us that it's not a trowel or pruner or spade,

but our body, which can also be stressed by gardening if we don't know how to look after it.

Taking care of your body while taking care of your garden, that's our mission, the creators of the GardenFit program say.

More in a moment on how we can each do a better job of that, but first, these messages. Programming and underwriting support from Royal Botanic Gardens, publishers of Q Pocket Books, small gift books illustrated from Q's Vance Collection of Botanic Alert, the

most recent book, Fun Guy, about the strange and singular world of mushrooms, toads, tools

and their kin in bookstores now.

Underwriting support from Colorblends, supplying top quality spring blooming, Dutch flower

bulbs to landscape professionals and ambitious home gardeners.

More information on the web colorblends.com.

Today's guests are the creator of the New Garden Fit series on public television.

A sort of reality show meets season-long garden tour that takes us on visits to distinctive private gardens around the country.

We visit not just the places but meet the gardeners behind them and learn what else them, so to speak, what they could do better

to care for themselves and to stay as the title of the series says, Garden Fit. The prescription

for that is provided by co-host Jeff Hughes, a fitness trainer who incorporates a cognitive

slant into conventional training practices, who teamed with Madeline Hooper, a former public

relations executive and passionate gardener to create the program.

So welcome to both of you Madeleine and Jeff.

Thanks for joining me.

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