William Welch, co-author of Heirloom Gardening in the South: Yesterday's Plants for Today's Gardens, illustrates our cultural garden design melting pot and some of its pioneer plants. Steve Kainer from Hill Country Water Gardens & Nursery shows how to fertilize and prune pond plants. Daphne Richards explains how to help plants through heat, plus tips for growing drought-tough lamb's ears. On tour, visit an heirloom plant garden in Smithville.

Discover what murder, mayhem, and mystery lurks in your garden with Amy Stewart's tales of Wicked Plants. John Dromgoole solves the mystery of late summer to fall color.

Help out the wildlife in heat and drought with Habitat Steward Meredith O'Reilly's summer survival tips. Visit her blog, Great Stems, for her birds-eye perceptions in her certified Backyard Habitat.

Explore the psychoactive plants in our lives (including that coffee you're drinking right now) with author Susan Wittig Albert in her latest China Bayles' mystery, Mourning Gloria.