News 12 Garden Guide

Are you passionate about gardening and eager to learn new tips and tricks to make your garden thrive? Look no further than News12 Garden Guide! I started this segment in Spring 2023 to bring weekly information and inspiration to all gardening enthusiasts – with our local climate in mind. The segment has become very popular on Long Island and is now distributed network-wide.

In addition to the Weekly Garden Guide segments, I also engage with our viewers and answer some of their more specific garden and climate questions every weekend. I work with our weekend producer to host a minute-long question-and-answer segment every weekend morning.

Watch every Garden Guide segment HERE

GARDEN MONTAGE

A selection of clips from my first year with Garden Guide

GARDEN GUIDE SAMPLE

Ginkgo biloba is a common tree, but it’s not ordinary! This tree has no living relatives and is older than the dinosaurs.

Gardening at News 19 (Gandy’s Garden)

I’ve always had a passion for connecting our climate to gardening and at WLTX, I was given an opportunity to take this to the next level. I maintained a garden outside of the station and created a daily segment on our morning show to show viewers the impact our weather has on our environment.

During the pandemic, I started a gardening group so viewers could share their garden photos and questions live on TV. Thousands of members have joined and it added a sense of community to our morning shows.

Sample of Garden Segment

2021 Year in Review from the Garden | 2021 was an amazing year to garden. Together we grew tasty produce in a year where pandemic shortages and extreme weather made growing food more than a hobby. Join me for a look back. Plants bring out the best in people!

What’s Gandy’s Garden? | Earth Day enters its 50th year and to celebrate the milestone, Meteorologist Alex Calamia started a Facebook group called WLTX Gandy’s Gardeners to bring together WLTX viewers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Alex updates us on the group’s success 1 year later on Earth Day 2021 and explains how Gandy’s Garden got its start for Earth Day 2020.