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Your weekly half-hour program about environmentally informed gardening. Each week we bring you a different expert, a leading voice on gardening in partnership with Nature. Our goal is to make your landscape healthier, more beautiful, more sustainable, and more fun.
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- 2 days ago29 min
Native Lawn 2.0
For twenty years Cornell University horticulturists have been working on a blend of short-growing native grasses and wildflowers that could replace introduced turf grasses as the American lawn. Today Todd Bittner, Director of Natural Areas at the Cornell Botanic Gardens details how his team is preparing to release onto the market a mix that flourishes without irrigation after establishment, without fertilizer, and pesticides, which requires mowing just once or twice a year, and can be installed by seeding or as sod.
- 1 weeks ago29 min
A Franciscan Brother Finds his Ministry in Ecological Restoration
Can our personal spirituality provide a path to a different, more positive relationship with Nature? In this conversation, first broadcast in December of 2024, Brother James Lockman of the Catholic Church's Franciscan Order describes how the beauty of Nature inspired his spiritual journey and how that led him to a life dedicated to restoring damaged ecosystems.
- 2 weeks ago29 min
Updating Our Attitude Toward Insects
Gardeners habitually distinguish between "bad bugs" who feed on their plants and the "good bugs," the predators who feed on those herbivores. As Aaron Anderson of the Xerces Society points out, you can't have one without the other and the goal should be encouraging a functioning, well-rounded insect community in your landscape.
- 3 weeks ago29 min
My Neighbor's 1/4-Acre Garden Takes the Title for Insect Biodiversity
Many British garden designers, and their admirers in the United States claim that plant biodiversity is the key to supporting the most diverse insect populations, and that introduced plant species are as effective or better than locally native ones. A garden up the block from me in Connecticut suggests the fallacy of that claim.
- Oct 7, 202629 min
Declaring Peace with Pocket Gophers
Shawn Maestretti, principal of Studio Petrichor, a celebrated landscape design and installation firm in Altadena, California, describes his "conversation" with pocket gophers, generally reviled as a pest in western gardens, and how he has come to respect not only this native creature's right to share the landscape but also the invaluable role it can play as a soil engineer.
- Sep 30, 202629 min
Sustainable Color that Mixes Natives with Exotic Favorites
"Rewilding (with Dahlias)" was the irresistible title that Jessica Williams chose for the Digging Deeper garden tour and talk she gave for the Garden Conservancy. On this week's Growing Greener Jessica shares how she does not fertilize, mulch, or irrigate her lush, colorful, and wildlife-rich garden, and how she enlisted the bees in her program to breed the black-leaved dahlias whose blossoms make her Odd Duck Farm a living jewel box.
- Sep 23, 202629 min
A sustainable supply chain for plants that are truly native
Ecological gardeners and restorationists have long relied on seed collected from wild populations to supply the need for locally adapted, genetically diverse planting material. As the enthusiasm for native plants has exploded, though, this practice has begun to threaten the continued vitality of those wild populations. In this episode of Growing Greener, Uli Lorimer, Director of Horticulture at the Native Plant Trust describes Restoration Accelerator, that organization's initiative to coordinate a new and sustainable supply chain.
- Sep 16, 202629 min
Garden Journaling 2.0
That classic horticultural memoir, the published journal of a gardener's daily activities, has taken on a new life with the advent of online media; Claire Davis, a very talented ecological gardener, discusses how Instagram has become her favored platform for communicating her experiences and reflections, and its unique capabilities.
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