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Dec 12, 2024
ARBOREAL OBSESSION & GROWING THE WORLD: THE TREE COLLECTORS, with AMY STEWART
Many gardeners are also collectors. Collectors of things like pots, books, seeds, and of course plants. Some collect flowers, or herbs,...
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Nov 21, 2024
ALL FLOURISHING IS MUTUAL: ROBIN WALL KIMMERER (BEST OF)
In this week's best of conversation, Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer reminds us that All flourishing is mutual.
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Nov 14, 2024
EXPLORING THE FRONTIERS OF GARDEN DESIGN with THE NEW PERENNIALIST, TONY SPENCER OF ONTARIO, CANADA
In our ongoing exploration of who gardeners are, where gardeners are, and all that they are growing in this world, this week in...
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Oct 17, 2024
ALL THE WILD RHYTHMS: WILD PLANT CULTURE with JARED ROSENBAUM
Jared Rosenbaum is a botanist and Certified Ecological Restoration Practitioner with extensive experience in stewardship and monitoring...
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Sep 26, 2024
THE FIELD GUIDES AMONG US, DR. ALAN WEAKLEY, DIRECTOR, UNC CHAPEL HILL HERBARIUM
Dr. Alan Weakley is a career-long botanist and conservation biologist firmly rooted in the southeast region of the U.S. For a little...
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Aug 8, 2024
SHROUDED IN LIGHT, WHAT OUR NATIVE SHRUBLANDS CAN TEACH OUR GARDENS, with KEVIN PHILIP WILLIAMS & MICHAEL GUIDI
Late July, August, and September (with the constellation Sirius high in the night sky) is perhaps the stretch of the year in most...
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Aug 1, 2024
THE BOTANICAL JOURNEY & LEXICON OF A CARING PLANTSPERSON, with TIM JOHNSON, NATIVE PLANT TRUST
Tim Johnson is engaged in the native plant and garden worlds on both personal and professional levels. Having worked with Seed Savers...
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Jul 4, 2024
GOOD CITIZENSHIP = GREAT STEWARDSHIP: NATIVE SEED/SEARCH, with ALEXANDRA ZAMECNIK
It’s the seedy time of summer. This week of the fourth of July we’re working from the premise that foundational to good citizenship is...
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Jun 27, 2024
NATIONAL POLLINATOR WEEK with THE POLLINATOR POSSE, TORA ROCHA
It’s full summer, for us and for the fauna of the Northern Hemisphere. That means many of our most charismatic, sun-loving pollinators...
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May 30, 2024
REWARDING GREAT DESIGN: DESIGN FUTURIST AWARDS, with SARAH BECK, PACIFIC HORTICULTURE
With the Chelsea Flower Show in the UK just completed, the gardening world as a whole has the concept of Garden Design awards and...
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Apr 25, 2024
THE BUMBLE BEE ATLAS PROJECTS, w/ LEIF RICHARDSON of XERCES SOCIETY
Following on from native plant week, this week we revisit a BEST OF conversation about some of our favorite native plant visitors: our...
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Apr 18, 2024
CALIFORNIA NATIVE PLANT WEEK: CNPS RARE PLANT PROGRAM & INVENTORY, AARON SIMS
The third week of April is California Native Plant week, this year being celebrated by the California Native Plant Society via 8 days of...
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Mar 21, 2024
SPRING EQUINOX SPECIAL: OWEN WORMSER OF ABOUND DESIGN & "LAWNS INTO MEADOWS"
The Great Unlawning of America has been underway for some time now. As we have just crossed the threshold of the spring equinox earlier...
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Feb 8, 2024
LIBRARY SCIENCE IS (GARDEN) LIFE SCIENCE, STACI CATRON & JENNIE OLDFIELD, CHEROKEE GARDEN LIBRARY, ATLANTA HISTORY CENTER
In our ongoing exploration of who gardeners are, where gardeners are, what they are growing in this world, and why that matters to all of...
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Jan 19, 2024
WORMWRANGLING, THE SCIENCE-PRACTICE GAP & UPDATING GRASSLAND RESTORATION, JUSTIN LUONG
Did you know that grasslands account for between 20 and 40 percent of the world's land area? Generally open, fairly flat, and accessible...
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Jan 4, 2024
WELCOMING WHIMSY, WONDER & THE WORK OF INTIMACY: ESME CABRERA, NATURALIST/ARTIST, LA MAMIGAMI
Esme Cabrera is an artist, a naturalist, and a born educator. Under the Instagram name “la-mamigami", Esme experiments, shares,...
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Nov 30, 2023
SUPER BLOOM: A CONVERSATION WITH AUSTRALIAN PLANT PRACTITIONER JAC SEMMLER
Jac Semmler is a plant practitioner, a multi-disciplinary, creative, high skilled horticulturist, and the human behind an epic new book...
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Nov 2, 2023
GROWING HOME: HUMBLE ROOTS NURSERY & THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIVE PLANT PRIMER
As we turn the calendar to November, and the season to decidedly late fall and wintery in many places across the US, we look toward our...
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Oct 19, 2023
THE COMFORT OF CROWS, A BACKYARD YEAR, with MARGARET RENKL
This week, in this season of endings and beginnings again we welcome back writer, backyard tender, and heartfelt observer Margaret Renkl,...
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Oct 5, 2023
WHO IS 'joe gardener'? A CONVERSATION WITH JOE LAMP'L, GROWING A GREENER WORLD
This week we enjoy a conversation with a gardener and garden guru well known and loved: Joe Lamp’l of the famed and award-winning Growing...
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