320-Nature's Best Hope: Why Our Plant Choices Matter, with Doug Tallamy-Encore Presentation
The plants that we choose to include in our landscapes can be life-sustaining, invaluable resources for our native wildlife or they can just be plants that just look pretty while contributing little t...
6 Jul 202357min
319-Assessing Hydrangea Cold Tolerance
This spring was not a great one for hydrangeas all around the United States, and according to my guest this week, Lorraine Ballato, the problem can be traced back to the wild weather that occurred ove...
29 Jun 202343min
318-The True Story Behind the Monsanto Roundup Trials, with Dr. Chadi Nabhan
Though the International Agency for Research on Cancer concluded that glyphosate, the main ingredient in Roundup, is a probable carcinogen, it remains the most widely used herbicide in the United Stat...
22 Jun 20231h 6min
317- Native Gardeners vs. the HOA, Part II
Native gardening is quickly moving from niche to the mainstream, and unfortunately but perhaps expectedly, homeowners associations are the last to catch on. My guest this week, Melinda Soltys, shares ...
15 Jun 20231h
316-Celebrate Pollinator Week with Pollinator Partnership
Pollinator Week kicks off on June 19th, so I welcomed Kelly Bills, the executive director of Pollinator Partnership, to the podcast to talk about all the great work the organization does and how garde...
8 Jun 202347min
315-Succession Planting with Flowers
Whether you want to grow a cut flower garden for your own enjoyment or to start a business, you will find Lisa Mason Ziegler's advice on succession planting with flowers very useful. Lisa, a cut flowe...
1 Jun 202349min
314-Native Gardeners vs. the HOA: An Important Victory for Wildlife
Living under the strictures of a homeowners association can be incredibly stifling for gardeners who want to work outside of the turf lawn and irrigation dynamic, but sometimes gardeners successfully ...
25 Mai 202357min
313-Get to Know Cucumber-Melons, an Alternative to Bitter Cucumbers
Cucumber-melons aren't hybrids of cucumbers and melons but rather immature melons that are intended to be enjoyed just as you would eat a cucumber. To explain the origin of cucumber-melons and what se...
18 Mai 202340min
