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groundcovers: out with the old, in with the natives, with ken druse

Sat, 17 Oct 2020 15:07:01 GMT

WHAT THE WORD “groundcover” means has really changed in the years Ken Druse and I have been gardening. And I’ll admit right here, some of..

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deepening our nature connections, with julie zickefoose

Sat, 10 Oct 2020 19:18:10 GMT

ONE OF THE WAYS many of us have been getting through the last seven months is by taking comfort in the outdoors, in all that..

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fall cleanup with ecology in mind, with doug tallamy

Sat, 03 Oct 2020 19:25:03 GMT

WHEN I LAST TALKED to Doug Tallamy in February around the publication date of his latest book, “Nature’s Best Hope,” I didn’t want to go..

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dennis schrader’s tips for overwintering tender plants

Sat, 03 Oct 2020 17:01:45 GMT

I THINK OF THEM as investment plants, plants that might not be hardy where I garden, but that with a little extra work and the..

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starting over: page dickey’s new book ‘uprooted,’ on making a new garden

Sat, 26 Sep 2020 17:14:21 GMT

THE WORD “downsizing” was spoken more than once, when Page Dickey and her husband were making plans a few years back to leave their beloved..

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faithful houseplants to hunker down with, with marc hachadourian of nybg

Sat, 19 Sep 2020 15:44:46 GMT

WHO ARE YOU going to tuck in with this fall and winter, as the garden starts to rest and we are all indoors more? Do..

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lessons learned in making a garden: ‘windcliff,’ with dan hinkley

Fri, 11 Sep 2020 17:44:11 GMT

I HAVE A running joke with today’s podcast guest, a joke I suspect thousands of other former customers email him about regularly, too. Every spring..

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saving (and sowing) seed of biennials, annuals and more, with ken druse

Sat, 05 Sep 2020 16:02:23 GMT

MAYBE YOU CAN feel it where you garden, too: a slight shift in the weather, which combined with shortening days, means summer is loosening its..

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flowers for drying: which ones, and how-to, with jenny elliott

Sat, 29 Aug 2020 10:49:43 GMT

A READER EMAILED me not long ago, asking if I’d ever written a story or done a podcast about dried flowers—which ones to grow and..

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unusual flower bulbs to try, with matt mattus

Sat, 22 Aug 2020 21:25:34 GMT

I SUSPECT that you each have several mail-order bulb catalogs on hand, and also that each catalog devotes page after page to gorgeous photos of..

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turning ‘lawns into meadows,’ with owen wormser

Sat, 15 Aug 2020 16:34:49 GMT

A NEW BOOK came my way recently with a title that just said it all. “Lawns Into Meadows” is what it’s called, and its author,..

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pinching and propagating, with ken druse

Sat, 08 Aug 2020 16:39:01 GMT

TODAY’S SHOW came out of a phone conversation that Ken Druse and I were having the other day, when I found myself confessing to him..

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lessons in ecology from mount auburn cemetery, with david barnett

Sat, 01 Aug 2020 11:21:35 GMT

YEARS AGO, a friend who founded a botanic garden in Massachusetts took me to visit a landscape that he had [read more…]

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poisonous plants, with dr. michael balick of nybg

Sat, 25 Jul 2020 10:43:58 GMT

A SURPRISING NUMBER of people ask me about whether this plant or that plant in my garden or theirs is [read more…]

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leaves first: favorite foliage to unify the garden, with ken druse

Sat, 18 Jul 2020 22:33:14 GMT

KEN DRUSE AND I both love leaves, and so do the naughty furbearing herbivores who have been visiting our gardens [read more…]

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extend your vegetable garden season, with niki jabbour

Sat, 11 Jul 2020 12:52:27 GMT

LONGTIME GARDENER AND FIRST-TIMERS went all out in this craziest of years, bringing the expression “victory garden” back into the [read more…]

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be a discerning shopper for native plants, with uli lorimer

Sat, 04 Jul 2020 20:43:11 GMT

AS MORE GARDENERS shop for native plants each year, more plant descriptions in catalogs and on nursery labels use the [read more…]

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watering the garden (not the plants), a 101 with daryl beyers

Fri, 26 Jun 2020 15:38:47 GMT

SUMMER: IT’S WHAT I refer to as the season of dragging hoses, and for me at least this year, the [read more…]

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the garden as refuge in a pandemic year, with adrian higgins of the washington post

Sat, 20 Jun 2020 15:55:56 GMT

THE WORLD IS SHIFTING focus again now, toward opening up this time, several months after much shutting down. But as [read more…]

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‘spirit of place:’ designing and defining a garden that belongs, with bill noble

Sat, 13 Jun 2020 14:02:54 GMT

GARDEN DESIGNER Bill Noble starts his new book with this promise: “I’m going to tell you a story of the [read more…]

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