March 2024
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Sharing a Love of Native Plants
Read more: Sharing a Love of Native PlantsFall used to be a time of endless raking and cutting back perennials, but now that we’re leaving the leaves and stems the way nature intended, we have more time to do things we enjoy in the garden, like sharing the native plants we love with friends. And what better gift than a plant they…
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Growing Greener Podcast – Spirituality and Ecological Restoration with Brother James Lockman
Read more: Growing Greener Podcast – Spirituality and Ecological Restoration with Brother James LockmanCan 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…
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Growing Greener Podcast – Updating Our Attitude Toward Insects with Aaron Anderson of Xerces
Read more: Growing Greener Podcast – Updating Our Attitude Toward Insects with Aaron Anderson of XercesGardeners 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.
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Growing Greener Podcast – Backyard Insect Biodiversity with Brian Stewart
Read more: Growing Greener Podcast – Backyard Insect Biodiversity with Brian StewartMany 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 Growing Greener host Tom Christopher in Connecticut suggests the fallacy…
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Growing Greener Podcast – Pocket Gophers with Shawn Maestretti
Read more: Growing Greener Podcast – Pocket Gophers with Shawn MaestrettiShawn 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…