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Back to SearchHow We Created Weeds and Why We Need Them
Episode 328
Peter Del Tredici, Senior Research Scientist Emeritus of Arnold Arboretum and Visiting Lecturer of Applied Ecology and Planning at MIT explains the history of these garden pests why they can play an …
Published on 8 hours ago
Texan Pam Penick Shares Ideas for Integrating Native Plants into Traditional Gardens in Beautiful New Book
Episode 327
An accomplished and progressive garden designer, Pam Penick, author of “Gardens of Texas,” shares ideas for ideas for using native plants in traditional and formal gardens garnered from her reporting…
Published on 1 week ago
Finding Hope in Ecological Gardening
Episode 326
Leader of the Ecological Gardening movement Rebecca McMackin shares reasons why in a time of discouragement, gardening can restore optimism.
Published on 2 weeks ago
This Year’s “Less Lawn More Life Challenge” Goes Viral
Episode 325
Last May Growing Greener featured the challenge that Plan it Wild, a rewilding design and installation firm, posed to American homeowners: to replace 25 square feet of lawn with locally indigenous pl…
Published on 3 weeks ago
America’s most beautiful neglected genus of keystone plants
Episode 324
Nancy DuBrule-Clemente, a pioneer of organic land care, extolls the outstanding aesthetic and ecological contributions of goldenrods, a genus of native flowers too seldom seen in our gardens.
Published on 4 weeks ago
The Path from Traditional Horticulture to Ecological Gardening – Part Two
Episode 323
Edwina Von Gal, founder and president of the Perfect Earth Project, completes her interview of Growing Greener host, Tom Christopher, exploring his path to ecological gardening, the hope he finds in …
Published on 1 month ago
The Path from Traditional Horticulture to Ecological Gardening – Part One
Episode 322
Edwina Von Gal, founder and president of the Perfect Earth Project, interviews Growing Greener host, Tom Christopher, about what led him from an education steeped in traditional gardening to helping …
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
A Female-Owned and Operated Gardening Cooperative Creates a New Business Model With Nature as “our foremost collaborator”
Episode 321
Andrea Hurd of Oakland, California describes the way she structured Mariposa Gardening and Design Cooperative, Inc. to provide employee equitability and management experience for women breaking into …
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Finding Opportunity in a Common Landscape Roadblock
Episode 320
Switching to more environmentally friendly practices is too often resisted by landscape professionals afraid to stray from familiar routines. Mariah Whitmore and Tony Piazza, both prominent landscap…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
A Game-Changing Shortcut to Creating a Native Meadow
Episode 319
Claire Chambers, founder of Meadow Lab, describes the roll-out sod her company is producing that can transform a landscape into a blooming, mature meadow of native flowers and grasses in a single gro…
Published on 2 months ago