IAM DELIGHTED TO ALERT YOU TO TWO NEW SEGMENTS in the podcast archive, and at least as excited to say that one of the best-known garden blogs of all, Garden Rant, wrote a nice piece today recommending the show I do with my neighbors down the road at Robin Hood Radio, the newest NPR affiliate.If you just want the latest podcasts, click the big yellow iTunes button on this page on WHDD’s site (or stream it on your computer or however else you like; all the choices are there).
The June 14th edition is about plants I call “confidence builders” (read: maybe too enthusiastic) that I grew at the start of my garden career. Today’s is about creatures in the garden: which to tolerate, and which not to, and why, from deer on down to slugs, snakes and more.
But maybe don’t click away right yet…better yet, stay a minute first and get the backstory on the Garden Rant post:
If you follow the comments here on the blog you’ll perhaps remember the funny back-and-forth about Sedum with Susan Harris, one of the voices of Garden Rant, and how her wondering aloud to me (both in a comment here and a post at her place) about the ID of a particular variety.
Her wondering sent me out into the night to grab some of the plant-in-question, and upstairs to grab my taxonomic references and try to key out the thing.
Hopefully it’s not just because I helped her ID that Sedum that Susan says the podcast is good.
“I was discouraged to discover,” writes Susan, “that Margaret doesn’t just excel at writing but also at casual repartee. (Seems unfair.)”
During the Sedum drama she called me “a known troublemaker,” so apparently I am growing on her. (Hopefully you can hear me smiling as I write this, because it has all been very much fun, in both directions. Thanks,
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What brings the biggest joy to a person is seeing they helped someone be happy, too. In Fantastic Gardeners’ case, it was the creation of a spot for the children of the Acol Nursery school to play, explore and feel more homely. In our previous session we set the stage for the stars of the show to appear – it was already March and it was high time for flowers to march forward.
In the cold wet winter it is a good time to plan where to visit as the year improves. The South West is the obvious place to start your visiting tour of gardens containing exotic plants.
Colorful ferns can be an excellent addition to any garden or indoor plant collection. These plants are characterized by their beautiful, vibrant fronds ranging from shades of pink, red, yellow, and even purple.
THANKS TO ALL OF YOU WHO HAVE WRITTEN to say you enjoy the radio podcasts I create with Robin Hood Radio (NPRs newest and smallest affiliate, and just down the road from me in Ruralville, USA here). Marshall, Jill and I do have fun with our Monday-morning conversations–but you can listen anytime.
WOO-HOO! MY FRIENDS AT WHDD in Sharon, Connecticut, aka Robin Hood Radio, just called to say our A Way to Garden podcasts are not just on iTunes but also on an RSS feed. Easy, peasy, to tune in to.
CO-HOST AND GARDEN DESIGNER CARMEN DEVITO really got me going on the popular weekly “We Dig Plants” show on Heritage Radio Network the other day, when she asked me to think back–now four-plus years–about my journey from the city life of my past to the here-and-now of living in the garden. Apparently I shared such wisdoms as: “With things that you treasure, whether it’s a person, a thing or plant, sometimes you can hold it a little too close and suffocate it.
ABOUT THIS TIME OF YEAR I GET FED UP with holiday to-do’s, and need a solid dose of horticulture instead. What better task to treat myself to than getting ready for seed-catalog shopping season: making an inventory of leftover things, testing for germination, writing a wishlist—and ordering a few new catalogs to widen my winter world.
IT FEELS LIKE TOMATO-HARVEST SEASON here, what with 85 degrees dipping to a chilly 60 at night, but in fact we’re just coming up on tomato-sowing season (I do it April 15 here). Tricks for tomato sowing and growing, including what to do to prevent diseases this year, formed the topic for this week’s A Way to Garden radio podcast on Robin Hood Radio (WHDD-Sharon, Connecticut).
WE WENT SHRUB SHOPPING–VIRTUALLY, AT LEAST–on this week’s Robin Hood Radio A Way to Garden podcast, with the topic ranging from where to start in the shrub section of your local nursery (under “V,” of course, for Viburnum) to what else to look for besides (the obvious) spring blooms. Click over to hear the latest edition, or browse through our growing podcast archive.
I know it can feel about now as if someone sucked the life out of things…but maybe a few of the thoughts we discussed in these two recent podcasts will help make you a believer, too?Part 1: The 365-Day Garden (beginning at the 9:10 minute mark, after a discussion of night-blooming cereus, which radio host Jill Goodman was wondering how to overwinter) Part 2: Don’t Forget the Conifers (podcast about some of
A PAIR OF NEW PODCASTS HAVE PILED UP in the queue, last week’s on taking a tough-love approach to the gone-by spring garden, and Monday’s on quite the opposite thought: going out to shop for more. You can make your way to the goodies over at my podcast archive page at Robin Hood Radio/WHDD, the nearby NPR affiliate where the show is created, and stream at will, or click the yellow “Subscribe in iTunes” button there instead if that’s your delivery vehicle of choice.