The Garden Path Podcast

Since starting to produce this podcast in November 2015 all the way through May 2023, it’s been a wonderful ride to learn about gardening from so many great people. I’ve truly enjoyed interviewing and getting to know so many folks through this podcast, but all good things must end. And it is time to put […] The post Putting the Podcast Into the Compost Heap – A Heartfelt Goodbye! appeared first on The Garden Path Podcast.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Nancy Lawson (@humanegardener) A few announcements: I'm going to take an extended break from the podcast, which you've probably already thought was going on based on how sporadic episodes have been lately. I've lost my zest for the podcast and thought I might power through but […] The post Wildscape | Nancy Lawson appeared first on The Garden Path Podcast.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Texas Land Conservancy (@texaslandconservancy) My guest today is Amy Martin, a writer and researcher from Dallas who is currently compiling a biography on Texas environmentalist Ned Fritz. Now, you may be asking, who the heck is Ned Fritz? And I was right there with you up […] The post Ned Fritz’s Texas Environmental Legacy | Amy Martin appeared first on The Garden Path Podcast.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Monarch Gardens, Benjamin Vogt (@monarchgardensbenjaminvogt) Way back in 2018 I had today's guest on to talk about his book, A New Garden Ethic. Today Benjamin Vogt is back on the podcast to talk about his latest book, Prairie Up: An Introduction to Natural Garden Design. A […] The post Get Your Prairie On: Native Plant Garden Design with Benjamin Vogt appeared first on The Garden Path Podcast.

Photos courtesy and copyright of Michelle Lay Today's guest is Michelle Lay, a native plant gardener in Austin, Texas. Michelle and I have been Instagram acquaintances and friends over the last few years and I've enjoyed seeing her central Texas native plant garden evolve. Michelle has the same passion for conversation and protection of the […] The post Native Plant Gardening in Austin, Texas | Michelle Lay appeared first on The Garden Path Podcast.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Bonnie (@bonntany) Happy 2023 everyone! Spring is trying to spring here but like every year in Texas we brace ourselves for a surprise freeze in February, so I'm not getting too antsy about the growing season yet. But almost! Today's episode is a fun one and […] The post Herbariums, Botanizing New Jersey, and Ecosystems as Backdrops | Bonnie Semmling appeared first on The Garden Path Podcast.

I’m a voracious reader and read anything from paper books to kindle books and listen to my share of audiobooks. Rather than list the abundant garden and natural history books I read this year I summarized my two favorites in this podcast: Saving the Wild South by Georgann Eubanks and The Natural Habitat Garden by […] The post My Top 2 Garden & Nature Books for 2022! appeared first on The Garden Path Podcast.

This episode is more or less a recording of a blog post I wrote a few weeks ago regarding the stark divide in native plant media versus what is available for sale in the nursery industry. A summary of the issues… The Issues at Hand A diverse and locally native plant landscape for the home […] The post Just Give Us Some Native Milkweed! Native Plants vs the Horticulture Industry appeared first on The Garden Path Podcast.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Horticulturati (@thehorticulturati) Today's episode is one I have been wanting to make for quite a while and I'm glad it finally happened—an interview with Leah Churner and Colleen Dieter from The Horticulturati, a garden and horticulture podcast based out of Austin, Texas. Leah and Colleen […] The post The Horticulturati | Colleen Dieter & Leah Churner appeared first on The Garden Path Podcast.

Today’s guest is Haeley Giambalvo from San Antonio, Texas. You may know her on Instagram as the person behind Native Backyards, the highly informative account that features native plants and native plant gardening advice focused on Texas. I have loved what Haeley has been doing since the very start of her account and have admired […] The post Native Backyards | Haeley Giambalvo appeared first on The Garden Path Podcast.

Episode Transcript (more or less) Welcome to the Garden Path Podcast, Life Lessons and Conversations from the natural world. I'm your host Misti Little. Back in the 6th grade I was introduced to the world of art via an elective in middle school. I had played the oboe in the band for my first semester […] The post Nature Journaling Basics for Gardeners and Budding Naturalists appeared first on The Garden Path Podcast.

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Ti-Ti, Cyrilla racemiflora, blooming in its appropriate habitat location. A treefrog found a temporary place to rest on Lisa’s leg! Calopogon tuberosus Show Notes: Watson Rare Native Plant Preserve Watson Rare Native Plant Preserve Facebook Group The post Volunteering with the Watson Rare Native Plant Preserve appeared first on The Garden Path Podcast.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Jimmy Fike (@jimmyfike) Jimmy Fike, an Arizona based artist who recently spent more than a decade photographing North America's Edible and Medicinal Plants, produced gorgeous photographic prints of his subjects and turned them into a beautiful coffee table book. The prints are meticulously photographed, designed to […] The post Wild Edible Botanicals of North America | Jimmy Fike appeared first on The Garden Path Podcast.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Misti Little (@oceanicwilderness) Music: Going Home by Lee Rosevere Show Notes: Concrete Beds 1 & Concrete Beds 2 The post Penstemons, Bog Gardening, and Spring Unfolding | A Garden Catchup Episode! appeared first on The Garden Path Podcast.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Kenny Coogan (@crittercompanionsbykennycoogan) We’re back in Florida today with my guest Kenny Coogan. Kenny is the author of the soon to be released book FLORIDA'S CARNIVOROUS PLANTS: UNDERSTANDING, IDENTIFYING, AND CULTIVATING THE STATE'S NATIVE SPECIES, Education Director of the International Carnivorous Plant Society, and also sells […] The post Introduction to Florida’s Carnivorous Plants | Kenny Coogan appeared first on The Garden Path Podcast.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Florida Native Plant Society (@floridanativeplantsociety) Music: Going Home by Lee Rosevere Show Notes: +Florida Native Plant Society +FNPS YouTube channel The post Getting to Know the Florida Native Plant Society | Valerie Anderson appeared first on The Garden Path Podcast.

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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Gardenerd | Vegetable Gardener (@gardenerd1) Music: Going Home by Lee Rosevere Show Notes: +Gardenerd.com & Gardenerd Podcast +@gardenerd1 on Instagram +Gardenerd on Facebook +Ep. 4-5: Nerding Out on Gardening | Christy Wilhelmi on The Garden Path Podcast +Christy’s Patreon +Christy’s YouTube +Episode 19: Christy Wilhelmi on […] The post Mini Fruit Gardening & Fiction Garden Writing | Christy Wilhelmi appeared first on The Garden Path Podcast.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Misti Little (@oceanicwilderness) Sign up for the podcast newsletter —> HERE! +The Jorō Jungle in North Georgia via Using Georgia Native Plants +Invasive Spiders Don't Have to Stay via Using Georgia Native Plants +NEW FIND: JORO SPIDER via Southern Meadows +JORO SPIDER UPDATE: CONTROLLING THIS INVASIVE […] The post Tracking Novel Invasive Species: Green Cliff Brake Fern & the Jorō spider appeared first on The Garden Path Podcast.

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Louann and Ben Williams of Wetland Preserve All photos courtesy of Wetland Preserve, LLC. Sign up for the podcast newsletter —> HERE! Show Notes +Wetland Preserve, LLC website +Press about Wetland Preserve +@WetlandPreserve on Instagram +@WetlandPreserveFl on Facebook +St. John’s River Keeper +North Florida Prescribed Burn Association +Little Hoover Commission: Wildfire Preparedness and Forest Management […] The post Conservation Compatible Forestry at Wetland Preserve | Ben Williams appeared first on The Garden Path Podcast.

In this episode I talk about how you can source native plants for your home garden! Once you start getting an interest in native plants it can send you down a rabbit hole in growing all-things-native! The downside is a diversity of native plants can be hard to find! I hope this episode gives you […] The post Sourcing Native Plants appeared first on The Garden Path Podcast.

Sign up for the podcast newsletter —> HERE! Show Notes +Original Podcast Episode at Orange Blaze Podcast +Split Oak Forest WEA +Friends of Split Oak Forest on Facebook +Friends of Split Oak Forest on Instagram +The fight to save Split Oak Forest has evolved into one of Central Florida’s most divisive environmental disputes via The […] The post Saving Split Oak Forest | Valerie Anderson appeared first on The Garden Path Podcast.

Sign up for the podcast newsletter —> HERE! Show Notes +Butterfly dilemma: The problem with tropical milkweed +The Frankford Prairie via Plano Prairie Garden—an abundance of Camassia scilloides The post A Summer 2021 Garden Update & New Season appeared first on The Garden Path Podcast.

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Laura C. Martin is the author of 26 books that span a 40 year career. She paints and writes from Atlanta, Georgia where she’s lived throughout her life. Gardening and art was cultivated in her from a young age with parents who enjoyed both and over the years she adapted writing her books to also […] The post A Naturalist’s Book of Wildflowers | Laura C. Martin appeared first on The Garden Path Podcast.

Cardamine bulbosa, bulbous bittercress, a common bottomland cress found in the spring. Sign up for the podcast newsletter —> HERE! Show Notes +Roy E. Larsen Sandyland Sanctuary +Checking in on an old friend at Roy E. Larsen Sandyland Sanctuary +Spring Wakeup at Roy E. Larsen Sandyland Sanctuary +Early Spring Lepidopterans at Roy E. Larsen Sandyland […] The post Early Spring Botanical Walk at Roy E. Larsen Sandyland Sanctuary appeared first on The Garden Path Podcast.

Photographer Caitlin Atkinson and writer and garden podcast/radio host Jennifer Jewell teamed up to bring fabulous gardens of the American West to the rest of the garden world. In Under Western Skies: Visionary Gardens from the Rockies to the Pacific Coast, we see the diversity of the western landscape beyond the 100th Meridian. Caitlin and […] The post Under Western Skies: Majestic Garden Landscapes of the American West | Caitlin Atkinson & Jennifer Jewell appeared first on The Garden Path Podcast.

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Sign up for the podcast newsletter —> HERE! Show Notes Miracle Fruit: Brassavola: Chalice Vine: Ylang Ylang: Passiflora edulis: +How to pollinate a passiflora vine The post Favorite Plants I Used To Grow appeared first on The Garden Path Podcast.

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A black vulture seen at Aransas National Wildlife Refuge. January 1, 2021. Today I’m walking y’all through how I use the citizen science app, iNaturalist! I hope it inspires you to get out and start logging nature around you! Have questions on what I talk about? Feel free to comment below and I can attempt […] The post How I Use iNaturalist appeared first on The Garden Path Podcast.

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Western Pygmy Blue Butterfly Sign up for the podcast newsletter —> HERE! Show Notes: +Trail Camera Animals at Guadalupe and South Llano River State Parks +South Llano River State Park The post Exploring the Natural History of South Llano River State Park appeared first on The Garden Path Podcast.

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View this post on Instagram The very diminutive Bartonia texana, Texas screwstem (G2/S2S3 in Texas, S1 in Louisiana). Chris has been far more into the research of this plant because it's been on his goal list to find the last several years. B. texana is very habitat specific occurring in the baygall seepage swamps of […] The post Back to the Seepage Swamp | Finding Bartonia texana appeared first on The Garden Path Podcast.

View this post on Instagram One of my favorite dragonflies, and very common in my yard, the Common Whitetail, Plathemis lydia. This particular one if a male as they are the ones with the distinctive white abdomen in this species. Do you have this one flying in your garden?⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #dragonflies #commonwhitetail #plathemislydia #gardening #gardensofinstagram […] The post September in the Garden appeared first on The Garden Path Podcast.

View this post on Instagram First time finding a pine lily in Alachua county and we found a half dozen! This state threatened, fire dependent species is found in flatwoods and prairies in the Southeast US. This is my favorite flower and a treat to find close to home. #pinelily A post shared by Keith […] The post Nature, Wild Florida, and Taking it Slow on the Florida Trail | Keith Curry-Pochy appeared first on The Garden Path Podcast.

View this post on Instagram A pest to some, this bird dropping shaped caterpillar of the giant swallowtail, Papilio cresphontes, happily chomping down on one of my citrus trees is a welcome sight for me! Over the years I've shared caterpillars with a friend who had more host plants than I did but often times […] The post August in the Garden appeared first on The Garden Path Podcast.

Show Notes +Texas Mushrooms Field Guide by Susan Metzler and Van Metzler +Wildflowers of Texas by Michael Eason +Wildflowers of Texas by Geyata Ajilvsgi +Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses by James H. Miller and Karl V. Miller +Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Southeastern North America by Seabrooke Leckie +Caterpillars of […] The post Field Guides for the Beginning Naturalist appeared first on The Garden Path Podcast.

View this post on Instagram It took a long time to not be afraid of spiders. A lot of retraining my brain not to freak out the second I got near one or one touched me and instead to invoke a curious spirit. Would I want this golden orb weaver (Trichonephila clavipes) crawling on me? […] The post A Short Re-Introduction appeared first on The Garden Path Podcast.

View this post on Instagram Here's another neat looking Polygala species, Drumheads (Polygala cruciata)! Can you see those tiny, tubular shapes? The ones in the middle of those petal-like showy, deep pink bracts? Those are the actual flowers! Keep an eye out for these blooms when exploring open, moist-soil habitats. They grow near the ground […] The post Sand Scrub, Dry Prairies, and Cypress Swamps: A Convergence of South Florida Ecosystems | Stephanie Dunn appeared first on The Garden Path Podcast.

Music: “Heat” by Derek Clegg Seeds talked about in this episode: Sunflower ‘Zohar’ Sweet Pea ‘Perennial Blend’ Celosia ‘ Chief Red Flame’ Ageratum ‘Blue Planet’ Plains Coreopsis Poppy ‘Black Swan’ Mustard ‘Red Giant’ Carrot ‘Atomic Red’ Showy Milkweed Common Milkweed Kale ‘Nero Toscana’ Corn ‘Rio Grande Blue’ Native Seeds Carolina Rockrose Halberd-leaf rosemallow Ludwigia alternifolia […] The post A Peek at My Fall Seed Order appeared first on The Garden Path Podcast.