Podcasts about sedum

After one of the driest March's in years, our gardens are certainly providing some amazing tree blossom, shrub and bulb colour. DIG IT's Peter Brown and Chris Day delve into the latest news, events and gardening advice for the month ahead.5th April: The Forde Abbey Spring Plant and Gardening Fair at Forde Abbey and Gardens in Somerset.5th - 6th April: Cornwall Garden Society Spring Flower Show at Royal Cornwall Show Ground near Wadebridge.5th - 6th April: Great Dixter Annual Plant Fair at Great Dixter Garden, Rye in East Sussex. Until 6th April: Sounds of Blossom at Kew Gardens in collaboration with the Royal College of Music.13th April: Plant Fair and Talks at the Garden Museum, Lambeth Palace Road, London.24 - 27th April: Harrogate Spring Flower Show at the Great Yorkshire Showground.27th April: Ramster Garden Spring Plant Fair, Chiddingfold in Surrey.NewsNew National Forest to see 20m trees planted in England by 2050.Kew gets new and revamped features this year, plus the Waterlily House reopens.European Tree of the Year 2024: Beech tree in Poland wins.Alan Titchmarsh launches YouTube channel.Weed like to be better gardeners says OnePoll Research.Dog Trust warning to dog owners as several spring flowers can be toxic.RHS community garden survey launched.The hunt is on for rare and disappearing daffodils.2024: The worst year for bumblebees recorded.Blenheim celebrates with oak saplings.Exbury Gardens celebrates 70th anniversary of public opening.Bowood House and Garden opens for the first time.Lee Connelly named Ambassador for National Children's Gardening Week 2025.Historic uniforms worn by Chelsea Pensioners repurposed and included in a new Garden at Chelsea Flower Show next month.Hillier Nurseries is now 100% peat-free.Fewer slugs expected this spring, says RHS.New groundcover Hydrangea Blush ® launched.DIG IT Top 5 Miracle Gro Lawn Care Products:1st Complete 4 in 1, 14kg A lawn treatment product that kills weeds and moss, creating a thicker, greener and healthier lawn.2nd Patch Magic Bag contains a special binder which helps keep seed from washing away. It grows 2x thicker than ordinary grass, 1.5kg3rd Complete 4 in 1, 80 sqm.4th Miracle Gro Evergreen, 360 sqm.5th Miracle Gro Evergreen, 80 sqm.Plants mentioned: Calibrachoa in the Kinder range, Sedum, Rudbeckia, root-wrapped Roses, Sweet peas, Primroses, Polyanthus, Ranunculus, Brussel sprouts, Runner and Climbing Beans, Dahlia, Gladioli, Lilies, including the variety Stargazer, wildflower seeds, Pelargoniums, Fuchsias, Rosemary, Snake Plant and Money Plant (Crassula).Products: Slug Gone, Composted Bark Chippings, Root-trainers, Horticultural Fleece, Terrocotta pot, and create your own Easter Hunt in the garden!Our thanks to Chiltern Music Therapy for supplying the music. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Eduardo Barba nos presenta al Sedum palmeri, una planta crasa mexicana con ramilletes de hojas verdes de color claro y rojizo en forma de roseta que da flores de color amarillo limón. Y además, nos da las claves y señales para saber cuándo abonar nuestras plantas. 

Sedum ist die erste Buschblüten Essenz von Ian White, die außerhalb Australiens hergestellt wurde. In dieser Folge erzählt Ian die Geschichte ihrer Entstehung und beschreibt ihre Wirkung.

Welcome to the KSL Greenhouse show! Join hosts Maria Shilaos and Taun Beddes as they talk about all things plants, tackle your toughest gardening questions, and offer tips that can help you maintain a beautiful yard. Listen on Saturdays from 8am to 11am at 102.7 FM, 1160 AM, kslnewsradio.com, or on the KSL NewsRadio app. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram at @kslgreenhouse. Happy planting! #KSLGreenhouse    8:05  Plant of the week: Autumn Joy Sedum  8:20  How do I get rid of squash bugs? Should I cut out the bigger canes on my raspberries now or in the winter? Is it too late to plant grass seed? Why is the bark on my tree cracking? What’s a good deep shade ground cover?  8:35  Why are my Bartlett pears rotting from the inside out? How do I get rid of the locust tree suckers on my lawn? What are some tips for watering grass on a hill? When and how much can I prune laurels, yews, and dogwoods?  8:50  When’s the last day to lay new sod? How do I get rid of fairy rings? When should I trim butterfly bushes and dogwoods? Why can’t I replant a tree in the hole of a tree that I just got rid of? Is it time to spray 2,4-D? Where can I find quinclorac or 2,4-D? Why does every plum on my tree split its skin? Is it normal for bur oaks to be one of the first trees to turn color in the fall? When’s the best time to trim shrubbery such as the Boxleaf Euonymus? When’s the best time to prune rose bushes? 

Welcome to the KSL Greenhouse show! Join hosts Maria Shilaos and Taun Beddes as they talk about all things plants, tackle your toughest gardening questions, and offer tips that can help you maintain a beautiful yard. Listen on Saturdays from 8am to 11am at 102.7 FM, 1160 AM, kslnewsradio.com, or on the KSL NewsRadio app. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram at @kslgreenhouse. Happy planting! #KSLGreenhouse    Here’s what we covered this week:  Plant of the week: Autumn Joy Sedum  9 o’clock feature: How to Preserve Green Tomatoes  10 o’clock feature: All About Raised Bed Gardening  And more of your questions and concerns! 

The days are getting shorter.  The nights are getting cooler.Its August, but that doesn't mean that the growing season is over.Speaking of The Growing Season, Jack, Lynne and Matt McFarland touch on the all stars of August on this week's show. BUT FIRST:  We have officially survived the rainiest summer on record in the GTA.  Yeah. It's been that rainy. We've over doubled our average rainfall for the months of June to August, pummelling the old record into oblivion. Biologically, how does all this rain effect your plant materials? It's surprising what they do to deal with all this water. Speaking of plants, Rozanne perennial geranium, phlox, coneflower, black eyed Susie and many more are chatted about. Cheyenne Spirit Coneflower for the win!   Matt chastises Jack about his antiquated attitude regarding Russian Sage. If you've never used Sedum you may want to join the fan club after this show. Tune in. Looking to book a consult for your property?  We'd love to help.  CLICK HERE.What is a TGS Tiny Garden? CLICK HERE. Subscribe to The Growing Season podcast.  CLICK HERE.  

For all my listeners who like a less "livestocky" episode....this one is for YOU.  Listen in and learn  how a Christmas present helped turn a dream into reality and bring a lot of joy and peace of mind from the simple act of growing seeds. Sage Hook Hinson shares how a health issue and the need to eat as much CLEAN FOOD as possible has led her into much, much more than that. - Find Sedum & Sage Grow Co. on Facebook and Instagram - Join Sedum & Sage Grow Co. for their OPENING WEEKEND Saturday, July 20th from 9:00 am - 7:00 pm.  Location: 1322 King Road Allerton, IA 50008 (2.5 miles south of the junction of Hwy 2 & 65)

Hello Interactors, The lengthening northern days have unleashed verdant chaos in my yard and it's challenging my desire for order. Some unruly growth demands surrendering control, embracing life's rhizomatic entanglements — an invitation to honor multiplicity over singularity, relation over individuality, and emergence over stasis.Let's dig in…FERN FRENZY IN FULL FORCEThose skinny unattractive immigrants are invading. They're nudging their way through every nook and cranny stealing resources and opportunity from those already here. Before long, they'll be taking over the place. I'm talking about Leptinella squalida (Derived from the Greek "leptos" meaning slender and the Latin “squalid” meaning unattractive). That is the scientific name for a New Zealand native ground cover commonly referred to as ‘Brass buttons' and it's taking over my garden.Leptinella squalida is rhizomatous. It sends rootlike horizontal shallow subterranean stems — a rhizome — in a multitude of unpredictable directions. At various intervals in its journey, it progressively produces small nodules that send whisker roots below while sprouting shoots vertically to the surface to form miniature fern-like fronds — sometimes green and other times ‘brass' colored. Once a year it produces a yellow ‘button' blossom that can send seeds aloft leapfrogging the host to colonize another territory.I planted it in a shady moist area of my small backyard after ripping out a grass lawn. Liptinella squalida makes an even carpet that can withstand a fair bit of foot traffic, making it an attractive alternative to grass. Unfortunately, other plants can't withstand is aggressive propagation, starving them of light and nutrients. That's exactly what this exponentially expanding rhizome is doing to the slower growing, less aggressively sprawling Sedum rupestre 'Angelina' — a variety I also helped colonize from Western Europe.I suspect strict immigration laws should be applied to my little rambunctious rhizomatous island ferns. Last week I eradicated an entire section at the border with a shovel and then carefully extracted the spindly rhizomes from the starved roots and foliage of the ‘Angelina.' I'm contemplating building a subterranean Trump-like wall to resist the invaders. I may even perform widespread extirpation and dig it all up — especially given the primary section of Brass buttons have also been colonized. They are slowly being overtaken by another aggressive invasive species — clover.I didn't plan for this, but I did create the conditions for it to occur. In place of a grass lawn — which offers nothing to ecology in any shape or form — I planted a variety of low growing ground covers, sedums, and clumping ornamental grasses. Many of these ground covers have now intermingled. Some are more dominant in areas than others forming a diverse kaleidoscope of height, color, and texture. There's little strict cartesian geometric control I can apply to this tufted tapestry without hard physical barriers. And even then, their airborne spores can gleefully fly where the wind may carry them — oblivious to any tyrannical terrestrial territorial triangulations I may map in my head.Rhizomes are their own kind of experimental map. They randomly route with their roots. Their genes map the way as MicroRNAs modulate their sway. Meanwhile, subterranean phytohormones signal route initiation and elongation in a coordinated but random multi-directional, non-linear physical cartographic network.Rhizomic networks have no real beginning or end. They make connections in a non-hierarchical, decentralized way without a single origin or terminus. It is in a continual emergent state of being in the middle of having been made and becoming something new. There is no dualistic hierarchical parent/child branching that dominates Western mental images of hierarchical networks — like a family tree or even a real tree where a trunk sprouts limbs with branches that terminate with leaves. Rhizomatous networks defy rational Cartesian logic.I've been reflecting on the tension I'm experiencing as I wrestle and reason with my garden. On the one hand, I'm drawn to the top-down control of crafting a particular order and aesthetic as an amateur landscape architect. The same desire explains my affinity for urban and transportation planning and design…and I suppose my three decades of user interface design. I like attempts at bringing clarity to complexity.Modern urban planning tries to achieve the same thing. Urban planning has historically relied on hierarchical models characterized by centralized control and top-down implementation. These traditional approaches often use structural or generative frameworks to shape and represent urban spaces. Emphasizing coherence and order, urban planning typically adheres to mapped zoning regulations and legally controlled growth patterns. The focus is usually on achieving defined end-states or visions, imposing order through marginated space with bordered zones and predetermined paths dictated by urban transportation planning policies.The same can be said for the planning of countries and states. Colonial powers imposed structured urban plans to assert control and organize territories. Their maps, laws, police, and military impose order through variegated spaces at larger scales characterized by bordered zones and throughways. This reflects a continuity in the desire to manage and control urban growth and development of entire regions and even continents.FRICTION FORMS FLUID FRAMEWORKS The rhizome rejects arborescent structures, favoring non-linear, decentralized networks and connections, incompatible with traditional models. The French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's influential "A Thousand Plateaus" introduced the "rhizome" philosophical concept - a non-hierarchical, decentralized network characterized by multiplicity, heterogeneity, and non-linearity. Challenging Western metaphysics, it proposed rethinking reality as a dynamic, interconnected assemblage, embracing a rhizomorphic approach of continuous transformation and new connections over linear thinking.Insisting on mapping reality through open-ended experimentation rather than tracing existing structures, the concept embraces spontaneous ruptures forming new connections within emergent cultural networks resembling rhizomes. Having no beginning or end, existing in a constant state of becoming, it resists linear urban narratives and stagnant pure identities. Encouraging "lines of flight," the rhizome breaks from constraints of traditional thinking. The urban as a "smooth space" occupied by the rhizome contrasts sharply with hierarchies of Cartesian power and order.Human cultures also show evidence of embracing this mode of thinking. They too form new connections regardless of imaginary borders.  Jean-Loup Amselle is a French anthropologist known for his studies on African societies, cultural hybridization, and postcolonialism. He introduced the concept of "branchement" (branching) to describe the fluid and interconnected nature of cultures that remind me of what I'm witnessing in my back yard.Amselle's analysis of the N'ko movement in West Africa, which aimed to "debranch" the Manding culture from Arabic and European influences, offers parallels to the Palestinian context and others like Sudan and Ukraine.The Palestinian struggle for self-determination and cultural preservation resists perceived Israeli/Western dominance by asserting Palestinian identity and drawing on global solidarity networks. It shows how local struggles are part of broader global narratives surrounding identities and cultures. This conflict fuels identity-based movements reflecting Amselle's "identity wars" brought on by globalization and strict mapped borders. Amselle's framework rejects fixed identities, emphasizing the interconnections shaping Palestinian, Israeli, Jewish, and Arab identities. The concept of "branchement" highlights the complex entanglements of histories and global forces in the Palestinian conflict, challenging simplistic narratives of cultural purity and separation.The same desire for purity and separation is what led me to ponder border control in my own backyard. I'm even contemplating extermination. All because I saw friction at a border where one plant was not ‘plugging in' to the existing root network, but ‘debranching' another plants by taking over their lives and land.Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing is an anthropologist and professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She's known for her interdisciplinary work on globalization, ecology, and the Anthropocene, and for her acclaimed 2005 book "Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection,"She writes, "Cultures are continually co-produced in the interaction I call 'friction': the awkward, unequal, unstable, and creative qualities of interconnection across difference."Tsing argues that global connections and universalizing projects like dominant forms of Western capitalism, science, and politics do not spread seamlessly but encounter friction and resistance when they engage with specific localities and cultures. These interactions produce new articulations and connections that challenge the universalizing claims of global forces. This, like Amselle, emphasizes the entanglement and co-production of cultures through these encounters.These "zones of awkward engagement" or "cultural friction" are sites where universals collide with particular situations, producing unexpected outcomes and articulations. That's what I witnessed between my “brass buttons” and “Angelina”.“Zones of awkward engagement” and “cultural friction” exist at a city level too as immigrant populations integrate (“plug in” or branch) into established neighborhoods. This can create “cultural friction” as neighborhoods become “zones of awkward engagement”. Zoning and racial or socio-economic redlining are attempts at legal, cartographic, and cultural purity and separation that create awkward zones of friction.But Tsing highlights the importance of collaborations and coalitions that emerge from these zones of awkward engagement. She says, "Despite imperial standards for civil society, I have wandered into coalitions built on awkwardly linked incompatibilities." These collaborations create new interests and ways of being, challenging the singularity of global forces and enabling practices of collaborative knowing and working.PLANETARY PATHS, RHIZOME ROUTESI'm starting to see that local urban frictions, be they down the street or in the streets of Cairo, Chicago, Caraco, or Cape Town, are complex entanglements of histories and global forces. They branch like rhizomes in local frictions of awkward engagement, but also branch to entire other parts of the world. My backyard is a reflection of this. I created a ‘branchement' by planting plants native to vastly separated parts of the globe — New Zealand and Western Europe.Neil Brenner is a critical urban theorist at the University of Chicago and Christian Schmid is a sociologist and urban researcher at ETH Zurich. They're known for the influential concept of "planetary urbanization." They claim urbanization processes today are no longer confined to the traditional boundaries of cities, but rather extend across the entire planetary surface.They argue the classic "city-centric" view is inadequate to capture the multiscalar and multiterritorial dynamics of contemporary urbanization.Instead, they propose that urbanization today is a planetary phenomenon that cuts across the urban/rural divide and transcends the boundaries of individual cities or metropolitan regions. Urbanization unfolds through the constant production, transformation, and operation of socio-spatial configurations at multiple geographic scales, from the body to the globe.This includes the urbanization of seemingly "non-urban" zones like oceans, deserts, and wilderness areas being operationalized and transformed through various urbanization processes. While cities remain vital arenas for urbanization processes, they are embedded within and co-constituted by broader planetary urbanization dynamics that extend far beyond their boundaries. They argue urban theory must move beyond the city as its primary unit of analysis and develop new frameworks, methodologies, and cartographies to grasp the multiscalar and multiterritorial nature of planetary urbanization.This starts by recognizing the rhizomatic interconnections and interdependencies shaping urbanization at various scales, from local to global, and the diverse socio-spatial configurations and infrastructures that form the "urbanization fabric" across the planet. They argue that the "urban" is no longer a bounded condition but a generalized, planetary condition of socio-spatial transformation.The rhizomatic approach emphasizes non-linear and decentralized networks. It offers a valuable framework for urban planning, ecological management, and cultural integration. And even my garden. Just as Leptinella squalida defies linear control in my garden, urban spaces and cultural landscapes resist traditional hierarchical planning. This perspective promotes adaptability and inclusivity, fostering environments that evolve organically and embrace multiplicity and spontaneous connections. They reject unfair dominance or ‘debranching' or mechanisms by which dominant cultures or systems attempt to appropriate, assimilate, or subjugate other cultures or elements within their sphere of influence.Deleuze and Guattari's rhizome and plateau concepts critique cultural dominance and embrace multiplicity, diversity, and coexistence without imposing dominant structures. Applying these ideas to urban integration highlights the potential for hybrid solutions and collaborative networks that recognize fluid identities and dynamic cultural interactions. Amselle's "branchement" and Tsing's "cultural friction" emphasize productive tensions from encounters, challenging narratives of purity.Randomly routing rhizomatous roots, their genes mapping the way, are like the informal settlements and migrant networks. Their sways are modulated by global flows of capital with labor signaling route initiation and elongation in random multi-directional, non-linear physical and virtual networks that reject cartographic convention. Ultimately, this rhizomatic approach aligns with Neil Brenner and Christian Schmid's concept of planetary urbanization by acknowledging the interconnected and multiscalar nature of urban and cultural processes. It calls for new frameworks to understand and address the complex socio-spatial transformations shaping our world. How do we move beyond hierarchical, top-down models that use structural frameworks to shape urban spaces through regulated mapped zones, centralized control, and predetermined paths?Instead of aiming to impose order and coherence by striving to achieve defined end-state visions of bordered, marginated spaces, how might we embrace the interconnected rhizomatous roots and vines of the global urban interlacement — without one crowding out another? Maybe it's time we accept the woven flows of cultures, resources, and infrastructures of the past — and the ever-emerging present middle of rhizomatous networks — made from interplace, the interactions of people and place. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit interplace.io

May is the month our beds, allotments and containers explode with colour and energy.What's on3rd - 4th May Toby's Garden Festival at Powderham Castle, Kenton. 3rd - 5th May BBC Gardeners' World Spring Fair at the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu. 9 – 12th May RHS Malvern Spring Festival, Three Counties Showground, Malvern. 12th May Borde Hill Specialist Spring Plant Fair, Haywards Heath. 17th - 26th May Floralies Internationales, Vendee, France. 20th May World Bee Day 21st - 25th May RHS Chelsea Flower Show. 25th - 28th May Blenheim Palace Flower Show25th May - 2nd June National Children's Gardening Week will again be partnering with THE WORLD OF PETER RABBIT™ this May half term.30th May - 3rd June Bloom at the Visitors Centre, Phoenix Park, Dublin. Plants mentioned: Aquatics - water lilies, marginals and oxygenators can be established now. Camellias, Cauliflowers, Cherries, Cucumbers, Chili peppers, Courgette, Daffodils, Dahlias, ‘Enorma' Runner Beans, French bean ‘Cobra', Forsythia, Gooseberries, Helenium, Hosta, Iris, Kale, Malus (crab apples), ‘Padron' Pepper, Potatoes, Roses, Sedum, Sweet peas, Sunflowers, Sweet Corn and Tulips.Products mentioned: Fertilisers – Doff, Growmore and Tomorite, Tea for soaking bean seeds and Speedplanters.This month's Dig It Top 5: Most popular liquid feedsNewsClimate change and verticillium wilt puts brewers hops under threat.Kew scientists assess extinction risk of flowering species using computer modellingReaders to the trade magazine Horticulture Week voted for Alan Titchmarsh and bagged compost as the most influential person and product impacting the gardening world over the past 50 years.A major revamp of Torbay's 100-year-old Italian garden brings 1,600 new plants after 40 cabbage palms were felled.Yorkshire base, fourth generation rhubarb grower @ehubarbrobert is a social media hit.An OBE for garden designer and landscape architect Tom Stuart-Smith. The RHS have awarded Neil Lucas of Knoll Gardens and Nurseryman Chris Young the prestigious Victoria Medal of Honour (VMH). The Elizabeth Medal of Honour was bestowed on non-dig guru Charles Dowding for his outstanding contribution to horticulture as a non-professional gardener.New initiative to revive railway hedges.Latest DNA fingerprinting could help identify lost apples that are resistant to climate change.International Women's Day: 100+ Leading Women in Horticulture 2024 announced.University of Sussex launches The Big Bee Hotel experiment to discover more about bees that nest in artificially created habitats.New Tulip variety named after King Charles III unveiled at Keukenhof.Garden Organics says the Government isn't moving fast enough on the peat ban.RHS Chelsea Flower Show gardens go through ‘green audit' for the first time.£12million Lottery Heritage Fund to restore Great Yarmouth's historic winter gardens, the last surviving Victorian ironwork glasshouse on a seaside promenade.London's Royal Parks have openings for ten apprentices.Weather causes concern with potato farmers. Discover how to take part in this year's Henchman Topiary awards.Gardens start to bounce back visitor numbers wise with Kew Garden and RHS Wisley and the Royal Botanic Garden at Edinburgh taking the top spots.Our thanks to Chiltern Music Therapy for supplying the music. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Who will be the lucky winner of this week's prize from The Plant Runner?Another packed episode of excellent questions from our listeners and hear more about what Keith does (when he's not talking to us about gardening!)Some great tips this week include:Your ECO Neem and Eco Oil mix can be made up and left in the sprayer for use. Adding a couple of drops of detergent can help others like Bordeaux spray from becoming pastyAcer Negundo Box Elder tree can be a weedy speciesCompacted clay soil? Hear Keith's tips on preparing this soil before planting including loosening with F.D Ryan's broadfork, when to use gypsum and adding products like MycoGoldShade loving perennials - Keith recommends Ajuga, Ligularia dentata reniformis (Tractor Seat Plant), Chatham Island Forget-me-not, Arthropodium, Sedum, Clivia, Primula, Veltheimia BracteataTall plants like Aster falling over? Try crowding with other plants to support. Different forms of salivias, agastache, achillea for example.Cherries (Keith recommends lapin variety) and pears (Keith suggests Packham's Triumph) both require cross pollination for good crop production.Can you apply crop rotation principles to flowering annuals? Probably not but ensure you are improving soil with Clyde's lignite, Munash Rock Dust, Clyde's CompostHear how to remove Kaikuyu lawn. Use Slasher, cover with Where you can find all things Muddy Boots!Website: https://www.muddyboots.net.au/Instagram: www.instagram.com/muddybootspodcast/ Facebook: Muddy Boots Podcast | Facebook

After the last episode, Festive Partridge Berry – Terrarium Basics, Jamie asked if the sedums used in the terrarium are succulents, reminding me of a special sedum and succulent garden. Plus, a family story about a pallet garden featuring sedums and other things not so ideal is sure to bring a chuckle.  Related Stories and Helpful Links:     Sedum & Succulent Garden Pallet Garden & AC Screen Ep 144. Partridge Berry – Terrarium Basics Penn State Extension article - Be Safe Around Wooden Pallets! 8888 I'd love to hear about your garden and nature stories. And your thoughts about topics for future podcast episodes. You can email me at AskMaryStone@gmail.com. Thanks so much for tuning in. You can Follow Garden Dilemmas on Facebook and Instagram #MaryElaineStone.Episode web page —Garden Dilemmas Podcast Page Thank you for sharing the Garden of Life,Mary Stone, Columnist & Garden Designer                                        AskMaryStone.comMore about the Podcast and Column: Welcome to Garden Dilemmas, Delights, and Discoveries. It's not only about gardens; it's about nature's inspirations, about grasping the glories of the world around us, gathering what we learned from mother nature, and carrying these lessons into our garden of life. So, let's jump in in the spirit of learning from each other. We have lots to talk about. Thanks for tuning in, Mary Stone Garden Dilemmas? AskMaryStone.comDirect Link to Podcast Page

Green roofs can reduce stormwater runoff, cool buildings down, and provide much-needed habitat for wildlife, especially important in an urban environment like New York City. They can be as fancy or as low-maintenance as you want. Now, the city is financially incentivizing them through property tax abatements. Dustin Partridge, director of conservation and science at New York City Audubon, and Alan Burchell, green building specialist and founder of Urbanstrong, join us to talk about the benefits of green roofs and how to go about creating one, and to take your calls.  For more information on green roofs, check out Green Roofs NYC. NYC Audubon's conservation team is also available to help guide buildings and co-op boards who are interested in green roofs. Email them at greenroofs@nycaudubon.org.           

Welcome to The KSL Greenhouse Show! Hosts Maria Shilaos and Taun Beddes tackle your gardening questions, talk plants, and offer tips for an amazing yard. Listen Saturdays 8am to 11am at 1160 AM & 102.7 FM, kslnewsradio.com, or on the KSL Newsradio App. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram at @kslgreenhouse. #KSLGreenhouse  The plant of the week is the Upright Fall Sedum. It's a sleeper perennial that'll bloom in September. There are a variety available, with the most popular one being the lime green. They thrive in areas that cannot be watered a lot. For more information on the plant of the week you can find an article on the KSL Greenhouse Show Facebook page. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

To round out Season 3, Melissa and Wythe talk about the concept of the “urban forest” in NYC with scientist Mike Treglia of The Nature Conservancy. Mike was trained as a herpetologist (reptile scientist), but he now focuses on the total ecological systems of cities, especially trees. The Nature Conservancy itself works to study and protect land in many different ways, including in New York City. Mike also works with Forest For All NYC, supporting policy that can create and realize a comprehensive plan for NYC's treescape. Mike also co-organizes the Green Roof Researchers Alliance (GRRA), with NYC Audubon. The GRRA coordinates research on green roofs in the city, including the mapping of these roofs and helping us know what animals live across these heterogeneous spaces. Mike tells us all about the types of work that different research groups are up to, and how these individual scientific efforts connect with a larger social movement to create green roofs and steward them successfully. We also talk a lot about policy, especially given extreme temperatures and the roles green roofs can play in keeping buildings cooler. (Plus, lightning round: pizza in Staten Island!)Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support Fields by becoming a member!Fields is Powered by Simplecast.

"I'm sorry Kate, but there are going to be times in your garden where green is going to be the only colour..."Why?   Why does this have to be the way that it is?  Kate! Get a second opinion.Jack, Lynne and Matt discuss long blooming plants and how to bloom phase so that your garden is colourful from March to early November.  It's possible and The Growing Season tells you how to do it. Sedum, tickseed, phlox, weigela, rose of sharon and the legendary potentilla are all spotlighted in an effort to keep the colour coming consecutively.  Tips For Success From The Growing Season features tips on how to prolong the length of blooms on annuals, perennials and flowering shrubs.  Lynne discusses frustrating your annuals on purpose to keep them blooming for ever and ever.  Matt gushes over Yarrow - and why wouldn't you?   THIS THING BLOOMS LIKE STINK!Looking to book a consult for your property?  We'd love to help.  CLICK HERE.What is a TGS Tiny Garden? CLICK HERE. Subscribe to The Growing Season podcast.  CLICK HERE. 

Quirky, collectible, and water-wise, succulents will add eye-catching texture to any garden bed or container display. There are some succulents that are cold hardy, while others will need to be brought indoors for the winter in colder regions. Join Danielle, Carol and guest Amanda Thomsen as they share some of their favorite succulents, including a few unforgettable “oddballs”.   Expert guest: Amanda Thomsen is a garden designer, garden shop owner, and author based in suburban Chicago.   Danielle's Plants Variegated fox tail agave (Agave attenuata 'Variegata', Zones 9-12) Spiral aloe (Aloe polyphylla, Zones 9-12) Red mistletoe cactus (Pseudorhipsalis ramulosa, Zones 9-11) ‘Frosted Fire' sedum (Sedum ‘Frosted Fire', Zones 3-9)   Carol's Plants 'Red Velvet' plush plant (Echeveria pulvinata 'Red Velvet', Zones 9-11) ‘Christmas Carol' aloe (Aloe ‘Christmas Carol', Zones 9-11) Gold moss sedum (Sedum acre, Zones 3-8) ‘Matrona' sedum (Hylotelephium telephium 'Matrona', Zones 3-9)   Expert's Plants Pencil cactus (Euphorbia tirucali, Zones 10-12) Bundle of sticks plant (Cynanchum marnierianum, Zones 10-11) ‘Frizzle Sizzle' albuca (Albuca spiralis ‘Frizzle Sizzle', Zones 8-10) ‘Nerds' sedum (Sedum album ‘Nerds', Zones 3-8)

Schools out for the summer!  How do you tend to those lovely gardens when you're at the cottage?  What do you plant at the cottage when you're only there infrequently?  Jack, Lynne and Matt McFarland discuss the ins and outs of keeping your gardens looking wonderful whilst you're away. So, you don't own a cottage. No problem, the trio chat about the plants that can withstand stretches without water and the heat that accompanies July and August. Veronica, Spirea, Viburnum, Yarrow, Sedum, Hens and Chicks are just some of the tough customers that would do well if left alone for extended periods of time. Poison Ivy features on Tips For Success From The Growing Season. How to identify and what to do if you're exposed to this nasty beast are discussed. Looking to book a consult for your property?  We'd love to help.  CLICK HERE.What is a TGS Tiny Garden? CLICK HERE. Subscribe to The Growing Season podcast.  CLICK HERE. 

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Melissa and Wythe sit down at the Heritage Radio Network studio in Roberta's to chat with Ben Flanner, co-founder and CEO of Brooklyn Grange, to talk about the history and future of rooftop farming.Ben walks us through the decade-long history of Brooklyn Grange, which has led the field in turning rooftops into farms in NYC. We talk about the challenges that face rooftop farmers, the innovations that have led their business model to work, the different kinds of crops grown across the many Grange rooftops, and what the future holds. We also brainstorm about edible meadows, urban food forests, and the general eater's shifting awareness about food and agriculture's links to climate. It's a special conversation, and we hope you'll give it a listen!Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support Fields by becoming a member!Fields is Powered by Simplecast.

Read about my new book: Medicinal Ferns and Fern Allies, an Herbalist's Guide https://southernappalachianherbs.blogspot.com/2022/11/medicinal-ferns-and-fern-allies.htmlAvailable for purchase on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BMSZSJPSRead about my new cookbook, The Omnivore's Guide to Home Cooking for Preppers, Homesteaders, Permaculture People and Everyone Else: https://southernappalachianherbs.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-omnivores-guide-to-home-cooking-for.htmlAvailable for purchase on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BGKX37Q2Visit my Substack and sign up for my free newsletter: https://judsoncarroll.substack.com/Read about my new other book, Medicinal Shrubs and Woody Vines of The American Southeast an Herbalist's Guidehttps://southernappalachianherbs.blogspot.com/2022/06/medicinal-shrubs-and-woody-vines-of.htmlAvailable for purchase on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B2T4Y5L6andGrowing Your Survival Herb Garden for Preppers, Homesteaders and Everyone Elsehttps://southernappalachianherbs.blogspot.com/2022/04/growing-your-survival-herb-garden-for.htmlhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/B09X4LYV9RThe Encyclopedia of Medicinal Bitter Herbs: https://southernappalachianherbs.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-encyclopedia-of-bitter-medicina.htmlAvailable for purchase on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B5MYJ35RandChristian Medicine, History and Practice: https://southernappalachianherbs.blogspot.com/2022/01/christian-herbal-medicine-history-and.htmlAvailable for purchase on Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/B09P7RNCTBHerbal Medicine for Preppers, Homesteaders and Permaculture People: https://southernappalachianherbs.blogspot.com/2021/10/herbal-medicine-for-preppers.htmlAlso available on Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/B09HMWXL25Podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/show/southern-appalachian-herbsBlog: https://southernappalachianherbs.blogspot.com/Free Video Lessons: https://rumble.com/c/c-618325

Flowers and foliage get most of the fanfare, but a plant with eye-catching seed heads will add interest for weeks or even months after its bloom time is over. The textures and shapes of these seed-bearing structures are delightfully diverse, ranging from alliums' showy starbursts to plump peony pods and the feathery tassels of clematis. Our hosts and expert guest will share some favorite selections that look great after they go to seed. Expert guest: Amanda Thomsen is a horticulturist, garden designer, and author based in suburban Chicago.   Danielle's Plants 'Purple Sensation' allium (Allium 'Purple Sensation', Zones 3-9)  'Kopper Kettle' Itoh peony (Paeonia 'Kopper Kettle', Zones 3-8)  'Goldsturm' black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia fulgida var. sullivantii 'Goldsturm', Zones 3-9)  Baptisia (Baptisia australis, Zones 3-9)    Carol's Plants ‘Strawberry Fields' gomphrena (Gomphrena haageana ‘Strawberry Fields', Zones 9-11) Tibetan clematis (Clematis tibetana, Zones 6-9) Kamchatka sedum (Sedum kamptschaticum, Zones 3-8) ‘Blue Glow' globe thistle (Echinops bannaticus, Zones 3-8)   Expert's Plants Angel's trumpet (Datura innoxia, Zones 9-10) Love-in-a-mist (Nigella damascena, annual) Love lies bleeding (Amaranthus caudatus, annual)

Callers want to know what to do with roses and Sedum. In pots, not yet planted. And we discuss paperwhite Narcissus, Clematis, blooming Hellebores and raspberries this week. Listen live every Saturday at 9am on Zoomer Radio

Fred talks about Sedum in all its glory right now on the latest podcast.

Preparing herbs, and tropical Mandevilla to come inside for winter, beating squirrels with blood meal, and pruning Sedum next June to avoid September collapse - all covered this week on the Garden Show. Listen live every Saturday at 9am on Zoomer Radio

What's not to love about sedums? They're drought-tolerant, they attract pollinators, and they flower later in the season when not much else is going on in the garden. But they also have their drawbacks—namely a proclivity to splay open (we're looking at you Autumn Joy) and look rather awful in some cases. But rest assured that today we're talking about sedums that maintain a compact habit (whether they're an upright or ground cover type), still sport gorgeous flowers, and thrive in terrible conditions. If you have full sun, lean soil, and hate plants than need a lot of pampering, then this episode is for you.  Expert testimony: Sandy McDougle is the founder and owner of Sandy's Plants in in Mechanicsville, Virginia.   Danielle's Plants 'Boogie Woogie' sedum (Sedum ‘Boogie Woogie', Zones 3-9)  'Night Light' sedum (Sedum 'Night Light', Zones 3-9)  'Plum Dazzled' sedum (Sedum rupestre ‘Plum Dazzled', Zones 4-9)  ‘Carl' sedum (Hylotelephium telephium ‘Carl', Zones 3-9)    Carol's Plants ‘Matrona' sedum (Hylotelephium telephium 'Matrona', Zones 3-9) ‘Blue Spruce' creeping sedum (Sedum reflexum ‘Blue Spruce', Zones 4–9) Dragon's blood sedum (Sedum spurium 'Schorbuser Blut', Zones 4-9) ‘Angelina' sedum (Sedum rupestre ‘Angelina', Zones 5–9)   Expert's Plants ‘Dazzleberry' sedum (Sedum ‘Dazzleberry', Zones 4-9) Goldmoss sedum (Sedum acre, Zones 4-9) Chinese sedum (Sedum tetractinum, Zones 4-8) ‘Weihenstephaner's Gold' sedum (Sedum kamtschaticum var. floriferum ‘Weihenstephaner's Gold', Zones 3-8)

For the past 33 years Kathy and her husband Simon have created a simply amazing Manor House Garden in Stevington, just north of Bedford. It's a garden full of inspiration, buoyed by Kathy's keen use of colour and structure as well as plenty of great plants. In this episode of Dig it, Peter Brown and Chris Day discover more about how the garden evolved, advice on growing plants in containers using recipe-style plantings, the crocking debate, tales of a donkey, opening a garden to the public and using edible flowers in baking.Plants mentioned: Beech hedging, Eucalyptus, Pine trees, avenues of Betula jacquemontii, Metasequoia glyptostroboides and Ginkgo biloba. Wisteria, Weeping Cedrus, xeriscape plants such as succulents. Perennials Agapanthus, Alliums, Japanese anemones, Gladiolus callianthus 'Murielae' (Abyssinian gladiolus, RHS AGM), Sedum, Hellebore Gold Collection (outward facing blooms perfect in pots) Helleborus ‘Frosty' is a good one, Verbena bonariensis, ornamental grasses including Calamagrostis ‘Overdam', Echinaceas. Hyacinths, Dwarf and species Tulips, Tulip clusiana 'Lady Jane' and Dwarf Narcissi like ‘January Gold' (early) and ‘Pipit' (later flowering). Good flavours to use with cake bakes include scented rose petals as these provide the most flavour as well as lavender.Kathy's desert island plant: English lavender – wonderfully versatile, you can cook with it and use it in a wide variety of ways as well as producing a wonderful tea to enjoy.Products mentioned: White Himalayan birch plantings at Anglesey Abbey. National Garden Scheme (NGS). Solardome ® greenhouse. Beth Chatto's dry garden – a converted car park to a gravel garden. Piet Oudolf, a Dutch garden designer, plant nursery man and author who practices a more naturalistic approach to gardening. Composts: Dalefoot Wool Compost and Jack's Magic All Purpose Improved Compost (reduced peat) and New Horizon Peat-Free Compost. Broadleaf p4, using John Innes Compost as an additive. Kathy likes to use Evergreen Compost , who offer peat-free, peat-reduced and a traditional compost containing sphagnum moss peat. Water retaining granules such as Broadleaf P4 and Swelgel, which can be added to compost and soil to help retain moisture around the plant's roots. Garden photographer Clive Nichols and the early morning photo shoot.Kathy Brown's Books The Edible Flower Garden, Container Gardening, Kathy Brown's Recipes For Easy Container Gardening and A Bulb for all SeasonsTo find out more about Kathy's Garden, opening details, Kathy's lectures and how to book a visit click hereOur thanks to Chiltern Music Therapy for providing the music. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What gardener doesn't like something a bit out-of-the ordinary, right? Especially when it's a plant that puts on a serious show as the final curtain call is happening. Today we highlight some of our favorite unusual fall perennials, options that are interesting cultivars of a genus you may know, and weird oddballs you've likely never heard of. Just a heads up that we may have cheated a teeny, tiny bit and thrown in a shrub or even a tender perennial to keep you on your toes. Regardless the plants you'll hear about on this episode are all exceptional autumnal stars that will stop garden visitors in the tracks to ask, “What on earth is that?” Expert testimony: Matt Mattus is the author of two books: Mastering the Art of Flower Gardening and Mastering the Art of Vegetable Gardening. He gardens in Worcester, Massachusetts.   Danielle's Plants ‘Snow Fairy' blue mist shrub (Caryopteris divaricata 'Snow Fairy', Zones 6-9) ‘Lady in Black' calico aster (Symphyotrichum lateriflorum ‘Lady in Black', Zones 3-8) ‘Golden Angel' Japanese shrub mint (Leucosceptrum japonicum 'Golden Angel', 5-8) Sapphire berry (Symplocos paniculata, Zones 4-8)   Carol's Plants ‘Chocolate' Joe Pye weed (Eupatoriam rugosum ‘Chocolate', Zones 4-8) October daphne sedum (Sedum sieboldii, Zones 3-8) 'Black Negligee' bugbane (Actaea simplex 'Black Negligee', Zones 5-8) ‘Goldtau' tufted hair grass (Deschampsia cespitosa 'Goldtau', Zones 4-9)   Expert's Plants  ‘True Blue' gentian (Gentiana makinoi x scabra ‘True Blue', Zones 4-8) ‘Milk Bottles' bottle gentian  (G. andrewsii ‘Milk Bottles', Zones 4-8) Summer gentian (G. septemfida syn. G. septemfida var. lagodechian, Zones 4-7) Tuberose (Agave amica syn. Poloanthes tuberosa, Zones 7-11) The Pearl', ‘Single' (notable cultivars) Weeping golden toad lily (Tricyrtis macrantha subsp. macranthopsis, Zones 4-9) Ohsumi toad lily (T. ohsumensis, Zones 4-9) Asian toad lily (T. formosana, Zones 4-9) ‘Samuri', ‘Autumn Glow', ‘Gilt Edge' (notable cultivars) Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta, Zones 3-9) Sonora', Prairie Sun', ‘Goldrush', ‘Goldilocks', ‘Cherokee Sunset', ‘Autumn Colors', ‘Chim Chiminee' (notable cultivars) Brown-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia triloba, Zones 4-8)

In this edition of Dig It, Chris Day chats with Pauline Brown, Partner at Buckingham Garden Centre and Nurseries, to discover more about the history and evolution of the business looking at the changes in the way we garden, the development of the site over five decades and how trends have impacted on the business from sustainability to new plants. We also chat to Pauline about her own passion for plants and gardening for wildlife, growing food for the kitchen, the art of composting and the importance of gardening for the future.To see how Buckingham Garden Centre has developed over 50 years check out this photo galleryCore gardening is key – garden tools, fertilisers, compost bins, water butts, solar lights with timers, and seeds. Over recent years Buckingham Garden Centre has become a destination garden centre together with hugely popular The Gardeners' Retreat Restaurant.Plant mentions: Apples (including the variety ‘Ashmead's Kernel'), Amelanchier, Cordylines, Hedging, Helianthemums, Phormium, Potatoes, Ornamental trees, Sedum, Lettuce, Chard, Pea ‘Alderman'. Look for disease resistance in the new varieties if you can.Sustainability on the site water conservation (reservoir), solar panels, recycling (include taupe plant pots and trays), FSC certified timber, peat-free composts and in the restaurant waste coffee grounds are collected, sent for recycling to be turned into coffee logs.Seeds from Garden Organic's Seed Heritage LibraryThe RHS Plant Finder Book 2022 and onlineThe RHS Award of Garden Merit (AGM).RHS Plants For Pollinators logo on labels.Helping wildlife: Products such as hedgehog houses, bird feeders and bug hotels.Learning about gardening by talking to family and friends, visit your local library, tap into staff knowledge when visiting the Garden Centre and books such as the RHS Dictionary of Gardening provide invaluable reference information.The Mid Shires Orchard Group Promoting older regional apple varieties and establishing community orchardsFind out more about Medical Detection DogsOur thanks to Chiltern Music Therapy for supplying the music. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Join us on our trip down south to Georgia to learn about this beautiful, listener requested (Thanks Manuela!) flower, Granite Stonecrop! This lovely low-growing flower blooms when we are still skiing deep snow up here in Montana, so we are super excited to share what we learned about a totally new flower to us. Unlike some of the other flowers we have covered already, this flower is pretty dang rare, so we learn how rare-ness is categorized in flowers, and what human activities are driving this Sedum species to be so rare. We love all of your feedback, so be sure to shoot us an email with any requests, suggestions, corrections, or to just say hi! Please like, subscribe, and review and be sure to share with all of your nature loving friends. And of course, get outside and smell the wildflowers. email:wildforwildflowerspod@gmail.com insta: @wildforwildflowerpod

This month on the Down the Garden Path podcast, landscape designers Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing discuss some of their favourite perennials. They begin with a look at a versatile classic, sedums. From shrub substitute to colourful ground cover, it's hard not to have a spot in your garden for a spectacular sedum. Joanne and Matt kick off the month with a look at sedums, a perennial favourite. Some of the questions and topics covered: What is the best soil for sedums? Matt discussed the Sunsparkler Sedum series. The versatility of sedums in your landscape Sedum mats available in 1 x 2 foot rectangles to quickly cover an area with a dense thick mat of sedums Joanne spoke about attending Toronto Botanical Garden's annual garden tour Through the Garden Gate, exploring the Wychwood area of Toronto Matt talked about attending the Oshawa Peony Festival  Each week on Down The Garden Path, professional landscape designers Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing discuss down-to-earth tips and advice for your plants, gardens and landscapes. As the owner of Down2Earth Landscape Design, Joanne Shaw has been designing beautiful gardens for homeowners east of Toronto for over a decade. A horticulturist and landscape designer, Matthew Dressing owns Natural Affinity Garden Design, a landscape design and garden maintenance firm servicing Toronto and the Eastern GTA. Together, they do their best to bring you interesting, relevant and useful topics to help you keep your garden as low maintenance as possible. In their new book, Down the Garden Path: A Step-By-Step Guide to Your Ontario Garden, Joanne and Matthew distill their horticultural and design expertise and their combined experiences in helping others create and maintain thriving gardens into one easy-to-read monthly reference guide. It's now available on Amazon.

Irgendwo zwischen Straßenslang und Sinnsuche bewegte sich Anfang der 1950er Jahre die amerikanische Beat-Generation. Ein Lebensgefühl, das 40 Jahre später auch im deutschen Südwesten seine Wellen schlug. Unter dem Label „Social Beat“ organisierten die Brüder Joachim und Michael Schönauer aus Ludwigsburg Veranstaltungen zwischen Punk und Poetry, die Texte erschienen im eigens gegründeten Killroy-Media-Verlag. Heute konzentriert sich der kleine, unabhängige Verlag auf sehr spezielle Produktionen. Der Text „Sediment und Sedum“ wurde unlängst mit dem Deutschen Preis für Nature Writing ausgezeichnet.

Fred advises what to do when sedum is bending over.

Today we tackle a widespread beautiful weed whose cousin is a rather desirable plant. The weed? Salt Heliotrope, a close relative of the widely cultivated common heliotrope. And you don't want the salt heliotrope growing around your desirable plants. One of the showiest plants right now is 'Autumn Joy' Sedum. We'll tell you all about this, the Plant of the Week. And a primer on using livestock watering troughs for permanent plants, as well as annuals.It's on episode 147 of the Garden Basics with Farmer Fred podcast, brought to you today by Smart Pots and Dave Wilson Nursery. And we will do it all in under 30 minutes. Let's go!Pictured:"Autumn Joy" sedumLinks:Smart PotsDave Wilson NurseryUC Davis ArboretumThe Garden Basics with Farmer Fred NewsletterCalifornia Garden Web - Growing BerriesLivestock watering troughsTractor Paint for Watering TroughsSedum "Autumn Joy"salt heliotrope infoMore salt heliotrope infoMore episodes and info available at Garden Basics with Farmer FredGarden Basics comes out every Tuesday and Friday. Live links, product information, transcripts, and chapters available at the Buzzsprout home site for Garden Basics with Farmer Fred. Got a garden question? • Leave an audio question without making a phone call via Speakpipe, at https://www.speakpipe.com/gardenbasics• Call or text us the question: 916-292-8964. • E-mail: fred@farmerfred.com All About Farmer Fred:The  Garden Basics with Farmer Fred Newsletter Farmer Fred website: http://farmerfred.comDaily Garden tips and snark on TwitterThe Farmer Fred Rant! BlogFacebook:  "Get Growing with Farmer Fred"Instagram: farmerfredhoffmanFarmer Fred Garden Videos on YouTubeAs an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases from possible links mentioned here.And thank you for listening.

It's Mike turn to reveal his "Sleeper Plant". No not a tired plant, but an over looked beauty you should think about adding to your landscape!! Get your pen & paper to write down a few variety types, then head on over to your local garden center! PLUS a Mike's Mail Question has hit our email box!_______________If you'd like to ask us an "on-air" question or just leave a show comment, do it the old fashioned way, leave a voice mail at: (567) 318-2325 Or email us at: YourMidwestGarden@bex.net________________Like to check out our Facebook Page? Please "LIKE" it, follow along and even post, not only your garden pictures, but message us with questions. Plant, bug IDs, etc. Mike loves to help out!https://www.facebook.com/Your-Midwest-Garden-Podcast-104823994541594________________If you happen to be in the Toledo or Perrysburg, Ohio area, please stop in at our sponsor's garden centers or visit them online at:https://www.blackdiamondgrows.comBlack Diamond Garden Centers Welcome to Black Diamond Nursery & Lawn Service. We been a local business in Toledo for 50 years!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/yourmidwestgarden)

"My gardens are colourless in August, I guess that's how it is."We hear this all the time.  So many of our clients echo these sentiments.But. It's. Not. True!The Growing Season's Jack, Lynne and Matt McFarland dive into "August All-Stars," the plant materials you can implement into your landscape that take centre stage in the only month that begins with "A."Scabiosa, Rose Of Sharon, Black Eyed Susie, Cone Flower, Sedum, Shasta Daisy and many more are just some of the planties you can use to August up your garden.  The McFarlands dive into them all!The trio also chat about the "biological dimmer switch" that plants use to turn flowering off and on.  It's pretty cool.Need a visual?  The visual accompaniment to The Growing Season is here to help.  CLICK HERE. What is a TGS Tiny Garden? CLICK HERE. Subscribe to The Growing Season podcast.  CLICK HERE. Watch "The Land Line," our LIVE streaming show.  CLICK HERE.  

Tipp 1: Wenn es ein ganz kleiner Schottergarten ist, kann man einfach schöne große Terrakotta-Töpfe draufstellen. Die kann man mit Sedum bepflanzen, also mit Dickblattgewächsen, und mit Steppenstauden. Das sieht schon mal schön aus. Von Heike Boomgaarden | Text und Audio dieses Beitrags stehen unter der Creative-Commons-Lizenz CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

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For more delicious news, go to www.GoodNewsGoodPlanet.com, and scroll to bottom for more ways to find the feel good stuff!* BUS STOP BEES Honey Bees are one of the most important pollinators on the planet. Unfortunately, Honey Bee populations are declining due to human interference on many levels. But there’s a news buzz of hope on the horizon in Europe… In Utrecht, Holland, they’ve taken the declining bee population problem into their own hands or should I say, over their bus stops! The City of Utrecht has planted the roofs of their bus stops with Sedum, as a way to help the honey bee and bumble bee populations. Sedum are bee friendly succulents which are easy to grow and improve air quality. Last year the Dutch Government introduced this Pollinator Strategy in an attempt to revive the bee, butterfly, and other insect populations which are necessary for more than 75% of the country’s edible crops. Not only do the buzzing bus stops aid in recovering the bee population, but they also aid in improving the city environment by capturing fine dust, reducing noise and absorbing carbon. The new roofs also store rainwater, and provide cooling in the summer. The buzzing bus stops are maintained by city workers who go from one stop to the next via electric vehicles. These environmentally friendly hubs have also been equipped with energy efficient LED lights and sustainable bamboo benches. As of late 2019, Utrecht had 10 electric busses in service with a plan to have all their busses emission-free by the year 2028. The city is also encouraging its residents to alter their home roofs to be buzz-worthy and bio-diverse by offering available eco-funding to do so. Utrecht’s long-term plan is to create a more sustainable city, and a model that others can easily replicate. Improving the lives of the pollinators, the people and the planet, one buzzing green roof at a time! #### *Hungry for more of the Good Stuff? Search "Good News Good Planet" on YouTube, Instagram, Patreon, Alexa and wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts.

Woensdagmiddag 21 oktober tussen 15.00 en 17.00 uur is er weer een nieuwe ‘Met Van Mill door de middag. In deze uitzending zijn te gast Anja van der Vlist-Pluut over wereldstotterdag, Alex Wolf van Lust en Bonheur by Lust, Tonia Ruybroek van KijkopWelzijn en Marcel Eichhorn over duurzaamheid.

Fabulous Flowers tv duo Paulie & Lucy tackle the Chrysanthemum.  Known as a ‘Mums' or ‘Chrysanths',  they can be thought of in some circles as a bit ‘fuddy duddy' …..but hear how Paulie invites you to re-embrace this bloom and use it in a more contemporary and stylish way.  It's an "AYR" for any florist, so if you want to know that that florists secret code means, you'll just have to listen!   And they do last forever in a vase, anywhere, so what's not to like? In all colours, all sizes and all varieties these star like blooms are easy to plant and grow, super easy to source for use at home and have been used over centuries to make tea, eaten as vegetables and can even help with air pollution in your home.  Truly surprising and much over looked plants.  Sharing a red and white inspired Chrysanthemum celebrity event…Paulie shares some insider party tales on all things Trump!… maybe not what you'd expect. And don't forget - ‘The Client is always right!” The Floriography Fun Fact in this episode is on succulents and in particular, the architectural, self assured Sedum.  Its Floriography message is rather endearing, based on the way it grows and how it presents itself.  A truly fabulous, interesting and carbon neutral roof covering plant too - all over the world.  This is twenty minutes of floral fun, including a little bit of French, a smattering of Latin and even a cup of Earl Grey with a Florentine. What's not to like? Find a place, find some space and enjoy Fabulous Flowers tv - Episode 21.  The flowery uplifting and factual entertainment, humorous podcast that leaves you better off florally, historically, informationally and most importantly - mentally. You'll be glad you listened. To see and hear more flowery magic, head over to the website where you'll find links to all things Fabulous Flowers tv.

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Understanding the best way to grow and care for your Sedum can help your plants live longer. So in this episode we talk about all the things you need to know. From watering, soil, fertilizer and general techniques that can make your life easier. Be sure to subscribe to our channel. website. https://succulentsnetwork.com Youtube: https://youtube.com/succulentsnetwork Instagram: https://instagram.com/succulentsnetwork Facebook: https:// facebook.com/succulentsnetwork

DESIGN ELEMENTS Lawn Alternatives for Low Foot Traffic Areas Continuing the series on lawn alternatives but this time we're throwing in those plants that will only take light foot traffic, rather than say constantly walking on the area or playing cricket or football. So what sort of plant alternatives are there for low foot traffic areas in part shade or hot spots in your garden? Let's find out. I'm talking with Glenice Buck from  www.glenicebuckdesigns.com.au   For hotspots: Sedum acre as a lawn alternative.   The three top picks for lawn alternatives in low traffic areas with some shade are Corsican mint, (Mentha requieni) Chamomile nobilis or lawn chamomile. For hot spots choose creeping thyme, (Thymus serpyllum) or Stonecrop, (Sedum acre.)  For all the latest news - Follow Glenice on Facebook or Instagram Subscribe to Glenice's monthly Garden Greetings Newsletter: www.tinyletter.com/glenicebuckdesigns  If you have any questions for me or for Glenice, please write in to realworldgardener@gmail.com

You can't just toss a waterscape in the middle of your yard or next to your house and hope that it fits. The whole scene just doesn't look natural until you've made sure that one fits right in with the other. Mark MJ Wilson, The Pond Advisor, is in the house today to talk about blending the lines between your waterscape and landscape. When these guys talk landscape, they don't just mean mother nature, but also making sure that it looks like your house was built right up to this waterscape. There are a plethora of factors that go into this blending process, so stay tuned to hear exactly what those are! Eric shares his insight on: Blending you waterscape with natural and manmade landscapes Training your plants to be drought resistant Aspects of working with waterscapes in different climates Solutions when dealing with capillary actions Creating an ideal substrate to blend the landscape and waterscape Utilizing different materials such as gravel, mulch, and bark Combining substrates separately instead of mixing them all together Making sure that you do not have plants that look too similar Having disparity on your edge treatment How different plants complement and adapt in different environments Sedum: why it looks so good Treating aquatic plants as annuals compared to perennials Changing your edge treatments and aquatics over time   Links to resources: The Pond Advisor The Pond Advisor Facebook The Pond Advisor YouTube The Pond Digger If you're looking for inspiration and tips for your pond, be sure to follow The Pond Digger's Instagram!  You can also check out The Pond Digger's products at: http://helixpondfiltration.com/   And follow his adventures in the pond world at: Instagram @theponddigger Facebook @theponddigger   If you have any questions, feel free to email Eric at: Eric@theponddigger.com  

How is it that Dee and Carol can go from peonies to Wallis Simpson to tomatoes and then the Chelsea chop in one episode? Well, just listen and you'll find out!Flower: Peony, a wonderful long-lived perennial flower that both Dee and Carol and millions of other gardeners grow. Peony's Envy is one site that will give you a good overview of peonies. Another source is Song Sparrow Nursery.  And peonies are edible! At least the flower petals are. The petals taste lovely fresh in salads, or lightly cooked and sweetened. Carol learned this when she read Flower Chronicles by Buckner Hollingsworth, published in 1958.  Shout out to our friend, Ellen Zachos, the Backyard Forager.Vegetable: Tomato  - The Queens of the Garden.  There are whole books written on tomatoes, like Epic Tomatoes by Craig Lehoullier, that will blow your mind with all the varieties. A Proven Winners variety Dee and Carol are both trialing this year is Tempting Tomatoes™ Goodhearted™. Dee wrote in her book,  The 20-30 Something Garden Guide, about how to cage tomatoes and how to grow them. Carol wrote a chapter in her book, Homegrown and Handpicked, about tomato lessons from her dad. For more information on the tomatoes Dee is growing this year, check out her latest blog post, "Tomatoes I'm growing this summer"Dirt:  The Chelsea Chop. This is the time of year to cut back late blooming perennials like asters, mums, and goldenrod to encourage more blooms and keep the plants somewhat in check. “Chelsea” refers to the big Chelsea Flower Show in London which takes place in late May. Carol calls this cutting back the Indy 500 Chop because it takes place in late May too. This year at the Chelsea Flower Show, they named  Sedum takesimense ‘Atlantis', the 2019 plant of the year.  (Some links may be affiliate links. At no additional cost to you, if you purchase anything from any of those links, we may receive a tiny commission.)Email your questions to us at TheGardenangelists@gmail.com!

Chelsea Flower Show special: Introducing THE PLANT OF THE YEAR! It’s Chelsea time! One of the most exciting weeks in any gardeners’ diary where horticultural experts and plant lovers from all over the world unite to celebrate gardening! Each year, the RHS crowns one new plant its Plant of the Year and, at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show, the Plant Based Podcast got to meet the team behind this year’s winning plant. It just so happens it has been created by our sponsor Suttons! Michael and Ellen go behind the scenes at the world’s most prestigious gardening show to chat to the team at Suttons who created Sedum ‘Atlantis’, the 2019 Plant of the Year which is the first time a sedum has won. They meet managing director, David Robinson, who talks about Suttons and recent changes for the company. Suttons has over 200 years of gardening knowledge and expertise and built an enviable reputation for supplying only the very best quality seeds so it’s no surprise that they won Plant of the Year. Gavin Johns, a buyer for Suttons, also joins to discuss how to identify a Plant of the Year and what to look out for at the show. Later in the episode, Peter van Rijssen joins the podcast. He is an international plant hunter who is responsible for bringing Sedum Atlantis to market and talks through the story behind this year’s Plant of the Year.   The Plant Based Podcast: www.theplantbasedpodcast.net Instagram Twitter Facebook    Please visit our sponsor Suttons for a range of plants and flowers www.suttons.co.uk  

It's all about houseplants. Dee got out of the house, finally, and went in search of houseplants.  Carol shares about her Sansevieria collection. Both wax poetic about their love of houseplants.  Dee's new plants include:Neon Pothos (gold leaf)Pearls and Jade Pothos (white and green)Scindapsus pictus 'Argyraeus' which is called Satin pothos, but there seems to be a lot of overlap with it and Silver philodendron. (Carol has a “Silver Pothos”, probably Scindapsus pictus ‘Trebi')Tolmiea menziesii piggyback plant grows plantlets from the petiole near the base of each leaf. Why it's called piggyback plant. Taff's Gold is a variegated form. It can be grown in the garden in shady and wet areas. Wrinkled-leaves Peperomia caperata 'Red Ripple'Pilea peperomioides, Chinese money plant, saucer plant, UFO plant. Tillandsia Air plants, epiphytesCarol's snake plant collection currently includes:Sansevieria trifasciata ‘Black Coral'‘Sayuri'‘Moonshine'‘Green Moon'‘Shark Fin'‘Hahnii' - bird's nest varietySansevieria cylindrica‘Rocket'‘Starfish'Other popular houseplants discussed include:Fiddleleaf fig is the most popular houseplant of all.Pilea is becoming popular now that you can find it. It is really cute, but prone to rotting off at ground level.Pothos are popularSansevieriasZZ plantPrayer plants, MarantaceaeSucculentslike Euphorbia tirucalli 'Rosea' firestick cactus (pencil cactus), sticks on fire, Jade plant. Trailing succulents: Senecio Rowleyanus, string of pearls, Senecio Radicans, string of bananas, string of hearts, donkey's tail (Sedum morganianum)Othonna Capensis, Little Pickles, Ruby Necklace, because of the color. Hottest houseplant hashtags on Instagram right now include :  #plantshelfie #houseplantsofinstagram #boyswithplants #girlswithplants #girlsthatgarden #kokedama #succulentsPopular Houseplant Instagram Accounts include:Boys With PlantsBotanical WomenTula HouseAsucculentdayPlantsindecorPantenstudio (A lot of succulents) Remember:  “Studies have shown plants can knock out stress by calming the sympathetic nervous system, and can also make people feel happier. More research shows spending time around nature has a positive effect on a person's mood and energy levels.”Do indoor plants really clean the air? https://www.livescience.com/38445-indoor-plants-clean-air.html They absorb gases like carbon dioxide.And finally...Costa Farms is a great website for information on houseplants. Email us at TheGardenangelists@gmail.com for questions, comments, or just to sa

Sedum plants flopping over.

Sedum plants flopping over.

Digging and dividing sedum

Digging and dividing sedum

Sedum morganianum was a bit of a botanical mystery until ten years ago. No one really knew where it grew in the wild, although it was believed to live in Veracruz in Mexico. Then a couple of botanists stumbled across some specimens growing in a ravine near Coatepec in Veracruz, Mexico. Read the full tale - including how the plant was first found and brought into cultivation in 1935 - in this piece from the International Crassulaceae Network. See janeperrone.com for full show notes. 

The “woodland,” “wild,” or “mountain” Stonecrop (Sedum ternatum) grows within the eastern portion of the U.S.  Although the plant is small and its flowers are equally small,  Stonecrop catches the eye when it blooms. Each cluster of white flowers consists … Continue reading →

It was on this day that Jacob Crumb was arrested. It is the first day of the Sausage Uprising, and the birthday of the Duchess of Ellensburg. It is the Feast Day of St. Sedum, and in the garden, there is mulch. Be Safe, and Stay Out of Trouble.

In today's episode, it's time to catch up on the knitted projects. Plus, an essay by British writer and Druid, Nimue Brown.Shownotes: News & Noteworthy:-contest draw (yarn or spinning fibre) winner - Jennifer, Naamah13. For “On and Off the Needles”:“Off” Projects only today:Irish Coffee, by Thea ColmanYarn: Madelinetosh Chunky, 100% SW merino, aran weight, colourway “Rambler”.Telemark Pullover, by Erika FloryYarn: Gaia's Colours, Pales Twisty DK, colourway “Azur-Ava”.Rae scarf, by Jane Richmond Yarn: Purple Label MCN fingering by Tanis Fiber Arts, in the “Autumn Sun” colourway (September 2011 sock club yarn).Diagonal Lace socks, by Wendy Johnson Yarn: Skinny Bugga, 80/10/10 true fingering, by Sanguine Gryphon, in muted rainbow colourway “Frog-legged Leaf Beetle”. Sedum cardigan, by Jane RichmondYarn: Bernat Roving (single-ply bulky, 80% acrylic/20% wool) in “putty” colourway.A Test knit unnamed cardigan by Carol Feller, to be released next year. Made the one-year sizeYarn: Berocco Vintage Chunky in a pale bright green.Ameliorate fingerless mitts, by Hunter HammersenYarn: Gaia's Colours Fibre Arts, Silkie Sock in the colourway “Lolita”.Hacky Sack Hoodie, by Stef Pulford from the Son of Stitch n' Bitch bookYarn: Cascade Eco Wool, deep charcoal gray, 100% wool. Color Affection, by Vera ValimakiYarn: Fiberphile yarns, MCN luxe sock, 375yards/343metres, in “Stardust” and “Honey Amber”, and Earthly Hues Seedlings sock yarn (MCN), 375yards/343metres) in “Sunshine”.Song - Sora, “Heartwood”The Pagan Corner:Nimue Brown's essay - “Ancestors of Yarn”"I'm not sure when humans started spinning wool from fleece, but it goes back a long way into our history as a species, I assume to our first settling as farmers rather than being nomadic hunter gatherers. Yarn has played a significant part of life since then, as clothing and bedding, decoration, comfort, and art form. It's also traditionally a very female activity, in the western world, although I believe in South America knitting is one of those hard core macho things that men get together to do. Which goes to show that like most gender things it actually has more to do with culture than physicality.Our female ancestors then, for most of human history, were involved with yarn. A woman might be buried with her distaff even. Spinning, weaving, making and mending are traditional women's work. The methods we have, from the spindle and spinning wheels to knitting and crochet also connect us to the people who invented, developed and perfected them. Like so many of our ancestors, the yarn innovators are largely unknown, and there were probably a great many of them.Every woman who passes down this skill to a girl, is part of a huge web of weaving tradition. I learned knitting from my mother, crotchet from the mother of a boyfriend, spinning from several friends, although I'm not very good at it! I learned naalbinding (which might not be how you spell it!) to make traditional Viking socks, which take forever but are stunningly substantial. The wool work doesn't come alone though. Alongside it come the tales of other knitters and crafters, family myths and anecdotes. While the hands are busy, the mind has plenty of room to wander.I find wool work incredibly soothing. If I'm rattled, my mind in chaos and my body weary, then to sit down with wool is one of the best therapies. The rhythm of it is innately soothing. Watching small pieces of creativity form between my fingers is affirming, settling. The stories and inspiration of other wool workers are very much with me, and I feel part of something much bigger than I am. There's a power in weaving, knitting, spinning – the power to take the raw materials of nature and fashion them into something essential for life in a cold climate. Wool for our ancestors must have contributed to survival, a vital part of culture that made human life viable in tough locations.I heard a story once, that Arran sweaters have complex designs because each family had its own pattern. The women made them so that if a drowned sailor washed ashore, they could figure out who he was, who his people were. I can't imagine making a jumper for my man that would mark him as mine in case he died, that must take a certain kind of pragmatic courage.Modern life is full of things that claim to be convenient, but that take far more from us than they give. I know a lot of women who are returning to wool, or learning it anew, because it makes sense to them on an emotional level as well as a practical one. Being able to do the essential things of life matters and in turn makes your life feel more real. Ancestral pursuits like this bring a sense of stability, rootedness and belonging. We need that. In cultures full of uprooted people, in times where continuity and certainty are hard to come by, reaching back into the past makes a lot of sense. The ancestors are all there, behind us. A sense of belonging is a precious thing to have when everything else feels a bit fragile and uncertain. Between climate change and the world economies, and the insane priorities of politicians, life for any aware person is not comfortable, even in our relatively insulated western world.The wool tribe is there, for anyone willing to pick up the threads and find out how to make them. Your grandmothers will have done it, and your great grandmothers. The odds are you had some distant grandfathers who kept or sheared sheep, too. Go back far enough and most of us have that, in fact. The threads of wool can also be threads of continuity, safety lines to remind us of where we came from and how we connect to the other creatures, and to the earth. We can bind our own stories into the wool."Anyone interested in a deeper look at ancestry, from an overtly Druid perspective, is invited to pick up a copy of Nimue's new book, Druidry and the Ancestors.  She blogs most days at Druidlife

In today's episode, it's all about the sweater love as I update you on my projects.   And it is the Spring Equinox, when the world warms and prepares for the growing season...ShownotesHousekeeping:- Enter to win a project bag by Miso Crafty Knits, and one of three skeins of hand-dyed sock yarn.   The Knitter's NeedlesOff the Needles:Arco Cowl:“Arco Cowl” by Sara Sprung.Yarn: Malabrigo “Rasta” super bulky, in “Arco Iris” colourway.Moonstone Sweater:“My favorite sweater” - basic top-down raglan formula pattern, by Amber Corcoran (Fancy Tiger Crafts). Yarn: Fleece Artist “Big Blue” BFL chunky, “Moonstone” colourway.Ripley Cardigan:“Favorite Cardigan” by Wendy Bernard, from the “Custom Knits” book.Yarn: The Sanguine Gryphon “QED” BFL worsted, in silver-gray “The Ripley Scrowle” My Chelsea Market Slouch:“Chelsea Market Hat” by Caryl Pierre (test knit)Yarn: The Sanguine Gryphon “QED” BFL worsted, in deep turquoise “Organelle”On the Needles: Fluffy Cardi:“Sedum” cardigan by Jane RichmondYarn: Bernat “Roving” - single ply bulky, 80% Acrylic, 20% Wool, in “Putty” gray colour.Doha Cardigan:“Calligraphy Cardigan” by Hannah FettigYarn: The Sanguine Gryphon “Traveller” DK (100% SW Merino), in “Doha”.Ben's Warthog:“Warthog” by Sarah Keen, from the “Knitted Wild Animals” book. Yarn: "Cascade 220", 100% Peruvian wool (not superwash), in colours “Rust” and “Cream”Music:David Baumgarten, "Your Spring Will Come Along"

When summer finally fades away and we are into fall, flowers are at a premium and gardening expert Paul Epsom has some new choices, above and beyond the usual fall flower -- the hardy mum.