Latest Landscaping Home & Garden Podcast Episodes
Ep.201 Ornamental permaculture: Revisiting the 12 principles - Daniel Fuller
Plants Grow Here - Horticulture, Landscape Gardening & Ecology - April 20, 2024 06:00 - 20 minutesMost people wouldn't consider a permaculture mindset for a public park or an ornamental garden. But that's a missed opportunity, because it could help individuals, organisations and councils reduce their maintenance budgets while increasing plant health and positive biodiversity outcomes. The 1...
Ep.200 Podcasters pick: 10 "best" episodes - Daniel Fuller (Plants Grow Here)
Plants Grow Here - Horticulture, Landscape Gardening & Ecology - April 14, 2024 06:00 - 1 hourThis week, we're celebrating 200 episodes! My mentor, Karen Smith, editor of Hort Journal Australia, interviews me about my picks for the "best" 10 episodes. To pick only 10 episodes was an impossible task, but I've narrowed it down to a few essential chats that I believe all my listeners shoul...
Ep.199 MIFGS 2024 Pt.3: A Moment In Time - Peter Donegan (Irish landscape architect)
Plants Grow Here - Horticulture, Landscape Gardening & Ecology - April 07, 2024 06:00 - 1 hourDid you get a chance to see Peter Donegan's phenomenal garden design A Moment In Time at the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show (MIFGS) this year? We spoke about it in Ep.181 A Daydream Supported By A Series of Equations, but I wanted to touch in after the event finished to get his ...
BITG 4.6.24 Is it Ok to Plant Now? • Azaleas & Rhododendron • Deer Fears • Birds in the Garden • What's Buggin' U? Ants!!
Bloomers in the Garden - April 04, 2024 17:27 - 59 minutesIs It OK to Plant?" We'll let you know the answer in our 1st Segment! Azaleas and some Rhododendrons are starting to crack color! In our 2nd segment we're going to discuss these landscape favorites! Urban & Suburban deer have become one of the largest pests in home garden's and landscapes. ...
Ep.198 MIFGS 2024 pt.2: Mother Ocean, Through The Looking Glass, & New Nordic Notes
Plants Grow Here - Horticulture, Landscape Gardening & Ecology - March 31, 2024 06:00 - 46 minutesThe Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show has wrapped for another year! In this episode, I interview the designers behind three show garden highlights from this year's Show. We'll get to hear the inspiration behind the story and message behind each of their gardens, and we'll chat about...
BITG 3.30.24 Water Garden • Rose Care • Lawn Care • Landscape Design • Veggie Garden
Bloomers in the Garden - March 29, 2024 17:16 - 58 minutesWe're also going to talk about Getting your pond started and how to get a jump on holding off algae! It's time to clean up your rose bushes! We'll discuss pruning, Fertilizing and spraying during our 2nd Segment. Steve my son in law from Broomall called his father-in-laws cell phone to ask la...
Ep.197 MIFGS 2024 pt.1: Boutique, achievable, and more gardens - Dr Ian Smith
Plants Grow Here - Horticulture, Landscape Gardening & Ecology - March 24, 2024 23:00 - 50 minutesThe Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show has wrapped for another year! Each year, we like to interview some of the garden designers to get an insight into what ideas, philosophies, trends, and plants are floating in the cultural zeitgeist. Friend of the show, Dr Ian Smith interviews som...
BITG 03.23.24 Where the Bees Don't Go • Ground Bees • Garden Grubs • Hummingbirds • Eclipse
Bloomers in the Garden - March 22, 2024 23:03 - 58 minutesSuzanne called the Bloomers & the Garden hotline and asked about growing plants in her pot that didn't need to be pollinated. Joe called the Bloomers in the Garden Hotline and has Ground Bees!! Hear all about how to rid this pest in our 2nd Segment. Jimmy Called the Bloomers in the garden ...
Ep.196 Permaculture syntropics - Erik van Zuilekom (United Natures)
Plants Grow Here - Horticulture, Landscape Gardening & Ecology - March 17, 2024 06:00 - 2 hoursA garden is never finished. It's going to change throughout the year, and the seasons. It should be getting better over time instead of worse. And it should also provide you with multiple yields, whether that's a food crop, supporting biodiversity, reducing soil salinity, providing shade, maki...
BITG 03/16/24 Pansies • Lawn Weeds • Bird Boxes • Fruit Trees • New Nursery Plants
Bloomers in the Garden - March 15, 2024 13:41 - 58 minutesWith a Name like pansy they have to be tough! During our 1st segment we're going to talk about growing pansies in the spring!! Weeds are popping up everywhere. These weeds you have to kill now! We'll tell you how in our 2nd Segment. It's nesting season for songbirds! We'll tell you what yo...
Ep.195 Insect taxonomy: Classifying good, bad & neutral insects into groups - Dr Ian Smith (Bug Bites)
Plants Grow Here - Horticulture, Landscape Gardening & Ecology - March 10, 2024 06:00 - 1 hourSydney. Or, click the AIH events link below. Diptera (flys) The Good Hoverfly Robber flies The bad Leaf miners Fruit flies (not vinegar flies) The inbetween Blowflies, bottle flies and house flies Fungus gnats Coleoptera (Beetles) Beneficials Ladybird (Coccinellidae) Ground beetles (Cara...
Ep.195 Insect Taxonomy: Classifying good, bad & neutral insects into groups - Dr Ian Smith (Bug Bites)
Plants Grow Here - Horticulture, Landscape Gardening & Ecology - March 10, 2024 06:00 - 1 hourHave you ever considered that plants can be broken into groups, just like plants? By classifying plants into their taxonomic order, we can automatically understand a few things about them. For example, what type of mouth-part do they have, and what does that mean for the type of plant damage or...
BITG 03/09/24 PH • Get the Crab • Pruning Roses * Potatoes • Rosette Virus
Bloomers in the Garden - March 09, 2024 14:27 - 59 minutesDuring our 1st segment Julio & I will tell you how important PH is to growing great plants! If you're going to do ONE thing for your lawn it would be? Applying a Crabgrass Pre Emergent! But what if you have bare spots? We'll tell you what you need to know in our 2nd Segment. It's time to p...
Ep194 Plant communication according to science - Katia Hougaard (Katia Plant Scientist)
Plants Grow Here - Horticulture, Landscape Gardening & Ecology - March 03, 2024 06:00 - 1 hourHave you ever wondered whether plants can communicate? And if they can, how do they do so? Katia Hougaard is back, and this time we explore the science behind plant communication. We discuss VOCs, plant blood tests, visual signs, sounds, Venus fly traps, predators, pests, and much more. We ev...
BITG 03/02/24 Hellebores•Ornamental Grass•4Step?•Hydrangeas•Ants
Bloomers in the Garden - March 01, 2024 23:34 - 58 minutesDoes it feel like spring or WHAT!! A few weeks back we spoke about Hellebores! Now that they are appearing on garden center tables we though we should discuss them again. If you have ornamental Grasses in your landscape it's time to cut them back. We'll tell you how in our 2nd Segment. Get...
Ep.193 Hort Journal highlights: Editor's pick 2023 - Karen Smith (sponsored by Hort Journal Australia)
Plants Grow Here - Horticulture, Landscape Gardening & Ecology - February 25, 2024 06:00 - 1 hourIn this episode, we go over more than a dozen topics quickly, based around the Hort Journal's editor's best article picks for 2023. Karen Smith is my mentor and also the editor for our Australian horticulture industry's best magazine, and she has her finger on the pulse when it comes to amenity...
BITG 02/24/24 Seed Your Future - Green Career Week March 4-8
Bloomers in the Garden - February 22, 2024 21:08 - 59 minutesJazmin Albarran, the Executive Director of Seed Your Future! A movement to promote horticulture and inspire people to pursue careers working with plants. Green Career Week is March 4-8, 2024. Green Career Week is a national initiative led by Seed Your Future and industry professionals to i...
Ep.192 Nursery wholesale insights for the whole industry - Paul Plant (Nursery Manager, 4BC Garden Talkback Presenter)
Plants Grow Here - Horticulture, Landscape Gardening & Ecology - February 18, 2024 06:00 - 1 hourIn this episode, I interview Paul Plant about what we're getting wrong as a whole industry when working with wholesale nurseries in particular, and how we can tighten up our game. I wanted to know stuff like, how are miscommunications and poor choices costing landscapers, arborists and horticul...
BITG 02/17/24 Philadelphia Flower Show 2024
Bloomers in the Garden - February 17, 2024 16:35 - 59 minutesThe first sign of Spring is not seeing a Robin on your front lawn but the Philadelphia Flowers Show! Today on Bloomers in the Garden we have Special Guest Seth Pearsoll the Creative Director & Vice President of the Philadelphia Flower Show. This Year the Philadelphia Flower Show is again bein...
BITG 02/10/24 Vday Roses • Rose Garden • Lenten Roses • Sex in the Garden • Poinsettia Year Round
Bloomers in the Garden - February 09, 2024 19:32 - 58 minutesThis Wednesday Is Valentines Day! Are you getting or giving Roses to your Sweetheart? We'll tell you how to make them last in our 1st segment! Anybody Can hand their Sweetheart a Dozen Roses! How about planting them a whole garden? We'll tell you how during our second segment! When is a Ro...
Ep.191 Landscape excellence: Yards case study - Ben, Amanda and Dale (Yards)
Plants Grow Here - Horticulture, Landscape Gardening & Ecology - February 04, 2024 06:00 - 1 hourHave you ever worked for a company that took horticultural excellence seriously within the landscape design, construction and maintenance sectors? This episode is a case study on a company called Yards, which was started by a connection of mine from the AIH, Ben French. In this episode, I inter...
BITG 02/03/24 Visit GFS • New Mandevilla • Glowing Petunias • Mulch • Caller
Bloomers in the Garden - February 02, 2024 22:29 - 58 minutes1. Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, NJ presents "Night Forms". This mind bending sight, sound experience shouldn't be missed. 2. At the Tropical Plant International Exposition Suntory won the best new plant award for its new Blu-phoria Mandevilla. Hear all about this and more during our sec...
Ep.190 Assessing tree health & safety - Gary Moran (Treeside Arboricultural Consultancy)
Plants Grow Here - Horticulture, Landscape Gardening & Ecology - January 28, 2024 06:00 - 1 hourDo you know how to assess a tree's health and safety? And do you know how to do so in a systematic way to ensure you don't miss any major clues? This episode is designed to teach non-arborists within the landscape and horticulture sector what to look for when inspecting trees. What signs tell u...
BITG 01.27.24 Cardinals • New Plants • Winter Pruning • Seed Bombs • Houseplants
Bloomers in the Garden - January 26, 2024 22:38 - 58 minutesNothing is more stunning then a Red Cardinal against a white snow background. We'll discuss the best way to attract Cardinals to your home during our first segment! Garden Gate Magazine is one of our favorite Gardening publications. Recently they published a list of the best new trees & shrub...
BITG 01/20/24 MANTS 2024 • Pantone Color of the Year • New Plants & Trends • Rose Rosette • What R U Reading
Bloomers in the Garden - January 19, 2024 23:16 - 58 minutesRecently Julio & I Attended MANTS in Baltimore. Ok so What's MANTS? Mid-Atlantic Nurseryman's Trade Show, we'll share with you our impressions during our first segment! For 25 years the Pantone Color of the year has influenced fashion, interior Design, Product design, branding, marketing and ...
Ep.189 Horticulturist vs property developer - Karen Fuller
Plants Grow Here - Horticulture, Landscape Gardening & Ecology - January 17, 2024 06:00 - 1 hourHave you ever tendered for a property development project, only to be rejected for some unknown reason? Why is it that some people are able to win work from property developers, while others seem to struggle with this type of client? It may have something to do with your ability to meet them o...
Ep.188 Rabbit pest management (IPM) - Dr Ian Smith (Bug Bites)
Plants Grow Here - Horticulture, Landscape Gardening & Ecology - January 07, 2024 06:00 - 59 minutesDo you know the secret to controlling rabbits within the landscape? Whether you're responsible for a public park, a farm, or a private property that's home to these garden-destroying pests, you'll want to control them in the most ethical way possible. The secret is a decisive, multi-pronged op...
BITG 01/13/24 Warm Winter • Edimentals • Boxwood Blight • Hydrangea Eclipse Arbor Day Tree Survey
Bloomers in the Garden - January 06, 2024 15:32 - 1 hourIt's Winter right? The weather has been warm and there is some weird things going on. My lawn is green and customers alerted us about their bulbs sprouting. Should you do something about it? We'll tell you in our first segment! There's a NEW trend for 2024, Edimentals! Plants that are both e...
BITG 01/06/24 Houseplants: Why, How, Where & What
Bloomers in the Garden - January 06, 2024 15:07 - 58 minutesOn todays show we're going to talk about adding houseplants to your home!! Now that the Christmas tree's out of the house you may be craving a little green company! ‘Studies have shown that interaction with indoor plants reduce psychological and physiological stress and in fact they can h...
12/30/23 BITG Winter Pests • Invasive Plants • 2024 Trends • repurpose Tree • Resolutions
Bloomers in the Garden - December 31, 2023 18:51 - 58 minutesPest's are looking at your home as a warm winter vacationing spot! We'll explain what you can do to prevent or eliminate these snowbirds from invading your home. Our Government is finally doing something about the invasion. No not the southern border! The New Jersey Senate has a new list of i...
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