Plants Grow Here - Horticulture, Landscape Gardening & Ecology
Leisure:Home & Garden
A 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, making the space appear larger, or simply bringing you joy.
It's easy to roll your eyes when you hear terms like "sustainability" or "nature-based solutions". They've become cliches used by companies to greenwash, and individuals to virtue signal. But these ideas have real value when you look beyond the greenwashing.
Erik van Zuilekom is a plant scientist, permaculturist, landscape designer, and plant selection specialist who has come on the show to help us think deeply about landscape design, construction, and maintenance from a permaculture syntropics perspective.
We go beyond the typical surface-level discussion and go deep into topics like growing soil, tissue culture vs seed-propagated plants, green walls, terraforming, irrigation, and much, much more.
EPISODE LINKS
Erik's LindedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erikvanzuilekom/
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You’ll find heaps of educational blog articles, including How To Prune For Natural Shape, What Relationships Do Plants Have With Other Organisms?, and What Is Healthy Soil, And How Can We Build It?.
LET'S WORK TOGETHER
Are you in the industry or an enthusiast with something of value to share? We're always on the hunt for interesting people, doing interesting things. If you'd like to work with us send a message via our online form or a direct email to plantsgrowhere@gmail.com.
Ep.202 Integrated Pest Management: 6 methods - Daniel Fuller
Ep.201 Ornamental permaculture: Revisiting the 12 principles - Daniel Fuller
Ep.200 Podcasters pick: 10 "best" episodes - Daniel Fuller (Plants Grow Here)
Ep.199 MIFGS 2024 Pt.3: A Moment In Time - Peter Donegan (Irish landscape architect)
Ep.198 MIFGS 2024 pt.2: Mother Ocean, Through The Looking Glass, & New Nordic Notes
Ep.197 MIFGS 2024 pt.1: Boutique, achievable, and more gardens - Dr Ian Smith
Ep.195 Insect taxonomy: Classifying good, bad & neutral insects into groups - Dr Ian Smith (Bug Bites)
Ep194 Plant communication according to science - Katia Hougaard (Katia Plant Scientist)
Ep.193 Hort Journal highlights: Editor's pick 2023 - Karen Smith (sponsored by Hort Journal Australia)
Ep.192 Nursery wholesale insights for the whole industry - Paul Plant (Nursery Manager, 4BC Garden Talkback Presenter)
Ep.191 Landscape excellence: Yards case study - Ben, Amanda and Dale (Yards)
Ep.190 Assessing tree health & safety - Gary Moran (Treeside Arboricultural Consultancy)
Ep.189 Horticulturist vs property developer - Karen Fuller
Ep.188 Rabbit pest management (IPM) - Dr Ian Smith (Bug Bites)
Ep.187 Hort media freelancing: Part-time gig or full-time career - Chloe Thomson (Bean There Dug That, Sprout School)
Ep.186 Achievable garden design: Modern native Australian theme - Daniel Althaus (Circles of Life)
Ep.185 Growing joy at work: Plants as self care - Maria Failla (Growing Joy)
Ep.184 Nine jobs in horticulture - SWAPCAST - Maria Failla (Growing Joy)
Ep.183 Plant taxonomy: How to classify & name plants - John Mason (ACS Distance Education)
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