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.
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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.41 Self Sufficient Me - Mark Valencia (Backyard Gardening Youtuber & Blogger)
Ep.40 Soil carbon - Dr Sam Grover (Soil Science Australia, RMIT)
Ep.39 Holistic farming - Randal Breen (Echo Valley Farm)
Ep.38 Plant biology basics - Professor Ros Gleadow (Monash Uni, Global Plant Council, Eucalypt Australia)
Ep.37 Identifying plant families w/ flowers - Thomas J. Elpel (Botany In A Day, Wildflowers & Weeds, Green University)
Ep.36 Choosing & moving mulch - Andre Pedroli (Perth Materials Blowing)
Ep.35 Monocrop pros & cons - Kevin Folta (Talking Biotech Podcast, University of Florida)
Ep.34 Spotting risky trees a.k.a. "widow makers" - Gary Moran (@arborsmarty)
Ep.33 Intro to Integrated Pest Management (IPM) - Dr Peter Ridland (Melbourne University)
Ep.32 Community-led urban forestry - Russell Horsey & Theri Reichlin (Woodland Dwelling)
Ep.31 Permaculture's 12 principles - Linda & Paul Mitchener (Green Life Soil Co.)
Ep.30 Intro to organic gardening - Paul & Linda Mitchener (Green Life Soil Co.)
Ep.29 Sustainability & regeneration in Aussie agriculture - Michael Guerin (Agforce QLD)
Ep.28 Wildlife Assist - Dr John Martin (Hollows As Homes, RBGS / Wildlife Assist)
Ep.27 Trees as habitat - Dr John Martin (Hollows As Homes, RBGS / Wildlife Assist)
Ep.26 Yurbay: First Nations plant wisdom - Adam Shipp
Ep.25 Small scale farming - Amanda Brezzell (Fennigan's Farms)
Ep.24 Soil Solver for sand - Gavin Davis (soil amendment Entrepreneur)
Ep.23 Garden maintenance - Ben Sims (Ben's Gardens, LIAWA)
Ep.22 Trees etc. - Gary Moran (@ArborSmarty)
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