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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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?.
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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.
Hort Skills: Garden design
Ep.147 Intro to indoor plants - Jane Perrone (On The Ledge podcast)
Bug Bites: Fungus gnats
Ep.146 Workplace culture: How to retain staff - Jay Worth (Green Industry Perspectives, Single Ops)
Hort Skills: Chainsaw felling small trees
Ep.145 AIH Student of the Year award ceremony (Australian Institute of Horticulture, TAFE NSW, Tamworth Regional Council)
Bug Bites: Polyphagous shot-hole borer
Ep.144 Plant immunity & biological defense - Katia Hougaard (Katie Plant Scientist)
Hort Skills: Cylinder mowing
Ep.143 Urban tree care: We're doing it wrong - Jason Summers (Remarkable Trees) (Collaboration with AIH)
Bug Bites: Earwigs
Ep.142 Therapeutic horticulture: Access, belonging & wellness - Dr Kate Neale (Digability)
Hort Skills: Grafting (monocot & dicot)
Ep.141 The chemical age: pesticides and other chemical hazards - Frank Von Hippel (University of Arizona)
Bug Bites: Slugs
Ep.140 Working in the UK round table (Ash Walker, Tyler Howard, Scott Smith)
Hort Skills: Measuring garden beds
Ep.139 Growing abundant leafy greens - Michael Homan (Sponsored by Charlie Carp)
Bug Bites: Thrips
Ep.138 Hort Journal highlights: Editor's pick 2022 - Karen Smith (Sponsored by Hort Journal Australia)
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