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.
Hort Skills: Seed propagation
Ep.137 Gardening responsibly: Weed potentiality - Aimee Freimanis (Gardening Responsibly) (Sponsored by the AIH)
Bug Bites: Citrus gall wasps
Ep.136 Wildlife in the balance - Simon Mustoe (Wildlife in the Balance: Why Animals are Humanity's Best Hope)
Hort Skills: Propagation by cutting
Ep.135 A lifetime in botanic gardens - Tim Entwisle (RBGV & Evergreen: The Botanical Life of a Plant Punk)
Ep.134 Permaculture edible forest - Jamie Sweetman (Yarra Valley Estate)
Ep.133 Vegepod-cast - Simon Holloway (Vegepod)
Ep.132 Cranbourne Botanic Gardens audio tour - Russell Larke & Marie Velthoven (RBGV)
Ep.131 They're not replaceable widgets (Featured on the Green Industry Perspectives podcast) - Jay Worth & Dan Fuller
Ep.130 Parks & gardens career advice - Troy Mansell (GLG) & Heath Appleton (UMS)
Ep.129 Drones in ag & hort: aerial photography and beyond - Fiona Lake (FionaLake.com.au)
Ep.128 Restoration, rejuvenation & renewal pruning - Charles King Sadler (King Garden)
Ep.127 A celebration of soil: I bet you didn't know these facts - Alisa Bryce (Author of Grounded: How soil shapes the games we play, the lives we make and the graves we lie in)
Ep.126 Podcasts as a marketing strategy (Featured on the Straight To Business Podcast) - Daniel Fuller, Monika Ruzicka and Lisa Davidson
Ep.125 Food Waste As A Resource - Bruce Thompson (Sponsored by Hort Journal Australia)
Ep.124 Dendrochronology: studying tree rings - Joe Buck (The Dendro Hub)
Ep.123 Intro to sales & selling - Zak Iqbal (hort industry salesperson)
Ep.122 Turning pest fish into fertiliser - Ron Kaponica (Sponsored by Charlie Carp)
Ep.121 Blue Mountains conservation (starring the Wollemi pine) - Ian Allan (Blue Mountains Botanic Gardens)
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