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.101 Workplace neurodiversity & inclusivity - Candra Burns (Talking Forests)
Ep.100 How to compost correctly - Mark Valencia (Self Sufficient Me)
Ep.99 Reintroducing kaka beak plants in NZ gardens to save the native kaka bird - Tim Park (ecologist and manager of Ōtari Native Botanic Gardens)
Ep.98 Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show pt.2
Ep.97 Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show pt.1
Ep.96 How to prune trees correctly - Gary Moran (@ArborSmarty, Tree Side Arboricultural Consultancy)
Eucalypt of the Year 2022 announcement
Ep.95 Eucalypt mythbusting: Celebrating #NationalEucalyptDay - Dr Dean Nicolle (Currency Creek Arboretum, Eucalypt Australia)
Ep.94 Botany Bootcamp: Mixing exercise with plant appreciation - Dr Meg Hirst & Georgia Warren (RBGV) (Sponsored by Hort Journal Australia)
Ep.93 Chemistry of eucalypts: Celebrating #NationalEucalyptDay - Professor Ros Gleadow (Eucalypt Australia, Monash University)
Ep.92 Responsible beekeeping w/ European & native Australian honeybees - Cormac Farrell (head beekeeper at Parliament of Australia)
Ep.91 Intro to eucalypts: Celebrating #NationalEucalyptDay 23.03.22 - Linda Baird (CEO of Eucalypt Australia)
Ep.90 Horticultural career pathways - John Sheely (head gardener at Warrnambool Botanic Gardens) (sponsored by Hort Journal Australia)
Ep.89 Raising rarity: Cultivating at-risk native plants with the RBGV - Dr Megan Hirst & Matthew Henderson (sponsored by Hort Journal Australia)
Ep.88 Native pollinator flower preferences - Ben Courtice (ecologist, botanist, bush regenerator)
Ep.87 Landscape business coaching - John Corban (Landscapers Coach)
Ep.86 Jamming with giants: journey to find the music of the sequoias & redwoods - Tom Wall (Cosmic Knot)
Ep.85 Become a landscape business owner - Karen Smith (former landscape business owner, editor of Hort Journal Australia)
Ep.84 Soil levelling to control water and increase yield - Jake Hamilton (grain & legume farmer)
Ep.83 Plant flammability & planning for fire - Lesley Corbett (Author of Safer Gardens: Plant Flammability & Planning For Fire)
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