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Jason Reeves knows plants and loves talking about them.
He is a research horticulturist and curator for the University of Tennessee Gardens, at the West Tennessee Ag Research and Education Center in Jackson.
He evaluates thousands of new and unique plants each year through out his imaginative garden art displays.
Jason travels the world speaking at gardening symposiums and serving as a contributing editor to “Fine Gardening” magazine.
While growing up on a farm he fell in love with the plant world.
He received his Master’s degree in Ornamental Horticulture and Landscape Design from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
His past experiences include work at the Opryland Conservatories, Missouri Botanical Garden, Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania, and in private gardens in New Zealand.
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UT Gardens Jackson
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How would you like to impact the environment in a positive way with your garden? In this episode we talk with Dr. Andy Pulte about having fun and succeeding in a dynamic ecological vibrant garden.
Andy grew up in the nursery industry in Grand Island, Nebraska.
He received his Ph.D. in plant sciences from the University of Tennessee.
He is now on the faculty in the same department teaching, advising, and coordinating UT’s plant sciences undergraduate program.
You will find him feeding his passion for people and plants by traveling extensively and speaking regularly.
Over his career he has contributed to a variety of gardening publications and hosted a gardening radio show.
He is an internationally certified arborist.
Andy gardens with his family in a residential community north of Knoxville TN where he seeks out unusual plants for his home garden to inspire questions from those who visit.
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Pam Farley talks about what it takes to grow a high yield container food garden in this episode. Her successful methods has produce many a good meal for her family.
Since grade school Pam has been gardening and writing.
These two interests collided in 2009, when she created the website BrownThumbMama.com. There she has documents her huge list of home and garden tips.
Millions of readers from around the world visit her site to learn about vegetable gardening, easy recipes, and making a nontoxic home.
Pam is the author of The First-Time Gardener: Container Food Gardening
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In this episode we talk with Nancy & Pierre Moitrier about how they approach garden creation as a wife and husband team.
Why inspiring your garden soul is important to them as they design and build an outdoor space.
Bringing life to your garden by harvesting natural materials to build one-of-a-kind whimsical structures known as French Folly.
A whimsical world in the garden will open up to you as they talk about ole world antique troughs.
Listen to the scheme of how these lost and forgotten common garden and farm items are artistically applied to the garden.
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When Noelle Johnson arrived in the desert she kill every plant she owned. She fancied herself a green thumb, but she wasn’t from around here, the desert.
She was determined to succeed and earn her B.S. degree in Urban Horticulture from Arizona State University.
For a few years she dodged golf balls from the tees and fairways while designing and caring for the plants around the course. Which included hundreds of trees, shrubs, perennials, and yes, even cactus.
Noelle is a horticulturist, landscape consultant, garden instructor, author, and popular speaker who lives and gardens in the Phoenix, AZ area.
She is now popularly known as AZ Plant Lady®.
Noelle teaches and inspires desert-dwellers of the many opportunities for creating and maintaining a beautiful outdoor space that thrives in a hot, dry climate in her new book Dry Climate Gardening.
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Growing organic vegetables is Susan Mulvihill’s passion.
She has learned many lessons from her consistent gardening of 5 acres in Spokane, Washington with her husband Bill. Their large raised-bed garden yields some mighty fine edible crops.
Always curious and researching answers to their garden challenges. Susan loves sharing her findings through numerous outlets.
Her newest book The Vegetable Garden Problem Solver Handbook promises to be another best seller. The book will help you identify and manage diseases and other common problems on edible plants.
It is a great companion for her best seller The Vegetable Garden Pest Handbook. She is also the co-author of the Northwest Gardener’s Handbook.
Susan and Bill’s Garden has been featured on the popular public television program, “Growing a Greener World” (episode 809 and 1202), hosted by Joe Lamp’l.
Helping other gardeners be successful has driven Susan to produce and host over 400 episodes on her weekly YouTube channel Susan in the Garden.
She is the longtime garden columnist for the Sunday edition of The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Washington.
Been a Spokane County Master Gardener for over 20 years and is a nationally known Garden Speaker.
Her website can be found at SusansintheGarden.com and contains resources for organic pest control along with many other guides designed for gardening success.
Susan has been featured previously on The Garden Question Podcast in episode 047 - Developing Your Battle Strategy for This Year’s Bug Wars
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Toni Gattone believes there is always another way to get it done with adaptive garden tools and mindset.
She believes that gardening is one of the healthiest activities for anyone.
In this episode we talk about how being resilient and resourceful are the keys to not giving up on gardening.
When to start and who needs Toni’s successful techniques in using adaptive gardening..
Toni Gattone is the author of the book: The Lifelong Gardener: Garden with Ease and Joy at Any Age
Toni is a passionate gardener and entrepreneur with a passion to help people become resilient in their garden and their everyday lives.
She is a Master Gardener and frequently writes and speaks on topics of adaptive gardening and edible landscapes
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In this episode we talk about the future of boxwood in the garden, a visit to Bunny Mellon’ Garden, and the return of the Norton Grape to Virginia with Pat Reilly.
Pat educates homeowners and landscape professionals. Teaching them how to select, care and thrive the plants of their gardens.
She is the horticulture outreach specialist for NewGen Boxwoods and Saunders Brothers, inc. and you’ll also find her at Merrifield Garden Center in Northern Virginia.
She has been an active Master Gardener volunteer with Virginia Cooperative Extension since 1995.
Pat is happy to be breaking in a new garden where the bulb planter will actually work with her husband and two old rescued Golden Retrievers.
She also tells stories and pours wine at a local winery.
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In this episode I talk with Kathy Jentz about groundcovers and how they may solve many of your garden issues.
We explore how to make wise selections when seeking the perfect groundcover.
Kathy is a life-long gardener.
She believes that growing plants should be stress-free and enjoyable.
Her philosophy is inspiration over perspiration and is on a mission to turn black thumbs green.
Kathy’s newest book Groundcover Revolution is a powerhouse of garden wisdom.
She also co-authored The Urban Garden: 101 Ways to Grow Food and Beauty.
Kathy Jentz is the editor and publisher of the award-winning Washington Gardener Magazine, based in Washington, DC.
She also hosts the popular weekly GardenDC Podcast, which was recently named Best DC Podcast.
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Today we talk with two plant geeks that meet in a garden. Both are now Directors of two prominent public gardens in North Carolina.
Adrienne Roethling is the Director for Paul J. Ciener Botanical Garden in Kernersville, NC.
Jon Roethling is the Director Reynolda Gardens of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC.
They tell their story and the stories of the amazing gardens they oversee.
How they handle garden conflicts at home.
Even their vacations are about plants.
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At Stoneleigh, Ethan Kauffman is introducing biodiversity to a formal garden.
Using sound design reasoning and creative native plants for formal hedges and knot gardens.
He is always looking to fill a function and not just an expectation of what a plant should be.
Ethan developed his love of the natural world exploring the Susquehanna River hills in southeastern PA.
He cultivated his horticultural perspective over two decades of gardening in the Deep South, including as director of Moore Farms Botanical Garden.
There he led the transition from a private pleasure garden to a public botanical garden. Drawing on influences from both regions, he currently serves as Natural Lands’ first director of Stoneleigh: a natural garden. A 42-acre former estate located in Villanova, PA that opened to the public in 2018.
There he creates a garden experience that inspires others to garden for beauty, biodiversity, and the health of our planet.
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In this episode we talk with Jordan Daneker about the little things that bring your outdoor spaces to life.
He walks us through the process on how he discovers and builds the perfect outdoor space for you and your family.
We explore the artful details used to put together plants, pools, pavilions, hardscapes, lighting and more to yield a unique and quality environment.
Jordan’s obsession and passion started as a part time job in 2008 and now he is on a mission “To Get North Carolina Outside”. He is a partner in a landscape company Evolve Design + Build located in Currituck, North Carolina. You can find him on both Facebook and Instagram.
He is a licensed North Carolina landscape and general contractor. He holds designations from Interlocking Concrete Pavement Institute (ICPI) for concrete pavers and The National Concrete Masonry
Association (NCMA) for segmented retaining walls.
A remix and encore of episode 035
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Paul Chappell grows trees headed to a landscape garden near you. He talks about the fascinating journey your tree might take before finding a home in your garden.
Once your tree finds its home, Paul lays out what it takes for you to be a successful tree grower for multiple generations.
Paul fell in love with plants and their care over 36 successful years ago.
He tells some very interesting stories about his time at Callaway Gardens. The challenges of growing native trees in the nursery. Also, some plant design practices and choices you will want to avoid.
Paul is a Georgia Certified Landscape Professional, an ISA Certified Arborist, and a 20 plus years nursery grower of fine trees.
This is episode 015 “Where Trees Come From” of The Garden Question Podcast. Our conversation with Paul Chappell of Diversified Trees coming up.
This is episode 089 – Your Garden’s Next Tree – Paul Chappell on The Garden Question Podcast.
A remix and encore presentation of episode 015.
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Jenny Simpson meets people on their gardening journey and helps them grow, bloom, and thrive both in their garden and life!
In this episode we talk about how being a student of your garden puts you on a track to success.
Jenny & Jerry Simpson are growers and retailer of specialized plants that thrive in the often-challenging climate of the southeastern United States.
Their Creekside Nursery, Inc. is an all-hands-on deck family operation located in the serene countryside outside Dallas, NC.
As a Proven Winners' Destination Garden Center, they offer the region’s largest selection of Proven Winners' plants.
Jenny creates and publishes 5 very informative garden videos a week. You will want to follow Jenny’s family adventures along with 75,000+ followers @GardeningwithCreekside on YouTube.
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Janet Draper gets to play in the dirt and talk to people from around the world.
This is her 25th year as the sole horticulturalist for Smithsonian’s Mary Livingston Ripley Garden.
This tiny 1/3 of an acre garden is located on the National Mall and in Washington, DC. The garden is open to visitors 24 hours a day.
Due to the nearly constant events occurring within a stone’s throw, and major construction on aging buildings, the challenges of keeping the gardens looking good can be daunting.
Janet goal is to make the garden interesting day to day by creating displays that educate and stimulate people to go outside and plant something.
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How did the Poinsettia become the Christmas flower?
It is a series of intriguing stories full of human drama, mysteries, secrets, challenges, and world domination.
Find out why every poinsettia plant sold today carries a critical pathogen that is a key to its success and is detrimental all other plants.
Also, we will learn how to be successful in selecting and growing your poinsettia year-round along with having a few myths squashed.
In this episode 086 Jim Faust tells interesting true Poinsettia Stories from their discovery to your own enjoyment at Christmas.
One story involves searching out wild poinsettias in the middle of two drug cartel-controlled territories.
Jim Faust is a Professor of Floriculture Physiology at Clemson University in South Carolina.
He does research on greenhouse production of various flowering crops, teaches hydroponics, and greenhouse production courses.
He grew his first poinsettia crop in 1986.
I invite you to search for The Garden Question Podcast episode 086 page to see the many interesting images Jim talks about in this episode.
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We are at the beginning of Christmas season and it is time to display the Christmas Tree.
Dr. Mel Koelling knows Christmas Trees.
He and his wife Laurie have grown thousands of trees every year at Tannenbaum Farms in central Michigan.
A nationally recognized expert in the Christmas Tree industry, Dr. Koelling taught and served in the Department of Forestry at Michigan State University for over 35 years.
Tannenbaum Farms was purchased in 1977 as an extension of Dr. Koelling's professional interests and as a way to establish a college fund for his children. The first planting in 1978 covered three acres. Today, plantings cover approximately 100 acres of the 180-acre farm.
I was introduced to Dr. Koelling through the fine folks at The National Christmas Tree Promotion Board. Their campaign It’s Christmas Keep It Real touch me.
Christmas trees what a wonderful idea for an episode.
It can take over 8 years to grow your tree so there is not really an off season on a Christmas Tree farm.
We will hear right from the grower himself how to select and care for your live tree.
We will also discover the story behind the first Christmas Tree and how the tradition grew.
This episode 085 - Real Christmas Tree Stories - Dr. Mel Koelling. An encore remix presentation of episode 033 on The Garden Question Podcast.
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Pearce Butcher has always known that she is an artist who loves nature and science.
In this
episode we dissect Landscape Design as a unique combination of art, science,
and problem-solving.
Pearce
loves the challenge of looking at a space, listening to the concerns and dreams
of the homeowner, and coming up with beautiful solutions.
She
composes absolutely stunning landscape designs for her clients at Pearce B Designs. Be inspired by her extraordinary
designs on Instagram @
Pearce B Designs.
Pearce is
a double major in Earth and Environmental Science and Art from Furman University. At George Washington University she
earned a Landscape Certificate while studying at the U.S. National Arboretum.
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So much of Charles Daniel’s garden world revolves around camellias. In this episode he talks about how to be successful with Camellias and their surprising history.
He shares why Camellias are a key plant for year-round blooms. We also talk about how to overcome garden challenges.
This lawyer, banker, and successful business owner “retired” to his new passion for gardening. He reveals his journey that led him to the ongoing development and caring for some of the most unique gardens in Savannah, Georgia area.
Charles is a University of Georgia Certified Plant Professional and a Georgia Certified Landscape Professional.
This is episode 083 - Where Do Camellias Grow Best with Charles Daniel on The Garden Question Podcast.
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082 – David Brown – Designing From The Garden
You will often find David Brown studying plants in the gardens at Hills and Dales Estate.
He seeks to acquire the perfect cutting for his amazing indoor arrangements. In our conversation he tells us how you may accomplish the same with your garden plants.
Before coming to Hills & Dales Estate, David taught high school horticulture for 30 years and then was an adjunct instructor at Southern Crescent Technical College for 8 years.
On top of all that he and his wife also owned and operated their own floral shop.
David has a BS degree in Horticulture and Agriculture Education from Purdue University.
Now he is the Greenhouse Manager and Floral Designer for Hills & Dales Estate where he is always applying his wealth of knowledge and creative expertise.
This episode is a remix of 030
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