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Focus on Flowers

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Focus on Flowers is a weekly podcast and public radio program about flower gardening hosted by master gardener Moya Andews.

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Episodes

LeStrange Viols

LeStrange Viols dedicates an entire disc to Cranford’s consort music for 4, 5, and 6 viols.

Oct 30, 20157 min

Thugs Of The Garden

These so-called thugs are plants that cover the ground so fast that if left to their own devices they eventually crowd out every other plant in a bed.

Oct 29, 20152 min

A Tribute To Scott Reiss

We’re remembering Scott Reiss, an early music pioneer and phenomenal recorder player who passed away ten years ago this year on December 15th, 2005.

Oct 26, 201559 min

Historian Joanna Bourke

IU Professor of History Mark Roseman hosts an interview with English historian Joanna Bourke.

Oct 25, 201556 min

Flowers For Shade

It’s possible to have colorful shade gardens that have a continual sequence of bloom.

Oct 22, 20152 min

Say Who? Franciszek Lessel

When asked to name a famous Polish pianist-composer before Chopin but after Haydn, how many would come up with the name Franciszek Lessel?

Oct 16, 20157 min

Kiss Me!

This hour, we bring you kisses in all times and tempos. Plus a

Oct 12, 201559 min

Unusual Bulbs That Draw The Eye

Fall is the time to be thinking about next spring and especially which new spring-blooming bulbs to plant.

Oct 08, 20152 min

Food Writer Claudia Roden

Profiles presents two guests who participated in IU’s Themester “Eat, Drink, Think: Food from Art to Science.”

Sep 27, 201544 min

Psychologist Larry Barsalou

Professor Rob Goldstone interviews psychologist and cognitive scientist Lawrence W. Barsalou.

Sep 27, 201559 min

Speedwells

Some speedwells are low growing but most are upright with flower spires of blues, violets, pinks and whites.

Sep 24, 20152 min

Capitalism

Alex reads his poems "Capitalism," "For the Trees," "Apples, a Prayer," and "No Wonder."

Sep 20, 20156 min

Haydn 2032

Il Giardino Armonico's Haydn 2032 project looks forward to the 300th anniversary of the composers' birth.

Sep 18, 20158 min

September Planting

Now is the perfect time to walk around your yard and find spaces that need more color or interest at this time of the year.

Sep 17, 20152 min

Leaning Song

Alex reads his poems "Leaning Song" and "Bindings."

Sep 13, 20155 min

False Economy

Late last fall I bought a lot of perennials at the end of October, and not one of them came back this past spring.

Sep 10, 20152 min

Law Professor David Williams

Trish Kerlé interviews IU law professor David C. Williams, an expert on constitutional and Native American law.

Sep 06, 201559 min

Aubaude Again

Alex Chambers reads "Aubade Again" and "Western Industrial Agriculture."

Sep 06, 20155 min

Purcell's Revenge

Concerto Caledonia’s recording colors outside the lines of what we’ve come to expect from performances of Purcell's music.

Sep 04, 201510 min

Plant Partners

Bright accents will make any blue/grey background plantings pop!

Sep 03, 20152 min

IU Press Director Gary Dunham

Moya Andrews hosts an interview with Gary Dunham, director of Indiana University Press and Digital Publishing.

Aug 30, 201554 min

They Called Him "Le Romain"

Marcel Moyse, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Sir James Galway…three famous names in the flute world. But here’s another name to consider: Jacques Martin Hotteterre.

Aug 28, 201510 min
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