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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

A StoryCorps Valentine's Day

A collection of short conversations about love from members of the community who were recorded by StoryCorps, during their visit to Bloomington last summer.

Feb 12, 2018•59 min

Global Flowers

For Valentine’s Day, most of us will buy flowers, and those flowers are already enroute to us from abroad.

Feb 08, 2018•2 min

Conductor Patrick Summers

Aaron Cain speaks with conductor Patrick Summers, Artistic and Music Director of Houston Grand Opera.

Feb 05, 2018•59 min

Indestructible Natives

Native plants are well adapted to our growing conditions, and so most of them are easy to grow and need only minimal care once established.

Feb 01, 2018•2 min

Sounds So Nice, Feels So Good

The cornetto is a woodwind instrument with a brass-style cup mouth piece which flourished in the mid 1600’s, in the early to middle-baroque period.

Jan 25, 2018•7 min

Pollinator Plants

This year, I’m going to buy more plants that provide food and shelter for pollinators.

Jan 25, 2018•2 min

Cornetto Master Bruce Dickey

Dana Marsh speaks with Bruce Dickey, one of a few musicians who have dedicated themselves to reviving the cornetto, which fell into disuse in the 19th century.

Jan 20, 2018•59 min

Constitution Expert William Araiza

Steve Sanders speaks with Brooklyn Law School Professor William Araiza about giving new life to the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection.

Jan 13, 2018•59 min

Native Prairies

Since the 1830s, about 99 percent of American tall grass prairies have been destroyed.

Jan 11, 2018•2 min

Composer Renee Baker

Janae Cummings speaks with composer, conductor, violinist, and violist Renee Baker.

Jan 06, 2018•59 min

Vienna Vocal Consort

Machaut's 'Messe de Nostre Dame' is inordinately famous, and is often cited as the first complete polyphonic setting of a Mass ordinary by a single composer.

Jan 05, 2018•8 min

Composer Jake Heggie

WFIU's Aaron Cain speaks with contemporary classical composer Jake Heggie.

Dec 23, 2017•59 min

Musica Fiorita plays Molter

The young Johann Melchior Molter likely learned the basics of music before attending Gymnasium in Eisenach where J.S. Bach had been a pupil a few years earlier.

Dec 22, 2017•8 min

Co-Existence

Plants, like people, often seem better because of the virtues of others.

Dec 21, 2017•2 min

Un Jardin à l'Italienne

With the thunderous applause at the end of this CD, you can almost imagine yourself on tour with the Académie in Australia at the Melbourne Recital Centre.

Dec 08, 2017•7 min

Scented & Double Daffodils

As I look for late season bargains, I look for daffodils that bloom late and are scented as well as double.

Nov 30, 2017•2 min

Philidor Paris Quartets

Ars Antiqua transports listeners back in time to the gilded 18th century Rococo music rooms of Paris.

Nov 29, 2017•7 min

Irish Poet Paul Muldoon

Will Murphy interviews Irish poet, editor, critic, and translator Paul Muldoon.

Nov 25, 2017•59 min

Successes & Failures

November is a good time to evaluate our successes and failures during the past growing season.

Nov 23, 2017•2 min

Yo-Yo Ma and Maria Pomianowska

One of the world's great cellists and a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and composer who has given new life to old instruments.

Nov 18, 2017•59 min
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