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May 06, 2021•2 min
Focus on Flowers
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
Thinking About Color
It's is a good idea to think about color before you buy a bunch of news plants in springtime.
Apr 29, 2021•2 min
Righting Wrongs
Springtime = Transplant, delete, cut back.
Apr 22, 2021•2 min
Lily-of-the-Valley Bush
All Pieris shrubs are evergreen and are related to rhododendrons and mountain laurels.
Apr 15, 2021•2 min
Calycanthus floridus
Calycanthus is a fine sweet shrub that also goes by the name of Carolina allspice.
Apr 08, 2021•2 min
Native Aronia
Our native red and black chokeberry shrubs provide four seasons of interest and are drought tolerant once they are established in gardens
Apr 01, 2021•2 min
Native Spicebush
Lindera is a host plant for the promethean moth and the spicebush swallowtail butterfly.
Mar 25, 2021•2 min
Siting Shrubs
Shrubs are easy-care and long-lived stalwarts in our landscapes in all seasons of the year.
Mar 18, 2021•2 min
Avoiding Chaos
How do we avoid a messy medley of too many plants creating chaos in the garden? I can tell you from personal experience that it isn’t easy!
Mar 11, 2021•2 min
Imports
Now, only about 20% of our cut flowers are grown in California, Washington State, and Oregon, where most used to be grown for domestic sale.
Mar 04, 2021•2 min
Harvesting Flowers
Where do our cut flowers come from? Often, South America. Workers in greenhouses cut each stem individually and immediately place each flower in a bucket of water...
Feb 25, 2021•2 min
Flower Longevity
Refrigerated trucks and unheated holds of planes are cold, helping cut flowers from abroad to stay fresh during their journey to the U.S.
Feb 18, 2021•2 min
Valentines Flowers
Over one-hundred million roses are purchased in the United States for Valentine’s Day each year, and nearly all are red and long stemmed.
Feb 11, 2021•2 min
Winter Landscapes
What we see from our windows all through the cold days of winter is our garden’s architectural structure formed by the trees and shrubs that are the long-term residents of our gardens year round.
Feb 04, 2021•2 min
Henry Mitchell Says...
For twenty years Henry Mitchell’s column “Earthman” was a weekly feature in The Washington Post.
Jan 28, 2021•2 min
African Violet Propagation
African violets are quite happy growing in pots in many of our homes and are easily propagated.
Jan 21, 2021•2 min
The Duke Gardens
Visitors are not charged to see the 55 acres of gorgeous organic plantings in the heart of this major research university.
Jan 14, 2021•2 min
Emily's Garden
Emily Dickinson was a renowned poet, but during her lifetime she was known more for her gardening skills.
Jan 07, 2021•2 min
Flowers in Verse
Here are few poems written, most of them, very long ago.
Dec 31, 2020•2 min
Holiday Cactus
There has been so much hybridizing, that the differences between a Thanksgiving and a Christmas cactus have become blurred, so it seems reasonable to refer to them all as Holiday Cactuses nowadays.
Dec 24, 2020•2 min
Holiday Decorations Reinvented
This may be the perfect year to simplify our holiday decorations. Rather than buying new items, dig around in your closets and see what you can reinvent.
Dec 17, 2020•2 min
Gifts for Gardeners
If you have gardeners on your holiday gift list, you can easily accommodate them from the comfort of your own home. Gift certificates to nurseries in the hometown of your recipients, or from catalogues, are always well received.
Dec 10, 2020•2 min
Clivia Care
Most clivia plants produce orange flowers, but you can impress a gardener by ordering a clivia for them as a holiday gift that produces yellow blooms, as yellow is quite rare and treasured by knowledgeable gardeners.
Dec 03, 2020•2 min
Assessing & Planning
As we look back on the gardening season, we can assess what worked and what didn’t – our successes and challenges in the garden.
Nov 26, 2020•2 min
Fall Clean-Up
In the fall, I leave a few cone flowers and sunflowers for the birds, otherwise I cut spent flowers right to the ground and clean up the debris. I want the beds clear before the spring daffodils and other bulbs bloom.
Nov 19, 2020•2 min
Planting Bulbs
My garden is very crowded, and so in the fall, I am always wondering where I can plant more spring bulbs without cutting into the existing ones.
Nov 12, 2020•2 min
Collecting Seeds
It is easy and fun to save seeds from this year’s annuals.
Nov 05, 2020•2 min
Less Appetizing
I used to believe that some plants—like peonies, for example—were immune to deer. Not anymore. I have seen deer eat just about every plant...
Oct 29, 2020•2 min
Black Bugbane
Not a pretty name for such an attractive plant.
Oct 15, 2020•2 min
Pincushion Flower
A plant that attracts butterflies to our garden is the pincushion flower. The botanical name is Scabiosa, and these plants usually have blue, white, or pink flowers. As their common name suggests, the shape of the flower resembles a pincushion as the central florets form a rounded shape.
Oct 15, 2020•2 min
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