Growing Greener

Your weekly half-hour program about environmentally informed gardening. Each week we bring you a different expert, a leading voice on gardening in partnership with Nature. Our goal is to make your landscape healthier, more beautiful, more sustainable, and more fun.

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Episodes

Lisa Tewksbury -- University of Rhode Island Biocontrol Laboratory

Dr. Lisa Tewksbury discusses the work of the URI Biocontrol Laboratory and the role it plays in controlling invasive plants and insects

Dec 04, 2019•29 min•Ep. 22

Neil Diboll -- Meadow Gardening

Neil Diboll, president of Prairie Nursery and pioneer of the prairie gardening movement, discusses the ecological strengths of our native meadow flowers and grasses

Dec 01, 2019•29 min•Ep. 6

Ruth Rogers Clausen -- Deer Resistant Gardens

Horticulturist Ruth Rogers Clausen, author of " 50 Beautiful Deer-Resistant Plants: The Prettiest Annuals, Perennials, Bulbs, and Shrubs that Deer Don't Eat ," discusses the best ways to protect your garden from hungry deer

Nov 27, 2019•29 min•Ep. 27

Larry Weaner -- Ecological Garden Design

Celebrated landscape designer Larry Weaner, co-author of Garden Revolution , discusses his style of design which harnesses the natural ecology of the site to produce a garden that largely plants and maintains itself....

Nov 23, 2019•29 min•Ep. 5

Alyssa Rosemartin -- Phenology, Nature's Calendar

Alyssa Rosemartin of the USA National Phenology Network explains how natural phenomena such as the blooming of common plants can help gardeners schedule tasks more accurately.

Nov 20, 2019•29 min•Ep. 26

Heather Holm -- Beyond Bumblebees

An interview with award-winning author and landscape restorationist Heather Holm about the thousands of native pollinators that can serve your garden. Learn how to attract and foster these invaluable and essential insects.

Nov 13, 2019•29 min•Ep. 25

Dr. Bethany Bradley -- Assisted Migration of Native Plants

An interview with Dr. Bethany Bradley, ecologist at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, about the pros and cons of implementing assisted migration of native plants as a response to climate change

Oct 30, 2019•29 min•Ep. 23

Margaret Roach -- Education of an Evironmental Gardener

An interview with Margaret Roach, in which the celebrated host of "A Way to Garden" discusses the tools she used to educate herself about the environmental aspects of her craft, and her latest book, " A Way To Garden ."

Oct 28, 2019•29 min•Season 1Ep. 3

Jared Westbrook -- Saving Trees With Genetic Engineering

An interview with Dr. Jared Westbrook of the American Chestnut Foundation, in which he describes how his organization is using genetic engineering to return the American Chestnut to our forests, and discusses the implications of this work for other endangered trees

Oct 28, 2019•29 min•Season 1Ep. 2

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