Episode 99: Yards with Billy Goodnick

Today on We Dig Plants, Alice Marcus Krieg and Carmen Devito are talking with Billy Goodnick: gardener, musician, and author of Yards: Turn Any Outdoor Space Into the Garden of Your Dreams. Tune into this episode to learn about the correlations between music and gardening! Billy also talks about his blog entitled Crimes Against Horticulture, and why he decided to focus on plant torture. How did bonsai trees peak Billy’s gardening interest. Tune in to find out how Billy differentiates between ‘yards’ and ‘gardens’, and the importance of beauty, usefulness, and sustainability in garden design. This episode has been sponsored by Cain Vineyard & Winery. “Some things that people do in the name of horticulture are bad for the plants, and the fallout is bad for the environment!” [8:10] “Music is about exploration, and variations on themes… And that’s what I find I end up doing with gardening.” [10:25] — Billy Goodnick on We Dig Plants See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.