Episodes
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Addressing Fox conservation and cyber bullying with Dan Cole from SaveAFox
The death of Mikayla Raines was a shock to the conservation world and in today's show, John speaks with Dan Cole of SavAFox rescue about their work and the consequences of cyber bullying.
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Traveling with Biotropica Expeditions in Ecuador
John & his wife Susana have been traveling & visiting Ecuador for over thirty years and today they sit down with their good friends Norby & Susana Lopez of Biotropica Expeditions to review a trip they took together.
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Dr. Tjite de Vries
We're joined today by Dr. Tjite de Vries former head of Biology at La Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador. A long time friend of John & Susana's and one of the first scientists to be stationed in the Galapagos Islands studying birds. Listen in as he tells us of his history in Ecuador and...
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Father's Day on the NPP
Happy Father's Day everyone! New Dad Chris Fehlhaber sits down with Uli Lorimer and Tim Johnson of the Native Plant Trust to talk about gardening and fatherhood and lessons learned along the way.
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Maggie Stuckey's Container Victory Gardens
Today's episode is dedicated to John's Dad (Sam) who despite growing up during World War 2 and living in downtown Toledo, Ohio still managed to raise food for his family through always having a 'victory garden', a practice he carried on his entire life and passed on to his children teaching them...
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Devin Walsh- art from the garden
Matthew sits down with fellow New Englander (can we get some Chowda?) Devin Walsh and they explore art in the garden.
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Uli Lorimer and his Northeast Native Plant Primer
Uli Lorimer is director of Horticulture at Garden In The Woods, in Framingham, Massachussettes. Previously, he was curator of Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Native Flora Garden until early 2019. The Delaware native grew up with an interest in all things green, and after receiving an honors degree from...
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Uli Lorimer and his Northeast Native Plant Primer
Uli Lorimer is director of Horticulture at Garden In The Woods, in Framingham, Massachussettes. Previously, he was curator of Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Native Flora Garden until early 2019. The Delaware native grew up with an interest in all things green, and after receiving an honors degree from...
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Anna Fialkoff of the Wild Seed Project
Wild Seed Project builds awareness of the vital importance of native plants and provides all people with the tools to restore biodiversity in their own communities. They equip community members, public officials and municipalities, and land-holding individuals and organizations – from farmers to...
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Piet Oudolf at Work
John sits down with legendary Landscape Designer Piet Oudolf and discusses his new book- 'at Work', landscape design, working with others and a few other topics. There are even a few dog stories.
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Landscape Designer Owen Wormser on how to turn your lawn into a meadow
Gardening Author and Landscape Designer Owen Wormser drops by to spread some wisdom on eliminating lawn and replacing it with habitat, just like he does in his book 'Lawns Into Meadows, Growing a Regenerative Landscape'
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Another 'lost tapes' episode as Garden Designer Donald Pell drops by
OK, so we're not the most organized people in the world- we're sorry. We originally spoke to Don last year, but in an unfortunate sorting incident, we lost the file for a time. We're very glad to have found it though as it is a wonderful piece of entertainment and education. Garden Designer…
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John & Susana welcome season 8 of the NPP
John & Susana team up to get us started this year by describing a pretty incredible trip to Ecuador over the winter where they visited Antisana and Chimborazo volcanos and the cloudy forest of Papallacta (pronounced- Papayakta). They also update us on co-hosts and joke around a bit while...
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Laurie Olin- Essays on Landscape Part 2
One of the most influential landscape architects in practice today, Laurie Olin has created designs for the Washington Monument grounds and the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden in Washington, D/.D., Bryant Park in New York City, Getty Center in Los Angeles, and many other iconic…
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Jeff Lorenz of Refugia Design
Jeff Lorenz is the founder of Refugia Design, an ecological landscape design/build and stewardship firm, based out of Narberth, PA. Since 2015, Refugia has been offering distinctive native landscape design for both residential and commercial green spaces throughout the Greater Philadelphia Area…
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James Golden- the View from Federal Twist
James Golden's garden design has been featured in national and international magazines, in The New York Times, and in several books on garden design. He has been the recipient of national awards and is widely known in the gardening world through his garden blog View from Federal Twist...
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Shannon Smith Currey on native grasses and sedges
We're all about the graminoids this week with our long-time friend and boomerang guest, Shannon Currey. Since taping the show, Shannon has transitioned from her role as Marketing Director with Hoffman Nursery to pursue a career in horticulture communication, education, and consulting. Her wealth…
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Professor Jared Barnes on being Plantastic
Jared Barnes, Ph.D., started gardening when he was five years old, and since then has enthusiastically pursued how to best cultivate plants and minds. He currently fulfills those passions as an award-winning associate professor of horticulture at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches,...
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Laurie Olin- Essays on Landscape
Laurie is a distinguished teacher, author, and one of the most renowned landscape architects practicing today. From vision to realization, he has guided many of OLIN's signature projects, which span the history of the studio from the Washington Monument Grounds in Washington, DC to Bryant Park in...
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Sean Halloran; Plant Propagator at The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University
Sean received a Bachelor's in Horticulture and a Master's degree in Plant & Environmental Science from Clemson University where he focused on nutrient media in tissue culture propagation. His professional background includes private residential horticulture, greenhouse and nursery production…
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Kristin McCullin- The Trustees- Allen C. Haskell Public Gardens
Before serving as Horticulturist of Haskell Public Gardens, Mc Cullin was the Senior Horticulturalist at The Native Plant Trusts Garden in the Woods. Prior to that, McCullin was selected as a Garden Club of America and Royal Society of Horticulture Scholar to intern at a variety of important…
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Jenn Myers, Executive Director of the National Association of Landscape Professionals
Jenn Myers drops by to chat with John and Preston about things that landscape companies can do to attract and maintain professional staffs
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Miles Hilton Connors, Director of Parterre Ecological
Miles Hilton Connors is Director of Parterre Ecological, a specialized division within Parterre Garden Services that integrates principles of ecology and horticulture to protect, promote and restore native plant communities.
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Andrea DeLong Amaya of the Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center
Chris & John host Andrea Amaya with all of her plant knowledge and work she's helping the Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center do, she's a wealth of information.
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Native Plant Tok with Kyle Lyberger
Kyle Lybarger is a Forester, a conservation influencer, and a life long outdoorsman from Hartselle, Alabama. Kyle holds a Bachelors degree in Forestry ,with a concentration in Forest Science, from Alabama A&M University. His love for the outdoors and wildlife led him to native plants since they…
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Emma Marris Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World and Rambunctious Garden
Emma Marris is the author of Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World and Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World. She also writes about the human and nonhuman worlds, and the enduringly complex relationships between them for National Geographic, the Atlantic…
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Professor Darrel Morrison- Beauty of the Wild
We're more than honored to have a very special guest to start off Season 7. Professor Morrison's legendry work and contributions to our field are unparrelleled and we're thrilled to have him as our guest.
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Sarah Coury and Ben Pick, the dynamic duo that together make Saturnia Farm
Saturnia Farm in Clyde North Carolina is a nursery, flower farm, and homestead with growing and land management practices guided by principals of beauty, permaculture, and ecology. Their mission is to provide holistically-grown, affordable, specialty perennials, natives, and edible landscaping...
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Ruth Rogers Clausen & Gregg Tepper on their new book "Deer resistant Native Plants for the Northeast"
Two friends of ours have joined forces to give us all some great suggestions for deer resistant plants for the Northeast United States. Gregg Tepper has been on the podcast before, but this time he brings one of our favorite gardening authors; Ruth Rogers Clausen. The two have combined their...
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Tony Gomez- Philips of the Monona Terrace
Following in the footsteps of Frank Lloyd Wright, Tony Gomez- Philips helps to update classic design into a more sustainable light at Monona Terrace in Wisconsin.
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Jessica Walliser- Attracting Beneficial Bugs to the Garden: A Natural Approach to Pest Control
Tonight on the show we have gardener, writer, speaker and overall beneficial insect enthusiast Jessica Walliser. She is a former contributing editor for Organic Gardening and a regular contributor to many national gardening publications. Her two weekly gardening columns for the Pittsburgh...
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Jeff Epping Director of Horticulture at Olbrich Botanical Gardens on gravel gardens and meadows
Jeff Epping has been Director of Horticulture at Olbrich Botanical Gardens in Madison WI, since 1992 where he oversees horticultural operations and the garden designs of more than 15 inspirational garden areas showcasing fantastic plants for Southern Wisconsin. Jeff and his talented staff have...
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Sam Droege of the US Geological Survey teaches us everything you can learn about bees in one hour.
Sam Droege has spent most of his career at the USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center. He has coordinated the North American Breeding Bird Survey Program, developed the North American Amphibian Monitoring Program, the BioBlitz, Cricket Crawl, and FrogwatchUSA programs and worked on the design and...
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Mark Dwyer- Native Plants in public & private landscapes
A child of the Midwest, Mark Dwyer is a passionate gardener, plants person, designer, horticulture speaker, educator and author. He has degrees in landscape architecture (University of Illinois) and urban forestry (UW-Stevens Point) and is former Director of Horticulture at the Rotary Botanical...
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Dr. Amy Venclik/ Johnson on the importance of private lands for grassland bird conservation in the eastern US
Dr. Amy Venclik/ Johnson is a conservation scientist and Program Director for Virginia Working Landscapes, a community-based research program at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institiute. In this role, Amy leads a team that cultivates a dynamic network of private landowners, citizen...
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Cullowhee reunion episode: Sadie Walters and her "Pit stop for the birds"
Former Cullowhee Scholarship winner and current Landscape Architect Sadie Walters drops by to chat with John & Preston about her new project promoting sustainable charging stations for electric vehicles.
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Using Science to Save the American Chestnut Tree with Dr. Sara Fitzsimmons of the American Chestnut Foundation.
This week, John & Chris sit down with Dr. Sara 'Fern' Fitzsimmons to talk about her love of one of America's most iconic trees- the American Chestnut (Castanea dentata) and to talk about it's chances of a future return to our forests.
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How do Solving the Global Water Crisis and High Plains Gardening Go Together?
Eleanor Allen is the CEO of Water For People, a global nonprofit working in Africa, Latin America, and Asia to help develop sustainable water and sanitation services for millions of people. She's a social entrepreneur recognized by the Schwab Foundation, a TEDx speaker, a Water Environment...
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Dr. Doug Tallamy on the Nature of Oaks
Author, Naturalist and all around good guy, Dr. Doug Tallamy joins John Magee and Capital Naturalist Alonso Abugattas to discuss one of the most important trees we can add to our landscapes- the Oak (Quercus spp.). Known to support some 570 species of life, nothing can be more supportive to...
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Professor Jeff Ollerton on Pollinators & Pollination
During a career spanning more than 30 years, Professor Jeff Ollerton has established himself as one of the world's leading experts on pollinators and pollination. The author of more than 120 articles and book chapters, his highly-cited, ground-breaking research has been used by national and...
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Matthew Martin of the Danvers Historical Society
For the last 10 years, Matthew Martin has been managing the buildings and grounds of the Danvers Historical Society. There, Matthew's mission has been to restore the historic gardens as well as implement strategies to build resiliency into the landscape. Matthew also has a strong passion for…
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Matt Bright of Earth Sangha native plant nursery and Alonso Abugattas
Matt Bright has been the Conservation Manager at Earth Sangha, an organization his parents founded in 1998 since 2011. Before that, he worked as a volunteer firefighter and EMT while attending Kenyon College in Ohio. Matt now splits his time between managing the Wild Plant Nursery -- Washington…
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Celia Vuocolo of the Piedmont Environmental Council on Trout Habitat
Celia Vuocolo manages PEC's Sustainable Habitat Program. She works with landowners interested in managing their property for wildlife habitat, provides outreach and education on wildlife and land stewardship, works on wildlife conservation policy issues and watershed-scale restoration…
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Michael Myers of the Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy
On today's show, John sits down with Michael Myers of the Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy to talk about how local non-profits can help educate the public and conserve areas for wildlife habitat.
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Storm water management in the Chesapeake Bay watershed with Beth Ginter
Beth Ginter, Executive Director of the Chesapeake Conservation Landscaping Council, drops by to tell us about their certification for Professional Landscapers (CBLP) to help clean storm water runoff before it reaches the Bay.
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Revisiting Rafinesque with John Boggan of the Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Botanist John Boggan drops by to talk about why plants are named as they are and why plant names change from time to time.
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Welcome to season 6!
At long last season 6 has arrived and in this first episode, John previews what we'll be diving into.
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Lost tapes Episode: William Cullina
We went down to the NPP basement and did some searching for this one. Originally recorded in 2017, this show was 'lost' after recording and so some things may be out of date. things like the fact that Bill is no longer at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens and is now at the Morris Arboretum in...
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Uli Lorimer of the Native Plant Trust
Uli Lorimer drops by to talk about the work being done with the Native Plant Trust and how to find good natives in the trade.
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Ohio Botanist Andrew Lane Gibson
Another visitor from the Buckeye State as Andrew Lane Gibson joins John Magee & John Manion to discuss a lot of Orchids and other school stuff from across the state and beyond.