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Making It Grow Minutes — 408 episodes
The scientific names, they are a-changin'
Liquidambar styraciflua
Metasequoia glyptostroboides
Biogeographic disjunction
The advantage of knowing scientific names
Setae vs pupal cases
Fall webworms' setae
The lifecycle of webworms
South Carolina is experiencing a record level of fall webworms
An abundance of fall webworms
'Watermelon fuels athletes.'
Watermelon Queen requirement: superior seed-spitting skills
Varieties of watermelons
The Origins of Watermelons
Watermelon Field Day
The official birds of South Carolina
The deadly competitive nature of house wrens
A Carolina wren sets Amanda McNulty's heart aflutter
After four days around the McNulty home, a possum tires of 'playing possum'
The 19 cats of Amanda McNulty
The importance of planting larval food sources
Moths rush in where light fears to tread
Clothes moths
Cedar chests
The evolution of home storage
The recreational side of magnolia trees
Love magnolias? Thank a beetle.
Varieties of Magnolia grandiflora
Why you should carefully select an evergreen magnolia
Magnolia grandiflora is a plant that offers something all year long
Honey locust cultivars
Honey locust seed pods
Gleditsia triacanthos
The wicked thorns of the honey locust tree
When humans interacted with megafauna
The black locust tree: a hardy multitasker
Black locust fence posts
Gathering black locust tree blossoms
The strength of black locust wood
Black locust trees
When to use the "cut stump" method of controlling invasive wisteria
Swamp wisteria
Wisteria's dark side
The destructive nature of wisteria
You say "wisteria," Amanda says "wistaria"
Swamp jessamine
A warning about yellow jessamine
Poor man's rope
Yellow jessamine wins this year's footrace with Asian azaleas
Yellow jessamine: South Carolina's state flower
Managing dandelion growth
Dandelions and nutrition
The competitive yet beneficial nature of dandelions
Dandelions: the world's golden globetrotters
The variety of greens
The sad history of sea turtles
One call can save a sea turtle's life
Caring for South Carolina's sea turtle population
Keeping South Carolina's waterways debris-free
Helping sea turtles in distress
How sycamores support wildlife
Creative uses of sycamore hollows
Sycamores: not ideal for landscaping
Buttonwood
Sycamore trees, the contemporaries of dinosaurs
Heirloom Ornaments
Candlelit Christmas trees
Fun at the Christmas tree farm
A tasteful tabletop Christmas tree
Putting up the Christmas tree
Cedar apple rust
Eastern red cedars and juniper berries
Building with eastern red cedar
An eastern red cedar for Christmas
The protective properties of eastern red cedar
Bat guano
Is that bottle of tequila bat-friendly? Check the label.
Bats as pollinators
Bats in South Carolina
October is Bat Month
Storing chlorophyll
Chlorophyll: an expensive molecule for plants to make
Tapping trees
Vermont: a leaf-peeper's paradise
Chasing Autumn: where and when to witness South Carolina's vibrant fall foliage
An obscure study of stabilimenta
Mystery of the stabilimentum
Writing spiders
Big yellow spiders
Spiderweb Management
Appreciating the Trumpet Creeper
Trumpet creeper
The efficiency of scout ants
Wildlife guests
Ant control
Enjoying and employing rice
Salt is hygroscopic, but rice is a desiccant
Salt cellars
Swamp milkweed
A welcome and fortuitous visitor
South Carolina: 'The Tastier Peach State'
It's free stone peach season
When it comes to controlling mosquitoes, 'BT' is your BFF
Yard foggers kill more than just mosquitoes
Mosquito foggers can lead to resistance
Why bees are so busy around watermelons
South Carolina's Watermelon Queen shares the health benefits of watermelon
When you think watermelon, think Gilbert Miller
When it comes to watermelons, variety is the 'slice' of life
The sound of a ripe watermelon
If your yard's big enough, plant an oak tree.
You are nature's best hope.
Birds are having trouble finding enough caterpillars to raise their young.
Larval food plants
What does entomology have to do with bird decline?
'Listen to the Mockingbird'
The significance of the mockingbird in American literature
Why Texas chose the northern mockingbird as its state bird
Mocking birds: the many-tongued mimics
The fiercely protective mockingbird
Fun with anoles
The courtship of green anoles
To catch an anole
Anole season
Uninvited house guests
Varieties of Yellow Jessamine
Landscaping with Yellow Jessamine
South Carolina's state flower is beautiful, but deadly.
The glory of Carolina jessamine is on full display across S.C.
Ode to the Yellow Jessamine
Delicious dandelions
"Tell Times"
In defense of the dandelion
“Tis better to put out your feeders early to the delight of every returning birdy"
Hummingbirds are returning to South Carolina
Amaryllis forcing
Safety tips on transplanting rain lilies
Other names for Zephyranthes
What's in a name? That which we call a rain lily by any other name would smell as sweet
Where the rain lilies bloom
How to rid your home of brown marmorated stink bugs
Though the Samurai wasp be but little, it is fierce
Marmorated stink bugs are relatively new to the U.S.
How marmorated stink bugs survive the winter
The Pitfalls of Painting
The industry of Spanish moss
Life in the clouds
How resurrection ferns live up to their name
What's an epiphyte?
What kind of plant is Spanish moss?
How and when to water blooming holiday cacti
A closer look at the anatomy of Thanksgiving and Christmas cacti
Have a spare box? Save it for your holiday cacti.
The difference between Thanksgiving and Christmas cacti
Table decorations for the holidays
Chickie Wimberly's special visit
The McNulty Family's Memorable Meals
Chickie Wimberly joins the McNulty Family
Menageries and menu choices
The unusual childhood pets of Amanda McNulty
How do you solve a problem like mosquitos?
Make it STOP growing!
The beauty and ecologic necessity of the sweetbay magnolia
Southern magnolias vs sweetbay magnolias
The fleeting fragrance of tea olive trees
The preferred diet of cattle egrets
Cattle egret nests
Favorite foods of the cattle egret
How to identify cattle egrets
The origin of cattle egrets
The rewards of home canning
How to check your canning and freezing equipment for accuracy
Is your family recipe for canning foods safe?
Turning your garden bounty into pickles and chutneys
Safe canning
Controlling carpenter bees
Sipping 'the forbidden nectar of knowledge'
The solitary life of the carpenter bee
Hanging pictures and painting pews
Carpenter bees take a seat on Amanda McNulty's porch
The importance of using native plants
Corn OFF the cob
The multicultural flavors of corn on the cob
Sweet Corn
Preparing the perfect cob of corn
A brief history of California's Cottonwood Spring Oasis
Look before you plant
Large amounts of water quench the fastest-growing native tree in North America
How does the eastern cottonwood "sing"?
Where to find the cottonwood trees Debbie Reynolds sang of in the movie "Tammy and the Bachelor"
Mountain Laurel: beauty and beast
The taste of honey has not always been so sweet, especially during historic battles.
Kalmia latifolia, also known as mountain laurel, is now in bloom.
"Miss May" turns a garbage heap into a free, public garden
Coker University's Kalmia Gardens is home to an unusual ecosystem featuring glacial relicts
The work of female cicadas and their nymphs
South Carolina could witness two beautiful events of the natural world at Landsford Canal State Park through mid-May.
Cicadas set the stage for a historic event
The serenade of the cicada
Cicada season is drawing near
The South Carolina Botanical Garden at Clemson University is a State Treasure
Pine Trees are Likely not Making You Sneeze
Why Yellow Means Green for South Carolina
The Biology of Pine Cones
The Science of Calculating Pine Tree Pollen
Our cavity-nesting birds are running out of places to have babies. Here's how you can help.
The Importance of Snags
Flight of the Kestrel
The crisis for cavity-nesting birds
The difference between kestrels and hawks
Distinguishing a Pest-Controller from a Pest Among Ladybugs
How to Rid Your Home of Asian Ladybug Beetles
Asian ladybug beetles
The Dangers of Planting Chinese Wisteria
Tallow Trees
Collard green USDA seed bank
Collards
Brassica field day
Cotton species
Packaged cotton
Rowland Alston and 30 years of Making It Grow
Early mechanical cotton pickers
Cotton
Southern magnolias during the holidays
Holidays at the Robert Mills House
Raisins on the stem
Holidays at Colonial Williamsburg
Citrus in Christmas stockings
SC Botanical Garden: Endangered Plants
SC Botanical Garden: Natural Heritage Gardens
SC Botanical Garden: Birding Garden
SC Botanical Garden: Native Plant Studies
SC Botanical Garden
Sneezing
Sneezeweed snuff
Soil types
Sneezeweed cultivars
Sneezeweed
Crotalarias and moths
Crotalaria spectabilis
Black-eyed Susans
South Carolina's yellow flowers
Lettuce on tomato sandwiches
Bacon mayonnaise
Homemade mayonnaise
Tomato sandwiches
The gum industry
Gum trees
Gum parkers
Gum
Making It Grow's 30th anniversary
Popcorn garlands
Popcorn toppings
Varieties of popcorn
History of popcorn
Popcorn around the world
Sunflowers and birds
Sunflowers and Teton Dakota tribes
Sunflower seeds
Sunflowers and Native Americans
Sunflowers' connection to Ukraine
Discovering real southern turkey dressing
Carolina aromatic rice
Cornbread and buttermilk
Cornbread and cast iron
Corn sticks!
A revolution for corn lovers
Picking sweet corn
Field corn vs. sweet corn
A history of corn
Glories of real grits
Types of milkweed
Milkweed and monarchs
Tagging monarch butterflies
Maypops
A garden that teaches
Laurel hells
Mountain laurel
Origin of Kalmia Gardens
Glacial relics
Fasciation in cockscomb celosia
Fasciation in Ailanthus altissima, "Tree of Heaven"
Dog fennell
Fasciation brings variety to flower arrangements
Fasciation
The bounty of Judge Arthur Solomon's travels
The George Lindley Taber variety of Indica azalea
More azalea varieties at Brookgreen Gardens
What's in a name? A lot of history
Spring beauties: Indica azaleas
Varieties of jessamine
Yellow jessamine
Redbuds for my arrangements
Redbud cultivars
Native redbuds feed native bees
"Judas tree"
A redbud variety that loves full sun
South Carolina's redbuds are in bloom
Sap sucker diet
Yellow-bellied sap suckers nesting
Tree damage by yellow-bellied sap suckers?
Yellow-bellied sap sucker migration
Yellow-bellied sap suckers suck sap
What's in a name?
Walking in nature
Depleted aquifers
Polluted river = polluted ocean
The Los Angeles river - a sad story
Reclaiming a river bed
Very old bald Cypress trees in Congaree Swamp National Park
Using "amaryllis" flowers in arrangements
"Amaryllis" cultivars
Planting and care of "amaryllis" bulbs outdoors
More on caring for "amaryllis"
Keeping "amaryllis" healthy indoors
Amaryllis plants are not really amaryillis
Hickory trees feed regal moths
Shelling hickory nuts is a tough job
Hickory nut oil
Memories of a hickory tree
Hickory trees in fall
Black cottonwood
Cottonwood seed dispersal
Cottonwood trees in the swamp
The Friends of the Congaree Swamp
Patti McGee shared her love of plants with the community around her
The legacy of Patty McGee
A "deer resistant" plant for your garden
The beauty of rattlesnake master flowers
Rattlesnake master has a pollenator useful to gardeners
One plant, many pollinators
"My new favorite plant..."
Rattlesnake master: Another odd common name
Osage orange wood burns intensely
The spread of osage orange
"Bodark" trees
Tree inspecton
How trees react to pruning can cause them to be less stable in the wind
The dangers of saturated ground for trees
Increased hurricane wind speeds will have a greater impact our trees
The expanding range of the black vulture
Know your vultures
Our native turkey vulture
The turkey vulture: nature's vacumn cleaner
Vultures at work
An uplifting sight
Vultures, not buzzards
Sunbelt Ag Expo
A C Moore Herbarium offers resouces via its website
"Rattlesnake plantain"
Orchids in South Carolina?
A. C. Moore Herbarium
Why fireflies flash
The beauty of 'lightening bugs'
Vanishing fireflies
Synchronous firefly displays
Harry Hampton and the Congaree National Park
Farming sunflowers in the US
Birds and sunflowers
Traditional Native Americans' uses for sunflowers
Uses of sunflowers over the years
A history of sunflowers
Sunflowers in Ukraine
Ag & Art tours are great outings for the kids
Ag & Art Tours are from May through June
Fox Hideaway Farms
More on Ag & Art Tours
Ag & Art Tour
McKissick Museum
Pearl Fryar
Topiary
Farming Foundations
A native honeysuckle
Bignonia capreolata for hummingbirds
"Apple blossom" clematis
MUSC: making safe spaces
MUSC: an arboretum
Horticultural therapy at MUSC
An urban farm as MUSC
MUSC's green spaces
Natural, red food coloring
The South Carolina Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program
Beet surprises
Asparagus and an odoriferous outcome
An asparagus receipe
Grades of asparagus
History of asparagus farming in South Carolina
"Aaparagus, again?"
The flexiblel bald Cypress
Dendrochronology
The science of dating trees
Congaree National Park: Thousands of acres
Very old bald Cypress trees in Congaree Swamp National Park
Food Share offers great receipes for healthier meals
Clemson Extension's Rural Health team
Lack of access to fresh food exacerbates health problems in SC
Fighting the effects of "food deserts"
South Carolina Certified Landscape Professional certification
Butterbean humus?
Research to help fight enviromental pressures which limit farmers' yields
A step forward in developing heat-tolerant vegetables
Researching the downturn in vegetable yields due to higher temperatures
Tony Melton: Butterbean Research
Tony Melton: All About Service
Tony Melton: Always on Call
Tony Melton: Humble Beginnings
A Salute to Tony Melton
Turtles at Risk