Coloradoscape: The Official Wild Ones Front Range Podcast

HPEC Nursery Online Plant Sale: https://suburbitat.org/native-plant-nursery/

This is part one of an interview with Stephen Hornbeck, nursery manager at the High Plains Environmental Center in Loveland, CO.

In this episode I speak with Amy Yarger, Senior Director of Horticulture at the Butterfly Pavilion in Westminster, Colorado. 

Butterfly Pavilion resource on pollinator gardens: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://butterflies.org/science-and-conservation/habitat-gardening/__;!!NCZxaNi9jForCP_SxBKJCA!SooN2MmdinlQEZpdQt3CY1LwZljKKJwuln5LiT8JW0wRf91_ulZb4J6dAu1pAklzXm2lcVHxYQgD6EQRULnFjhg1mQ$

Article on honeybees displacing native bees: https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecy.3939

Additional article on honeybees negatively impacting native bee populations: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666515822000154

Additional article on honeybees negatively impacting native bee populations: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/bee-science/articles/10.3389/frbee.2025.1508958/full

Information from Xerces Society on potential impacts of honeybees on native bees: https://xerces.org/publications/guidelines/overview-of-potential-impacts-of-honey-bees-to-native-bees-plant

In this episode, Jonathan provides some advice to new native plant gardeners and highlights some upcoming plant swaps. He also hears from Frank in Limon, Suzie in Plainfield, Illinois, and Washington Eagles, a tour bus driver and professional arm wrestler. 

In this episode, we speak with Eryn Murphy, founder and owner of Restorative Landscape Design. I also test out a new catchphrase. 

On the first episode of Coloradoscape, we speak with Jim Tolstrup of the High Plains Environmental Center.