Focus on Flowers

Annie Corrigan interviews IU alumna Sage Steele, co-host of ESPN’s SportsCenter.

There are about 70 different types of phlox, both short and tall. The short ones are used as groundcovers, and their palette is made up of the cool colors.

Recorded at the 2011 Blue Light Reading Series, Steve Scafidi reads "The Ten-Letter Word for a Lucky Man" and "The Junebugs."

This week, music from one of the many Bach children.

Flowering shrubs are invaluable in the garden, and many have pleasant perfumes as well as lovely flowers.

Ling reads poems from her first collection, which are written in the voice of Amelia Earhart.

Whether you pick flowers from your garden or buy them, all cut flowers benefit from being conditioned before they are arranged.

This week, poetry from the book Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein.