Focus on Flowers

Harmonia looks at Piffaro's recording "Waytes," Ensemble Instrumenta Musica performs 17th-century Venetian wind music, and Florilegium continues its exploration of the Bolivian Baroque.

Eileen Myles is a New York City-based poet and author who has performed and published her work widely since 1974.

Natives with long tap roots like the bright orange butterfly weed were completely unfazed by the heat, as were shrubs like crepe myrtles and caryopteris.

Shana Ritter hosts this interview with poet Eileen Myles. The program includes Myles reading several of her poems.

Early poetry T.S. Eliot, including the poem "Morning at the Window," "Cousin Nancy," and "Preludes."

To grow mums as perennials here in the Midwest, it is best to buy small plants in the spring and pinch them back in the summer for more blooms in the fall.

David Brent Johnson hosts this interview with jazz trumpeter Pharez Whitted.