Plantrama - plants, landscapes, & bringing nature indoors

Learn about planting in galvanized containers, if hyacinth beans are edible, and underplanting trees with shrubs. Hear Ellen and C.L.'s picks for their three top garden ingredients for cocktails, what plants like coffee grounds, and C.L.'s favorite variety of kale. Plus more questions that came in from the audience at the Northwest Flower and Garden Festival in Seattle.

:40 Just For Fun: Galvanized containers for plants.

5:25 Eat/Drink/Grow: Questions from Seattle Flower Show

16:04 Love Letters and Questions What is your favorite kale and why? And, Coffee grounds for plants?

This episode was recorded live at our appearance at the Northwest Flower and Garden Festival in Seattle. This week, the second part of our talk on Flower Power and the Cocktail Hour. In this episode we give examples of flower-fueled cocktails you can make.

This episode was recorded live at our appearance at the Northwest Flower and Garden Festival in Seattle. This week, the first part of our talk on Flower Power and the Cocktail Hour. We discuss great plants and how to create a flower-filled environment for gathering in the evening.

In this episode Ellen and C.L. tackle a myth about box stores selling plants that have been raised with neonicotinoids, we discuss the amazing bamboo, and answer a question about saving a houseplant.

:34 True or False: Box store plants are raised using neonicotinoids

4:54 Eat/Drink/Grow: Bamboo

20:25 Love Letters and Questions: A listener asks if her money tree houseplant can be saved

Be inspired to make lettuce wraps for dinner, hear about growing coriander, and learn about plant pheromones. Plus hear how Ellen and C.L. advise Don about his ugly junipers.

:32 What's For Dinner: "Lettuce Wraps" 4:30 Eat/Drink/Grow: Coriander 14:44 Insider Information: What are plant pheromones?20:09 Love Letters and Questions: Don asks what to do with ugly junipers.

This podcast will inspire you to create more chopped salads, explain leaf spot fungus, and provide a list of plants that will attract hummingbirds. We also explain some flower terminology and answer a curious listener's email.

:40 What's for dinner: "Chopped Salad"

5:18 Insider Information: Leaf spot fungus.

17:00 Eat/Drink/Grow: Plants to Attract Hummingbirds

22:08 Did You Know: Difference between a single, semi-double, and double flower forms.

25: 08 Love Letters and Questions: Meg writes: What does CL stand for?"

:32 Plant Noob: How to make your own plant-able pots for starting seeds in.

5:57 Eat/Drink/Grow: Perennials that don't spread very much.

16:21 Product Review: Book: Growing Weed in the Garden by Johanna Silver

22:15 Love Letters and Questions Pippa asks about using products that make houseplants have shiny leaves.

Link to the YouTube video about making square newspaper pots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dlGQP81yfo

The list of perennials we covered:

Peony (Paeonia)

Butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa)

Stokes aster (Stokesia laevis)

Monkshood (Aconitum)

Balloon flower (Platycodon grandiflorus)

Bugbane (Actaea racemosa)

Agastache 'Blue Fortune' (Agastache foeniculum 'Blue Fortune')

In this episode C.L. and Ellen discuss research into growing plants in salty soils, aerating lawns with spiky shoes, and a plant that's a three some. We end explaining why it's possible to have too much manure in your soil.

:47 Did You Know: From the world of Plant Science: salty soils 3:50 True or False: You can aerate your lawn by walking on it with golf shoes. 7:57 Eat/Drink/Grow: Lichen: The plant that's a threesome? 14:44 Love Letters and Questions: Tim writes, "Is it possible to have too much manure in your garden soil?"

Link to the article about salty soils and bacteria: https://news.byu.edu/intellect/byu-scientists-discover-way-to-make-crops-grow-in-salt-damaged-soil

Get inspired to make a spring salad containing flower petals, hear about how a native plant in one area might be invasive elsewhere, and learn about a lemon-scented herb. The episode ends with a question about coconut coir.

:31 What's For Dinner: Spring tonic salads

4:28 Eat/Drink/Grow: A plant that's native in one place (and oh-so-beneficial) might be harmful in another location.

13:01 Insider Information: All about the herb called Lemon Balm.

17:38 Love Letters and Questions Cory wants to know what coconut coir is used for.

This episode of Plantrama gives you a heads up about two great plants, talks about what happens when people find a new plant and want to either patent it or otherwise bring it to market. We end with advise for Helen about her boxes in San Francisco.

:30 Insider Information – Plant Reviews: Burpee Silky Sweet Hybrid turnip and Agastache 'Glowing Embers' from High Country Gardens

6:01 Eat/Drink/Grow: What to do if you've found/discovered a new plant.

19:24 Love Letters and Questions: Helen writes to ask for our suggestions for plants in her boxes in San Francisco. She says, "Currently I have dead chrysanthemum plants in there and wanted something that would be more permanent."