Plantrama - plants, landscapes, & bringing nature indoors

Here's a taste of what the Plantrama Podcast is all about.

We start off this podcast with a toast to fall as Ellen presents an autumnal cocktail…a frozen persimmon margarita! We discuss protecting plants for the winter (should you?) and growing figs in cold climates. The glorious, fall-flowering goldenrod is a plant we celebrate, and we're happy to announce the arrival of Plantrama shirts and other merch.

:31 autumnal cocktails

4:35 winter protection

13:10 figs

23:04 goldenrod

27:34 Plant 911/merch

Do you need to repot an orchid? Want to grow a cup-a-Joe in your living room? Maybe you're interested in saving seeds from plants you've grown in your garden, or you need a handy tool for deadheading and cutting flower bouquets. If any of this is of interest, have we got a podcast for you!

:28 Plant Noob: How to repot an Orchid 10:42 Eat/Drink/Grow: Coffee plants 18:27 Product Review: Product review…garden snips by Corona and Dramm 22:17 Love Letters and Questions: Randi asks about saving seeds.

1:06 What's for dinner: Dahlias!

4:44 True or False: You need a different fertilizer for each type of plant.

9:40 Eat/Drink/Grow: Hot & Cold…Fire pit plantings and over-wintering plants in outdoor containers.

19:42 Love Letters and Questions: Making sense of the markings on rain gauges.

Ellen and C.L. celebrate their 100th episode with talk about keeping potted plants alive through the winter, plantings that make your fire pit experience more fragrant or beautiful, and fertilizers for every type of plant. We begin by revisiting how dahlia tubers and petals are edible and end with a question about rain gauges.

In this episode the Plantrama team talks about creating colorful flower garlands for a celebration, fall fix-ups for containers, gardens and curb appeal, and quince bushes or trees. We end with a question from Torry about what "soil amendments" are and what they can do.

:29 Just For Fun: Flower garlands

5:48 Eat/Drink/Grow: Fall fix ups

15:31 Insider Information: Quince plants and their fruits

22:24 Love Letters and Questions: What on earth is soil amendment?

Ellen and C.L. discuss what to do with green tomatoes, saving tropical plants over the winter, and how plants get their names. We end by answering Kirk's question about raccoons eating the sweet corn he grew this year.

:31 What's For Dinner: Green Tomatoes.

4:48 Eat/Drink/Grow: Saving Caladiums, Mandevilla and Cannas for next year.

16:55 Insider Information: How plants get their names

23:47 Love Letters and Questions: Kirk says the raccoons ate all his corn!

Join Ellen and C.L. as they talk about silverberries (Elaeagnus umbellata), an easily grown herb with edible flowers (Borage), and what to do when the population of critters explodes. All that and some discussion about leaf shapes and cooperative extention services.

:28 What's for dinner: Foraging for silverberries

4:02 Plant noob: Let's talk about the borage plant.

8:19 Eat/Drink/Grow: Leaf shape vocabulary

15:47 Insider Information: Critter population explosion!

21:43 Love Letters and Questions: Maria reminds us about the importance of Cooperative Extension Services.

In this episode Ellen and C.L. squash a lot of information into about 25 minutes. We talk about how to prepare summer squash flowers, ways to judge if a winter squash is ripe, and coping with squash vine borers and powdery mildew on squash plants. Once we've been fully squashed, we move onto the berries on Staghorn Sumac.

:35 What's for dinner: Eating squash flowers 5:26 Insider Information: How to tell if winter squash is ripe 10:08 Eat/Drink/Grow: Pests of Summer Squash 22:03 Love Letters and Questions: Are Sumac berries poisonous or edible?

Can you move plants now, in the summer? Is it smart to buy end of summer sale plants? Would you like the Earthkind Mosquito repellant? Could cinnamon be used for fungus control by putting it into the soil? These are the questions that C.L. and Ellen consider and answer in today's episode.

:30 Plant Noob: Should you wait to plant or transplant in the fall? 8:30 Eat/Drink/Grow: Should you buy end of the summer sale plants? 18:30 Announcement: Live Plantrama Events on Cape Cod 19:10 Product Review: Earthkind Mosquito repellant 22:20 Love Letters and Questions: A question about cinnamon fungicide from Kristy

Stuffing vegetables gets this episode off to a tasty start. Ellen and C.L. also consider the watering of lawns, how to grow plants in cracks of pavers, and what might cause a peony not to flower well.

:45 What's for dinner: Stuff it! Stuffed vegetables and flowers. 6:03 True or False: Lawns need to be watered every other day. 13:23 Eat/Drink/Grow: Planting in the cracks. 20:57 Love Letters and Questions: Peony blooming question from Elizabeth