Plants Grow Here - Horticulture, Landscape Gardening & Ecology

How can we keep bees ethically and sustainably while harvesting their delicious honey?

In this episode, Cormac Farrell, head beekeeper at the Parliament of Australia, explains what bees do, how they do it, and how we as humans can responsibly use them as livestock to obtain a yield for ourselves.

As a professional gardener, it's a topic that comes up from time to time, and even if you have no intention of managing hives of your own, it helps to have an understanding of the topic so you can at least hold a conversation with your beekeeping clients and friends.

EPISODE LINKS
Visit the Eucalypt Australia website: https://www.eucalyptaustralia.org.au/
National Eucalypt Day events: https://www.eucalyptaustralia.org.au/national-eucalypt-day/national-eucalypt-day/
Follow Eucalypt Australia on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EucalyptAustralia/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eucalyptaus/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/EucalyptAus
Linda's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindabaird2b/?originalSubdomain=au

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All throughout March we're dropping an episode every week to celebrate National Eucalypt Day with Eucalypt Australia!

We're kicking this 4 part series off with an introduction to eucs with Linda Baird, who's the CEO of Eucalypt Australia. We had a wide-ranging chat covering topics such as their unique flower structures, their benefits for native wildlife, and the contended title for tallest flowering plant in the world.

EPISODE LINKS
Visit the Eucalypt Australia website: https://www.eucalyptaustralia.org.au/
National Eucalypt Day events: https://www.eucalyptaustralia.org.au/national-eucalypt-day/national-eucalypt-day/
Follow Eucalypt Australia on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EucalyptAustralia/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eucalyptaus/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/EucalyptAus
Linda's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindabaird2b/?originalSubdomain=au

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So you'd like to start, or progress, your horticultural career. This episode with John Sheely, who's the head gardener at Warrnambool Botanic Gardens, is designed to give you a bird's eye view of the different pathways you can take in parks and gardens, production horticulture, agriculture, and a range of other sectors within the horticultural industry.

Make sure you check out my latest article in the March edition of this episode's sponsor, Hort Journal Australia.

EPISODE LINKS
Visit Hort Journal Australia: https://hortjournal.com.au/
Contact Hort Journal Australia: https://hortjournal.com.au/contact/
Subscribe to Hort Journal Australia: https://hortjournal.com.au/plans/hort-journal-subscriptions/
Follow John (a.k.a. Bundogs) on Twitter:  https://twitter.com/Bundogs

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We have some stunning native flora in Victoria, as well as around the rest of Australia, and many of the most beautiful plants you can imagine are at-risk or endangered. What if we brought some of those plants into cultivation in order to preserve them?

Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria (RBGV) is doing just that with their Raising Rarity program, and in this episode, Karen Smith, editor for our sponsor Hort Journal Australia, interviews 2 gardeners from the Botanic Gardens, Dr Megan Hirst and Matthew Henderson, about this fantastic initiative.

Meg and Matt wrote an article for the Journal, along with a previous guest Russel Larke, called "Raising Rarity: A community approach to plant conservation", which is linked below.

Make sure you subscribe to Hort Journal Australia so you receive a physical copy of the magazine every month to read in the smoko room, while you're having your morning coffee, or on the dunny.

EPISODE LINKS
Read the Raising Rarity article: https://hortjournal.com.au/2021/10/raising-rarity-a-community-approach-to-plant-conservation/
Raising Rarity fact sheet: https://www.rbg.vic.gov.au/media/0xrjtmhj/raising-rarity-factsheet.pdf
Visit Hort Journal Australia: https://hortjournal.com.au/
Contact Hort Journal Australia: https://hortjournal.com.au/contact/
Subscribe to Hort Journal Australia: https://hortjournal.com.au/plans/hort-journal-subscriptions/
Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria: https://www.rbg.vic.gov.au/
Cranbourne Botanic Gardens: https://www.rbg.vic.gov.au/cranbourne-gardens/
Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BotanicGardensVictoria

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Ben Courtice is back to talk about pollinator preferences for flowers, with a focus on native insect pollinators. He's an ecologist, botanist and bush regenerator that's done his honours research on the button wrinklewort, an endemic aster in Victoria, and was trying to figure out why they were declining. We discuss floral constancy, density, shape, and a range of other factors that play into successful pollination.

EPISODE LINKS
Follow Ben on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bencourtice
Ben's article on native pollinators and flower preferences:
Read Ben's book review of Silent Earth: Averting The Insect Apocalypse, by Dave Goulson: https://climateandcapitalism.com/2022/01/26/insect-apocalypse/
David Harvey on YouTube (Class 01 Reading Marx's Capital Vol I): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBazR59SZXk
John Bellamy Foster on YouTube (The Return of the Dialectics of Nature): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV_I2T5Lipg
David Grayber on YouTube (On Bullsh*t Jobs): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kikzjTfos0s
Noam Chomsky on YouTube (Ecology, Ethics, Anarchism): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3uDEXyWfRc

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Karen Smith is back for a second landscape business episode, and this time she's brought landscape business coach, John Corban along for the ride. He's going to take us deeper into the world of landscape business ownership and will teach anybody looking to start a new landscape business, or anyone looking to advance their existing business, some of the tricks he's picked up along his entrepreneurial journey.

If you like this episode and reckon John could help you out, get in touch with him via the link below!

EPISODE LINKS
Landscapers Coach website: https://www.landscaperscoach.com.au/
Contact John at Landscapers Coach: https://www.landscaperscoach.com.au/contact/

Today's guest interviewer, Karen, is the editor of Australia's horticultural industry magazine, Hort Journal Australia.

Visit Hort Journal Australia: https://hortjournal.com.au/
Contact Hort Journal Australia: https://hortjournal.com.au/contact/
Subscribe to Hort Journal Australia: https://hortjournal.com.au/plans/hort-journal-subscriptions/

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Tom Wall is a guitarist that plays music with plants, using a device that translates a plant's electromagnetic output into music. In this episode, he tells us about his journey from Michigan to California to make music with the giant redwoods and sequoias.

EPISODE LINKS
This is the source of the audio used in the intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atZFZW8a5W0
Check out the Cosmic Knot website: https://www.cosmicknotmusic.com/
Go to the Cosmic Knot YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2MSmEgoxv4b00yAhHd2HGg
Archangel Ancient Tree Archive: arctrees.org
The Hidden Life of Trees book, by Peter Wohlleben: https://www.booktopia.com.au/the-hidden-life-of-trees-peter-wohlleben/book/9781863958738.html
We are not affiliated in any way, but you can learn more about and purchase the musical device here: https://www.musicoftheplants.com/

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You’ll find heaps of educational blog articles, including What Relationships Do Plants Have With Other Organisms?, Identifying Plants With Leaves, Flowers And Beyond, and a series on Plant Families.

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Have you ever wondered what it takes to start a landscape business of your own?

In this episode, Karen Smith helps us understand how we can start a landscape business of our own, including setting up your business, branding and marketing, employing staff, and more.

EPISODE LINKS
Visit Hort Journal Australia: https://hortjournal.com.au/
Contact Hort Journal Australia: https://hortjournal.com.au/contact/
Subscribe to Hort Journal Australia: https://hortjournal.com.au/plans/hort-journal-subscriptions/
Donate to MS Australia: https://www.msaustralia.org.au/donate/
Donate to the Alzheimer's Association: https://act.alz.org/site/Donation2?df_id=32112&32112.donation=form1

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Good horticulture and agriculture begins with the soil. So why did Jake Hamilton, a grain and legume farmer in QLD, spend untold amounts to level his land?

In this episode, he answers this question and explains how we can start our own soil levelling journey using the right technology and equipment, and he also explains some of the tech and equipment that didn't work so well for him and his farm.

EPISODE LINKS
Jake's Twitter: https://twitter.com/jakeonfarm
Grains Research & Development Corporation (GRDC): https://grdc.com.au/
T3RRA: https://t3rra.com/

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The Australian 2019-20 bushfire season is still fresh in our memories, but many people aren't educated on how to plan for fire in their gardens. In this episode, Karen Smith interviews Lesley Corbett, author of the wonderful book Safer Gardens: Planning For Fire & Plant Flammability.

Learn which plants are more flammable than which other plants, and learn about what factors make any plant more flammable and how to reduce their flammability.

You'll have to make a sacrifice to the available habitat for wildlife but that's a cost you have to pay if you're living in a fire-prone area and you want to feel safe.

EPISODE LINKS
Buy the book Safer Gardens: Plant Flammability & Planning For Fire:  https://www.boffinsbooks.com.au/books/9781922454607/safer-gardens-plant-flammability-and-planning-for-fire
Vic Emergency - prepare & get ready: https://www.emergency.vic.gov.au/prepare/#where-do-i-get-information-in-an-emergency
Royal Fire Service NSW Plan & Prepare: https://www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/plan-and-prepare

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