Plants Grow Here - Horticulture, Landscape Gardening & Ecology

Clive Larkman is an Aussie grower that writes for our sponsor Hort Journal Australia and really knows his herbs. Together with his wife Di, he runs Larkman Nurseries in Victoria, and he's also one of the growers for Renaissance herbs who distribute plants around the country.

In this episode, Karen Smith, editor for the Journal and I interview him to see if we can understand a bit more about herbs, how to grow them, and how to sell them to consumers.

If you'd like to read some of Clive's previous work, you can find it through the Hort Journal's website below. Subscribe for future editions and keep your workplace toilet stocked up with quality educational material from a reputable source.

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/
Larkman Nurseries: http://www.larkmannurseries.com.au
Renaissance Herbs: https://renaissanceherbs.com.au/
Herb Chilli Festival: https://www.herbchillifestival.com.au/home
Yarra Valley Plant Fair: http://www.yarravalleyplantfair.com.au/

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Angelo Eliades is an urban permaculturist that's able to harvest significant yields from his 60m2 of garden beds. In this episode, he explains how we can use the power of nature to grow more food with less land. We discuss Integrated Pest Management (IPM), companion planting, layering plants and much more.

EPISODE LINKS
Visit the Deep Green Permaculture website: https://deepgreenpermaculture.com/
Permaculture Design Principles: https://deepgreenpermaculture.com/permaculture/permaculture-design-principles/
Gardening DIY Instructions: https://deepgreenpermaculture.com/diy-instructions/
Read my article for Deep Green Permaculture on Plant Biology Basics: https://deepgreenpermaculture.com/2021/07/01/plant-biology-basics-guest-post-by-daniel-fuller/

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As a horticulturist working in the maintenance sector, I can appreciate the importance of connecting people from different sectors so we can all learn from each other. In this episode, the editor of the best and only Aussie horticultural industry magazine, Karen Smith explains why this is so important, and how Hort Journal Australia has aimed to be the conduit connecting industry people since it began in 2008. This episode is sponsored but it's been designed to provide serious value for the listener - not only for the sponsor!

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/
Plant Select: https://plantselect.com.au/
Australian Institute of Horticulture: https://www.aih.org.au/
Garden Clubs Australia: https://gardenclubs.org.au/

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The Plants Grow Here podcast is one year old! We're now taking things to the next level with sponsors and guest hosting, and in this short episode we explain how we're advancing our original mission outlined in Episode 1.

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Ben Courtice is an ecologist, botanist and bush regenerator working for a company on behalf of council around the Melbourne area, and he knows native grasses. In this episode, he shares his wisdom so that we can approach this type of plant with confidence. There are a range of habitat and amenity services that our native Aussie grasses can provide, so there's really no excuse to use invasive ornamental grasses in our gardens any more.

EPISODE LINKS
Follow Ben on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bencourtice
Vic Flora: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/
Nativeseeds.com.au: https://nativeseeds.com.au/
Seeding Victoria: https://www.seedingvictoria.com.au/
Victorian Indigenous Nurseries Co Op (VINC) in Fairfield: https://www.vinc.net.au/
La Trobe University's Nangak Wildlife Sanctuary: https://www.latrobe.edu.au/wildlife
Newport Lakes Native Nursery: https://www.facebook.com/NewportLakesNativeNursery
St Kilda Indigenous Co Op Nursery (and Westgate Biodiversity): https://westgatebiodiversity.org.au/our-histories/skinc/
Bruce Pascoe's Dark Emu book: https://www.booktopia.com.au/dark-emu-bruce-pascoe/book/9781921248016.html
About native grass beer: https://craftypint.com/news/2511/dark-emu-telling-stories-with-beer

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Joey Santore runs the awesome Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't YouTube channel, where he walks around describing plants in his own unique style. In this episode, he came on the show to talk about Australian plants, how they've evolved, and how they're unique compared to other plants around the world.

EPISODE LINKS
Start by watching Joey's Western Australian plant playlist on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIkRC94cyNc&list=PLK8bda0Bqux1dfVwx9vyvuY5KeVckLW2N
Visit the Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3CBOpT2-NRvoc2ecFMDCsA
Joey's Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoeySantore
CPBBD on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cpbbd.videos/
Listen to the CPBBD podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/crime-pays-but-botany-doesnt/id1458563601

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Ben Sims is a landscape business owner and a board member for the Landscape Industry Association of Western Australia (LIAWA), and in this episode he's back to teach us about wildflowers, specifically in the massive Aussie state of WA. He helps us understand what a wildflower is and what it isn't, how they can be used in horticulture, and what some of the pressures are that are challenging their survival.

EPISODE LINKS
If you aren't following Ben's Gardens on Facebook, may I suggest that you go ahead and do that now: https://www.facebook.com/BensGDNS
Make sure you also check out Ben’s business website where there are a tonne of useful blog articles: https://www.benslandscapingandgardeningperth.com.au/
Check out LIAWA: https://landscaping.net.au/
Join the Wildflower Society of WA group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/129636970391772/
Visit the Wildflower Society of WA's website: https://www.wildflowersocietywa.org.au/
Visit author Eddy Wajon's website: https://www.eddywajon.com/
Visit the Florabase website: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/

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Ian Smith is an extension worker consulting with farmers in the basaltic plains just west of Melbourne. He did his PhD thesis on shelterbelts, so I thought I'd get him on the show to teach us about this interesting and important topic! We discuss what shelterbelts are, why farmers are "wasting" space putting them in, and how they can be important for reasons beyond wind control and yield benefits for farmers.

EPISODE LINKS
Follow Ian on Twitter: https://twitter.com/EcologIan
Ian Smith Land Management Services: https://ianlandmanagement.wixsite.com/consulting

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Dr Richard Bate is a dental surgeon and botanist that works with Joshua Styles (from episode 17) at the North-West Rare Plant Initiative (NWRPI), he's involved with the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) and is also active on twitter as part of the @Wildflower_Hour team and his own orchid-obsessed handle @TheNewGalaxy.

EPISODE LINKS
Dr Richard Bate on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thenewgalaxy
Wildflower Hour on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wildflower_hour
NWRPI on Twitter: https://twitter.com/nwrpi
Visit the NWRPI website: http://nwrpi.weebly.com/
BSBI on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bsbibotany
Visit the BSBI website: https://bsbi.org/

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