Steve is still taking some spring break but has a chance to share some bluebonnet joy.

Show Notes!

Some info about paintbrushes and bluebonnets

Steve is on spring break this week but don’t worry, there are still some plant-based fun facts and dazzling details, this time about D.C.’s famed cherry blossoms.

Show Notes!
How Does the National Mall Tidal Basin Actually Work?
So Long, Stumpy: More Than 100 Iconic Cherry Trees In Washington Are Being Cut Down
National Park Service prepares for $113 million multi-year repair to Tidal Basin and West Potomac seawalls
Sakura by Rosalía

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The guest on this episode of rootbound is Ashlyn Morgan of Green Canvas Farms. It’s a special episode where we talk everything about the black walnut including wood, nuts, syrup, hair die and industrial grinding. We close with a song named after the tree by Maya Elise and the Good Dream.

Show Notes!
Juglans nigra
Watch Ashlyn make black walnut syrup
Hammons Black Walnuts
Black walnut wood characteristics
Green Canvas Farms
Maya Elise and the Good Dream

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The guest on this episode rootbound is Tanya Sabrina. First, Steve confronts the problem we all have with ALAN. Then Tanya surprises Steve by talking about Diatoms and later some spiders. Steve shares about an evergreen tree that is an unlikely source of vanilla. Finally, Steve shares how to combat ALAN by avoiding ROY.

Show Notes!
Artificial light at night: an underappreciated effect on phenology of deciduous woody plants
Diatom on wikipedia
The Air We Breathe, and the Water We Drink: Why Diatoms are So Important
Sahara Dust Nourishes the Brazilian Rainforest, Which Nourishes Oceans, Which Produce Oxygen
Blue spruce
Carpathian Mountains
Free-roaming bison population in the Southern Carpathians continues to thrive
Bison are back, and that benefits many other species on the Great Plains
European Spruce
Vanillin from Spruce
Tanya Sabrina on Instagram

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The guest on this episode of rootbound is Honeycrush. First, a quote from Rachel Carson. Then Honeycrush talks about noticing plants for the first time, sharp grass, local monsters and how flowers are pretty. Steve tries to make vetch happen by discussing Vicia sativa. Finally, a little music and a discussion of Steve’s misunderstandings of a couple metaphors.

Show Notes!
Silent Spring
Gypsophila
Heart-Shaped Box
Vicia sativa
More about vetch
The Dangers of Uncooked Beans and Lentils
Lectin
Nitrogen fixation
Honey Crush

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The guest on this episode of rootbound is Pam Covarrubias. First, Steve dishes on some perfect flowers. Then Pam shares about a warrior named Lisa and Steve shares about a plant that is the perfect ingredient to go along with molé or glassmaking. Finally, Steve ponders plants and queerness.

Show Notes!
Plant Reproductive Morphology
Monstera adansonii
Why Do Monsteras Have Holes?
Suaeda spp.
Romeritos: Mexican Greens for Your Holiday Table
Glasswort Galore
Verdolagas
Plants and Queerness by Will Dwyer
Cafe con Pam Podcast

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The guest on this episode of rootbound is Sebi Medina-Tayac of Red Cedar Farms. Sebi and Steve both share cedars which aren’t really cedar (but who is to say?) The cedar Sebi shares is connected to his culture as a member of the Piscataway Indian Nation. The cedar Steve shares is connected to an experience he had in Peru. Finally, we learn a bit more about the symbolic position of a sacred tree in Piscataway Park.

Show Notes!
Juniperus virginiana
All About the Eastern Red Cedar
Piscataway Park
The Flickering Flame — Life and Legacy of Chief Turkey Tayac
Cahokia Woodhenge
Cedrela odorata
U.S. gobbling illegal wood from Peru’s Amazon rainforest
CITES Cedrela spp. listing
Red Cedar Farms - organic regenerative sun-grown cannabis | on native lands by native hands

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The guest on this episode of rootbound is Jessika Raisor. First, Steve talks cellulose. Then Jessika shares her passion for producing paper and a tree that started it all. Steve talks a quintessential spring flower. Finally, a poem by Wordsworth.

Show notes!
Cellulose
Paper mulberry
Making of Handmade Kozo
Garden | Morgan Conservatory
Why do Kozo papers have excellent longevity?
Shoji
Tapa Cloth
Narcissus (mythology)
Narcissus (plant)
Lycorine | C16H17NO4 | CID 72378 - PubChem
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth
Jessika's Paper Supply
Jessika's Instagram

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On this episode of rootbound we welcome back Mallory O’Donnell. Mallory shares about flowers that grown in ditches. Steve shares about some other flowers. Finally, the plant-based Michael Barbaro send-up we have all been waiting for.

Show Notes!

You’ll Never Starve if You Have Daylilies
Hemerocallis species inventory
Greene Deane on Day Lily
Tawny Daylily on the invasive plant atlas
Commelina communis
Genus Tradescantia
Day Flower, A Dainty and Overlooked Wild Edible
How to Cook a Weed
Mallory O’Donnell on Instagram

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The guest on this episode of rootbound is B.C. Vital! First, a list of plants named after parts of animals. Then B.C. shares a “strange” and “horrible” tree that has become the identity of an entire state. Steve shares a flower that is not a dandelion but still has a cat connection. Finally, the surprising etymology of the word ‘sycophant’.

Show Notes!
Aesculus glabra - Ohio Buckeye
Why are Ohioans called buckeyes?
Buckeye (candy)
Why is a buckeye seed in your pocket good luck?
Radicate definition
Hypochaeris radicata - Cat’s Ear
Illustrations of the atmospherical origin of epidemic diseases, and of its relation to their predisponent constitutional causes and on the twofold means of prevention, mitigation, and cure, and of the powerful influence of change of air as a prinicpal remedy
The Ancient Greek Story Behind the Word “Sycophant”
B.C. Vital on Instagram - follow along on her journey in publishing the Erie Legacies

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