SG574: How to Make Your NEW Garden Feel OLDER
Today we are going to explore the various methods to make your new garden feel much older!
Back when I first started gardening, I remember learning with a little sense of frustration the old adage about perennials - the first year they sleep, the second year they creep, and the third year they leap. I remember thinking, "Three years?! Really?" I’m not especially patient, so this three year revelation was a definite downer to the grand plans I had for my first garden in front of my porch.
Fast forward to today, my garden is almost 20 years old and I’m over 20 years wiser. The years of work in this garden have paid off. So much so, that despite being late returning to the garden this spring after my rotator cuff surgery, the garden in large part carried on just fine. The bones of the garden and the good plant selections continue to reward this recuperating gardener (and mother of four teenagers!). I am grateful.
All this got me thinking about what I would have told my younger self all those years ago. Could I have gotten to this place sooner? Are there strategic choices I could have made to create this sense of age and stunning lushness? I think the answer is a resounding yes, and that’s what I’ll be talking about on this week’s show!
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Garden news roundup.
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How can we make our new garden older?
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Tour established gardens with an eye for evolution & anchors
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Plant selections you can make right now to cultivate that ‘established’ look.
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A list of some of my favorite dwarf conifers and shrubs.
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Tall plants that’ll get you that aged look faster
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Plants with big leaves that anchor the garden
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Anchors to make your garden appear older
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Aging pots, metal, wood, & statuary
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I never write reviews but this is the best gardening podcast out there. Jennifer has interesting topics and guests and is not one bit annoying like some others are. I love that she involves her kids at the end of the podcast - usually with poetry or music. Really good podcast.
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Still Growing is one of the reliably informative gardening podcasts from North America. The format consists of an intro (personal gardening status chat, seasonal remarks), an extended interview with a guest, and an outro with funny outtakes, side remarks, and some chatter (poems, readings) from the host's children. The podcast is focused on reliable knowledge - the guests are typically experts like academics, master gardeners, gardening entrepreneurs or public garden leaders. The intro and especially the outro give it a homey feel. Given I live in the high northern region, just a little below the Polar Circle, I'm always looking for more cold-weather oriented gardening information. Jennifer Ebeling is in Minnesota, so that's helpful to me! Vegetable gardening (my main interest) gets a good share, but is not predominant. Most topics transcend your specific gardening interest and are applicable to many styles: landscaping principles, vermicomposting, greenhouses. The episodes are typically an hour long, which is just fine for me.
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