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Focus on Flowers

Indiana Public Media

Focus on Flowers is a weekly podcast and public radio program about flower gardening hosted by master gardener Moya Andews.

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Forcing

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2024/02/15

In late winter, after months without garden flowers, we are eager to see flowers in our homes. However, there is a wonderful feeling we get when we force branches of early spring-blooming trees and shrubs.

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Roses From the Past

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2024/02/08

All of the poems I will read today are about roses and all are from times long past.

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February Saints

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2024/02/01

The flowers associated with St. Valentine were, in Roman times, the yellow crocus and the tricolor viola that both bloom in the early spring in our gardens today. But there are also other saints associated with February...

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Christo's Final Years

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2024/01/25

In 1993, Christopher Lloyd hired Fergus Garrett as his head gardener and together they turned the traditional 80-year-old rose garden into an exotic tropical area. Christo was amused by the consequent criticism from traditionalists.

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The Long Border

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2024/01/18

Great Dixter's Christopher Lloyd created his famous term "succession planting" to describe continuous bloom month after month, beginning in March and ending in October.

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The Great Dixter

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2024/01/11

One of Britain's most celebrated gardens, Great Dixter is a magnificent place where one can learn and be inspired. A trip there should be on every gardener's bucket list.

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Medieval Gardens

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2024/01/04

In AD 830, St. Benedict said that gardening was appropriate manual labor for monks and that all monasteries should have a psychic garden, kitchen garden, cellar garden, an orchard, and a private garden for monks of high office.

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1st Century Gardens

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2023/12/28

The Romans were the first to create pleasure gardens in Britain.

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The Winter Solstice

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2023/12/21

The winter solstice marks the day with the fewest hours of sunshine in the year, which means that it is described as the shortest day.

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Bioengineering

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2023/12/14

Bees, butterflies, moths, and other insects used to be the only creatures who transferred pollen from flower to flower. Nowadays, it is often a person with a fine brush.

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Eleanor of Aquitaine

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2023/12/07

The idea of private pleasure gardens during the Middle Ages in England was espoused by Eleanor of Aquitaine.

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Gnats: Pesky Little Devils

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2023/11/30

Most of us occasionally get little black flies that look a bit like fruit flies around our houseplants. They're fungus gnats and essentially harmless, mostly...

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Wild William Robinson

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2023/11/23

One of the most influential horticulturalists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries was William Robinson, the first to promote the idea of a wild garden.

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Garden Cleanup

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2023/11/16

Fall is a great time to collect the seed pods from shrubs like baptisia and hardy hibiscus and store them in paper envelopes indoors until next spring.

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Houseplants That Bloom

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2023/11/09

Houseplants that bloom help us to get through winter while awaiting next year's flowers in the garden. But often houseplants suffer from problems that we must address promptly to save a plant's life.

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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

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2023/11/02

Betty Smith is the author of the book A Tree Grows in Brooklyn about a young girl who is inspired by a tree. Unfortunately, the tree happens to be an invasive species.

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The Mimosa Tree

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2023/10/26

You do not want this junk tree anywhere near your garden, as it self-seeds aggressively and many people are highly allergic to its pollen.

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Cutting Down Plants

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2023/10/19

Continually cut back plants that have done their stuff to allow more room for those whose bloom period is yet to come.

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Continuous Color

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2023/10/12

If you need something in bloom all through the growing seasons in your garden, check that you have these plants.

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Naked Ladies

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2023/10/05

There are many common names for the pink lilies, Amaryllis belladonna, that pop up in our gardens during the hot days of August/September: naked ladies, magic lily, autumn lily, surprise lily, and resurrection lily.

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