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Making It Grow Minutes

Gardening and horticulture news and tips, as well as agricultural information from Amanda McNulty, the host of SCETV"s "Making It Grow" and Clemson University Extension Agent. Produced by South Carolina Public Radio.Making It Grow Minutes are produced by South Carolina Public Radio, in partnership with Clemson University"s Extension Service.

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Raisins on the stem

Making It Grow Minutes ·

2023/11/16

Our dear departed friend Extension agent Tony Melton grew up on the sandy soils of McBee. Although those soils grow great peaches, they did not produce plentiful crops. Tony said Christmas was special for his family but, with eight children, presents were minimal.

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Holidays at Colonial Williamsburg

Making It Grow Minutes ·

2023/11/15

The holiday decorations at Colonial Williamsburg are knock your socks off beautiful, but not historically accurate. Christmas decorations weren’t a big deal during those early times and citrus and pineapples would have been prohibitively expensive.

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Citrus in Christmas stockings

Making It Grow Minutes ·

2023/11/13

Christmas morning was a magical time for the three McNulty kids who lived on Woodleigh Road in Columbia.

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SC Botanical Garden: Endangered Plants

Making It Grow Minutes ·

2023/10/21

At the South Carolina Botanical Garden, the goal is not just to offer visitors a rich experience in seeing a wide panoply of native and introduced plants that grow in three hundred acres which duplicate ecosystems from across the state, but they also preserve and protect endangered plants.

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SC Botanical Garden: Natural Heritage Gardens

Making It Grow Minutes ·

2023/10/20

Recently we filmed a segment about so called carnivorous plants with Trent Miller, manager of the Natural Heritage Gardens at the South Carolina Botanical Gardens at Clemson.

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SC Botanical Garden: Birding Garden

Making It Grow Minutes ·

2023/10/19

Recently, we went to the South Carolina Botanical Garden to film their newest project – the Birding Garden. The people who take up birding are dedicated and persistent, the garden staff noticed that every morning binocular-laden folks were gathering in a particular place below the Visitor’s Center, scanning the tree line for views of year-round or migratory avians.

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SC Botanical Garden: Native Plant Studies

Making It Grow Minutes ·

2023/10/18

Our small state has wildly divergent plant communities and the Botanical Garden’s topography and soil types allows many of these to be replicated. At the garden, experts in ecology, conservation, botany, woody and herbaceous plants teach core classes.

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SC Botanical Garden

Making It Grow Minutes ·

2023/10/16

The South Carolina Botanical Garden is on the Clemson campus but since 1992 has been designated as the State Botanical Garden.

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Spider lilies

Making It Grow Minutes ·

2023/10/07

At a home in Saint Matthews, dating from 1880, the yard is now naturalized. But in the fall, you can see where the formal beds from probably a century ago were the planted. Almost overnight, usually after a good, drenching rain, twelve to fifteen inch tall brilliant red spider lilies, Lycoris radiata, pop up and continue blooming for almost a month.

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Hurricane lilies?

Making It Grow Minutes ·

2023/10/06

I don’t think the person who gave the common name Hurricane Lily to what I’ve always called spider lilies, Lycoris radiata, meant to cast aspersions on them.

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Using spider lilies in arrangements

Making It Grow Minutes ·

2023/10/05

Spider lilies are one of my favorite garden flowers for arrangements.

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Naked Lady Lily

Making It Grow Minutes ·

2023/10/04

Another Lycoris species often found in older gardens has a wonderfully amusing common name – Naked Lady Lily, Lycoris squamigera

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Deer resistant bulbs

Making It Grow Minutes ·

2023/10/02

If you are plagued by deer, there are two groups of bulbs made to order for your yard.

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Sneezing

Making It Grow Minutes ·

2023/09/23

Bitter sneezeweed is a wide spread native plant — and staying with sneezing, there are lots of ideas about that.

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Sneezeweed snuff

Making It Grow Minutes ·

2023/09/22

Bitter sneezeweed was used as a type of dry snuff by some native populations to induce sneezing to drive out evil spirits or help clear head colds.

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Soil types

Making It Grow Minutes ·

2023/09/21

The side of the road flowers are making me pay more attention to soil types as I drive from St. Matthews to Sumter.

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Sneezeweed cultivars

Making It Grow Minutes ·

2023/09/20

If you want a wildflower area in a place you can’t water, some of these sneezeweed cultivars would be perfect to use.

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Sneezeweed

Making It Grow Minutes ·

2023/09/18

Like Rodney Dangerfield, some wildflowers can’t get a break.

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Crotalarias and moths

Making It Grow Minutes ·

2023/09/08

Some native Crotalarias are the original larval food source for the ornate bella moth.

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Crotalaria spectabilis

Making It Grow Minutes ·

2023/09/07

Amanda McNulty discusses crotalaria spectabilis, a yellow flower commonly known as rattlebox.

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