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Growing Greener

Tom Christopher

Your weekly half-hour program about environmentally informed gardening. Each week we bring you a different expert, a leading voice on gardening in partnership with Nature. Our goal is to make your landscape healthier, more beautiful, more sustainable, and more fun.

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29:01

An Antique Tool Brings New Knowledge of Native Plants

Growing Greener ·

2026/01/14

Herbariums, annotated collections of dried plant specimens first appeared in Italy almost 500 years ago. In today's Growing Greener, Lea Johnson, Director of Conservation at the Native Plant Trust discusses why they remain an essential tool for those who track and study native plant populations, and the new technologies herbariums facilitate.

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How Your Garden Helped Drive the Deer Population Boom

Growing Greener ·

2026/01/07

Dr. Elic Weitzel of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History describes the thousands of years of association between deer and people, how they long ago came to prefer human-created landscapes, and why their population has exploded

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Behold the Magic of Warm-Season Grasses

Growing Greener ·

2025/12/31

In a conversation recorded in December of 2019 Shannon Currey, a leading educator in the native plants industry, describes how the unique adaptations of warm season grasses make them winners in an era of climate change as well as invaluable in the late summer garden.

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How Vermont sculptor Dan Snow has elevated the...

Growing Greener ·

2025/12/24

In a conversation from January of 2021, Dan Snow tells how, using locally sourced stone, he expresses the intrinsic beauty of a site in bold constructions held together only by gravity, friction, and history.

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Partnering with Goats to Maintain Biodiversity in...

Growing Greener ·

2025/12/17

Goats love invasive plants, says Elijah Goodwin, Director of Ecosystem Monitoring at New York's Stone Barns Center; and with careful timing and regulation the Center's herd is restoring ecological balance to its 80-acre campus and hundreds of acres of a famous nature preserve.

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Seemingly non-invasive exotic garden plants can be...

Growing Greener ·

2025/12/10

Revisiting a conversation from August 2023 with Dr. Bethany Bradley of the University of Massachusetts, who describes how plants introduced from outside our ecosystems may remain quiescent for decades before turning invasive, and how climate change is threatening to explode this threat.

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Snagged: How a Dead Tree Can Enrich Your Garden

Growing Greener ·

2025/12/03

Wildlife biologist Ken Bevis discusses the many benefits to biodiversity of "snags," standing dead trees, and how to incorporate them safely and aesthetically into our gardens.

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29:01

Celebrate Thanksgiving with Pawpaws – a North...

Growing Greener ·

2025/11/26

In a replay of a conversation from September of 2023, Sheri Crabtree of Kentucky State University describes the northernmost species of the tropical custard apple family, the pawpaw, which offers delicious tropical flavor, a creamy texture, and thrives in the backyard garden as far north as USDA Zone 5.

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Start from Seed for a Special Relationship with Your...

Growing Greener ·

2025/11/19

William Cullina, a leading expert on the propagation of native plants, describes the special insights about a species' adaptations and ecology that starting from seed provides, and offers simple tips for success with this endeavor.

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Coexistence with a garden nemesis

Growing Greener ·

2025/11/12

'Good fences make good neighbors,' especially, according to Vermonter Susan Shea, when it comes to gardeners and woodchucks. A nature writer and photographer, Shea details the extraordinary abilities of this native mammal, the important ecological and cultural roles it plays, and how to install a woodchuck-proof fence.

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Edwina von Gal Closes the Loop

Growing Greener ·

2025/11/05

Everything that grows on your property – its "biomass" – should remain there even after death, says this award-winning garden designer and founder of the Perfect Earth Project. Fallen branches, leaves, even tree trunks as they decay reactivate a cycle essential to Nature's health, and are an opportunity for a different kind of beauty.

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29:01

Pollinators of the Night

Growing Greener ·

2025/10/29

Overlooked by many gardeners, moths are actually more efficient as pollinators than bees and are the basis of the food chain for everything from bats and songbirds to grizzly bears

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Reading the Wildlife Stories in Your Garden

Growing Greener ·

2025/10/22

Expert tracker Jason Knight shares how to develop the ability to read animal tracks and signs to keep current with wildlife visits and to resolve wildlife problems peacefully and effectively.

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29:01

A Garden Masterpiece Designed to Evolve

Growing Greener ·

2025/10/15

Richard Hayden, senior director of horticulture for the High Line, describes how plants and gardeners collaborate in this ever-changing urban paradise

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Converting Landscape Professionals to Environmental...

Growing Greener ·

2025/10/08

Beth Ginter, executive Director of the Chesapeake Conservation Landscaping Council, describes her organization’s successful program to enlist an often-resistant profession as advocates for environmental activism.

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Fighting Climate Change from the Bottom Up

Growing Greener ·

2025/10/01

How Village and Wilderness fosters diverse local solutions to a global problem

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Second Chance Composting

Growing Greener ·

2025/09/24

John Pitroff chose composting when his daughter’s birth sparked dreams of leaving her a better world – and now he’s addressing environmental problems while making a living helping local gardeners and farmers.

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How We Created Weeds and Why We Need Them

Growing Greener ·

2025/09/17

Peter Del Tredici, Senior Research Scientist Emeritus of Arnold Arboretum and Visiting Lecturer of Applied Ecology and Planning at MIT explains the history of these garden pests why they can play an essential role in this era of climate change.

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Texan Pam Penick Shares Ideas for Integrating Native...

Growing Greener ·

2025/09/10

An accomplished and progressive garden designer, Pam Penick, author of “Gardens of Texas,” shares ideas for ideas for using native plants in traditional and formal gardens garnered from her reporting on private landscapes of the Lone Star State

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Finding Hope in Ecological Gardening

Growing Greener ·

2025/09/03

Leader of the Ecological Gardening movement Rebecca McMackin shares reasons why in a time of discouragement, gardening can restore optimism.

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