The Garden Question

In this episode Gail Woody will tell us how to attract more butterflies and then keep them coming to your garden.She has been studying these flying jewels for many years and regularly attracts up to 38 different species to her garden. Monarch butterflies make regular visits to her garden twice a year on their migration treks from Mexico to Canada. She raises and tags new monarchs each year helping increase and study the growing population. Gail has been gardening for over 30 years. Creating the perfect eco system for butterflies, hummingbirds, and native plants. Her passion for gardening is contagious! After listening to this episode there will be no excuses. Building and growing your own butterfly paradise will become a priority!Gail Woody is an ISA Certified Arborist and a seasoned advanced Master Gardener. She speaks and writes on Butterflies, Hummingbirds, and native plants among other garden subjects. This is Episode 068 - Attracting More Butterflies to Your Garden – Gail Woody and is an update and remix from episode 002.Backyard Butterflies – Georgia Department of Natural Resources https://georgiawildlife.com/backyard-butterfliesMonarchs Across Georgia https://www.eealliance.org/monarchs-across-ga.htmlMonarch Butterflies & Georgia Gardeners Brochurehttps://botgarden.uga.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/milkweedinformation.pdfGeorgia Pollinator Partnership https://gapp.org/

It’s no accident insects are a critical part of putting good food on your table. Becky Griffin knows pollinators count. Now she is counting the pollinators in the 2022 The Great Georgia Pollinator Census. Your state could be next.Being a self-confessed “Geeky Kid” with a great love for insects Becky wore out the bee book in her local library. Now Becky is the coordinator of The Great Georgia Pollinator Census taking place this year on August 19th and 20th, 2022. In this episode we will find out how insects and their supporting habitat make a difference. Becky tells us the simple pollinator counting method for collecting important data to be used by the University of Georgia researchers. This valuable data reveals pollinator trends and is needed to conduct economic valuation studies of pollination. This is episode 067 - The Great Pollinator Census - Becky Griffin and is an updated and remix of episode 019.Becky is a Georgia Certified Beekeeper and works with community and school gardeners to increase beneficial insect habitat. She is also part of UGA's Native Plants and Beneficial Insect Working Group .You will want to hear episode 18 “Gardening with Children” when you finish this episode 19 of The Garden Question Podcast.Connect with Becky: Becky Griffin is the Community and School Garden Coordinator for University of Georgia Extension. Website: The Great Georgia Pollinator Census

In this episode Victoria Mininger shares with us how she helps her clients set up simple thriving gardens. Gardens that require less work when you find the right spot.For years Victoria and her husband Brian have owned Bear Creek Outdoor Living a residential construction company focusing on building patios, decks, pergolas and hardscapes. Incorporating edible and perennial gardens has become an expanding part of their offerings. These beautiful and sustainable garden solutions are just what their clients are looking for in their home landscape. Victoria is Permaculture Design Certified and holds a degree in Psychology. Bear Creek Outdoor Living WebsiteBear Creek Facebook Bear Creek Instagram Victoria’s personal website: www.victoriamininger.com

Have you got a shady location where nothing else will grow? Are you tired of mowing grass? Do you have problem with soil erosion? How about a desire to avoid chemical fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides?In this episode Annie Martin, moss landscape designer and Timber Press author of The Magical World of Moss Gardening, talks about how Native mosses can be an excellent horticultural alternative.Annie (aka Mossin’ Annie) is the owner of Mountain Moss in Pisgah Forest, NC,She provides valuable insights on how to transform your outdoor living space into a serene retreat and eco-friendly landscape with verdant mosses.Her how-to tips will help you get started on your own appealing year-round green moss gardening projects.Youtube: Mossin’ AnnieFacebook group: Growing Green with Moss

Dean Norton fell in love with the Mount Vernon Estate Gardens 53 years ago and never left.After receiving a degree in horticulture from Clemson University he began his horticultural career as the estate’s boxwood gardener. The historical gardens of the first president of The United States George Washington became his responsibility in 1980. His promotion to horticulturist allowed him to applying the latest plant science and horticulture management techniques for historical gardens. Dean has devoted considerable time researching 18th century gardens and gardening practices. He has received awards for conservation from the DAR and the Garden Club of America as well as the Garden Club of America’s Elizabeth Craig Weaver Proctor National Medal. He is an honorary member of the Garden Club of Virginia and the Garden Club of Providence.He has been awarded an honorary doctorate from Washington College, serves on several historic property boards and, lectures nationally and internationally.

It’s been over 200 years since he was born.People still absorb his parks and public gardens in more than 5,000 communities across the North American continent. The goal is to “give the common man in this New World the same opportunity to experience creation as any king in his private preserve from the Old World.”Frederick Law Olmsted is prevalently pronounced the father of American landscape architecture.In this Episode 063 – A Word with Fredrick Law Olmsted – (interpreted by) Kirk R. BrownKirk R. Brown is a member of the International Garden Communicator’s Hall of Fame. He is a Green Achiever being recognized with many industry awards.He represented Joanne Kostecky Garden Design as a leader in the design/build industry.At America’s Oldest Garden in Charleston SC, he worked as National Outreach Coordinator. He is a past president of www.GardenComm.com.In the US and Canada, he has delivered hundreds of keynote addresses, guest lectures, teaching symposia, and certified instruction over the past quarter century.He is also known to interpret historic horticulturists and international dignitaries: John Bartram, and Frederick Law Olmsted.With it all, he still finds time to cultivate his own private display garden.Join him now as he unveils his views on Olmsted’s in this Bicentennial year.

In this episode Dan Miller talks about his vision and how he executes his creative garden ideas.Dan is the author of the New York Times best-selling book 48 Days To The Work You Love, No More Dreaded Mondays, Wisdom Meets Passion and An Understanding Heart. He has been a guest on CBS' 'The Early Show,' MSNBC's 'Hardball with Chris Mathews, and the Dave Ramsey Show.Dan has spoken at the White House Christian Fellowship, and is in high demand as an expert on new opportunities in today’s changing workplace. His 48 Days Podcast consistently ranks at the top under Careers on Apple Podcast.The 48DaysEagles.com community is an example worldwide for those seeking to find – or create – work they love.

What can you do to improve your garden’s soil to reduce failures? In this episode 061 Sustainable Soil Success with Bryce Lane, we discover how understanding soils influences abundant plant growth.Bryce discovered his passion for plants, and telling others about them while working at a small Massachusetts garden center through high school and college.After earning his BS and MS degrees in Horticulture, he came to the Department of Horticultural Science at NC State University as an Instructor and Undergraduate Coordinator.He spent 34 years teaching and advising over 20,000 students. Bryce retired in 2014, but still teaches part-time in the department.For 11 seasons, from 2003 to 2014 he hosted and produced a three-time, Emmy winning, UNC TV public television show called “In the Garden With Bryce Lane”.

Melanie Deyton has made a life connecting people to plants through her family’s flower farm Melanie’s Garden.In this episode 060 we talk about successful Cut Flower Gardening. Overcoming the trials and the solutions of developing a whole new flower farm site.You will enjoy learning how Melanie’s practical experience will guide you to becoming a better Cut Flower Grower. Having worked in the floral and gardening industry for over a decade, she has learned that it's best to let nature lead the way.As a mother, gardener and floral designer, she finds joy and beauty in the simplest things growing in her garden and along roadsides. She talks about how nature’s hidden delights become spectacular shared designs.This is episode 060 – Cut Flower Growing - Melanie DeytonMelanie’s Garden FacebookMelanie’s Garden Instagram

Lisa Bartlett is the Garden Manager for Smith-Gilbert Gardens.She is responsible the over 4,000 species collection of plants.This collection ranges from rare herbaceous perennials to rare and unusual trees.The largest collections of Bonsai in the Southeast are also held at the gardens.Lisa created the award-winning Butterfly Exhibit at Smith-Gilbert Gardens and follow up with the first Crevice Garden in Georgia.Lisa has also served on the board of The American Hydrangea Society. One of her current projects is developing what she hopes to be a Nationally recognized collection of Hydrangea.She also hosted a gardening radio show, called Green and Grow. Before her passion for plants Lisa was a talent agent for stand-up comedians.Jeff Foxworthy was once one of her clients!The Penny McHenry Hydrangea Festival

Augustus Jenkins Farmer III is a renaissance plantsman. Born into a family of artists, musicians, and farmers, he fell in love with the natural world early in his childhood. Later he went on to pursue a formal education in Plant and Environmental Sciences at Clemson University and Botanical Garden Design at the University of Washington.For the last twenty years Jenks has led teams responsible for establishing two of South Carolina's major botanical gardens. He's presented lectures for groups such as the North Carolina State Agricultural Faculty, the Smithsonian, Wave Hill, Master Gardener clubs and, of course his grandmother's Allendale Ladies Afternoon Reading Club. His designs for homes, museums, and businesses have received recognition and awards while delighting hundreds of thousands of visitors with the joyful, easy exuberance of hand-crafted gardens.An avid writer, Jenks has been publishing since 1990. His essays have been featured in magazines such as Rodale's Organic Gardening, Fine Gardening, Horticulture, Botanic Gardens Conservation International, and The Public Garden. His stories appear in GreenPrints and Bare Essential Wildlife Journal of Australia.Jenks's books often interweave different facts, lessons, and moments from his life that he combines with the knowledge he's gained over the years.Deep Rooted Wisdom; Stories and Lessons from Generations of Gardeners. 2014 Timber PressFunky Little Flower Farm. 2019 Artisan Creative Group. Crinum: Unearthing the History and Cultivation of the Worlds Largest BulbAs the former director of Riverbanks Botanical Garden and founding horticulturist of Moore Farms Garden, Jenks has a true talent and passion for inspiring people of all ages and from all walks of life to go outside and get their hands dirty.

In this 057th episode with talk with Carol Reese about the Dangers Posed by the Native Purist Movement. Before your eyes pop out of your head take another sip and listen. Carol Reese is a retired Extension Horticulture Specialist.She is a nationally-known speaker delightfully blending equal parts gardening knowledge, natural lore, and quirky humor. Her B.S. and M.S. in Horticulture are from Mississippi State University, and she could also add her Phd. To the mix if she “had ever written that dissertation!” While there she taught classes in Plant Materials and Landscape Design.She written numerous articles for garden publications and served as the Q&A columnist for Horticulture Magazine.For two decades she wrote a weekly gardening and nature column for the Jackson Sun. Carol attributes her love of horticulture to being raised on a farm by generations of plant nuts, including a grandfather who each spring dynamited his garden spot to “break up his hard pan”. Carol’s very personal appreciation of natural lore is at least partially a result of her near daily rambles through the wild areas near her home with her extensive and motley collection of mutts, aka known as the strong-willed breed of “Amalgamations”.

Jay Sifford’s passion for crafting immersive gardens that are full of magic and story guide his garden designs. In this episode 056 Cornerstones of a Great Garden, we will discover how Mary Poppins inspires and nurtures a space where reality and fantasy collide. Sifford explains how he uses psychological, philosophical and spiritual principles to create contemporary, Asian-inspired, and woodland gardens with common plants and authentic materials. His inspiring gardens have been featured in Southern Living, Fine Gardening, and Country Gardens magazines as well as in several books and on Houzz. He writes for Houzz and SouthPark Magazines. In 2021, he was named North Carolina's Most Outstanding Landscape Designer by LuxLife magazine. Additionally, he has won 'Best of Houzz' awards for both design and service in 2020 through 2022. Jay Sifford’s Garden Design Sifford Garden Design on Facebook Jay Sifford Garden Design on Houzz

Mississippi native Felder Rushing is an 11th-generation Southerner. After retiring from Mississippi State University as a consumer horticulturist he spends half his year in his celebrated Mississippi cottage garden and the other half in a small terrace herb garden in Lancashire, England. Felder is a syndicated newspaper columnist, an online contributor for HGTV, and hosts a weekly NPR garden program The Gestalt Gardener.He has also been a writer, photographer, and editor for over a dozen magazines including Horticulture, Fine Gardening, Better Homes and Gardens, Landscape Architecture, Garden Design, and The National Geographic. He is the author or co-author of 32 books, including several national award winners.You will find him regularly lecturing coast to coast and overseas The New York Times has featured Felder three times. Most recently for forming and internationally promoting the all-senses, all-seasons approach of Slow Gardening. Southern Living Magazine featured Felder as one of “twenty-five people most likely to change the South.”Felder has served as a national director of the Garden Writers Association, board officer of the American Horticulture Society and member of the Royal Horticulture Society and the English Cottage Gardening Association.

Trees aren’t just for beauty any more.They provide your community with measurable health, financial, and environmental values.Susan is a ISA Certified Arborist that is on a mission to balance the challenges facing your community's tree canopies. Through her work with the Georgia Forestry Commission Urban Forests program Susan assists communities face the challenges in protecting, maintaining and increasing community tree canopies.In her work she assists local cities with managing their urban forests, public education, tree ordinances, tree protection, and commercial development planning.She also develops initiatives to encourage tree planting on private land and training tree management best practices.Susan also assists cities in identifying potential problem trees that might hamper first responders during weather events. As an instructor she teaches arborist certification prep classes to Georgia Electric Membership Corporation linemen and ROW workers.

Erica Glasener is a plant lover, horticulturist, writer, author and speaker.She is passionate about all things green and is currently the Community Involvement and Events Manager for Piedmont Park Conservancy, the nonprofit that supports Piedmont Park (over 200 acres) in Atlanta, GA. She is fortunate to have traveled throughout the US and to have discovered wonderful gardens and gardeners as the host for “A Gardener’s Diary” for 13 years on HGTV.Recently she worked as the Senior Producer for “Growing a Greener World” which airs on PBS stations across the country. She loves to share her knowledge about plants and gardening with the conviction that the world would be a better place if everyone gardened, no matter where they live or what they believe.