Native Plants Archives - The Garden Path Podcast: Recent Episodes
Misti Little
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Nancy Lawson (@humanegardener) A few announcements: I’m going to take an extended break from the podcast, which you’ve probably already thought was going on based on how sporadic episodes have been lately. I’ve lost my zest for the podcast and thought I might power through but […]
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Texas Land Conservancy (@texaslandconservancy) My guest today is Amy Martin, a writer and researcher from Dallas who is currently compiling a biography on Texas environmentalist Ned Fritz. Now, you may be asking, who the heck is Ned Fritz? And I was right there with you up […]
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Monarch Gardens, Benjamin Vogt (@monarchgardensbenjaminvogt) Way back in 2018 I had today’s guest on to talk about his book, A New Garden Ethic. Today Benjamin Vogt is back on the podcast to talk about his latest book, Prairie Up: An Introduction to Natural Garden Design. A […]
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Photos courtesy and copyright of Michelle Lay Today’s guest is Michelle Lay, a native plant gardener in Austin, Texas. Michelle and I have been Instagram acquaintances and friends over the last few years and I’ve enjoyed seeing her central Texas native plant garden evolve. Michelle has the same passion for conversation and protection of the […]
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Bonnie (@bonntany) Happy 2023 everyone! Spring is trying to spring here but like every year in Texas we brace ourselves for a surprise freeze in February, so I’m not getting too antsy about the growing season yet. But almost! Today’s episode is a fun one and […]
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I’m a voracious reader and read anything from paper books to kindle books and listen to my share of audiobooks. Rather than list the abundant garden and natural history books I read this year I summarized my two favorites in this podcast: Saving the Wild South by Georgann Eubanks and The Natural Habitat Garden by […]
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This episode is more or less a recording of a blog post I wrote a few weeks ago regarding the stark divide in native plant media versus what is available for sale in the nursery industry. A summary of the issues… The Issues at Hand A diverse and locally native plant landscape for the home […]
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Horticulturati (@thehorticulturati) Today’s episode is one I have been wanting to make for quite a while and I’m glad it finally happened—an interview with Leah Churner and Colleen Dieter from The Horticulturati, a garden and horticulture podcast based out of Austin, Texas. Leah and Colleen […]
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Today’s guest is Haeley Giambalvo from San Antonio, Texas. You may know her on Instagram as the person behind Native Backyards, the highly informative account that features native plants and native plant gardening advice focused on Texas. I have loved what Haeley has been doing since the very start of her account and have admired […]
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Episode Transcript (more or less) Welcome to the Garden Path Podcast, Life Lessons and Conversations from the natural world. I’m your host Misti Little. Back in the 6th grade I was introduced to the world of art via an elective in middle school. I had played the oboe in the band for my first semester […]
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Ti-Ti, Cyrilla racemiflora, blooming in its appropriate habitat location. A treefrog found a temporary place to rest on Lisa’s leg! Calopogon tuberosus Show Notes: Watson Rare Native Plant Preserve Watson Rare Native Plant Preserve Facebook Group
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Jimmy Fike (@jimmyfike) Jimmy Fike, an Arizona based artist who recently spent more than a decade photographing North America’s Edible and Medicinal Plants, produced gorgeous photographic prints of his subjects and turned them into a beautiful coffee table book. The prints are meticulously photographed, designed to […]
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Misti Little (@oceanicwilderness) Music: Going Home by Lee Rosevere Show Notes: Concrete Beds 1 & Concrete Beds 2
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Kenny Coogan (@crittercompanionsbykennycoogan) We’re back in Florida today with my guest Kenny Coogan. Kenny is the author of the soon to be released book FLORIDA’S CARNIVOROUS PLANTS: UNDERSTANDING, IDENTIFYING, AND CULTIVATING THE STATE’S NATIVE SPECIES, Education Director of the International Carnivorous Plant Society, and also sells […]
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Florida Native Plant Society (@floridanativeplantsociety) Music: Going Home by Lee Rosevere Show Notes: +Florida Native Plant Society +FNPS YouTube channel
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Louann and Ben Williams of Wetland Preserve All photos courtesy of Wetland Preserve, LLC. Sign up for the podcast newsletter —> HERE! Show Notes +Wetland Preserve, LLC website +Press about Wetland Preserve +@WetlandPreserve on Instagram +@WetlandPreserveFl on Facebook +St. John’s River Keeper +North Florida Prescribed Burn Association +Little Hoover Commission: Wildfire Preparedness and Forest Management […]
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In this episode I talk about how you can source native plants for your home garden! Once you start getting an interest in native plants it can send you down a rabbit hole in growing all-things-native! The downside is a diversity of native plants can be hard to find! I hope this episode gives you […]
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Sign up for the podcast newsletter —> HERE! Show Notes +Original Podcast Episode at Orange Blaze Podcast +Split Oak Forest WEA +Friends of Split Oak Forest on Facebook +Friends of Split Oak Forest on Instagram +The fight to save Split Oak Forest has evolved into one of Central Florida’s most divisive environmental disputes via The […]
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Sign up for the podcast newsletter —> HERE! Show Notes +Butterfly dilemma: The problem with tropical milkweed +The Frankford Prairie via Plano Prairie Garden—an abundance of Camassia scilloides
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Laura C. Martin is the author of 26 books that span a 40 year career. She paints and writes from Atlanta, Georgia where she’s lived throughout her life. Gardening and art was cultivated in her from a young age with parents who enjoyed both and over the years she adapted writing her books to also […]
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Cardamine bulbosa, bulbous bittercress, a common bottomland cress found in the spring. Sign up for the podcast newsletter —> HERE! Show Notes +Roy E. Larsen Sandyland Sanctuary +Checking in on an old friend at Roy E. Larsen Sandyland Sanctuary +Spring Wakeup at Roy E. Larsen Sandyland Sanctuary +Early Spring Lepidopterans at Roy E. Larsen Sandyland […]
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A black vulture seen at Aransas National Wildlife Refuge. January 1, 2021. Today I’m walking y’all through how I use the citizen science app, iNaturalist! I hope it inspires you to get out and start logging nature around you! Have questions on what I talk about? Feel free to comment below and I can attempt […]
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Western Pygmy Blue Butterfly Sign up for the podcast newsletter —> HERE! Show Notes: +Trail Camera Animals at Guadalupe and South Llano River State Parks +South Llano River State Park
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View this post on Instagram The very diminutive Bartonia texana, Texas screwstem (G2/S2S3 in Texas, S1 in Louisiana). Chris has been far more into the research of this plant because it’s been on his goal list to find the last several years. B. texana is very habitat specific occurring in the baygall seepage swamps of […]
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View this post on Instagram First time finding a pine lily in Alachua county and we found a half dozen! This state threatened, fire dependent species is found in flatwoods and prairies in the Southeast US. This is my favorite flower and a treat to find close to home. #pinelily A post shared by Keith […]
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View this post on Instagram Here’s another neat looking Polygala species, Drumheads (Polygala cruciata)! Can you see those tiny, tubular shapes? The ones in the middle of those petal-like showy, deep pink bracts? Those are the actual flowers! Keep an eye out for these blooms when exploring open, moist-soil habitats. They grow near the ground […]
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View this post on Instagram One of my favorite milkweed species is having a real banner year. Large-Flowered Milkweed / Asclepias connivens is not easy to miss, despite its muted coloration. The large, 1inch wide blooms are fairly easy to spot, even in the grassy, wet prairies where they are found. The pale green, comically […]
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Show Notes: Watson Preserve Geraldine Watson via Texas Legacy Geraldine Watson’s obituary Geraldine Watson article in Texas Parks and Wildife, April 2012 Zebra Swallowtail Caterpillar — my blog post of the one we found
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Music: “New Day” by Lee Rosevere Show Notes: +Phoebes Birding +@phoebesbirding on Instagram +Phoebes Birding on Facebook +@birdingbybus on Instagram +Phoebe Snetsinger write-up via Audubon +World’s Longest Migration Found–2X Longer Than Thought via National Geographic +Birding By Bus on the ABA podcast +Project PetSnip
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View this post on Instagram Indian Pipes popping out! I saw them in Maine in July, but now it's the season to see them in Florida. A post shared by Kate Dolamore (@thelittlenuthatch) on Nov 18, 2019 at 3:10pm PST Music: “New Day” by Lee Rosevere Show Notes: +Kate Dolamore Art +@thelittlenuthatch on Instagram
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This is a special episode in which I’m broadcasting a cross over episode from my second podcast, Orange Blaze: A Florida Trail Podcast. My guests for the episode are Heather Housekeeper and Scott Weis, 2019 Florida Trail thru-hikers. Heather is a certified herbalist and Scott is a musician, and together they have hiked several trails […]
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Today’s episode features Don and Debora Young, founders of the Friends of Tandy Hills Natural Area. Don and Debora have been spreading the word about this amazing remnant prairie in east Fort Worth for several decades and when oil and gas exploration activity came to Fort Worth, they wanted to do something to protect this […]
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Writer and gardener Nancy Lawson takes gardening for wildlife to the next level. After first encountering her book via my library system’s digital lending services, I have since fallen for the way Nancy writes about wildlife and their interactions in our garden and in our lives. She frequently touches on points that create those ‘aha’ […]
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One of my favorite episodes has been with the owners of The Common Milkweed Nursery, “a 3.5 acre nature preserve, wildlife haven, native plant farm, and land lab in North Central Ohio.” Jennifer and Steve are a wealth of knowledge when it comes to native plants of their region and getting a glimpse of that […]
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Imagine taking an interest in all things lepidoptera to a whole new level—from curious naturalist to field guide author. That’s what my guest for this episode, Erin Gettler, did in 2017 with her book Bird Watcher’s Digest Butterflies Backyard Guide. In this episode from season 2, Erin and I chat about the work involved in […]
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I’m kicking off a Summer Encore Series from Seasons 1-3 with episodes you may not have heard or dug through the archives to listen to. First off is an episode about Urban Forestry and Ecology with a knitting twist as I talk to Leigh Martin. It’s one of my first episodes and I was still […]
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View this post on Instagram Momentary sunshine in an otherwise rainy day. Monarch female on Cowpen Daisy. #monarchbutterfly #pollinators #pollinatorgarden #pollinatorfriendly #butterfly #gardening #butterflygarden A post shared by Texas Butterfly Ranch (@texasbutterflyranch) on Sep 21, 2018 at 12:44pm PDT Music: Going Home by Lee Rosevere Show Notes +Texas Butterfly Ranch +@texasbutterflyranch on Instagram +@monikam on […]
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View this post on Instagram We are in full prep mode over here getting ready for our first market tomorrow! I don’t think I’m gonna sleep a wink tonight! SFC Downtown Market, Saturday 3/9 from 9-1 We will have ranunculus, lots of poppies, mixed bouquets, mason jar arrangements and COMPOST TEA! Can’t wait to meet […]
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View this post on Instagram Textures. I love the textures of a well-planted veggie patch and how the leaf structures and colors create pockets of edible artwork that become as beloved and necessary as visual nourishment as they are actual nutrition. I tend to plant in blocks, usually in a minimum of a 4’x4’ square; […]
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View this post on Instagram My grandma gave me bulbs of her gloriosa lilies and now they’re trailing all over our yard, up the lemon tree, and over the fence. Fine by me. #gloriosalily #floridagarden #grandmasgarden #gloriosa #flamelily A post shared by Suwannee Rose (@suwanneeroses) on Nov 20, 2018 at 10:18pm PST Music: Going Home […]
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View this post on Instagram Prepping my ethnobotany presentation today for the Native Arts Day event. It's hosted by the Rio Brazos Master Naturalist this coming Saturday at Big bear Museum in Cleburne. Trying to pick which native plants would be most interesting but also most significant to the tribes who lived here for ages […]
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Zinnia grandiflora Asclepias asperula Stretpanthus culteri Stenandrium and Physaria All photos above courtesy of Michael Eason. Photo cover from Timber Press. In the spring I previewed and then bought the newly published Wildflowers of Texas field guide which has turned out to be the book I’ve always wanted but had been missing from my field […]
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If you’re in Texas and have ever wondered whether a wild plant you came across was edible you may have stumbled across Foraging Texas in your research. The website is run by Dr. Mark ‘Merriwether’ Vorderbruggen, who by day is a scientist and by nights and weekends, well, he’s still a scientist but he’s also […]
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This podcast season I'll be walking you thru the baby steps of growing milkweed for your garden. Step 1 is to collect milk jugs. That your only assignment thru Thanksgiving. A post shared by Grow Milkweed Plants 🐛 (@growmilkweedplants) on Oct 26, 2017 at 2:13am PDT If you’ve ever thought growing milkweed for the monarchs […]
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A couple of weeks ago the Native Plant Podcast had Ian Caton of Wood Thrush Native Plant Nursery on their show and I found the episode fascinating. I clicked over to Ian’s website and found myself falling down the rabbit hole of the interesting native plants he had for sale and was happy to see […]
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I can’t recall just how I came across Benjamin Vogt’s original blog, The Deep Middle, but I’ve been an avid reader of his writings for at least five or six years. His posts were always ones that sought to poke the bear, if you will, ones to provoke you into thinking about your own relationship […]
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Several years ago I started reading a blog called The Common Milkweed. I think I was searching for other nature and garden bloggers and came across Jennifer’s blog—but honestly I can’t remember how I landed on the website—however, I was hooked! Over the years they added in The Common Milkweed Nursery and slowly I began […]
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This episode covers my experience as a newbie keeper of monarch caterpillars. I raised a couple of sets of monarchs this summer and thought it would be worthwhile to pass on some of this information to other people interested in raising monarch butterflies, too. I am by far not an expert in this so if […]
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Today’s episode is another garden tour, this time of our flower garden! During the episode I blanked out on a couple of the names but I hope I covered some of them in the plant list below. This is by far not a comprehensive plant list but just a smattering of some of the ones […]
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My first bookstore event tonight was so much fun! Thanks to @curiousiguana and the Frederick Master Naturalists for hosting! A post shared by Nancy Lawson (@humanegardener) on May 3, 2017 at 8:21pm PDT Are you interested in taking your garden to the next level? To branch out, learn a little more about how to take […]
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We ventured out of the garden recently, because it’s September which is when all the prickly pears (tunas) are ripe, and came back with 220 pounds of prickly pears. We peeled them (which takes a long long time as you try to avoid getting any glochids in your hands), juiced them, strained them, strained them […]
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Exciting to see more and more natives used in the landscape! Rudbeckia 'Black Eyed Susan' A post shared by Rouse's Nursery (@rouses_horticulture) on May 17, 2017 at 7:17am PDT Today’s episode is a unique one in which I discuss gardening and horticulture through the lens of an extension agent. Lee Rouse is a gardener, horticulturist, […]
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Winter/Fall contrast with Joe Pye Weed and Panicum 'Northwind'. Me like both. #garden #gardening #gardensofinstagram #wintergarden #joepyeweed #panicum #grass #ornamentalgrasses #nativeplants A photo posted by john markowski (@jmarkowski0) on Dec 15, 2016 at 8:21am PST If you have been reading garden blogs for any length of time you’ve probably come across John Markowski’s The Obsessive […]
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Howdy! In this episode I spoke with a local gardener here in Houston! I’ve been wanting to reach out to some local folks to get their take on gardening in coastal Texas where things can get hot and humid for months at a time. Leanne Tarleton gardens in The Woodlands township, a unique community that […]
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In today’s episode I talk to naturalist, artist, gardener, and soon-to-be author, Erin Gettler. Erin is based out of Long Island and writes at The Familiar Wilderness when she’s not having a big year in projects, like she had in 2015! We talked about a variety of topics, ranging from her naturalist beginnings, being a […]
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I’m so excited to share this interview with y’all! Leigh and I were able to rerecord the podcast we attempted a few weeks ago and I’m so glad we did! Leigh is an Urban Forester by profession but a passionate knitter who works to communicate her love for the natural world through her craft. She […]
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Hello! Welcome to the inaugural episode of The Garden Path Podcast! This episode details a little bit about why I started this podcast as well as my gardening background. I hope you’ll have a listen! Twitter: @owilderness & @gpathpodcast Music: Harvest Time by Silent Partner You can subscribe in iTunes, Stitcher, or through an RSS […]
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