The Wilde Wilbur Podcast: Recent Episodes
Wilde Wilbur Design
The Wilde Wilbur Podcast is hosted by Liam Daly, business owner of Wilde Wilbur Design. Long format discussions with many interesting people on Australian gardening, plants, wildlife, livestock, agriculture, home grown food, art, and anything else that finds its way into the conversation, make for a fascinating and refreshing podcast packed full of helpful information and inspiration.
The latest episode of The Wilde Wilbur Podcast features Ashley James. A totally inspiring conversation, we covered all kinds of topics related to garden design and crops.
In this fantastic conversation with Lucy, we discuss all things art, the importance of and connection to Place, keeping ducks peacocks and chickens, and evolving etiquette in the socio-technological era. This might be my new favourite podcast I've done so far, and I really hope you enjoy it too.
CORRECTION: When I refer to Frasier Island, I was of course meaning to refer to Flinders Island. Oops.
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0:00-0:10 - Art - Painting; earth pigments; natural dyes; foraging for pigments - Foraging Around The Edges - eucalyptus; lichen. - The intention behind Lucy's art. - Endangered and rare species of South Gippsland. - Connecting to Place
0:10-0:20 - Terroir - art; plants; food. - Elaeocarpus reticulatus - Blueberry Ash - CORRECTION: Flinders Island, not Frasier Island. - Origination of plants and adaptation. - The Niche - environmental conditions; coastal plants; reflections on people and on living spaces - modernism; the cost of aesthetics. - Loch - the brought in home - 'The Windsor' - a 1914 Edwardian weatherboard home.
0:20-0:30 - The realities of relocating an early 20th century weatherboard home. - The veggie patch - A highly inventive and useful chicken run - Peacocks - ducks
0:30-0:40 - How noisy are ducks compared to chickens? - Caring for ducks - Back on to endangered species. - Places around Gippsland - Wonthaggi; Nyora; Powlett River; Foster Beach. - The Westernport - Mangroves - Jawbone Reserve. - Wilson's Promontory - During COVID. - When the eye can rest across long distances. - Sound and the ear; the boundaries of perception. - Business in a rural area - selling art.
0:30-0:50 - Making a living as an artist. - Making the Wilde Wilbur Podcast - long conversation; embarrassment and real life - we don't always say what we mean to; censorship. - How social media warps our sense of social reality and conditions our social etiquette - online personality vs. real life personality. - Being selective with who you approach. - Etiquette - non responses - lack of communication - technological shortcomings.
0:50- - Emojis - In the veggie patch - seed saving; pumpkins; cornflowers - Favourite flowers to paint - proteas; banksias - Banksia coccinea - Scarlett banksia
The latest episode of The Wilde Wilbur Podcast is with Haylee Magendans, The Plant Whisperer. This podcast was full to the brim with Haylee's amazing breadth of insight into the world of indoor plants, veggie gardens, and moon gardening.
0:00-0:10
-Workshops - basics; plant care; terrariums; kokedamas; propagation
-Purchasing indoor plants from a nursery
-Indoor plants: Light; watering; drainage; pots; potting mediums
-Acclimatizing new plants
-Peat moss
0:10-0:20
-Sources of water for rainforest plants
-Indoor plants - dust; fertilizer; humidity & humidifiers
-Monstera deliciosa - Swiss Cheese Plant
-Epiphytes
-Aroids
-Raphidophora tetrasperma - Mini Monstera
-Mistletoe and Dodder Laurel
0:20-0:30
-Self learning
-Monstera fruit
-Monstera adansonii - Adanson's Monstera
-Growing habits - climbing and trailing; resultant leaf size
-Hoyas
0:30-0:40
-Neem oil
-Fungus gnats
-Spidermites
-Balance & moderation
-Companion planting
0:40-0:50
-The nature of plant development
-Vegetable seeds
-Spraying nursery plants
-Pests in the veggie patch
-Companion plants - geraniums, marigolds, nasturtium, sweet alyssum
-Big picture vegetable gardening
-Seed saving
-Pests - snails; cabbage white butterfly & brassicas
-Planter bags and finding unexpected growing spaces
-Using recycled materials in the garden
0:50-1:00
-Fertilizing the veggie patch - chicken manure; composting in the chicken coop
-Plant communication - narratives and evolution
-Moon gardening - timing; harvesting; tides; weeding
1:00-1:08
-Moon gardening - effects on plants; effects on people; plant and moon cycles
-Biodynamic concepts
-Permaculture
-Moon gardening - effects on seeds
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It is a new year, and that means it's time to get this little podcast back into action.
This week's episode is with Cees Engelen of Urban Edible Gardens in Torquay. I thoroughly enjoyed listening to Cees' ideas on working with people and their gardens using permaculture and sustainable concepts to create spaces full of wonder and delicious produce.
This is a great podcast for anyone starting out in the gardening business as well; I unpacked a few details relating to work as a gardener with Cees, too.
0:00-0:10
Pt Addis/Torquay - Sunflowers - Connecting to nature - Starting a gardening business - Surfing - Working with friends - Planning for the future
0:10-0:20
Negotiating with clients - Types of design - Intuition/originality - Natural materials - Companion crops - Hard landscaping - Permaculture zones
0:20-0:30
Permaculture in Kenya/beetles, aquaponics, worm farms, methane harvesting - Sepp Holtzer - Abundance - Global awareness - Waste and consumerism - What you need to be happy
0:30-0:40
Solutions (for not going extinct) - Small changes for big effects - The Dao of self reliance - The Chicken Mansion
0:40-0:50
pH levels in compost - Comfrey press - Seaweed fertilizer - Worm juice - Using specified fertilizers - Edible seaweeds - Tim Low - Green houses
0:50-1:00
Greenhouses and structural security - Wicking beds - Hydro Rocks - Permeable irrigation techniques
1:00-1:10
Hydro Rock applications and solutions - Water tanks - Water pressure - Fertilizing using Hydro Rock technology
1:10-1:20
Rockwool accessibility - Growing grass on Hydro Rock - Favourite plants/ potatoes, squash, carrots - Plant medicine/ calendula
BUSH TOMATOS / CYCLONES / PARASITIC PLANTS & MORE
The Wilde Wilbur Podcast - Episode 4 -with Liam Ward of Urban Native Edibles
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EELS - FITZROY - JAPAN - PLANTER BOXES + MORE
Episode 3, with Paulus Herewini
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0:00 - New Zealand 0:15 - Eels, Growing plants in inner Melbourne 0:30 - Pruning, saving space, light, frost and aspect 0:45 - Germinating from seed, observing, tomatillo trellaces 1:00 - Recycled items, waste, Japan, Fitzroy 1:15 - Lockdown, Covid, Mental health, etiquette, irrigation 1:30 - Plant thieves, astringency, native tea, magic chillies 1:45 - Structuring plantings, rain tanks, worm farms 2:00 - Soil amendments, favourite plants, gutter moss
Frankenstein Grafting, Compost, Worm Farms + More
The Wilde Wilbur Podcast - Episode 2 - with Tim Dennis, The Garden Geek.
www.thegardengeek.com.au
www.wildewilbur.com
contact: liam@wildewilbur.com
Garden Design - Bush Regeneration - Fire - The Covid Pandemic + More
The Wilde Wilbur Podcast - Episode 1 - with Nick Rickard of Sheoak Design.
www.sheoakdesign.com
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contact: liam@wildewilbur.com