Let's Argue About Plants
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Let's Argue About Plants
The podcast for people who love plants—but not always the same ones. Brought to you by the editors of Fine Gardening, this fun, informative podcast tackles all things topical in gardening. You’ll listen to the insights (and arguments) of Editor-in-Chief Steve Aitken and Senior Editor Danielle She...
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Episode 185: Bulbs We’re Longing to Buy
Now is the time to invest in a spectacular spring show!
Bulbs of all kinds are easy-care solutions for bringing extra color and an element of...
Episode 184: All-time Favorite Veggies
In this episode, we’re digging into our all-time favorite vegetable varieties—the ones we can’t imagine our gardens (or dinner plates) being without....
Episode 183: Roses You Won’t Regret
Roses may be the most controversial plant out there. In this episode, we’re discussing the most reliable, low-maintenance, and high-performing rose va...
Episode 182: Favorite Red-Flowered Plants
Turn up the garden heat with a dose of bold, confident color
Red flowers—love ‘em or hate ‘em — add an undeniable fiery look to gardens. The hu...
Episode 181: Plants You Can’t Kill
It’s worth finding a few stalwarts that will survive almost anything
When plants are done in by pests, diseases, or bad weather, it is hard not...
Episode 180: Plants with Big, Bold Foliage
In this episode, we’re turning up the drama—garden drama, that is! We’re talking all about plants with big, bold foliage that steal the show and bring...
Episode 179: Most Beautiful Flowers
If your pulse quickens at the sight of a dogwood or peony in full bloom, this is the episode for you. Although a restrained, foliage-focused design is...
Episode 178: Best Interview Moments from Let’s Argue About Plants
While the Fine Gardening team is busy exploring the Philadelphia Flower Show, we’re taking a moment to look back at some of the most insightful and in...
Episode 177: Seeds We’re Starting This Year
As we recorded this episode, snow was gently falling outside our windows here in New England. But that isn't depressing for us—it simply means it’s ti...
Episode 176: Plants with Personality with Amanda Thomsen
Amanda Thomsen is a landscape designer, project manager, and garden writer. Recently, she opened Aster Gardens in Lemont, Illinois. This neighborhood...
Episode 175: Great Houseplants
Potted plants will bring life and positive energy into any room, and studies have shown that having them nearby can relieve stress, boost creativity,...
Episode 174: Plant Evaluation with Sam Hoadley and Richard Hawke
Catalogue descriptions for new plants may grab our attention, but usually provide little useful information about how these up-and-coming cultivars wi...
Episode 173: Beneficial Host Plants
This week we might rename the show Pollinator Haven, the podcast where we dig into the vibrant world of pollinators and the plants that sustain them!...
Episode 172: Focal Points with Susan Morrison
Susan Morrison, owner and principal designer at Creative Exteriors Landscape Design, has created hundreds of gardens in California’s East Bay area. He...
Episode 171: Deer-resistant Plants
One deer can do major landscape damage overnight, and if a herd regularly visits your garden you may feel like giving up. Although almost no plant is...
Episode 170: High-Impact Native Plants with Uli Lorimer
Ulrich Lorimer is the director of the Native Plant Tust in Framingham, MA, a conservation organization that manages Garden in the Woods. He has been...
Episode 169: Great Foundation Plants
When we say “foundation plants” you might think we’re talking about plants that are the backbones of our beds and borders. But that’s not what we mean...
Episode 168: Rewind – Design Rules of Thumb with Stacie Crooks
Seattle-based garden designer Stacie Crooks creates beautiful, ecologically friendly, low-maintenance gardens throughout the Pacific Northwest. Her mo...
Episode 167: Pollinator Plants
Great options for welcoming winged visitors to your garden
Hardly an episode goes by where we don't mention a pollinator plant. But we...
Episode 166: Gardening for the Greater Good with Andrew Bunting
Andrew Bunting is vice president of horticulture at Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (PHS), where he promotes gardening for the greater good. PHS su...
Episode 165: Not Your Typical Ground Covers
The best ground covers are multi-purpose workhorses, suppressing weeds, preventing soil erosion, and adding another level of interest to garden beds....
Episode 164: The Joys of Plant Exploration with Mark Weathington
Mark Weathington is the director of the JC Raulston Arboretum at NC State University in Raleigh, North Carolina and author of Gardening in the South:...
Episode 163: Tough As Nails Plants
It’s late-July and we’re officially HOT. And so are our gardens. Now is the time that we start to truly sit up and take notice of the plants that seem...
Episode 162: Cultivating Connections with the Next Generation with Jared Barnes
Jared Barnes is an associate professor of horticulture at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas, where he and his students cultivat...
Episode 161: A Field Trip to the New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill
There’s nothing nicer than being outside on a beautiful late spring day, especially if it means you get a whole day away from your desk. Danielle, Car...
Episode 160: The RHS Chelsea Flower Show with Annie Guilfoyle
Did you ever wonder what it would be like to get exclusive access to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show? Well, your dreams have come true because in this exc...
Episode 159: Plants that Take Sun and Shade
Chances are, you’ve got mixed conditions in your garden. One area might be in full sun, while another spot a bit farther away is in full shade...
Episode 158: Plants That Earn Their Keep with Irvin Etienne
Irvin Etienne is the curator of herbaceous plants and seasonal garden design at Newfields, a 152-acre campus with art galleries, performance spaces, w...
Episode 157: Flowering trees for every season
Due to their size and expense, gardeners tend to put a lot more thought into the trees they ultimately buy for their landscape. While a perennial migh...
Episode 156: Finding Design Inspiration with Jay Sifford
Jay Sifford is an award-winning landscape designer based in North Carolina. Several of his garden designs have been featured in Fine Gardening, includ...
Episode 155: Deer Resistant Favorites
One of the worst sights you can ever see in the garden is a plant that has been browsed by deer. (Sidenote: we don't love the gentle word “browsed” in...
Episode 154: Putting Plants to the Test with Richard Hawke
Richard Hawke is the Director of Ornamental Plant Research at Chicago Botanic Garden, where he oversees comparative evaluations of ornamental plants....
Episode 153: Compact Plants for Tight Spaces
Every gardener wishes they had 25 acres to garden on, right? Well maybe not, but most of us do dream of a healthy amount of ground to build beds and b...
Episode 152: Best of LAAP: Best of Our Listener Q & As
One of our favorite things to do here on the pod is dig through emails and social media shout outs from our listeners. It is always nice to hear about...
Episode 151: Underappreciated Plants for Winter Interest
During the winter months many plants reveal subtle patterns, fine details, and a new range of colors that help us to see familiar beds and borders wit...
Episode 150: Design Rules of Thumb with Stacie Crooks
Stacie Crooks is a Seattle-based garden designer who has created beautiful, ecologically friendly, low-maintenance gardens throughout the Pacific Nor...
Episode 149: Silver Plants
Plants with a silvery sheen stand out beautifully against the sea of green that fills most garden beds. In this episode, Danielle, Carol, and their gu...
Episode 148: Wish List Plants
Oh, dear listeners...it’s the most glorious time of the year! No, not because it’s time to hang the stockings or trim the tree—because it’s time to ma...
Episode 147: Great Native Grasses
If you like the beauty and impact that ornamental grasses bring to a garden design, you will love the many shapes, forms and colors that North America...
Episode 146: Best of LAAP: Our Top 4 Plants
While searching through our archive of episodes we discovered something: There are a few specific plants we just can’t stop talking about. As the year...