Plants Grow Here - Horticulture, Landscape Gardening & Ecology

Sep 14 2024 229 ep. 48 mins 273

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Come along with horticulturist Daniel Fuller as we enter a hidden world of horticultural, ecological and landscape gardening knowledge with featured experts, industry professionals and enthusiasts. We inform and inspire you with weekly episodes to help you become an unstoppable plant whisperer.

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Ep.210 How to choose good quality trees - Jason Summers (Remarkable Trees)

Sep 14 2024 43 mins

Have you ever done everything right when planting a tree, only to have it struggle or fail in the end? It might not have been your fault! You could have been installing sub-standard trees that were never going to do well because of the way they were grown in the pot. Jason Summers is an expert arboritst and horticulturist from Melbourne in Victoria. Formerly a city parks manager, h

Ep.209 Are native plants best for urban ecology? - Daniel Fuller

Aug 31 2024 10 mins

Are native and endemic plants better than exotic plants for biodiversity in urban landscapes? The answer is, it depends. By now, you expect a nuanced exploration into complex ideas like this when you tune into the Plants Grow Here podcast. As a qualified horticulturist with well over a decade in landscape maintenance and horticulture, it bothers me when I see overly simplistic stat

Ep.208 Right plant, right place: Site parameters x plant functions - Daniel Fuller

Aug 17 2024 15 mins

Yeah, yeah yeah - right plant, right place. But what does this old cliche mean in the real world? In this episode, I break down the old concept into site parameters (restrictions) and plant functions (desirable traits). Site Parameter Examples Available spaceTemperatureFrostWindAltitudeHumidityTopographySubstrateMulchAverage rainfallDroughtIrrigationSunlightSaltMicro climateAspectS

Ep.207 Horticulture trial pt.3: Analysing your data - Dr Ian Smith

Jul 20 2024 30 mins

Welcome to part 3 of our horticulture trial series. In the last two episodes, Dr Ian Smith helped us understand how to plan a scientific horticulture trial, and how to collect our data. In this episode, we're going to learn how to make sense of that data and put it to use. If you haven't listened to the previous two episodes yet, perhaps go and start at episode 205 before beginning

Ep.206 Horticulture trial pt.2: Conducting a trial and collecting data - Dr Ian Smith

Jul 13 2024 32 mins

In last week's episode, friend of the show Dr Ian Smith taught us how to set up a horticulture trial. In this episode, he's going to teach us how to run a trial as well as how to collect and record data. The scientific approach is a disciplined way of finding the truth of the matter. Instead of going by our beliefs, we strip ourselves of preconceptions and endeavour to find the fac

Ep.205 Horticulture trial pt 1: Planning a trial - Dr Ian Smith

Jul 06 2024 39 mins

How are you trialling new approaches in the landscape? If you're like me, you're writing notes in an app (at best), or you're just keeping all of your ideas in your head (at worst). Did you know there's a better way? It's called the scientific approach, and it'd been pretty beneficial for society as a whole. Instead of approaching horticulture in a haphazard way, you can test input

Ep.204 Protecting trees during development - Gary Moran (Treeside Arboricultural Consultancy)

Jun 15 2024 48 mins

How can we protect trees during development? In this episode, consulting arborist Gary Moran and I explore his usual recommendations for clients wishing to protect their trees during development, whether that's for a private, commercial, or public project. Trees might take a long time to show stress, so just because it looks great when construction finishes, that doesn't mean the t

Ep.203 Common hardscape mistakes: Outdoor construction basics - Joel Barnett (In Style Gardens, The Landscaping Podcast)

Jun 01 2024 64 mins

A sound understanding of hardscape elements is a good feather in the cap for any horticulturist, maintenance operator, or garden enthusiast. Sadly, most of us never get a chance to learn about this part of the garden because we only get to play in the dirt. In this episode, Joel Barnett (In Style Gardens, The Landscaping Podcast) guides us through some of the most common mistakes t

Swapcast: The Landscaping Podcast Ep.191 - Joel Barnett (In Style Gardens)

May 18 2024 55 mins

I don't talk about myself much on this podcast - we tend to stick to the art and science of horticulture and interrelated disciplines. But I was recently interviewed by Joel Barnett about my recent move from Melbourne to Brisbane and the reasons behind it, my career journey, and the fact that my wife Kirstie and I are expecting a baby later this year. It was a great chat and I'm lo

Ep.202 Integrated Pest Management: 6 methods - Daniel Fuller

May 04 2024 21 mins

Everybody wants a silver bullet for plant pests and diseases, but they usually end up causing more issues than they solve in the long run. Integrated Pest Management, or IPM, is an approach to managing pests in accordance with nature's rhythms. Instead of reaching straight for a chemical control, we can influence a number of factors that put pests on the back foot without harming t