HeyJaredBlooms and Beyond
This is a podcast that explores plant history, culture and management through the lens of science, unfolding plant power through horticultural anecdotal stories and impressive management practices.
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Apricot, Honey, and Sunshine: Breeding a Hardier Tea Olive with Lisa Alexander (opens the original)
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Apricot, Honey, and Sunshine: Breeding a Hardier Tea Olive Episode Description Donna Fare, a former ARS researcher, had Lisa Alexander smell a branch of osmanthus. The words Lisa reaches for to describe that scent became the title of this episode: apricot, honey, and sunshine. Lisa is a research geneticist at the US National Arboretum, part of the USDA Agricultural Research Service, and she breeds hydrangeas, tea olives and other woody ornamentals. For Ping, the smell of Osmanthus fragrans means
Seven Out of 1,200: The Long Road to a Better Hibiscus with Dr. John Ruter (opens the original)
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Seven Out of 1,200: The Long Road to a Better Hibiscus Episode Description John Ruter put 1,200 hibiscus seedlings in the ground and kept seven. The other 1,193 got bush hogged. He is the Armitage Professor of Horticulture at the University of Georgia and the director of the UGA Trial Gardens, and this week he walks Ping through everything that happens between a cross and a plant you can actually buy. It takes ten to fifteen years, and in his case it started with a phone call from a mountain res
When the Plants Start Talking to You: Breeding New Ornamentals with Dr. Ryan Contreras (opens the original)
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When the Plants Start Talking to You: Breeding New Ornamentals Gamma rays, seedless shrubs, and the unglamorous skill that still beats every fancy technique. Episode Description There is a cobalt source on the Oregon State campus, and Dr. Ryan Contreras uses it on plants. He describes the method with a shrug and a movie line: “The Forrest Gump, life is like a box of chocolates. We never know what we’re going to get. We’re just taking a shotgun and pointing it and blasting and then growing out po
The Beetle That Moved Into the Nursery: Managing Red-Headed Flea Beetles with Shimat Joseph (opens the original)
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The Beetle That Moved Into the Nursery: Managing Red-Headed Flea Beetles Episode Description Growers spent years assuming the red-headed flea beetle flew in from the field edge. Dr. Shimat Joseph went looking for it out there and found almost nothing. When his lab sampled the landscapes around Georgia container nurseries, the beetle simply was not present, and nobody was reporting it as a landscape problem either. The pest was already home. The well-drained pine bark container that growers built
IPPS Southern Region: To Seek and to Share with Brie Arthur (opens the original)
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IPPS Southern Region: To Seek and to Share Episode Description In 1951, nurseries still grew plants in tin cans, and information on rooting hormones was hard to come by. The society that formed to close that gap, the International Plant Propagators Society, is now the International Plant Production Society, and its Southern Region leads every IPPS region in the world for membership. Dr. Ping Yu sits down with Brie Arthur, “Brie the Plant Lady,” International Delegate and Communications Director
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