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Ask Grumpy, a podcast featuring Steve Bender, AKA Southern Living’s Grumpy Gardener is back for Season 3. For more than 30 years, Grumpy has been sharing advice on what to grow, when to plant, and how to manage just about anything in your garden. Tune in for short episodes every Wednesday and Saturday as Grumpy answers reader questions, solves seasonal conundrums, and provides need-to-know advice for gardeners with his very Grumpy sense of humor. Be sure to follow Ask Grumpy wherever you listen so you don't miss an episode.

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“Your Natural Garden,” Kelly D. Norris’ new book, is sure to be one of the most essential gardening tools of 2025. In this beautifully illustrated guide, Norris, who split his childhood between working in his grandmother’s garden and exploring the 40-acre prairie a quarter mile up the road, shares insights he has gathered from his hands in the dirt-experience, studies of plant science, and his work as a nationally renowned ecological garden designer.

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“Your Natural Garden,” Kelly D. Norris’ new book, is sure to be one of the most essential gardening tools of 2025. In this beautifully illustrated guide, Norris, who split his childhood between working in his grandmother’s garden and exploring the 40-acre prairie a quarter mile up the road, shares insights he has gathered from his hands in the dirt-experience, studies of plant science, and his work as a nationally renowned ecological garden designer.

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The Overlooked Virtues of Native Annual Flowers 29:01

4 days ago29:01

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Alicia Houk, natural garden designer and educator, describes how native, reseeding annuals can make your plantings self-renewing, weed resistant, and resilient in the face of disturbance

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A Local Activist With a National Impact 29:01

11 days ago29:01

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Co-founder of Pollinator Pathway, Louise Washer saw this project go viral, spreading from one Connecticut community to nationwide in just 8 years. Listen as she shares the approach that has made her other environmental activism so effective.

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A Low-Cost Swimming Pool that Saves Energy and Serves Biodiversity 29:01

18 days ago29:01

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Jennifer Campbell, a sustainable landscape designer in New Hampshire, built herself a natural swimming pool that saves energy, nurtures native plants, serves wildlife, and cost her only $10,000 to install.

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Helping Native Plants Outrun Climate Change 29:01

25 days ago29:01

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Assisted migration, helping native plants move to escape the effects of a rapidly changing climate, is a controversial topic among ecologists. Thomas Nuhfer of the University of Massachusetts Amherst shares a new understanding of how to make these moves without destabilizing existing ecosystems.

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A Conversation with Growing Greener’s New Partner 29:01

5 weeks ago29:01

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Award-winning landscape designer Edwina von Gal describes her Perfect Earth Project’s dual approach to changing the culture of land care in the United States: building a constituency among land owners and gardeners for ecologically-based, toxin-free design and maintenance while educating landscapers in how to serve this new market.…

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DOGE is Destroying an Essential, Inexpensive Foundation of American Agricultural Greatness 29:01

6 weeks ago29:01

29:01

The National Plant Germplasm System has protected U.S. farmers against crop diseases and now climate change for over a century; DOGE has defunded its $40 million annual budget, imperiling our $1.5 trillion food system

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The Lawn Mower as Ecological Design Tool 29:01

7 weeks ago29:01

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Award-winning landscape architect Michael Geffel describes how he used precisely targeted and timed mowing to convert a brownfield into a flowering grassland and a vibrant public recreation area.

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Slugs “Don’t Get No Respect” 29:01

8 weeks ago29:01

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Slugs are the Rodney Dangerfield of garden wildlife – our only interest is in exterminating them. Yet as Dr. Jann Vendetti of the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum explains, they lead fascinating and, in many ways, very useful lives

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Benjamin Vogt Explains Why He Prefers Clay Soils 29:01

9 weeks ago29:01

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Gardeners complain about clay soils, but Benjamin Vogt, a leading designer of natural gardens and landscapes notes that they offer many advantages for the ecologically based gardener

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A Pioneering Native Plant Supplier That’s Equally Remarkable as an Educator 29:01

10 weeks ago29:01

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Shannon Currey, head of education and outreach for Izel Native Plants, shares how that transformative plant clearinghouse is as committed to the education of its customers as to providing them with biodiverse bargains

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Collecting Seeds to Grow Locally Adapted Native Plants 29:01

11 weeks ago29:01

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Molly Moore, master gardener and master naturalist, shares the online program she co-wrote with Marlene Smith which can set you on the path to success in starting plants from locally collected seeds without harming the wild populations

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“Roll Out Gardens” 29:01

12 weeks ago29:01

29:01

Brandon Carbary’s pre-designed garden templates, shipped complete with plants, makes creating a locally adapted, aesthetically attractive display of native plants almost effortless

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Stoneleigh: a Natural Garden 29:01

13 weeks ago29:01

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Ethan Kauffman, Director of Stoneleigh, describes the 9-year process his team has pursued, enriching a classic Philadelphia Mainline estate with thousands of species of native plants, to transform it into a model for how to honor traditional landscape aesthetics while boosting biodiversity and serving the local ecosystem…

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Starting the Next Generation Indoors 29:01

14 weeks ago29:01

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Starting vegetable and annual seedlings indoors is a skill every gardener needs to master and Dr. Steve Reiners of Cornell University shares tricks of the trade. Grow your own locally adapted, disease-resistant cultivars for bigger harvests, better flavors, and a more resilient garden.

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11 Generations of Stewarding the Land 29:01

15 weeks ago29:01

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Judge’s Farm Nursery is the newest venture in the Griswold family’s 385-year association with their homestead at the mouth of the Connecticut River. Co-founder Matt Griswold describes the nursery’s program of growing native plants sustainably from locally collected seeds.

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The Garden Benefits of Backyard Ducks 29:01

16 weeks ago29:01

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Aaron von Frank discusses his book, “The Impractical Guide to Keeping Pet and Backyard Ducks” and details the services a flock can provide in controlling weeds and pests, as well as furnishing a supply of eggs and fertilizer.

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Slow Flowers 29:01

17 weeks ago29:01

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That bouquet of flowers you buy at the supermarket has a huge, unsustainable carbon footprint. Join Debra Prinzing, founder of the Slow Flowers Society, for tips about sourcing locally grown flowers or growing your own year round for unique, locally rooted, and sustainable beauty.

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High Performing Plants 29:01

18 weeks ago29:01

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It’s not an either/or choice, native vs. introduced, for Claudia West of Phyto Studio when this leader of the ecological gardening movement develops a plant palette for one of her innovative landscapes. What she seeks, besides selections that serve the customers’ needs and delight the eye, are “high performing” species and cultivars that provide maximum benefits to the local ecosystem, regardless of place of origin.…

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An Invaluable New Gardening Tool 29:01

19 weeks ago29:01

29:01

“Your Natural Garden,” Kelly D. Norris’ new book, is sure to be one of the most essential gardening tools of 2025. In this beautifully illustrated guide, Norris, who split his childhood between working in his grandmother’s garden and exploring the 40-acre prairie a quarter mile up the road, shares insights he has gathered from his hands in the dirt-experience, studies of plant science, and his work as a nationally renowned ecological garden designer.…

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Managing for Coexistence 29:01

20 weeks ago29:01

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Sports fields and swimming beaches are essential, but public parks can also play a crucial role in maintaining biodiversity. As Curator of Natural Resources for the Westchester County New York Park system, Leah Cass designs management regimes for thousands of acres of habitat, coordinating the needs of residents, wildlife, and more than a thousand species of native plants.…

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The Many Garden Benefits of Snow 29:01

21 weeks ago29:01

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Are you dreaming of a white Christmas? Or a snowy Hanukkah or Kwanzaa? Or just a personal celebration of the winter solstice? EcoBeneficial designer and educator Kim Eierman will share you the many gifts that a blanket of snow gives to the garden.

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The Nursery that Helped Shape the Native Plants Movement 29:01

22 weeks ago29:01

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Gardeners mostly didn’t focus on our native plants as such in 1988 when Steve Castorani and Dale Hendricks founded North Creek Nurseries to propagate them in bulk for distribution to retail nurseries. Learn how North Creek’s innovations in the years since have continued to shape and expand the native plants movement.…

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Using Native Grasses to Create an Environmentally Friendly Lawn 29:01

23 weeks ago29:01

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Creating a native lawn, Dave Kaplow says, may require no more than a change in maintenance regimes. And, the ecological restoration pioneer adds, it provides a biodiverse and sustainable turf that is friendly not only to people but also wildlife

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Eco Spirituality: “We must change” 29:01

24 weeks ago29:01

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Brother James Lockman of the Franciscan Order, whose personal ministry is ecological restoration, discusses the nature-embracing spirituality of St. Francis of Assisi, founder of his order, and how it has inspired the ecological activism of the current Pope

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One Family’s Definition of Regenerative Agriculture 29:01

25 weeks ago29:01

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When Carol Bouska and her siblings inherited the family farm in Iowa, they seized the opportunity to commit to restoring the soil, enhancing wildlife habitat, and bolstering the community in which they had grown up – and used this process to reinforce family ties

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Knowing Your Soil - Part 2 29:01

26 weeks ago29:01

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Join pioneering nurseryman and ecologist Neil Diboll for the second half of our conversation about how gardeners can familiarize themselves with the natural characteristics of the soil on their site and use that knowledge in selecting a community of adapted, self-sufficient native plants for their gardens.…

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Knowing Your Soil 29:01

27 weeks ago29:01

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Traditional gardening emends the soil to suit the needs of the selected plants; pioneering nurseryman and ecologist Neil Diboll takes the character of the soil on site as the foundation of garden design and key to the selection of an adapted, ecologically functional, and self-sufficient plant palette…

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A Dynamic Toolbox of Innovative Land Restoration Strategies 29:01

28 weeks ago29:01

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Internationally acclaimed landscape designer Edwina von Gal’s Perfect Earth Project uses imaginative strategies to connect landowners big and small with nature-based, chemical-free and biodiversity friendly management practices

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How Human Manipulation Affects the Relationship of Hydrangeas and Pollinators 29:01

29 weeks ago29:01

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Garden activist and educator Cathy Ludden describes her encounters with hydrangeas and how transforming the flower heads to suit human aesthetics has proved both harmful and beneficial to pollinators

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A Masterful Integration of Natives and Exotics 29:01

30 weeks ago29:01

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Richard Hayden, Senior Director of Horticulture at New York’s magical garden, the High Line, describes how it integrates North American native plants with carefully chosen exotic species to create a whole that delights human visitors while also supporting wildlife and providing a powerful reconnection with nature…

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