133-Native Plant Design in a Post-Wild World, With Thomas Rainer
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Joe Lamp'l
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2019
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
How do you define a beautiful garden or landscape? Is it a perfectly manicured space, free of weeds with coordinated blocks of color? Perhaps it’s more relaxed and informal. In this episode, we focus our discussion around native plant design in a post-wild world with Thomas Rainer, author, teacher, and landscape architect. Thomas describes his vision for a garden that is a hybrid of both cultivated design and the wildness of nature. We talk about how we can create a natural garden design that meets our aesthetic requirements yet functions more like landscapes in the wild.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Joe Gardner Show, the podcast all about gardening, where we cover |
| 0:08.7 | everything you need to know to grow like a pro, no experience required. |
| 0:13.1 | And now here's your guide, National Gardening Television Host, and the Joe Behind Joe Gardner, |
| 0:18.5 | Joe Lample. |
| 0:19.5 | Hi everybody, this is Joe Lample, the Joe Behind Joe Gardner, and welcome to the Joe |
| 0:23.3 | Gardner Show. |
| 0:24.5 | I talk about books a lot on this podcast, as many of you well know, and I often interview |
| 0:29.7 | the authors of some of my favorites. |
| 0:32.0 | Well, today is one of those days, with a book I first read a while back and I really enjoyed |
| 0:36.8 | it. |
| 0:37.8 | Its title is Planting in a Post-Wild World, and it's written by Landscape, Architect, Teacher |
| 0:42.6 | and Writer, Thomas Rainer, along with this co-author and business partner, Claudio West. |
| 0:47.1 | And I'll tell you more about Thomas in a minute, but first, more about why I think the |
| 0:51.0 | topic of this book makes for a really good conversation with the author for this podcast. |
| 0:56.6 | From time to time, you hear me talk about the importance of native plants and their ecological |
| 1:00.5 | value to Landscapes big and small. |
| 1:03.1 | For my television show and podcast, we've talked with some of the champions of using native |
| 1:07.3 | plants, including Doug Talamy, Rick Dark, and George Coombs of Mt. Cuba Center, and if |
| 1:12.2 | you don't know Mt. Cuba Center, they are the pre-imminent public garden in the US anyway, |
| 1:16.8 | to showcase native plants and their natural surroundings. |
| 1:20.0 | So in those cases, we certainly talk about many examples of what native plants you can |
| 1:24.0 | add to your Landscape, but because that can vary so much based on where you live, I love |
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