I'm not sure where this episode finds you today, but in my garden, I am really tired from the summer.

And I'm trying to get that second wind to get my fall plants into the ground.

This is about the time I start planting a lot of my seeds and my transplants and just crossing my fingers that the weather is not going to harm them because it's usually still

really hot where I am.

But it's also a time that last year I started really thinking about what I could plant in

the fall that were native plants that would benefit my garden and my garden space in general.

Now, we've talked about native plants a little

bit in a couple of different episodes in the past, one with Dr. Doug Talami, and then one with Dr.

Ironman just recently a couple of months ago. So I know we've talked about native plants before,

but I wanted to have this conversation with Dr. Deborah Landau. She is with the Nature Conservancy, and she gives some perspectives that vegetable gardeners

might find very interesting, especially when it comes to how we can incorporate more native

plants into our gardens and our landscapes and why.

I think you're going to find her information so inspiring. And it'll also help you

understand why doing this is going to actually help your garden. It will help the insects,

the beneficial insects, the birds, the entire ecology of your garden. But it will also help

the climate as a whole. I love these practical suggestions that

she gives. She just educates us in a way that those of us who are fairly new to all of this

really need to know. So I hope that you will enjoy this conversation with Dr. Deborah Landau

and all of the links where you can connect with her with the Nature Conservancy

are in the show notes below. Enjoy. Welcome. I'm Jill and in 2013 I started my first garden as a new

stay-at-home mom wanting to do my part to provide for my family. Over the years, I stumbled my way

into becoming a gardener, and in this podcast,

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