330-Natural Garden Design Basics, with Benjamin Vogt
The joe gardener Show - Organic Gardening - Vegetable Gardening - Expert Garden Advice From Joe Lamp'l
Joe Lamp'l
4.6 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Natural garden design is growing in popularity, and many more gardeners would like to get on board if only they had a better idea of how to get started. If you’re curious about starting a natural garden with native plants, then you’re in luck, because my guest this week is author and garden designer Benjamin Vogt of Monarch Gardens.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody, this is Joe Lample, the Joe behind Joe Gardner and welcome to the Joe Gardner |
| 0:04.5 | show. |
| 0:05.5 | Today I'm back in conversation with returning guest Benjamin vote. |
| 0:09.6 | When he was last on the show back in episode 247 we spoke about his new book at the time |
| 0:15.0 | a new garden ethic. |
| 0:16.5 | I consider Benjamin to be one of the most influential voices and ambassadors and promoting |
| 0:21.1 | efforts to practice ecological garden design and horticulture. |
| 0:25.1 | His willhouse is in natural landscape design with an emphasis on using native plants, specifically |
| 0:31.0 | prairie plants for all that they have to offer their beauty, resilience for seasons of interest |
| 0:37.2 | in many cases and of course the ecological services they provide and building and maintaining |
| 0:43.2 | healthy biodiversity landscapes and gardens. |
| 0:46.3 | If you don't know this about Benjamin, this is a guy who not only courageously walks |
| 0:51.0 | his talk, he shouts it from the rooftop. |
| 0:53.9 | As he lives and breathes this new garden ethic, his personal home landscape is a living |
| 0:58.5 | testament to what he teaches and writes about and everything he stands for and that's |
| 1:03.9 | not easy to do considering from where he calls headquarters because his home sits within |
| 1:08.7 | the epitome of a typical suburban treeless, long-laden HOA subdivision. |
| 1:15.4 | Fortunately his efforts and persistence has gleaned a lot of traction over the past few |
| 1:20.0 | years along with more and more attention, respect and recognition of his work and it's coming |
| 1:25.7 | from other highly respected ecological voices from around the country and beyond. |
| 1:30.2 | And so it should come as no surprise that fortunately more people are wanting to know how |
| 1:35.2 | to implement this new garden ethic now that they know why it's so important. |
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