A Life in Horticulture with John Clements

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Meet John Clements. John has been a horticulture professional for nearly 50 years. And boy, does he have some wild stories to share! Connect with John Clements: John Clements has been a horticultural professional for 46 years. Former nursery owner, gardener and koi pond builder to the rich and famous, horticulturist, commercial fruit tree farmer, garden writer, agricultural historian, co-administrator of the San Diego Gardener Facebook group, and the icing on the cake, is Director of Gardens at the 37-acre San Diego Botanic Garden. LinkedIn Website Instagram Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What if you had spent over 40 years in the world of horticulture?
0:17.3	What would that look like?
0:18.3	What stories would you have?
0:19.3	Well, today we have John Clements on the show.
0:21.5	He's the director of gardens at my local Botanic Garden, the San Diego Botanic Garden,
0:25.6	which I've been up to a bunch of times, and if you're a long time viewer of our YouTube
0:29.6	channel, you've probably seen John in our world of houseplants tour that we did with him.
0:34.7	So John, it's great to have you on the show.
0:36.6	Thank you Kevin.
0:37.6	It's a pleasure to be here.
0:39.3	So why don't we start, you know, every time I go up and hang out with you and we shoot some
0:43.9	content together or film the video, I feel like you drop a story and maybe then another
0:48.8	story.
0:49.8	And I'm like, John's got some stories.
0:52.0	You got some tales to tell and they're all related to kind of your history and the
0:55.6	world of plants.
0:56.6	You know, I understand your 46 years into the world of horticulture as a career path.
1:02.3	And I'm kind of curious, like, just let's rewind all the way back to the start.
1:05.4	Like, how did it begin for you?
1:08.3	It really began when it was a kid and the first time that I had been into a proper orchid
1:15.6	greenhouse.
1:16.6	I was maybe five or six years old and it was sort of a dismal rainy day and you walk
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