A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 13, 2022 – Wes Knapp on Taking Stock of Natives

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

Margaret Roach

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🗓️ 13 June 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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While researching a story about the endangered status of native trillium in North America recently, I was happy to meet today’s guest, botanist Wesley Knapp. Our trillium conversations got me thinking about how headlines like the trillium one, highlighting reports of the... Read More ›

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0:00.0	From away to garden.com and Robinhood Radio.com, this is Away to Garden with Margaret
0:10.3	Roach.
0:11.3	You're a weekly invitation to dig in and grow.
0:14.3	While researching a story about the endangered status of native Trillium in North America
0:18.7	recently, I was happy to meet today's guest, botanist Wesley Napp.
0:24.4	Our Trillium Conversations got me thinking about how headlines like Trillium One highlighting
0:29.2	reports of the accelerating threats of extinctions of plant or animal species are so common in
0:35.3	the news these days.
0:37.1	But how are those predictions calculated, I wonder, and also do we know what species are
0:41.8	already gone?
0:43.5	More in a moment, but first these messages.
0:46.1	Programming and underwriting support from Royal Botanic Gardens publishes of cute pocketbooks,
0:49.8	small gift books illustrated from Cue's vast collection of botanic alert.
0:53.6	The most recent book, Fungai, about the strange and singular world of mushrooms, toadstools,
0:58.5	and their kin, in bookstores now.
1:01.2	Underwriting support from color blends supplying top quality spring blooming Dutch
1:05.1	flower bulbs to landscape professionals and ambitious home gardeners.
1:09.3	More information on the web color blends dot com.
1:13.7	Wesley Napp, a PhD student at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is chief botanist
1:19.2	at nature serve the authoritative source for biodiversity data in North America.
1:24.9	He previously worked as a botanist and ecologist for the Maryland and
1:28.0	North Carolina natural heritage programs. Hi Wes, I'm so glad to reconnect.
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