Australian and South African Plants to Grow

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Mapping your climate to other similar climates around the world and planting plants that come from those regions can pay a lot of dividends in the garden. Connect With Nan Sterman: Nan Sterman is a garden expert, botanist, journalist, and educator. She hosts a TV show called A Growing Passion, is the author of three books, has a online garden school, and designs gardens. Waterwise Gardener Seed Starting Workshop San Diego Gardener Facebook Group A Growing Passion TV Show Hot Color, Dry Garde and the rest of Nan’s books Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your entire first order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live! He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots. Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store. More Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including our Epic Homesteading and Jacques in the Garden channels) Instagram (Including Epic Homesteading, Jacques, and Chris) TikTok Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	As we've learned this week on the podcast, there are really good reasons to map what
0:19.2	you're planting to the climate that you're in, and of course that's the plants that grow
0:25.0	in climates like that, maybe even from different parts of the world.
0:29.0	We have Dan Sturman back on the show, she's a garden expert, she actually has a fantastic
0:33.4	garden school, it's online, so you can check that out in the podcast description.
0:37.5	She designs gardens, and we've been talking about water-rised strategies for gardening,
0:42.5	specifically irrigation yesterday, but you did mention a little primer on the San Diego
0:47.6	climate and how that maps to a couple of different areas of the world, and I know today
0:51.2	we're talking about Australians, South African plants, and I'm curious how those relate.
0:56.5	So Australians, South African plants relate really well not just to San Diego, but to all
1:02.2	of California.
1:03.2	Basically, again, we're in a Mediterranean climate, which means that we get all of our
1:07.2	rainfall between about November and April.
1:11.1	This is, of course, why people like to live here because we have these long, hot, beautiful
1:14.6	summers when it doesn't rain.
1:16.5	For plants, that's really tough because it means that in that heat, you get no water.
1:22.6	You've got to survive that heat.
1:25.2	There's a number of different adaptations that plants use to survive that heat, like they
1:29.8	might become succulent, so they store water when it's available, and then when it's not
1:35.1	available, they can use up those water stores.
1:37.4	They can have tough leaves, they can have small leaves, reduced surface areas so they don't
1:42.8	lose water too much from their leaves.
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