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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Decorating Your Pots With Garden Trimmings

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Education, Home & Garden, How To, Leisure

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2019

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Today we learn how to spice up your fall and winter pots with some trimmings from your garden...it’s a perfect ‘quick win’ to give your garden a bit more beauty as we move into the colder seasons.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. We're here again with

0:07.0

The Epic Stephanie Rose. She is the founder of Garden Therapy, which is an amazing website, Garden therapy. C. A. She's the author of nine books including the upcoming Garden Alchemy and if that wasn't enough she's also a Vancouver Master Gardner and Permaculture designer. So today we are continuing on the

0:24.3

theme of projects you can do in the garden to both beautify your space and really

0:30.9

take a moment in time and reconnect with plants and nature.

0:35.0

So this one is all about using garden clippings to decorate your pots for the winter.

0:40.0

And as you might imagine, Stephanie, not something that I have done a whole lot of

0:44.3

being a non-aesthetic human being so I would love your wisdom on this one as well.

0:50.6

So Kevin what do your pots look like in the winter?

0:54.0

Like they're still growing things because you're in a temper climate.

0:57.0

Yes.

0:58.0

So that is a bit different where my pots are growing something no matter what but that's it I mean that's all

1:05.2

they're just growing whatever they they were growing like a little bit of lettuce

1:08.3

or some some onions or what have you, I'm always talking decorative things

1:13.6

into even my edible garden.

1:15.3

So I'm in a more temperate climate because I'm in Vancouver.

1:19.6

And I know lots of people are getting a little bit. This is the question I'm getting the most

1:24.0

from people right now is how do I keep the garden therapy going when it's winter? So

1:29.5

there's a lot of people who already have snow on the ground. There's you know, you know, we don't in Vancouver, and we won't get too much snow,

1:37.4

but I still like to decorate for the holidays.

1:40.0

And so when I, it was actually interesting because I was in Austin, Texas a couple of weeks ago and I saw that there was a lot of holiday decorations coming up already and they were very different because people were decorating the succulents and the cactus for the holidays, which I've never seen anything like that before, but I thought it was pretty cool.

1:58.0

But here, you know, you're cleaning up the garden and picking off some things maybe a couple of

2:04.7

branches or cleaning up some of the shape of different of the different plants to

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