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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

How Botanic Gardens Keep Plants Safe for Everyone

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes plants are so rare that someone takes it upon themselves to steal - even a little cutting. Ari shares a story from the greenhouse, where a rare cutting was lifted. Connect With Ari Novy: Ari Novy is the President and CEO of the San Diego Botanic Garden. San Diego Botanic Garden 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 Discord Server   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome back everyone to the epic gardening podcast.

0:17.0

You know when you go to a botanic garden you think okay I get awesome I get to see some

0:20.8

plants I may have never seen I get to learn things that I didn't know but also botanic

0:26.5

gardens keep plants safe in a way that you know you may not be super aware of.

0:31.9

So we have Ari Novi back in the show president CEO of San Diego Botanic Garden and you know

0:36.3

when I was up there Ari at the house plants exhibit I saw an extremely rare plant that's

0:41.3

even well known amongst you know people like myself and in the house plant world the

0:46.0

spirit of Sancti which is cool for me because my last name is a spirit too.

0:51.0

So I feel like at some point I need this plant I don't know if I'm ever going to be able

0:54.3

to get it but that's a story for another time and you guys had an interesting incident

0:58.5

happen with that plant right?

1:00.3

Yeah unfortunately we did have a theft of a piece of that plant and this is a Philodendron

1:05.7

Philodendron spirit of Sancti and it's from Brazil and it's you know very highly endangered

1:10.3

and you know only known to now you know be in one town in one small area and it's an

1:16.7

epiphetic plant that lives on trees way up in the canopy of the forest and it's you know

1:23.4

for some reason has become a real prized you know plant for the you know the kind of specialists

1:29.8

you know house plant community and unfortunately you know a few years ago somebody managed

1:36.4

to get into the Botanic Garden and sneak in and basically cut off a pretty serious piece

1:43.4

of this plant.

1:45.6

We worked with law enforcement we were never able to find enough evidence to you know

1:49.9

really go after somebody that we found some circumstantial evidence but it really highlights

1:54.8

this issue that some plants are valuable enough to collectors that really unsavory and

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