Plant Friend, I'm so excited to bring you this Best of Growing Joy series way back, throwback episode to 2020.

In the pandemic, Plant Friends, I let my plant nerd freak flag fly extremely high.

New York Botanical Garden had only exclusively in person classes at the Botanical Garden in the Bronx.

And in the pandemic, they brought those classes online.

I took every class they had to offer.

I took soil science, plant science 101, and also this class on tree communication with a professor

that I really loved.

Her name is Dr. L. Barnes.

And she gave this really fascinating class on the secret world of plant

communication, particularly trees. So this is the replay of the episode that I did with her after taking

her course because I was so fascinated. I just found her entire course so incredible and awe-inspiring

that I wanted to bring at least a little sliver of the

course to our community. And so once again, a couple years later, I wanted to bring it back

in case you might have missed this way, way, way down the feed. In this conversation,

Dr. Barnes and I explore the wild world of the wood wide web and how plants use fungi and VOCs, volatile organic compounds to

communicate with each other. It's going to blow your mind. You're never going to look at

trees the same. So buckle up. Welcome to the Growing Joy with Plants podcast, where we not only learn how to care for plants

successfully, but how to simply and affordably use our plant babies to cultivate more joy in

our lives by doing so. I'm Maria, former plant killer turned happy plant lady, author of Growing

Joy, The Plant Lover's Guide to Cultivating Happiness, Speaker, Podcaster, and most importantly, your new best plant friend. On Growing Joy, The Plant Lover's Guide to Cultivating Happiness, speaker, podcaster,

and most importantly, your new best plant friend.

On Growing Joy with Plants, you'll find conversations about house plant care, gardening tutorials,

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