How to Create Your Own ‘Garden Wonderland’

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🗓️ 19 April 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Have you ever walked by a lush, green space filled with pollinators and thought, “How can I create one of those?” Your answer might be found in the new book, “Garden Wonderland,” by Bay Area landscape and garden expert Leslie Bennett and her co-author Julie Chai. Their new book offers advice on how to create landscapes that include flowers, fruits and vegetables, healing plants, and gathering spaces that honor a gardener’s personal culture. In time for spring, we talk to Bennet and Chai as well as nursery owner Flora Grubb about your garden wonderlands. Guests: Flora Grubb, co-owner, Flora Grubb Gardens in San Francisco and Los Angeles, and Grubb and Nadler Nurseries Leslie Bennett, owner and creative director, Pine House Edible Gardens; co-author, "Garden Wonderland: Create Life-Changing Outdoor Spaces for Beauty, Harvest, Meaning and Joy" Julie Chai, co-author, "Garden Wonderland: Create Life-Changing Outdoor Spaces for Beauty, Harvest, Meaning and Joy" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.9	From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal.
1:16.2	Have you ever walked by an urban garden that seems to pulsate with life?
1:20.3	Plants and pollinators sharing space perfectly with the humans who tend them?
1:24.6	To no surprise that this kind of space does not just happen, at least not
1:28.4	season after season. It takes planning. And a new book by Bay Area Landscape and Garden expert Leslie
1:34.7	Bennett and her co-author Julie Chai could just help you figure out how to honor our climate
1:40.0	and your own personal culture. Join us this morning to talk with Bennett and Chai,
1:46.3	along with nursery owner Flora Grub,
1:48.8	about building your own Garden Wonderland.
1:51.4	That's all coming up next, right after this news. Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. I find the Bay Area such a fascinating horticultural space.
2:10.1	People will spend like $2 million on a home, and all the land surrounding it will be filled with a few junkie plants from the Home Depot down the road.
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