How to Plant Healthy Sweet Pea Plants

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Marion Whitehead joins us to share how to grow her favorite plant, sweet peas. Connect With Marion Whitehead: Marion Whitehead is the Supervisor of Ornamental Gardens at the Blue Mountains Botanic Garden in Mount Tomah, Australia. She has an extensive background in cool climate plant species, with a specific interest in ephemeral and heathland plants. Blue Mountains 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 to the Epic Gardening podcast everyone.
0:15.9	Today I have a really exciting guest to bring to you.
0:20.3	It's been a little bit of a challenge to get Marion Whitehead on the podcast.
0:25.2	She's out in Australia in the Blue Mountains Botanic Garden in Mount Toma, Australia.
0:30.3	She's a supervisor of ornamental gardens there and Marion, I think it might make sense
0:35.0	to start off with just a little bit of history on, you know, where are you in the world
0:39.3	for those who don't have a familiarity with Australia and its geography and what's going
0:44.8	on at Blue Mountains?
0:46.4	So we are very far away from anywhere being in Australia and then the Blue Mountains is
0:53.6	sort of on the periphery of the Sydney Basin.
0:56.9	So they're called mountains but not really mountains that you'd know of in any other country.
1:02.1	It's more of sort of a big escarpment, we're about a thousand metres above sea level and
1:08.1	about an hour and a half outside of Sydney.
1:11.6	So the Blue Mountains Botanic Gardens that I work out is one of the only Botanic Gardens
1:16.7	in the world that sits within a World Heritage Wilderness.
1:20.0	So our garden is located in the middle of the Blue Mountains National Park which is an
1:24.6	incredibly pristine wilderness outside of Sydney.
1:28.5	Amazing, amazing.
1:29.5	I'll say this, I do have plans to visit Australia.
1:33.2	I think Brisbane, but you know, I might have to make my way down there so it would be really
1:39.4	cool to see that.
1:41.4	But I know we're not talking about that at least right now today.
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