Matching Plants to Place
The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers
Epic Gardening
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2020
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Plant placement is a huge element of your garden’s success. Learn how to select the right plants for the right place in your garden with our guest, Daryl Beyers.
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| 0:00.0 | What's going on everyone? |
| 0:02.0 | What's going on everyone? |
| 0:04.0 | What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening |
| 0:16.1 | podcast. My name is Kevin and I am joined again by Darrell Byers, the author of the |
| 0:21.9 | upcoming book The New Gardner's Handbook, and he's also |
| 0:24.7 | a garden instructor at the New York Botanical Garden. |
| 0:27.7 | So over the course of the first couple of episodes of this week, we've really been laying |
| 0:31.6 | out some of the fundamental blocks of knowledge as far as getting |
| 0:36.0 | your garden started this year so if you're a new gardener or you only have a couple years under your belt |
| 0:40.4 | I think this is a great primer week and this episode in particular I think will be very |
| 0:44.9 | insightful because I know Darrell I've made this mistake before where you know I just |
| 0:50.0 | try to force something that I shouldn't I shouldn't have I should have considered you know how the plant |
| 0:54.1 | grows and and respected it from that regard and so the title of this one is matching plants to place and |
| 1:00.1 | so can we kind of just give a little bit of a primer on that? |
| 1:02.8 | Yeah, the basic idea is it's the right plant, right place concept, |
| 1:09.5 | which people may have heard that kind of thing before. |
| 1:12.4 | There's plenty of magazine articles entitled that. |
| 1:15.2 | There's, I think there's even a book called Right Plant Right Place. |
| 1:17.7 | And it's basically, it relates a little bit |
| 1:21.0 | to the idea of something that's more and more popular now and really wasn't just even 20 years ago or 15 years ago when I first started teaching gardening. |
| 1:31.0 | The idea of sustainable gardening, |
| 1:35.0 | in the idea of sustainable gardening, |
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