Our Assistant Is Obsessed With Flowers

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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On top of being pretty, flowers attract pollinators and wildlife that I love to watch in my yard. Connect With Natalie Renee: Natalie is the Epic Executive Assistant here at Epic Gardening. She is a life-long gardener and urban homesteader. We toured Natalie’s yard back in May, take a peep at where she grows about 30% the food she eats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vcclrd_EczI Instagram Linkedin 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	We slowly here at Epic Gardening have been becoming interested in flowers.
0:19.0	You guys who have listened for a long time know that for a while I didn't really care about
0:22.6	them and then now I'm trying to pepper them in everywhere.
0:25.8	Well, Natalie, who is our Epic Assistant here on the team, you grow a lot of them, Natalie,
0:29.8	and what's interesting is when we went to your grow back garden you have them separated
0:33.8	into warm and cool but not in seasons in colors.
0:37.9	Correct.
0:38.9	I love flowers in the garden and I really like organization.
0:42.8	It's a big surprise that I'm the Assistant here.
0:46.7	So I started putting the different flowers by color every time I would get one and that
0:51.8	kind of grew into like a warm color like reds, pinks, oranges, yellows and a cool color
0:56.6	like the blue or pinks, blue, purple, green and I actually have learned that different
1:03.0	kinds of birds and pests are attracted to the different colors of the flowers.
1:06.7	So like for instance I always see the hummingbirds in the warm color section.
1:09.6	The reds.
1:10.6	They love the reds.
1:11.6	They love the reds.
1:13.5	I see more of like the small insects in my blue color section and yeah it's pretty interesting
1:19.3	to see how that kind of shakes out over time.
1:22.1	Which ones would you say like let's see if we can pick a couple warm colors that you
1:26.6	really like, a couple cool colors that you really like that specifically work well in
1:29.8	those containers.
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