Welcome back to the epic gardening podcast, everyone. Kevin is spiritu here. I'm joined

by Ariana Iapini. She's an edible garden designer and consultant, founder of the Birch

Arbor Gardens. I recommend you follow her on Instagram and all of her other platforms,

which will be in the podcast description. So, Ariana, yesterday we kind of had a bit of

an overview of how you've grown up gardening, the gardens that you're working in now, the

zone you're growing in, and now we're talking about edible landscaping, which is kind

of a different twist on a garden, because it doesn't necessarily have to exist in just

a standard raised bed or in ground bed, right? Right, absolutely. So, are there some things

that you've done that you think, at least in your climate, maybe we can expand it out

to other climates, just make sense for edible landscaping? Yeah, you know, it's really

interesting. I recently found out that the burning bush in Massachusetts has been

on the list of kind of invasive plants, and I like to think about how can we kind of

transform what landscape? I just think of the burning bush specifically, because we

had one at our first property, our first home that we owned, and you know, it gets these

really beautiful, this beautiful red foliage in the fall that just adds that pop of color.

And I like thinking about ways you can use edible plants to kind of function in that same

way. So, blueberry isn't a really good example of that. And thinking about ways that we

can just transform the landscape using edible plants. So, you know, there are so many

opportunities to use berries as lining a pathway or fence or a foundation planting against

a home, or you could consider an espeliate. We just installed to espeliate apple trees here

along our fence line. And I thought that was a really cool opportunity to utilize a

flat vertical space and still get fridding trees. And they look so absolutely stunning.

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