From away to garden.com and Robinhood Radio.com, this is Away to Garden with Margaret

Roach.

You're a weekly invitation to dig in and grow.

One of the tallest perennials in my garden is New York Ironweed, Vernonia Nova Borosensis,

but basically my knowledge of the genus starts and ends there.

Or at least it did until just recently, when Mount Cuba Center, the renowned native plant

garden and research institution, published the results of its four-year trial of a range

of iron weeds, powerful plants that pollinators love, and deer generally don't.

So more in a moment, but first, these messages.

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Sam Houdley, the manager of horticultural research at Mt. Cuba Center in Delaware, returns

to the program today to talk about what he and the team they are learned in their multi-year

trial of the plants called iron weeds, native perennials in the genus Vernonia. I also

look forward to visits from Sam and to the in-depth reports that result from each genus of plants that Mt. Cuba studies, including the slightest one. So hello, Sam, how are you?

I'm great, Margaret. Thanks for having me back on the show.

How is the winter down there in the mid-Atlantic?

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