Plants Always Win Podcast
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The podcast where we explore the wide world of horticulture, bust some myths, and answer your plant and garden questions. https://www.plantsalwayswin.com/
"When Tutankhamun’s tomb was opened, traces of lavender were found and its scent could still be detected." This statement is ALL OVER the internet. And it's false. But, surprisingly, it was used in some fifteenth and sixteenth century mummifications...Learn more: plantsalwayswin.com/2026/02/09/e...
February 16, 2026 at 3:58 PM
"When Tutankhamun’s tomb was opened, traces of lavender were found and its scent could still be detected." This statement is ALL OVER the internet. And it's false. But, surprisingly, it was used in some fifteenth and sixteenth century mummifications...Learn more: plantsalwayswin.com/2026/02/09/e...
Harsh winter got you down, gardeners? Well, if you want to grow rosemary or lavender from seed this year, it's already time to get started. Learn all about it on this week's Plant Face-Off! plantsalwayswin.com/2026/02/09/e... #gardensky 🌱 #herbgarden #gardening #rosemary #lavender
Ep. 43. Rosemary vs. Lavender
In this versus episode, we compete to make you fall in love with two of the nicest-smelling and slowest-growing plants in the garden: rosemary (Salvia rosemarinus) and lavender (specifically Lavand…
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February 10, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Harsh winter got you down, gardeners? Well, if you want to grow rosemary or lavender from seed this year, it's already time to get started. Learn all about it on this week's Plant Face-Off! plantsalwayswin.com/2026/02/09/e... #gardensky 🌱 #herbgarden #gardening #rosemary #lavender
New resource for Ontario garden lovers! We've added a calendar of Ontario gardening events to the podcast website. If you or your organization have an event you'd like to add, please let us know! plantsalwayswin.com/events/ #gardensky 🌱 #ontario
Garden Events Around Ontario
Does your organization have an upcoming garden-related event you’d like to see added to our calendar? Email us with the details and a link to your event page!
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February 2, 2026 at 8:59 PM
New resource for Ontario garden lovers! We've added a calendar of Ontario gardening events to the podcast website. If you or your organization have an event you'd like to add, please let us know! plantsalwayswin.com/events/ #gardensky 🌱 #ontario
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Narcissus vs. Daffodil: What's the Difference? I’m quoted in this MarthaStewartLiving article all about daffodils. Cannot wait for mine to be in bloom this spring!
Is a Daffodil a Narcissus? Here’s the Real Difference, According to Experts
Is a daffodil the same as a narcissus? Experts explain the real difference, how the names are used, and what gardeners should know before planting.
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February 1, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Narcissus vs. Daffodil: What's the Difference? I’m quoted in this MarthaStewartLiving article all about daffodils. Cannot wait for mine to be in bloom this spring!
Ontario's podcast for inquisitive home gardeners is now on YouTube!
Podcasting in rural Ontario brings a number of challenges, most of them related to the internet. High-quality video hasn't been in the cards for us...but we're determined to make it work! #gardensky 🌱
youtu.be/rQtN3z0fm7s
Podcasting in rural Ontario brings a number of challenges, most of them related to the internet. High-quality video hasn't been in the cards for us...but we're determined to make it work! #gardensky 🌱
youtu.be/rQtN3z0fm7s
Stop Selling Invasive Plants (And Other Gardening Rants You’ll Agree With)
YouTube video by PlantsAlwaysWin
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February 2, 2026 at 7:54 PM
Ontario's podcast for inquisitive home gardeners is now on YouTube!
Podcasting in rural Ontario brings a number of challenges, most of them related to the internet. High-quality video hasn't been in the cards for us...but we're determined to make it work! #gardensky 🌱
youtu.be/rQtN3z0fm7s
Podcasting in rural Ontario brings a number of challenges, most of them related to the internet. High-quality video hasn't been in the cards for us...but we're determined to make it work! #gardensky 🌱
youtu.be/rQtN3z0fm7s
The 2026 growing season is waving tantalizingly on the far horizon, & we’d like to help you prepare for a disaster-free garden. To do that, we’re sharing a few key landscape design principles…along with a whole heap of stories about landscape design fails. plantsalwayswin.com/2026/01/20/e...
Ep. 42 Landscape Design Fails
As the 2026 growing season waves tantalizingly on the far horizon, we’d like to help you prepare for a disaster-free garden. To do that, we’re sharing a few key landscape design principles…along wi…
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January 22, 2026 at 12:05 AM
The 2026 growing season is waving tantalizingly on the far horizon, & we’d like to help you prepare for a disaster-free garden. To do that, we’re sharing a few key landscape design principles…along with a whole heap of stories about landscape design fails. plantsalwayswin.com/2026/01/20/e...
Ever wished for a Mushroom Auntie to help guide your foraging steps? @chaoticforager.bsky.social fulfills that role online...and in her new book, Gathered: On Foraging, Feasting, and the Seasonal Life. She's this week's podcast guest: plantsalwayswin.com/2025/12/19/e...
Ep. 41 Thoughtful Foraging with Gabrielle Cerberville
If you’re looking to build a relationship with the land that feeds you, you can start by embracing the wisdom of the Internet’s Mushroom Auntie, Gabrielle Cerberville. She joins Erin and Sean to di…
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December 22, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Ever wished for a Mushroom Auntie to help guide your foraging steps? @chaoticforager.bsky.social fulfills that role online...and in her new book, Gathered: On Foraging, Feasting, and the Seasonal Life. She's this week's podcast guest: plantsalwayswin.com/2025/12/19/e...
Feeding humanity doesn’t need to come at the Earth’s expense. This week Erin interviews Elspeth Hay about nut trees, ecosystems, and humans as keystone species...and how it all comes together in Elspeth's new book, Feed Us with Trees. plantsalwayswin.com/2025/12/02/e... #agroforestry #permaculture
December 5, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Feeding humanity doesn’t need to come at the Earth’s expense. This week Erin interviews Elspeth Hay about nut trees, ecosystems, and humans as keystone species...and how it all comes together in Elspeth's new book, Feed Us with Trees. plantsalwayswin.com/2025/12/02/e... #agroforestry #permaculture
Kids ask the darndest things! Actually, they ask the coolest things. For this week's episode we got questions from a class of elementary-school kids who wanted to know the whys and wherefores of why plants are the way they are. It's a delight! plantsalwayswin.com/2025/11/25/e... #gardensky
Ep. 39 Plant Evolution: Kid Q&A
For this episode, a class of elementary-school students prepared a list of questions about plants for Sean and Erin to answer. How did plants come to be the way they are? Why did they evolve to hav…
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November 26, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Kids ask the darndest things! Actually, they ask the coolest things. For this week's episode we got questions from a class of elementary-school kids who wanted to know the whys and wherefores of why plants are the way they are. It's a delight! plantsalwayswin.com/2025/11/25/e... #gardensky
Our Halloween analysis of Little Shop of Horrors is inching its way out to podcast platforms now...but if you've ever thought about becoming a patron, it's a good day to make the move! Our patrons got a slightly early, slightly extended cut this week. www.patreon.com/posts/early-...
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October 31, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Our Halloween analysis of Little Shop of Horrors is inching its way out to podcast platforms now...but if you've ever thought about becoming a patron, it's a good day to make the move! Our patrons got a slightly early, slightly extended cut this week. www.patreon.com/posts/early-...
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ClearWater Farm runs one of the coolest apprenticeship programs I know. Their "agripreneurs" learn skills in regenerative agriculture and experiment in a safe environment, driving innovation. ClearWater has been nominated for an ECO Impact 2026 award. Learn more & vote: ecoimpact.ca/conference/f...
Award Finalists | ECO IMPACT 2026 - Learning Series & Awards Gala
ECO IMPACT 2026 is proud to recognize the individuals, teams, and organizations driving meaningful change in Canada’s environmental sector. Our Award Finalists exemplify leadership, innovation, and a ...
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October 14, 2025 at 1:36 PM
ClearWater Farm runs one of the coolest apprenticeship programs I know. Their "agripreneurs" learn skills in regenerative agriculture and experiment in a safe environment, driving innovation. ClearWater has been nominated for an ECO Impact 2026 award. Learn more & vote: ecoimpact.ca/conference/f...
As you may have heard in this week's episode, Wait Like a Seed by our co-host Erin Alladin has been nominated for a people's choice Horti Award for best gardening book! Want to support a picture book about monarchs & milkweed? Cast your vote here: vote.gardencomm.org/2025-horti-a... #gardensky
October 3, 2025 at 8:27 PM
As you may have heard in this week's episode, Wait Like a Seed by our co-host Erin Alladin has been nominated for a people's choice Horti Award for best gardening book! Want to support a picture book about monarchs & milkweed? Cast your vote here: vote.gardencomm.org/2025-horti-a... #gardensky
If you are feeling frustrated and anxious and helpless about the need for stronger communities...if you have ever craved a community garden but didn't think you could make it happen...if you simply want to lift your spirits with a good-news gardening story, this is episode is for you. #gardensky
October 2, 2025 at 1:49 PM
If you are feeling frustrated and anxious and helpless about the need for stronger communities...if you have ever craved a community garden but didn't think you could make it happen...if you simply want to lift your spirits with a good-news gardening story, this is episode is for you. #gardensky
Biologist Dr. Dana Green wanted to bring her work home with her and play a bat character in #D&D. Luckily, someone else had created a homebrew bat species. Isn't her character cute? Listen to Dana's interview here: www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis... #bats #gardensky #dungeonsanddragons
September 26, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Biologist Dr. Dana Green wanted to bring her work home with her and play a bat character in #D&D. Luckily, someone else had created a homebrew bat species. Isn't her character cute? Listen to Dana's interview here: www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis... #bats #gardensky #dungeonsanddragons
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I'm up for a Horti Award! If you'd like to support Wait Like a Seed as a People's Choice gardening book of 2025, cast your vote at vote.gardencomm.org/2025-horti-a... #GardenCommUnity #HortiAwards @transatlanticagcy.bsky.social @pajamapress.bsky.social
September 23, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I'm up for a Horti Award! If you'd like to support Wait Like a Seed as a People's Choice gardening book of 2025, cast your vote at vote.gardencomm.org/2025-horti-a... #GardenCommUnity #HortiAwards @transatlanticagcy.bsky.social @pajamapress.bsky.social
The following is a thread of bat facts pulled from our two-part interview with Dr. Dana Green, a.k.a. The Eyepatch Biologist. It is by no means complete. If you love cute sky puppies and ugly echolocating microchiroptera, these episodes are for you. #bats www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis...
September 23, 2025 at 9:37 PM
The following is a thread of bat facts pulled from our two-part interview with Dr. Dana Green, a.k.a. The Eyepatch Biologist. It is by no means complete. If you love cute sky puppies and ugly echolocating microchiroptera, these episodes are for you. #bats www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis...
This week we're in a flap about bats! Do they really eat a thousand mosquitoes an hour? Was Hank Green's viral video about scientists not knowing where they go in winter correct? Dr. Dana Green, The Eye patch Biologist, answers all that and more. #bats www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis...
September 16, 2025 at 12:51 PM
This week we're in a flap about bats! Do they really eat a thousand mosquitoes an hour? Was Hank Green's viral video about scientists not knowing where they go in winter correct? Dr. Dana Green, The Eye patch Biologist, answers all that and more. #bats www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis...
Our favourite thing to do on Plants Always Win is answer listener gardening questions. In Episode 33 we have a bushel of apple tree questions (grafts? root flares? root stocks?); we also cover horsetail and bindweed management and how to fertilize flowers 🌱 www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis...
September 16, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Our favourite thing to do on Plants Always Win is answer listener gardening questions. In Episode 33 we have a bushel of apple tree questions (grafts? root flares? root stocks?); we also cover horsetail and bindweed management and how to fertilize flowers 🌱 www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis...
You have garden questions and we have answers! Our listeners asked about planting fruit trees, about managing horsetail and bindweed, and about fertilizing flowers without discouraging blooms. We cover all that and more in this week's Q&A special #gardensky 🌱 www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis...
September 9, 2025 at 10:56 PM
You have garden questions and we have answers! Our listeners asked about planting fruit trees, about managing horsetail and bindweed, and about fertilizing flowers without discouraging blooms. We cover all that and more in this week's Q&A special #gardensky 🌱 www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis...
What are the top myths you hear about compost? Delaina Arnold helps us bust some of them in this week's episode: www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis...
September 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
What are the top myths you hear about compost? Delaina Arnold helps us bust some of them in this week's episode: www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis...
There are so many good reasons to compost at home! You're building your own soil (with no transportation costs, fuel requirements, or risk of herbicide contamination). You're putting carbon in the ground. And you're NOT putting methane in the air. Learn more: www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis...
September 5, 2025 at 4:26 PM
There are so many good reasons to compost at home! You're building your own soil (with no transportation costs, fuel requirements, or risk of herbicide contamination). You're putting carbon in the ground. And you're NOT putting methane in the air. Learn more: www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis...
Everything you ever wanted to know about home composting! (And if the interview doesn't deliver on that promise, send us your questions and we'll answer them in a future episode ☝️). www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis... #gardensky 🌱 #compost #soilbuilding
September 3, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Everything you ever wanted to know about home composting! (And if the interview doesn't deliver on that promise, send us your questions and we'll answer them in a future episode ☝️). www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis... #gardensky 🌱 #compost #soilbuilding
Do you make your own compost? Do you delight in the experience? If your answer to either question is no, this week's guest is here to help. Listen to Ep. 32: Home Composting with Delaina Arnold of the Georgian Bay Mnidoo Gamii Biosphere #gardensky #compost 🌱 www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis...
September 2, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Do you make your own compost? Do you delight in the experience? If your answer to either question is no, this week's guest is here to help. Listen to Ep. 32: Home Composting with Delaina Arnold of the Georgian Bay Mnidoo Gamii Biosphere #gardensky #compost 🌱 www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis...
Is your garden FUN? Does it being you delight? After our interview with @chrispaulrainbows.com we are delighted to share some of their whimsical garden spaces, including a raised bed decorated as Mr. Dressup's Tickle Trunk. Hear the story here: www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis... #gardensky 🌱
September 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Is your garden FUN? Does it being you delight? After our interview with @chrispaulrainbows.com we are delighted to share some of their whimsical garden spaces, including a raised bed decorated as Mr. Dressup's Tickle Trunk. Hear the story here: www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis... #gardensky 🌱
“I am very enthusiastic about [gardening]. I don't know if I'm that great at it....I can't really answer any of your garden questions, but I love getting my hands dirty.” Get some garden joy from Chris Paul Rainbows' interview! #gardensky 🌱
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August 27, 2025 at 12:56 PM
“I am very enthusiastic about [gardening]. I don't know if I'm that great at it....I can't really answer any of your garden questions, but I love getting my hands dirty.” Get some garden joy from Chris Paul Rainbows' interview! #gardensky 🌱
www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis...
www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis...