Plants Always Win Podcast
@plantsalwayswin.com
The podcast where we explore the wide world of horticulture, bust some myths, and answer your plant and garden questions. https://www.plantsalwayswin.com/
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
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...
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This week we are thrilled to bring you an interview with speaker, storyteller, human ray of sunshine, and exuberant home gardener @chrispaulrainbows.com. If you need a reminder that gardening can be play, tune in on your podcast player of choice. www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis... #gardensky 🌱
August 26, 2025 at 8:26 PM
This week we are thrilled to bring you an interview with speaker, storyteller, human ray of sunshine, and exuberant home gardener @chrispaulrainbows.com. If you need a reminder that gardening can be play, tune in on your podcast player of choice. www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis... #gardensky 🌱
If you haven't encountered Chris Paul Rainbows' garden homage to 80s and 90s children's television, you're missing out. Listen to the interview for an injection of sheer inner-child delight, chicken-based audacity, and pumpkin-patch sincerity. www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis... #gardensky 🌱
August 26, 2025 at 5:20 PM
If you haven't encountered Chris Paul Rainbows' garden homage to 80s and 90s children's television, you're missing out. Listen to the interview for an injection of sheer inner-child delight, chicken-based audacity, and pumpkin-patch sincerity. www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis... #gardensky 🌱
My little soda pop!🎵 Ever wondered about the origins of soda flavours like root beer and cola? The root in root beer is North America's Sassafras albidum. Cola comes from the nut of West Africa's cola tree. But which is the most interesting? Listen and decide! www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis...
August 12, 2025 at 12:34 PM
My little soda pop!🎵 Ever wondered about the origins of soda flavours like root beer and cola? The root in root beer is North America's Sassafras albidum. Cola comes from the nut of West Africa's cola tree. But which is the most interesting? Listen and decide! www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis...
"The Environment is the economy and the economy is the environment." That mindset is part of what Lauren Saville emphasizes in her role as Community Climate Initiative Coordinator in Muskoka, Ontario. And it's making a difference. #climateaction #muskoka www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis...
July 18, 2025 at 8:38 PM
"The Environment is the economy and the economy is the environment." That mindset is part of what Lauren Saville emphasizes in her role as Community Climate Initiative Coordinator in Muskoka, Ontario. And it's making a difference. #climateaction #muskoka www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis...
What does it look like when a regional government puts their resources behind their climate policy? It looks like Lauren Saville, the District of Muskoka's Community Climate Initiative Coordinator, and her colleagues. #climateaction #ontario www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis...
July 17, 2025 at 2:32 PM
What does it look like when a regional government puts their resources behind their climate policy? It looks like Lauren Saville, the District of Muskoka's Community Climate Initiative Coordinator, and her colleagues. #climateaction #ontario www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis...
And, finally, Winter Sowing Native Plants with Amanda Jewell, a Canadian home gardener who wanted to create inner-city critter habitat and discovered a talent for germinating hundreds of native plants. #canadaday #canada #gardensky 🌱 www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis...
July 1, 2025 at 11:10 AM
And, finally, Winter Sowing Native Plants with Amanda Jewell, a Canadian home gardener who wanted to create inner-city critter habitat and discovered a talent for germinating hundreds of native plants. #canadaday #canada #gardensky 🌱 www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis...
Garden Classrooms with Lauren MacLean, in which BC teacher Lauren talks about learning to "read" the garden alongside her young students, and about how she uses the garden classroom to teach everything from science to math to social studies & art. #gardensky 🌱 www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis...
July 1, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Garden Classrooms with Lauren MacLean, in which BC teacher Lauren talks about learning to "read" the garden alongside her young students, and about how she uses the garden classroom to teach everything from science to math to social studies & art. #gardensky 🌱 www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis...
Garden Education with the CBC's garden correspondent Paul Zammit, in which Paul and Sean talk about garden myths, including the myth of the "garden expert" (we never stop learning!), and how garden communication is changing in today's world. #gardensky #canada www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis...
July 1, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Garden Education with the CBC's garden correspondent Paul Zammit, in which Paul and Sean talk about garden myths, including the myth of the "garden expert" (we never stop learning!), and how garden communication is changing in today's world. #gardensky #canada www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis...
If you enjoyed Ep 28: Cultivation Activism with Lorraine Johnson, you'll love her book on growing native-plant gardens for pollinators (see images for titles in Canada and the US). I learned how buzz pollination really works & met SO many great plants. 🌱 www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis...
June 30, 2025 at 12:11 PM
If you enjoyed Ep 28: Cultivation Activism with Lorraine Johnson, you'll love her book on growing native-plant gardens for pollinators (see images for titles in Canada and the US). I learned how buzz pollination really works & met SO many great plants. 🌱 www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis...
Grass and weed bylaws! Their outdated regulations and vague language are a threat to pollinator gardens in cities everywhere. What to do about them? Lorraine Johnson shares excellent resources in Ep 28, and we've compiled them in the show notes: www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis... #gardnesky
June 27, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Grass and weed bylaws! Their outdated regulations and vague language are a threat to pollinator gardens in cities everywhere. What to do about them? Lorraine Johnson shares excellent resources in Ep 28, and we've compiled them in the show notes: www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis... #gardnesky
In Episode 28 Lorraine Johnson gave us a gentle, warmhearted pep talk on the value of gardening to the world. Want to feel better about what you're doing, or to feel re-energized about what you can do? Listen to Lorraine's words of wisdom. #gardensky 🌱 www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis...
June 27, 2025 at 1:27 PM
In Episode 28 Lorraine Johnson gave us a gentle, warmhearted pep talk on the value of gardening to the world. Want to feel better about what you're doing, or to feel re-energized about what you can do? Listen to Lorraine's words of wisdom. #gardensky 🌱 www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis...
We had the honour of interviewing Lorraine Johnson, an influential author and advocate of many decades for native-plant gardens. We talked about being a "cultivation activist", the joy vs. burden of growing habitat, native groundcovers & fighting bad bylaws 🌱
www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis...
www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis...
June 25, 2025 at 12:48 PM
We had the honour of interviewing Lorraine Johnson, an influential author and advocate of many decades for native-plant gardens. We talked about being a "cultivation activist", the joy vs. burden of growing habitat, native groundcovers & fighting bad bylaws 🌱
www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis...
www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis...