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In this episode, Kathy Cropp talks with Adina Nance of Gro Green Organics.

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Building A Bulb Collection
August 1, 2007 – 12:08 am | No Comment

My husband and I are the curators of a little bulb museum, on our very typical 60-by-120-foot lot in an older neighborhood in Kansas City, Missouri. We live on McGee Street, and we call our museum the Hortus Bulborum McGeeinsis, a name inspired by the Hortus Bulborum in Holland , a living museum of rare bulbs…

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Renee Shepherd
August 1, 2007 – 12:08 am | No Comment

It was soccer that got Renee Shepherd into the seed business. In the mid-1980s, while she was completing a PhD (in the history of consciousness) at University of California, Santa Cruz, she mowed a pasture alongside her house to make a soccer field…

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The Home Grove
June 1, 2007 – 12:06 am | No Comment

My credo is, "if you find a seed, plant it." This goes for common plants as well as plants not usually found in the home. You don’t need an outside space to have a garden-a sunny window in your house will do…

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Darrel Apps, Daylily Breeder
May 1, 2007 – 12:05 am | No Comment

It was about 1968 when Darrel Apps realized that daylilies were changing in a major way, and he quickly decided that he wanted to be a part of it. With his newly minted Ph.D. from …

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A Rare Plantsman: Panayoti Kelaidis
May 1, 2007 – 12:05 am | No Comment

Teacher, explorer, and collector Panayoti Kelaidis has transformed the horticulture of the American West
BY LAUREN SPRINGER
Last year I paid a visit to Sarastro, a superb perennial nursery in Ort, an Austrian village near the German …

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Dutch Designer
May 1, 2007 – 12:05 am | No Comment

Dutchman Piet Oudolf is very much part of a movement, a tendency in garden and landscape design that seeks to bring the wild and the natural back into the human habitat.

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A GARDENING LIFE: Polly Hill
May 1, 2007 – 12:05 am | No Comment

The fable of great gardeners is that they swallow a nasturtium seed during their first exploration of the backyard and are instantly and forever transformed into hortaholics. In Polly Hill’s case, the seed took far longer to germinate.

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A GARDENING LIFE: Neil Diboll
May 1, 2007 – 12:05 am | No Comment

A prairie ecologist and nurseryman, Neil Diboll has worked ceaselessly to raise awareness about prairie plants and ecosystems and to further the cause of prairie restoration.

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Remembering Christopher Lloyd
May 1, 2007 – 12:05 am | No Comment

Among the plants and ideas he championed in Horticulture were a number that have since become staples of the gardening scene: cannas and dahlias, hot colors, see-through plants (like Verbena bonariensis), bold foliage, and of course, the mixed border, the everything-goes style that he epitomized.

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