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First Aired - 05/09/2010 03:30PM
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This week on We Dig Plants, Pearl Fryar, master of topiary and gardener of a three-acre garden in Bishopville, South Carolina.
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We Dig Plants Introduction: Pearl Fryar (14:08)
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We Dig Plants, Carmen DeVito, Alice Marcus Krieg, Heritage Radio Network, Groundworks Inc, Hearst Ranch, Bishopsville South Carolina, A Man Named Pearl, topiary garden, we have the power to shape our world into what we want and desire it to be, topiarus is Latin for landscape gardener, topiary gardening, ancient form of clipping and shaping geometric patterns, Edward Scissorhands, Bonsai, monks kept the style and practice alive in Europe, Victorians adopted the process, they can come in many shapes, partair, hedges, potted topiaries, topiary, traditional made by hand, symbol of wealth, mazes, labyrinths, build to encourage spiritual mediation, Pearl Fryar, he didn't know anything about plants when he started, he wanted to win yard of the month, Pearl only had one lesson, www.pearlfryar.com, it's like sculpting,Hard Work Always Pays Off (14:56)
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oak, making a plant square from a round shape, success is determined by work, it's gotta come from love, if you're gifted it will show, finding resources within yourself, Pearl has a 3 acre garden, Pearl won yard of the month finally, he has influenced many others, he teaches art classes, he teaches students to draw from their strengths, sometimes it takes a long time to realize talent, what have plants taught Pearl?, he looks at the garden as a form of expression, why do athletes get scholarships to develop talent and others don't?, Pearl enjoys home gardens, he is a junk artist, The Garden Conservancy,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 02/14/2010 03:30PM
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Author Amy Stewart is the guest on a special Valentine's Day themed episode of We Dig Plants
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We Dig Plants Introduction: Valentine's Day (15:21)
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We Dig Plants, Whole Foods Market, Groundworks Inc., Heritage Radio Network, Carmen Devito, Alice Marcus Krieg, www.groundworksgarden.com, Valentine's Day, florists, panic and desperation in gift giving, roses, Amy Stewart, Flower Confidential: The Good The Bad & The Beautiful, Wicked Plants: The Weed that Killed Lincoln's Mother & Other Botanical Atrocities, Organic Gardening, San Francisco Chronicle, Valentine's day is the busiest day a flower shop will face all year, holiday flower sales, one third of all American adults will buy flowers or a plant on Valentine's Day, half of these buyers want red roses, Latin America sources many flowers, Ecuador, Columbia, 80% of imports go through Miami, some passanger aircrafts hold flowers, some grocery stores buy flowers directly,Plants & Flowers on Valentine's Day (15:34)
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the grower gets 1/10th of what the customer pays for the flower, flower prices, $1 a stem, how can we get flowers cheaply, rose plants are pruned, smaller flowers on shorter stems, economics, greenhouses, potted plants on valentines day, they are very much a local business, you cannot ship soil across our border because of the possibility of disease, the Dutch own the flower industry worldwide, flower auction, the European market is thought to be more sophisticated, is the world ready for a blue rose, cocaine,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 01/10/2010 03:30PM
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On the debut episode of We Dig Plats, Carmen Devito & Alice Marcus Krieg introduce themselves and give brief histories of the thistle & the fig.
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We Dig Plants Introduction (10:40)
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Carmen Devito, Alice Marcus Krie, We Dig Plants, Heritage Radio Network, Roberta's, Hearst Ranch, gardening, http://www.groundworksgardens.com, Groundworks Inc., horticulture, The New York Botanical Garden, art history, Piet Oudolf, The Large Meadow, Italian heritage, Brooklyn gardening, Merchant Ivory Productions,The Story Of The Fig (10:11)
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fig, exotic, strangely wrapped sculptures, plastic, fig trees, mulberry, ficus, injecting eggs into the flowers, wasps feed on developing fruit, pollination, the fig tree easily reproduces from cuttings, Romulus and Remus, Garden Of Eden, Buddhism, the fig tree comes from western Asia, Mesopotamia, Athens, how did the Fig end up in the New World, market protection, each family in Cuba was allowed one fig tree, New York City area is in zone 7, you can take a cutting of a friends fig tree, you can have fruit in two years, they don't keep long in the refrigerator,The Story Of The Thistle (10:10)
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thistle, cultivation, Scotland, vikings, Butterfly & Thistle, the thistle is misunderstood, the search of honey amidst thorns, it protects itself yet offers nourishment and sweetness, the thistle is stereotyped, the stems grow two feet high, long and narrow leaves, irregular teeth, yellow white or pinkish purple flowers, the entire plant is covered with a thing soft silky down, the thistle was first found in Europe and in Asia, biblical connotations, thorny nastiness found where good soil exists, the thistle was Gods wrath to Adam for eating the apple, weed control, you cannot control the thistle, http://www.supercompuglobal.com/, theme song by Paul Andrew Watling,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
