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We Dig Plants Introduction: The Language of Flowers (18:23)
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Heritage Radio Network, Alice Marcus Krieg, Carmen DeVito, We Dig Plants, Valentine's Day, communicating feelings florally, the language of flowers, floriography, coded messages from flowers, The Mystery & Magic of Trees and Flowers, floral language, flowers took on a whole new meaning under Queen Victoria, chrysanthemums, flowers as insults, hydrangea, Amaranthus, represents desertion, Tudor rose, mixed roses, English Red & White rose, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, letters that described Turkish life, Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, The School of Flora,Valentine's Day Flowers (15:36)
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popular Valentine's day flowers, god of the flowers, the god of silence, white rose often associated with Mohamed, mythology, rose as the flower of the martyrs, carnations, pinks, divine flower, fragrance and beauty, pinks were associated with happiness, Oscar Wilde, funeral flowers, Mother's Day, carnation pedals are edible and sweet, used to flavor beer ale and wine, still used to make Chartreuse, flowers created by clumsy gods,Download MP3 (Full Episode)
We Dig Plants Introduction: Plant Hunting (9:15)
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We Dig Plants, Alice Marcus Krieg, Carmen Devito, Whole Foods Market, Heritage Radio Network, Roberta's, www.groundworksgarden.com, plant hunting, Ernest Henry Wilson, lily, nurseries, trumpet lily, four feet tall, America was very wild, John Bartram, plant hunting as extreme sport, fern species, armchair travelling, Dan Hinkley,The Adventures of Dan Hinkley (8:20)
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Dan Hinkley, he got started in studying botany, Windcliff, Heronswood, hydrangea, www.danhinkley.com, Vietnam, The Explorer's Garden: Shrubs and Vines from the Four Corners of the World, regeneration, design, Catherine Gustavson, Martha Stewart, Garden Design Magazine, Verlyn Klinkenborg, The Perfect Madness of Plants,Seed Catalogs (11:49)
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seed and plant collecting, plant hunting, Seed Savers Exchange, membership organization, they have distributed over a million seeds, morning glory, pink tomato, Monsanto is not involved, milkweed, monarch butterflies, Territorial Seed Company, news print, Cottage Grove, Oregon, piccolo squash, marrow squash, victory garden, self reliant gardening, designed to make a household self sufficient, two million more households grew vegetables this year than last, USDA, Bushwick, David Austin Roses, English roses, hybridized with American species, Edible Landscaping, fruits, figs, blueberries, edible dogwood, mulberries, kiwi, cranberries, quince, strawberries, citrus, blood orange, dragon fruit, Virginia, quarantine, horticulture events, January 19th at the Horticultural Society there is a book club started by Katherine Powis, http://hsny.org/, New York School Of Interior Design, http://www.wavehill.org,Download MP3 (Full Episode)
"We were designers first and printers second. It's very important for what we do, because there are a lot of printers, but that doesn't mean that you are a designer."
"We use our yard a lot as inspiration. We just finished an invitation where we used hydrangea clippings from our yard."
-- Christina Kenney-Fisher on Growing Good







