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Hosts Fran Chismar and Tom Knezick interview some of the top minds in ecology, restoration, conservation, and of course, native plants. Join them on their journey towards knowledge and understanding of some of the larger problems that our ecosystems face.
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Friday Oct 09, 2020
Friday Oct 09, 2020
Welcome back to The Buzz. On this episode, hosts Fran Chismar and Tom Knezick are back with another round of "That's Hot!", they discuss their favorite native plants websites and revisit our listener's favorite books about native plants, Tom gives his reasons why Fran is the cause for their first one star review while Fran agrees and adds more to the list. Music by Stephen Mahar.
Follow these Websites - USDA Native Plant Database / Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center / Duke Farms / Taxinomic Data Center / Jersey-Friendly Yards / Audubon Society / Xerces Society / Wild Seed Project
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Hey, I just found your podcast series a few weeks ago, so new listener. I am a budding native plant "student." just bought my first place 3 years ago and wanted to encourage polinators. stumbled across Doug Tallamy on youtube and then bought and devoured his first(?) book, Bringing Nature Home. opened my eyes. Even though my first gardening love, going back 40+ years, is modern roses(yeah, I know, insert eye roll). I now have banned all chemical spraying the past two years, replaced all my most disease-prone varieties, and become an active composter, and have underplanted the roses with more polinator friendly flowers, have started learning my local weeds, discovered the worst invasive offenders, am progressively rplacing my lawn, and have let my back yard revert to understory meadow and am adding regional mulberry, mayhaw, pawpaw, button bush to go under my water oaks. anyhoo, enough about me. you are not in my region at all, but I appreciate you genuine conversational style. made me chuckle to hear you talk about your negative reviews. I work in mental health, and our corporate overlords are always obsessing about consumer approval rankings. Problem is, none of us controls the thought processes of reviewers. I have ranked everythere between 99th percentile down to 25th, and back up, sometimes in rapid succession. One bad review can tank you. I have occasion psychotic patients, literally, not hyperbolically. One complained angrily about me secretly taping them and feeding their personal info to their upstairs neighbor, to whom they had never spoken but could tell knew all their sexual secrets....thanks to me. I'm apparently evil that way. Another told me she gave me a one star review, because her family have pushed her into therapy she didn't think she needed, so she was mad. the then changed her mind, said she appreciated the therapy but never received another satisfaction survey, so one star it is! Love the sites recommendations.
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