Canada's Local Gardener Podcast
Canada's Local Gardener
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Canada's Local Gardener podcast will feature Shauna and a guest or two from Canada’s gardening world. They will bring knowledge and humour to various topics for green thumbs and would-be green thumbs to listen to and enjoy. The series will further cement the Local Gardener team as go-to gardening experts in the eyes of Canadians.
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S4E3 Terrie Shaw talks about her book Garden Journey
Artist and gardener Terrie Shaw has spent more than a decade journaling in words and watercolours. In her new book, Garden Journey, she captures not just the look of her Sherwood Park garden, but the…
S4E2 Ryan Statham talks about trees and climate change
In this episode, Shauna sits down with Ryan Statham, arborist with the Davey Tree Expert Company, for a deep and practical look at the state of our trees in a time of rapid climate change.They start…
S4E1 Glenn Andersen at Nordic Nurseries
How annuals make it to your gardenWhat makes one petunia thrive all summer long while another fizzles out? Why are certain plants chosen to become the season’s top sellers? In this episode of the CLG…
S3E19 Flora & Fauna 19: New gardens with Ian Leatt
Faced with the very arduous task of building a new gardening bed, Shauna Dobbie, editor of Canada’s Local Gardener magazine, turns to veteran gardener Ian Leatt to hear about his experiences. In…
S3E18 Flora & Fauna 18: Seeds with Kevin Twomey
It is seed starting time across Canada. From March through June, depending on where your garden is, you may be starting seeds indoors and out. Kevin Twomey, former owner of T and T Seeds in Winnipeg,…
S3E17 Flora & Fauna Episode 17: Garden power tools with Kris Kiser
For many gardeners, power tools sound like something their partner or friend would be more interested in. But at some point, even the luddite might be interested in getting jobs done faster and with…
S3E16 Flora & Fauna Episode 16:Nutrients in the garden with Robert Pavlis
Did you know that you can give too much compost to your garden? Also, there isn’t a “best” fertilizer for tomatoes or roses or trees. Robert Pavlis is a garden writer, speaker and educator with a…
S3E15 Podcast: Plant introductions for 2023 with Dorothy Dobbie
Every year, growers, distributors and hybridizers of plants work on new species, and every year some of those new species make it to the market. New shrubs, flowers and vegetables come out with…
S3E14 Flora & Fauna Episode 14: Emerald ash borer with Ryan Statham
Since 2002, Canada has been watching the emerald ash borer kill our native ash trees, starting in Ontario and moving east and west from there. Ryan Statham, the District Manager for Davey Tree in…
S3E13 Flora & Fauna Episode 13: Growing berries with Sheryl Normandeau and Janet Melrose
Strawberries and raspberries have been growing in gardens across Canada since we became a country. Haskaps, sea buckthorn and ground cherries are more recent introductions for many of us. All of them…
S3E12 Flora & Fauna Episode 12: Edible Flowers with Erin Facer
The Edible Flower is a thick book with gorgeous photos. Erin and Jo write about how to grow edible flowers (that’s Jo’s department) and how to use them for cooking (Erin’s). Erin always hoped to…
S3E11 Flora & Fauna Episode 11: Climate change and trees with Dan Herms and Joe Steinfeld
Given that Earth is getting warmer rapidly, what is the consequence for trees? This is a concern for Davey Tree experts Dan Herms, Vice President of Research, and Joe Steinfeld, who works in Urban…
S3E10 Flora & Fauna Episode 10: Poison Ivy with Susan Pell
orget about oceans of calamine lotion, this is the real dirt on poison ivy and all of its kin. Susan Pell, executive director of the United States Botanic Garden. She did her PhD on members of the…
S3E9 Flora & Fauna Episode 9: Monarch Butterflies with Joan Harvey and Julianne Labreche
People of all ages become fascinated with the monarch butterfly when they learn about its long flight from Canada to Mexico in a single generation. Joan Harvey is a member of Monarch Teacher Network,…
S3E8 Flora & Fauna Episode 8: Mario Doiron on Food Security
Mario Doiron is a modern homesteader in New Brunswick who raises fowl and grows vegetables on a small farm. Shauna Dobbie, editor of Canada’s Local Gardener magazine, talks with him about how he grow…
S3E7 Flora & Fauna Episode 7: Growing Bamboo with Garry Heberg
Bamboo is a kind of plant in the grass family (Poaceae) with over 100 genera. Most of them are tropical, but a few will survive and even thrive in Canada. Garry Hedberg and his wife Brenda had…
S3E6 Flora & Fauna Episode 6: Peace and Gardens
Dorothy Dobbie is the originator of Canada’s Local Gardener magazine, a former Member of Parliament, President of the International Peace Gardens on the border of Manitoba and North Dakota...Support…
S3E5 Flora & Fauna Episode 5: Houseplants
Darryl Cheng is an industrial engineer who became interested in houseplants a few years ago. He would do time-lapse videos of his plants on social media, and that led to a huge Instagram following…
S3E4 Flora & Fauna Episode 4: Indigenous Gardening
Mehdi Sharifi is a research scientist at the Summerland Research Station in British Columbia and Dana Johnson was a research assistant there who was partially responsible for developing the first…
S3E3 Flora & Fauna Episode 3: Garlic
Greg Auton is a garden writer and podcaster from Nova Scotia who grows hundreds of garlic plants every year. Although he is a very prolific writer, has a family of four and maintains a 2500-square…
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Canada's Local Gardener Podcast has published 41 episodes since February 2021, covering topics in Hobbies, Home & Garden.
Canada's Local Gardener Podcast is currently dormant with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 49m.
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