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Growing Greener

Growing Greener

Written by: Tom Christopher
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 Your weekly half-hour program about environmentally informed gardening. Each week we bring you a different expert, a leading voice on gardening in partnership with Nature. Our goal is to make your landscape healthier, more beautiful, more sustainable, and more fun.©2019 Thomas Christopher Earth Sciences Science
Episodes
  • The Missing Piece of Your Ecological Garden

    The Missing Piece of Your Ecological Garden
    Jan 21 2026

    Liz Koziol of the University of Kansas shares hew work with mycorrhizal fungi and native plants, and how a properly designed fungal inoculant can make your ecological garden more biodiverse, quicker to establish itself and more resistant to weeds.
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    29 mins
  • An Antique Tool Brings New Knowledge of Native Plants

    An Antique Tool Brings New Knowledge of Native Plants
    Jan 14 2026

    Herbariums, annotated collections of dried plant specimens first appeared in Italy almost 500 years ago. In today's Growing Greener, Lea Johnson, Director of Conservation at the Native Plant Trust discusses why they remain an essential tool for those who track and study native plant populations, and the new technologies herbariums facilitate.
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    29 mins
  • How Your Garden Helped Drive the Deer Population Boom

    How Your Garden Helped Drive the Deer Population Boom
    Jan 7 2026

    Dr. Elic Weitzel of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History describes the thousands of years of association between deer and people, how they long ago came to prefer human-created landscapes, and why their population has exploded
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    29 mins
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