A Way to Garden - May 20, 2013 - Hellebores and Shade Natives with Barry Glick

April 29, 2018 00:24:42
A Way to Garden - May 20, 2013 - Hellebores and Shade Natives with Barry Glick
MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN
A Way to Garden - May 20, 2013 - Hellebores and Shade Natives with Barry Glick

Apr 29 2018 | 00:24:42

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Show Notes

Barry Glick has been involved in the plant world since 1954, when at the young, impressionable age of 5, he witnessed Don Herbert (“Mr. Wizard” on TV) put a cutting of a plant in a glass of water only to sprout roots a few shows later. Barry replicated the experiment with his one of his mother’s prized Coleus plants, and as he watched the roots grow, knew that he was hooked for life.

Growing up in the 60s in Philadelphia, a Mecca of horticulture, Barry would hitchhike to Longwood Gardens before he was old enough to drive. In 1972 he realized there was just not enough room for him and his plants in the big city environment, so he bought 60 acres of a mountaintop in Greenbrier County West Virginia where he gave birth to Sunshine Farm & Gardens, started his plant collection, and has remained there since.

The collection now numbers more than 10,000 taxa, many unknown to cultivation. Several of these plants have been introduced to gardening in recent years. Barry exchanges seeds and plants with people at Botanic Gardens, nurseries and private gardens in virtually every country in the world.

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