A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - May 9, 2022 - Jeff Epping on Gravel Gardens

May 06, 2022 00:26:56
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach -  May 9, 2022 - Jeff Epping on Gravel Gardens
MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - May 9, 2022 - Jeff Epping on Gravel Gardens

May 06 2022 | 00:26:56

/

Show Notes

Today, we're going to do some gravel gardening—not merely applying a thin mulch-like top dressing of gravel to a garden bed, but planting right into a deliberate foundation of 4 or 5 inches of gravel. My guest is Jeff Epping, director of horticulture at Olbrich Botanical Gardens in Madison, Wisc., where he created his first gravel garden in 2009. We'll learn what makes gravel gardens so appealing and how to create one, too. 

That first gravel garden at Olbrich Botanical Gardens that Jeff Epping and his team created wasn't the last. There have been three more since, and gravel gardens created elsewhere for clients. Jeff, who lectures regularly to garden audiences around the country about his passion for gravel gardens, even transformed the front yard of his home to one in 2018, and he's here to tell us why and how.

Other Episodes

Episode 0

May 19, 2019 00:24:22
Episode Cover

Bumblebee Expert Leif Richardson - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - June 2, 2014

ICAN IDENTIFY A LOT OF PLANTS, and I’m pretty good with my local bird and frog species, but a landmark book has me putting...

Listen

Episode

June 08, 2018 00:25:10
Episode Cover

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - June 11 - Scott Freeman on Saving Tarboo Creek

Since I have lived full-time in a rural place the last decade, I find that probably not coincidentally, my reading list tends increasingly toward...

Listen

Episode 0

July 26, 2023 00:26:40
Episode Cover

Craig LeHoullier on Ripe Tomatoes - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - July 31, 2023

Around this time each summer I look forward to the onslaught of fresh tomatoes—while at the same time hoping against hope that what I...

Listen