Carol Gracie on Summer Wildflowers - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - June 8, 2020

June 05, 2020 00:25:44
Carol Gracie on Summer Wildflowers - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - June 8, 2020
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Carol Gracie on Summer Wildflowers - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - June 8, 2020

Jun 05 2020 | 00:25:44

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Show Notes

The beloved wildflowers of springtime—the trilliums, the mayapples, the Virginia bluebells—are probably gone till next year, but don't despair. Here comes the next cast of players, the wildflowers of summer. The acclaimed naturalist Carol Gracie looks beyond their surface beauty in her new book on the subject, into their life histories and even cultural uses of plants like cardinal flower, lupine, milkweed, asters, goldenrods, and more. 

Carol Gracie, a former longtime educator at the New York Botanical Garden who also worked for The Nature Conservancy, has followed her own intense curiosity to become a leading expert on wildflowers. Now her second book, “Summer Wildflowers of the Northeast: a Natural History,” from Princeton University Press, forms the companion to her earlier spring volume. 

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