Uli Lorimer on Getting to Know Native Plants - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - June 3, 2019

May 31, 2019 00:25:49
Uli Lorimer on Getting to Know Native Plants - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - June 3, 2019
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Uli Lorimer on Getting to Know Native Plants - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - June 3, 2019

May 31 2019 | 00:25:49

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Show Notes

Native Plants: I hear many times each week from readers or listeners wanting advice about native plants—about pollinator plants, for instance, or making a meadow, or which woodland wildflowers to plant and how to care for them. Uli Lorimer has extensive experience with all of the above, and says the way to get to know native plants is to spend time outside among them, to observe them in their natural context. An adventure in field botany, he says, can inform your practice of horticulture back in the home garden.  

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Uli Lorimer has made a career of observing and working with natives. He was longtime curator of Native Flora Garden at Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and recently, became director of horticulture at Native Plant Trust, the new name of the former New England Wild Flower Society, America's oldest plant conservation organization, founded in 1900.

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