Far Reaches Farm on Unusual Perennials - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - February 22, 2021

February 19, 2021 00:26:13
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Far Reaches Farm on Unusual Perennials - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - February 22, 2021

Feb 19 2021 | 00:26:13

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On the website of Far Reaches Farm rare plant nursery, shoppers can filter the plant listings by the usual expected things, like shrub or fern, or shade or sun, or hardiness zone. But there’s also a filter for “shop by plant origin,” as in: where in the world each of the goodies hails from. And that filter hints at the fact that the nursery’s owners are longtime plant explorers, and also preservationists.

 Kelly Dodson, who’s here with me today, and Sue Milliken are the proprietors of Far Reaches Farm in Port Townsend, Washington, and also of the nonprofit Far Reaches Botanical Conservancy, that seeks to acquire and conserve horticulturally and botanically important rare plants, many of them from Asia. 

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