121 Mix Up Your Plants! Daylilies. Japanese Maples. Pine Needle Mulch.

07/20/21 • 29 min

We’ve talked about the importance of rotating your food crops. The same is true for much of the rest of your landscape. How’s that? Our favorite retired college horticulture professor, Debbie Flower, will explain.

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The Plant of the Week is a gorgeous flowering perennial that can be grown throughout most of the United States, and it’s edible, too. The daylily, also known as Hemerocallis.

Also, a primer on growing Japanese maple trees from an expert.

It’s all on episode 121 of the Garden Basics with Farmer Fred podcast, brought to you today by Smart Pots and Dave Wilson Nursery.

And we will do it all in under 30 minutes. Let’s go!
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The Beni Maiko Japanese Maple
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Hedgerow Plants for California's Central Valley
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The Plant of the Week is a gorgeous flowering perennial that can be grown throughout most of the United States, and it’s edible, too. The daylily, also known as Hemerocallis.

Also, a primer on growing Japanese maple trees from an expert.

It’s all on episode 121 of the Garden Basics with Farmer Fred podcast, brought to you today by Smart Pots and Dave Wilson Nursery.

Got a garden question? There are several ways to get in touch:

leave an audio question without making a phone call via Speakpipe, at https://www.speakpipe.com/gardenbasics

And thank you for listening.

All About Farmer Fred:

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Garden Basics with Farmer Fred - 121 Mix Up Your Plants! Daylilies. Japanese Maples. Pine Needle Mulch.

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GB 121 Monoculture. Daylilies. Japanese Maples.

29:55

SPEAKERS

Chris Aycock, Debbie Flower, Amanda Pollock Pines, Warren Roberts, Farmer Fred

Farmer Fred 00:00

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