THE TALK WAS OF LIVING MULCH, meaning groundcovers, on this week’s Robin Hood Radio podcast, because it’s the perfect time to divide your best ones up (or buy some!) and get some needy areas of the garden covered in weed-thwarting beauty. Speaking of which, I’m going outside to do that right now, but not before giving you the link to the latest episode (or any of the archives, if you’ve missed a week).
‘NATURE’S BEST HOPE’ is the title of University of Delaware professor Doug Tallamy’s new book, and the subtitle reads like this: “A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard.” In other words, you and I are nature’s best hope. Our actions count, and they add up to counteract a fragmented landscape and other challenges to the survival of so many critically important native creatures and the greater environment we all share.
Doug Tallamy’s 2007 book, “Bringing Nature Home,” has been for many of us a wake-up call into the entire subject of the unbreakable link between native plant species and native wildlife, and now with more than a decade of additional research insights, he goes further.
(Stream it below, read the illustrated transcript or subscribe free.)
Very nice. It’s the first of your podcasts that I’ve listened to. Lovely to hear your voice. I’m going to get out and move/divide ground covers tomorrow, now that we finally got a bit of rain. Great advice – I’ve lived with mulch patches in my shrub border for too long. Geranium mac will be great there, and I have tons of it in my shade garden, where it thrives under spruces.
Is this still accessible anywhere?
Try this newer one instead, Jessica.