Plants Grow Here - Horticulture, Landscape Gardening & Ecology Daniel Fuller

Most people wouldn't consider a permaculture mindset for a public park or an ornamental garden. But that's a missed opportunity, because it could help individuals, organisations and councils reduce their maintenance budgets while increasing plant health and positive biodiversity outcomes.

The 12 principles of permaculture can be applied whether or not you're growing food. They're simply a way to get us back in tune with nature's systems so that we can work with them instead of against them. Why should we row against the stream when we can roll with it instead?

This episode doesn't have a guest, it's just me getting up on my soapbox.

The 12 principles of permaculture are:
Observe and interactCatch and store energyObtain a yieldApply self-regulation and accept feedbackUse and value renewable resources and servicesProduce no wasteDesign from patterns to detailsIntegrate rather than segregateUse small and slow solutionsUse and value diversityUse edges and value the marginalCreatively use and respond to changeFind your next job, or post a job ad: https://hortpeople.com

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You’ll find heaps of educational blog articles, including How To Prune For Natural Shape, What Relationships Do Plants Have With Other Organisms?, and What Is Healthy Soil, And How Can We Build It?.

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This week, we're celebrating 200 episodes! My mentor, Karen Smith, editor of Hort Journal Australia, interviews me about my picks for the "best" 10 episodes.

To pick only 10 episodes was an impossible task, but I've narrowed it down to a few essential chats that I believe all my listeners should listen to at least once. From Integrated Weed Management (IWM) to magical musical plants, make sure you don't miss any of these episodes!

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You’ll find heaps of educational blog articles, including How To Prune For Natural Shape, What Relationships Do Plants Have With Other Organisms?, and What Is Healthy Soil, And How Can We Build It?.

LET'S WORK TOGETHER
Are you in the industry or an enthusiast with something of value to share? We're always on the hunt for interesting people, doing interesting things. If you'd like to work with us send a message via our online form or a direct email to plantsgrowhere@gmail.com.

Did you get a chance to see Peter Donegan's phenomenal garden design A Moment In Time at the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show (MIFGS) this year?

We spoke about it in Ep.181 A Daydream Supported By A Series of Equations, but I wanted to touch in after the event finished to get his perspective on how everything went, and if he actually managed to pull off installing a real fighter plane into the construction.

In this episode, we speak about an old-fashioned plant palette, an exquisite green roof, the smallest water feature of the Show, and the little details that made all the difference.

Check the links below to see images of the garden, as well as two of his other builds that we discuss.

EPISODE LINKS
Follow Peter on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterdonegan
Follow Peter on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peterdonegan
Visit Peter's website: https://doneganlandscaping.com/

Read more about the design: https://www.semken.com.au/projects/a-moment-in-time-presented-by-daisys-garden-supplies-designed-by-peter-donegan-mifgs-2024

View A Moment In Time:
-https://www.instagram.com/melbflowershow/p/C4zwGe2szua/
-https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=929772495273858
-https://doneganlandscaping.com/blog/tag/moment-in-time/

View Bam Stone Garden:
-https://doneganlandscaping.com/blog/tag/mifgs2023/
-https://www.instagram.com/p/CqWW0JzBjRM/

View Gardens of Peace, Péronne, France
-https://doneganlandscaping.com/blog/2018/06/14/peronne-france/
-https://horticultureconnected.ie/news/peter-donegan-garden-design-unveils-jardin-philophrosyne-at-chateau-de-peronne-france/

MIFGS: https://melbflowershow.com.au/
Boutique Gardens: https://melbflowershow.com.au/show-features/boutique-gardens/
Achievable Gardens: https://melbflowershow.com.au/show-features/achievable-gardens/
Border Gardens: https://melbflowershow.com.au/border-garden-competition/
Landscape Design Gardens: https://melbflowershow.com.au/show-features/landscape-design-show-gardens/

Hort People: HortPeople.com

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The Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show has wrapped for another year!

In this episode, I interview  the designers behind three show garden highlights from this year's Show. We'll get to hear the inspiration behind the story and message behind each of their gardens, and we'll chat about their creative choices with materials and plant palettes.
 
EPISODE LINKS
Daniel Althaus “Mother Ocean”: 
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/daniel-althaus-402baa219_here-is-the-first-sneak-preview-of-our-garden-activity-7168056049839661056-xOMv


https://www.facebook.com/althauslandscapedesigns/


https://www.instagram.com/althaus_landscape_designs/


Anika Zetterman and Kasja Bjorne “New Nordic Notes”: 


https://melbflowershow.com.au/annika-zetterman-and-kajsa-bjorne-pocket-profile/


https://melbflowershow.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/DSC01198-scaled.jpg


Emmaline Bowman “Through The Looking Glass”:


https://melbflowershow.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/DSC01128-3-scaled.jpg


https://www.innercitynews.com.au/melbourne-international-flower-and-garden-show-blooms-with-success/


Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show:


https://melbflowershow.com.au/


https://www.instagram.com/melbflowershow/


https://twitter.com/melbflowershow


https://www.facebook.com/melbflowershow


https://melbflowershow.com.au/news/


https://melbflowershow.com.au/peoples-choice-award/


https://melbflowershow.com.au/show-features/boutique-gardens/

https://melbflowershow.com.au/show-features/achievable-gardens/

https://melbflowershow.com.au/border-garden-competition/

https://melbflowershow.com.au/show-features/landscape-design-show-gardens/

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The Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show has wrapped for another year! Each year, we like to interview some of the garden designers to get an insight into what ideas, philosophies, trends, and plants are floating in the cultural zeitgeist.

Friend of the show, Dr Ian Smith interviews some of the Boutique, Achievable and Border garden designers. He also shares his impressions of some of the Landscape Design Show gardens.

Whether you're into landscape design, construction, maintenance, or growing, you'll get to hear from some of the most exciting up-and-coming designers in the country (even if they're about to fly back home after the Show).

From plant palettes to materials, to colours, to sustainability, this episode will give you an insight into what's going on in the garden game in 2024.

EPISODE LINKS
MIFGS: https://melbflowershow.com.au/
Boutique Gardens: https://melbflowershow.com.au/show-features/boutique-gardens/
Achievable Gardens: https://melbflowershow.com.au/show-features/achievable-gardens/
Border Gardens: https://melbflowershow.com.au/border-garden-competition/
Landscape Design Gardens: https://melbflowershow.com.au/show-features/landscape-design-show-gardens/

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You’ll find heaps of educational blog articles, including How To Prune For Natural Shape, What Relationships Do Plants Have With Other Organisms?, and What Is Healthy Soil, And How Can We Build It?.

LET'S WORK TOGETHER
Are you in the industry or an enthusiast with something of value to share? We're always on the hunt for interesting people, doing interesting things. If you'd like to work with us send a message via our online form or a direct email to plantsgrowhere@gmail.com.

A garden is never finished. It's going to change throughout the year, and the seasons. It should be getting better over time instead of worse.

And it should also provide you with multiple yields, whether that's a food crop, supporting biodiversity, reducing soil salinity, providing shade, making the space appear larger, or simply bringing you joy.

It's easy to roll your eyes when you hear terms like "sustainability" or "nature-based solutions". They've become cliches used by companies to greenwash, and individuals to virtue signal. But these ideas have real value when you look beyond the greenwashing.

Erik van Zuilekom is a plant scientist, permaculturist, landscape designer, and plant selection specialist who has come on the show to help us think deeply about landscape design, construction, and maintenance from a permaculture syntropics perspective.

We go beyond the typical surface-level discussion and go deep into topics like growing soil, tissue culture vs seed-propagated plants, green walls, terraforming, irrigation, and much, much more.

EPISODE LINKS
Erik's LindedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erikvanzuilekom/

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VISIT OUR WEBSITE
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You’ll find heaps of educational blog articles, including How To Prune For Natural Shape, What Relationships Do Plants Have With Other Organisms?, and What Is Healthy Soil, And How Can We Build It?.

LET'S WORK TOGETHER
Are you in the industry or an enthusiast with something of value to share? We're always on the hunt for interesting people, doing interesting things. If you'd like to work with us send a message via our online form or a direct email to plantsgrowhere@gmail.com.