Growing Greener

Tom Christopher

Your weekly half-hour program about environmentally informed gardening. Each week we bring you a different expert, a leading voice on gardening in partnership with Nature. Our goal is to make your landscape healthier, more beautiful, more sustainable, and more fun.

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Growing Greener

Episodes (380)

Wednesday My Neighbor's 1/4-Acre Garden Takes the Title for Insect Biodiversity
Wed Oct 7th Declaring Peace with Pocket Gophers
Sep 30th Sustainable Color that Mixes Natives with Exotic Favorites

Growing Greener

Oct 14, 2026
29 minutes
40 MB

Many British garden designers, and their admirers in the United States claim that plant biodiversity is the key to supporting the most diverse insect populations, and that introduced plant species are as effective or better than locally native ones. A garden up the block from me in Connecticut suggests the fallacy of that claim.

Growing Greener

My Neighbor's 1/4-Acre Garden Takes the Title for Insect Biodiversity

Tom Christopher

00:00 -29:01