In Defense of Plants Podcast
Plants are everything. They are also incredibly interesting. From the smallest duckweed to the tallest redwood, the botanical world is full of wonder. Tune in for a podcast celebrating everything botany.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 52 minutes
- Episodes
- 301
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Ep. 281 - Sustainable Recreation & Plant Conservation
There are many ways to make hiking one of the most sustainable and environmentally friendly activities on Earth, but building trails on rare and unique plant communities is not one of them. Sensitive…
01:07:02 |
Sun 06 Sep 2020
Ep. 280 - At the Intersection of Conservation and Horticulture
In this episode we are joined by Conservation Horticulturist Emma Neigel of the Atlanta Botanical Garden to talk about the intersection of horticulture and conservation. When it comes to plant conser…
01:01:52 |
Sun 30 Aug 2020
Ep. 279 - A Pollinator Plant of the Year Program
There is a lot of information out there on which plants to choose for your garden. Often this information is geared towards a wide audience living in vastly different climate zones. As such, it can b…
00:50:20 |
Sun 23 Aug 2020
Ep. 278 - Glossopteris: Resloving a Mystery 299 Million Years in the Making
The Glossopteris flora is one of the most important links that we have to the Permian Era. These trees dominated the supercontinent of Gondwana from around 299 to 230 million years ago and their foss…
01:03:16 |
Sun 16 Aug 2020
Ep. 277 - Pitcher Plant Symbioses
In this episode we look at what's going on inside the pitchers of carnivorous pitcher plants. Besides functioning as organs for prey capture and digestion, these highly modified leaves also serve as …
01:02:40 |
Sun 09 Aug 2020
Ep. 276 - A Native Bee-nanza!
With insects on the decline around the globe, the need for native bee understanding and appreciation has never been more apparent. While some native bees are super charismatic and well known,many mor…
01:08:57 |
Sun 02 Aug 2020
Ep. 275 - Saving Sonora: The Green Desert
The human population of the Sonoran Desert is growing quickly, developing the surrounding landscape at an alarming pace. At the same time, botanists are racing to understand the fate of this so calle…
00:44:55 |
Sun 26 Jul 2020
Ep. 274 - Hollow Trees = Habitat
Move over raccoons and squirrels, hollow trees have some additional residents to support. Joining us on this episode are Dr.'s Lary Reeves and Andrei Sourakov to talk to us about how hollow trees are…
00:49:26 |
Sun 19 Jul 2020
Ep. 273 - Revolution in the Garden
This episode we are joined by Colah B. Tawkin, host of the incredible Black in the Garden, a podcast that "resides at the intersection of Black Culture and horticulture." For Colah, gardening has bee…
01:20:23 |
Sun 12 Jul 2020
Ep. 272 - Restoring the American Chestnut
This episode is all about the work being done by The American Chestnut Foundation and their partners to save the American chestnut (Castanea dentata) from extinction. Ravaged by an invasive fungal pa…
00:51:15 |
Sun 05 Jul 2020
Ep. 270 - A Native Plant Based Life
This episode is all about celebrating native plants both in the wild and in the garden. We are joined by environmentalist, author, and garden designer Lyndon Penner to talk about his life-long obsess…
01:02:41 |
Sun 21 Jun 2020
Ep. 269 - Cultivating Peace
One cannot overstate the power of gardening to calm the mind, reinvigorate passion, and bring people together. Understanding and growing plants is one of life's greatest joys and that is exactly the …
00:59:04 |
Sun 14 Jun 2020
Ep. 268 - How Small Flies Made A Lot Of Orchids
In this episode, we are joined by PhD student Melissa Díaz-Morales and director of the Lankester Botanical Gardens Dr. Adam Karremans to look at how flies have managed to influence the evolution of t…
00:51:23 |
Sun 07 Jun 2020
Ep. 267 - Describing & Protecting Palm Diversity
Historically speaking, palm taxonomy has been a bit tricky. This is due in large part by the difficulty in collecting and preparing proper specimens. Thankfully, with the advent of affordable DNA tec…
00:46:33 |
Sun 31 May 2020
Ep. 266 - After the Blast: The Ecological Recovery of Mount St. Helens
In May of 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted, creating a path of destruction for hundreds of miles. No one thought life would return to that stretch of mountain for decades but they were wrong. In only a…
00:49:05 |
Sun 24 May 2020
Ep. 265 - Ancient Trees: Living on the Edge
What does it take to live many hundreds or even thousands of years? For trees, it often means growing in places like cliffs where few other things can. My guest today has studied ancient cliff dwelli…
01:07:54 |
Sun 17 May 2020
Ep. 264 - The Longleaf Alliance Speaks for the Trees
Longleaf pines once covered 90 million acres of southeastern North America. Today, human development has seen that number reduced down to 3 million acres. The decline in this tree has come at great …
00:47:17 |
Sun 10 May 2020
Ep. 263 - Earthworm Invaders
This week we are joined by director of The University of Minnesota Center for Forest Ecology, Dr. Lee Frelich to discuss an invasive species problem that threatens plant diversity and ecosystem funct…
00:46:45 |
Sun 03 May 2020
Ep. 262 - On the Origin & History of Field Guides
This week we take an even closer look at the world of field guides with science historian Dr. Sara Scharf. Field guides began as a tool for botanists to better understand the plants in their region b…
01:07:50 |
Sun 26 Apr 2020
Ep. 261 - Talking About Field Guides With The Field Guides
Today we take a step back for a fun conversation about field guides. Field guides are wonderful tools that help us identify the species with which we share the world. In this episode we are joined by…
01:11:03 |
Sun 19 Apr 2020
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