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Flower Chats PodcastChatting about January Gardening: Seed Starting Shame, What to Plant, What to PlanBlossom babes and garden gnomes - this week Carliflower is bringing you January gardening topics! We talk about what to plant, what to plan, and our goals for the 2025 gardening season. Carly also breaks down the shame surrounding seed starting, does anyone else feel these feels? Tune in and share with your friends!
Resources mentioned in todays episode:
Sonoma County Master Gardener links:
- Wild Fire Preparedness in the Home Landscape: https://sonomamg.ucanr.edu/Firewise_Landscaping/
- Fire Wise Gardening Videos:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLghaUabIjrH3...2025-01-1529 min
Flower Chats PodcastChatting about Solstice Celebrations: Yule, Karačun (with a garden and life check-in)Hi Garden Gnomes and Blossom Babes - this week Carliflower is filling us in on the solstice holidays that essentially predated and influenced our modern day Christmas holiday celebrations.
**She touches on some sensitive T.W. topics near the very end, so be careful to those who are sensitive to S.I./S.A..**
Tune in and dig into this weeks topic and send any questions you want answered on the podcast to: flowerchatspodcast@gmail.com or use our Telbee channel and send a voice note https://sayhi.chat/flowerchatspodcast 2024-12-1836 minFlower Chats PodcastSeptember Gardening + The Story of the Fig and the Fig WaspHello all my blossom babes and garden gnomes!Today we are covering the Fig and Fig Wasp life cycles and the ways these two organisms have coevolved together. We will also dig into what’s happening in the garden this September and things we should be doing in order to ensure we have a successful fall and fall garden.
As always, I am eager to connect with you and cover any topics or questions you may have regarding gardening or folklore. Please reach out to the podcast via email at flowerchatspodcast@gmail.com, follow us on Instagram or...2024-09-1341 minFlower Chats PodcastChatting about Cleavers (Galium aparine), hints of Coumarin and Tonka Bean, Spring AlliesWhat's up all my blossom babes and garden gnomes? This week we are catching up and digging into the spring plant herbal ally cleavers, Galium aparine. Carly walks us through her current life grievances and gives us the low down on Galium aparine, other species and family notes. She digs into coumarin, the first lab synthesized perfume compound.
Content contains swearing.
Resources:
Elpel, Thomas J. Botany in a Day: Thomas J. Elpel's Herbal Field Guide to Plant Families. 4th ed., rev. and expanded. Pony, Mont., HOPS Press, 2000.
Gladstar, R...2024-05-0638 minFlower Chats PodcastChats About Spring, Checking In with CarliflowerHey my blossom babes! Thank you all for being patient, the tail end of winter was a doozy but Carly is back with just a simple check in this week. She updates you on what's happening in her garden, things you should get started now and an update about her permaculture program with a touch of climate change information. Thanks for getting your hands dirty with us and listening.
Tune in next time to hear some folklore!
No resources today. 2024-03-2022 min
Flower Chats PodcastFolklore Friday: Persephone's Tale & Relevance to GardeningHave you ever heard of the Persephone Period time of year? Do you wonder what the heck that is? Are you curious about the tale surrounding the Greek Goddess Persephone? Well my blossom babes, in this episode of Folklore Friday host Carly Everidge digs into the folklore behind Persephone and how her story plays an important part in planning your annual gardens. Get ready to get dirty, plant some seeds and enjoy the tales of Persephone!2024-02-1656 minFlower Chats PodcastChats about Mimosa pudica: Relating to the shame of the sensitive plantWhat's up Blossom Babes! This week Cauliflower discusses Mimosa pudica, aka the sensitive plant. Listen to learn about this gorgeous plant and how Carly feels aligned with it.
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Thank you for listening 2024-01-3023 minFlower Chats PodcastChats About Secondary Succession & the Ecology of My LifeWhat's up blossom babes. On this episode Carly digs into secondary succession and how her life is taking on a similar process. Join Carly this week as she digs into ecological succession, why dirt is important, how change is good and how life got turned upside down in 2023. Enjoy!
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Resources/Show Notes:
Allopatric speciation. (2023, October 29). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allopatric_speciation
Britannica, T. Editors of Encyclopaedia (2019, August 2). secondary succession. Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www...2024-01-0539 min
Flower Chats PodcastFolklore Friday: Nightshade Family (Solanaceae) & its UsesHave you ever heard about the nightshade family? Do you know about todays modern concerns with eating members of this family? Are you privy to how witches used these plants in the Middle Ages to blast off into space? Well today we are discussing the nightshade family and some of the folklore associated with this plant family and its infamous alkaloids.
Listener questions regarding what to plant in the Fall and Winter time are answered at the end.
Join Carly as she briefs us on the nightshade family and its folklore!
*Note some...2023-12-1553 min
Flower Chats PodcastIntroduction to Flower Chats PodcastHi Blossom Babe! This is your host Carly Everidge, I am giving you an introduction to the podcast and what I hope to bring to you.
If you are reading this, the Flower Chats Podcast is a space for all individuals, from all walks of life, to talk honestly and openly about gardening and life topics. Please hit that subscribe button and feel free to ask me any question you may have regarding plants, mushrooms, folklore or life! I will do my best to research and speak honestly from the heart.
Please follow along @flowerchatspodcast2023-11-1403 min