Plant Sentry Archives

Roy and Piet: The Perennial Whisperers

July 20, 2019July 21, 2019 Mike Nowak environment, gardening, Green Scene Chicago, Millennium Park, Peggy Malecki, Piet Oudolf, plant communities, Plant Sentry, Roy Diblik, Sudden Oak Death, The Lurie Garden, The Mike Nowak Show, Tom Buechel

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World-renowned perennial plant experts Roy Diblik and Piet Oudolf join Mike and Peggy to talk about plant communities and good design. On the heels of the discovery in the Midwest of P. ramorum, a pathogen that has the potential to kill oak trees, Tom Buechel returns to the show to explain how the Plant Sentry program can protect states from diseases, pests and invasive plants. Martie Sanders and the actors at Green Team Chicago are back with a report on this summer’s production, “…not for all the tea in China!” (Hint: it’s about the history of tea.)

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Pollinator-palooza 2018

August 4, 2018March 23, 2019 Mike Nowak e-commerce, environment, exotic invasives, gardening, monarch butterfly, native plants, Nature Hills Nursery, plant diseases, Plant Sentry, pollinators, sustainability, The Mike Nowak Show

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Landscape horticulturist Dolly Foster teaches you how to make your garden pollinator friendly. Tom Buechel explains how the Plant Sentry program will theoretically keep plant e-commerce free of invasive plants and pests.