In the thumbnail image for the Plants Always Win podcast episode 45: Hydrangea Happiness with C.L. Fornari, a white woman with short blonde hair and multicolour glasses smiles knowingly at the camera.

The cover image for the book Hydrangea Happiness by C.L. Fornari shows six artistically arranged hydrangea branches in glass bottles.

Spring is the time to plant hydrangeas in northern climates. If you need a crash course on these beloved shrubs, you need C.L. Fornari, a.k.a. The Garden Lady. #gardensky 🌱 plantsalwayswin.com/2026/03/27/h...

Changeable March Break weather leaving you at a loss for activities with the kids? Here's one that celebrates the cold: take a "science walk" and learn some cool (and cold!) facts about temperature and weather. futurechicken.com/do-science-w... #marchbreak #kids #science

The thumbnail image for Plants Always Win Podcast episode 44, Internet Planet Science with Dr. Vikram Baliga, shows a brown-skinned man with curly, black hair, black-framed glasses, and a white collared shirt smiling widely at the camera.

Who will save us from the weaponized nonsense of banana-water garden hacks? Dr. Vikram Baliga, a.k.a. @theplantprof.bsky.social , is on it. We talk science communication and misinformation, nuance, DIY experiments, and garden tips that really work. plantsalwayswin.com/2026/03/16/e... #gardensky 🌱

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Authors Talk Gardening book party - Spring 2026, hosted by NGB and GardenComm. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the me... The "Authors Talk Gardening" Book Party: Fresh Inspiration for your 2026 Garden! -✨ Ready to turn your spring gardening dreams into reality? Join us for a lively evening with four of the industry’s m...

Authors Talk #Gardening Book Party!
March 12 at 7pm ET on Zoom
Design secrets, pollinator tips, better ways to grow your own food. Register now: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #gardensky 🌱 #authorsky #books #gardenbooks

Myth busted: King Tut's tomb did not smell of residual lavender. Plants Always Win podcast episode 43, rosemary vs. lavender

"When Tutankhamun’s tomb was opened, traces of lavender were found and its scent could still be detected." This statement is ALL OVER the internet. And it's false. But, surprisingly, it was used in some fifteenth and sixteenth century mummifications...Learn more: plantsalwayswin.com/2026/02/09/e...

Ep. 43. Rosemary vs. Lavender In this versus episode, we compete to make you fall in love with two of the nicest-smelling and slowest-growing plants in the garden: rosemary (Salvia rosemarinus) and lavender (specifically Lavand…

Harsh winter got you down, gardeners? Well, if you want to grow rosemary or lavender from seed this year, it's already time to get started. Learn all about it on this week's Plant Face-Off! plantsalwayswin.com/2026/02/09/e... #gardensky 🌱 #herbgarden #gardening #rosemary #lavender

Garden Events Around Ontario Does your organization have an upcoming garden-related event you’d like to see added to our calendar? Email us with the details and a link to your event page!

New resource for Ontario garden lovers! We've added a calendar of Ontario gardening events to the podcast website. If you or your organization have an event you'd like to add, please let us know! plantsalwayswin.com/events/ #gardensky 🌱 #ontario

Is a Daffodil a Narcissus? Here’s the Real Difference, According to Experts Is a daffodil the same as a narcissus? Experts explain the real difference, how the names are used, and what gardeners should know before planting.

Narcissus vs. Daffodil: What's the Difference? I’m quoted in this MarthaStewartLiving article all about daffodils. Cannot wait for mine to be in bloom this spring!

Stop Selling Invasive Plants (And Other Gardening Rants You’ll Agree With) YouTube video by PlantsAlwaysWin

Ontario's podcast for inquisitive home gardeners is now on YouTube!

Podcasting in rural Ontario brings a number of challenges, most of them related to the internet. High-quality video hasn't been in the cards for us...but we're determined to make it work! #gardensky 🌱

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Ep. 42 Landscape Design Fails As the 2026 growing season waves tantalizingly on the far horizon, we’d like to help you prepare for a disaster-free garden. To do that, we’re sharing a few key landscape design principles…along wi…

The 2026 growing season is waving tantalizingly on the far horizon, & we’d like to help you prepare for a disaster-free garden. To do that, we’re sharing a few key landscape design principles…along with a whole heap of stories about landscape design fails. plantsalwayswin.com/2026/01/20/e...

Ep. 41 Thoughtful Foraging with Gabrielle Cerberville If you’re looking to build a relationship with the land that feeds you, you can start by embracing the wisdom of the Internet’s Mushroom Auntie, Gabrielle Cerberville. She joins Erin and Sean to di…

Ever wished for a Mushroom Auntie to help guide your foraging steps? @chaoticforager.bsky.social fulfills that role online...and in her new book, Gathered: On Foraging, Feasting, and the Seasonal Life. She's this week's podcast guest: plantsalwayswin.com/2025/12/19/e...

In the episode thumbnail for Plants Always Win Podcast Episode 40, Nut Trees and Connection with Elspeth Hay, a white woman in her forties brushes her windswept hair out of her face.

Feeding humanity doesn’t need to come at the Earth’s expense. This week Erin interviews Elspeth Hay about nut trees, ecosystems, and humans as keystone species...and how it all comes together in Elspeth's new book, Feed Us with Trees. plantsalwayswin.com/2025/12/02/e... #agroforestry #permaculture

Ep. 39 Plant Evolution: Kid Q&A For this episode, a class of elementary-school students prepared a list of questions about plants for Sean and Erin to answer. How did plants come to be the way they are? Why did they evolve to hav…

Kids ask the darndest things! Actually, they ask the coolest things. For this week's episode we got questions from a class of elementary-school kids who wanted to know the whys and wherefores of why plants are the way they are. It's a delight! plantsalwayswin.com/2025/11/25/e... #gardensky

Early Access! Extended Edition! Halloween Hilarity! | Plants Always Win Get more from Plants Always Win on Patreon

Our Halloween analysis of Little Shop of Horrors is inching its way out to podcast platforms now...but if you've ever thought about becoming a patron, it's a good day to make the move! Our patrons got a slightly early, slightly extended cut this week. www.patreon.com/posts/early-...

Award Finalists | ECO IMPACT 2026 - Learning Series & Awards Gala ECO IMPACT 2026 is proud to recognize the individuals, teams, and organizations driving meaningful change in Canada’s environmental sector. Our Award Finalists exemplify leadership, innovation, and a ...

ClearWater Farm runs one of the coolest apprenticeship programs I know. Their "agripreneurs" learn skills in regenerative agriculture and experiment in a safe environment, driving innovation. ClearWater has been nominated for an ECO Impact 2026 award. Learn more & vote: ecoimpact.ca/conference/f...

A graphic promoting the nomination of the picture book Wait Like a Seed by Erin Alladin and Tara Anderson to the Garden Communicators International People's Choice Horti Award. The cover image of the picture book shows a little girl in a blue dress with blonde pigtails blowing seeds from a milkweed pod against a yellow sky.

As you may have heard in this week's episode, Wait Like a Seed by our co-host Erin Alladin has been nominated for a people's choice Horti Award for best gardening book! Want to support a picture book about monarchs & milkweed? Cast your vote here: vote.gardencomm.org/2025-horti-a... #gardensky

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Jess revolutionized composting, food education, and community-building in her city with Wilkes-Barre Area Community Gardens—and in this interview, she tells us exactly how she did it so the rest of us can follow her lead. www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis...

The thumbnail image for Plants Always Win podcast episode 36, Community Gardens with Jessica Letteer, shows a fair-skinned woman with long, brown hair in a car, smiling at the camera.

If you are feeling frustrated and anxious and helpless about the need for stronger communities...if you have ever craved a community garden but didn't think you could make it happen...if you simply want to lift your spirits with a good-news gardening story, this is episode is for you. #gardensky

A pencil sketch of a bat character lounging on their side, singing, with one wing upraised. They have pierced ears and are wearing boots and holding a lyre.

Biologist Dr. Dana Green wanted to bring her work home with her and play a bat character in #D&D. Luckily, someone else had created a homebrew bat species. Isn't her character cute? Listen to Dana's interview here: www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis... #bats #gardensky #dungeonsanddragons

The Garden Communicators International People's Choice Horti Award logo shows a simple green hand holding a green plant in a palmful of soil.

The cover image of the picture book Wait Like a Seed, written by Erin Alladin and illustrated by Tara Anderson, shows a blonde, little girl in a blue dress blowing milkweed seeds against a yellow autumn sky.

I'm up for a Horti Award! If you'd like to support Wait Like a Seed as a People's Choice gardening book of 2025, cast your vote at vote.gardencomm.org/2025-horti-a... #GardenCommUnity #HortiAwards @transatlanticagcy.bsky.social @pajamapress.bsky.social

There are more #batfacts to be had in this week's part II of the interview! Listen wherever you get your podcasts or at www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis...

There is a bat species with males that lactate. Oh, you wanted to know more than that? Sorry, Dana didn't elaborate. We'll have to get her back on the show. Send in your questions for next time! #batfacts

Bats DON'T eat a thousand mosquitoes an hour 😢 But they do eat them, and they gobble up PLENTY of garden pests 😁 #batfacts

As of summer 2025, there were 1,498 species of bat. How many will there be next year? Depends how many taxonomists get their hands on the list, probably. #batfacts

Hank Green was right. We DON'T know where some bats go in winter. Do you know how hard it is to track bats with solar-powered tags? #batfacts

A group of bats is called a swarm. Not the most exciting collective noun ever, but you can't say it isn't suitable. #batfacts

You can thank the pollinating services of fruit bats for bananas, dates, chocolate, and tequila. Go ahead, thank them. They're waiting, being all adorable and covered in pollen. #batfacts

The world's smallest bat is the bumblebee bat. It's also the lightest mammal, but the jury is out on whether it's the smallest mammal. It depends how you measure it, and you know scientists are going to have clashing opinions on how you measure something. #batfacts

Vampire bats have friends. They are very social creatures, and studies have shown that they have friends. You have permission to say "Awwww" now. #batfacts

The thumbnail image for Episode 34 of the Plants Always Win podcast, Bat Ecology with Dr. Dana Green, shows a young white woman with red braids and a leather eyepatch hanging from a conifer tree in a harness and wearing safety goggles and a helmet. She is sticking her tongue out cheerfully and giving a "rock on" gesture.

The thumbnail image for Episode 35 of the Plants Always Win podcast, Bat Ecology with Dr. Dana Green, shows a young white woman with red hair and a leather eyepatch wearing a brown wide-brimmed hat.

The following is a thread of bat facts pulled from our two-part interview with Dr. Dana Green, a.k.a. The Eyepatch Biologist. It is by no means complete. If you love cute sky puppies and ugly echolocating microchiroptera, these episodes are for you. #bats www.plantsalwayswin.com/podcast/epis...