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Ep. 147 More than just mums: Fall blooming plants for the garden | #GoodGrowing

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176
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On this week’s Good Growing podcast, we discuss fall-blooming plants. While we typically reach for mums, there are a lot of other plants we can use in our landscapes for an end-of-season flower show! 
 
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  00:33 – Welcome, Ken and have we followed our advice and started our fall vegetable gardens?  
  02:20 – Benefits of fall blooming plants for pollinators
  05:05 – Goldenrods
      06:25 – Solidago rugosa ‘Fireworks’
      08:00 – Zigzag goldenrod (Solidago flexicaulis)
      09:02 – Stiff goldenrod (Solidago rigida)
      11:10 – Managing Canadian goldenrod
      12:11 – Goldenrod and allergies
  13:40 – Asters
      13:55 – New England aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae)
      16:26 – Calico aster (Symphyotrichum lateriflorum)
  17:30 – Ironweed (Vernonia lettermannii) ‘Iron butterfly’
  19:25 – Black-eyed Susan ‘American GoldRush’
  21:07 – Sweet Black-eyed Susan  (Rudbeckia subtomentosa)
  22:20 – Bottle gentian (Gentiana andrewsii)
  23:50 - False Sunflower (Heliopsis helianthoides var. scabra) 'Bleeding Hearts' 
  25:37 - Perennial sunflowers 
      26:38 – Western/naked stemmed sunflower (Helianthus occidentalis
      27:10 – Swamp sunflower (Helianthus angustifolius)
  28:35 – More fall-blooming plants: mums, sedum, bulbs  
  31:38 - Wrap-up, thank you’s, what’s up next week, and goodbye!
  
 
 
 

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