Episode Number
176
Episode Show Notes / Description
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!
Autumn allergies: Don’t blame goldenrod: https://extension.illinois.edu/blogs/good-growing/2022-10-21-autumn-allergies-dont-blame-goldenrod
Fall Blooming Bulbs: https://extension.illinois.edu/blogs/good-growing/2020-09-17-theyre-not-just-spring-fall-blooming-bulbs
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Ken Johnson: kjohnso@illinois.edu
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