Stacey and Rick kick off the show with a look at the National Plants of the Year for 2023:
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Lake Michigan breathes under the winter ice
Ice forms on Lake Michigan. Below the thick ice is the living breathing lake we all love. Mysterious, powerful, majestic, alive. I go out on the ice and lay down on my stomach. In silence I lay flat on the ice and listen closely near the crevices. Hear Lake Michigan breathe.
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Do you hear what I hear?
On this week’s episode of the Gardening Simplified Show: Stacey and Rick discuss garden sounds. Do you hear what I hear? A song, a song high above the trees, With a voice as big as the sea, With a voice as big as the sea. This iconic Christmas song was released in the fall of 1962 during the Cuban Missile crisis as a plea for peace. It was popularized the following year when in October of 1963 Bing Crosby released a single of the song and sang it on a Bob Hope Christmas special.
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Berry Poppins
In celebration of the holidays and in anticipation of Stacey introducing us to “Berry Poppins” deciduous holly in “Plants On Trial,” on this week’s show Rick shares the story in Celtic mythology of The Holly…Continue Reading
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Gardening Simplified Show Episode 13
Ground Breaking Banter Show and tell time! Stacey brought along seed pods on a stem of Baptisia australis, also known as false indigo, and “played” them on air! The seed heads on this member of the…Continue Reading