finding refuge in our gardens, and hope in a hoya, with ken druse

All I came up with was this thought, and it’s how we’ll start today’s show, too:

So Ken and I wanted to talk about what our gardens mean to us, and especially what they can mean to all of us gardeners in this unusual year.

Fellow garden author Ken Druse and I have known each other through many gardening seasons, like about 30. And we’ve each been gardening longer than that. But this year already feels different, of course, and we wanted to talk about that, and what plans we have to take full advantage of the refuge aspect of our own backyards—and also of our indoor companions, our longtime houseplants, like Ken’s beloved hoyas (like Hoya kerrii with its heart-shaped leaves, above at Ken’s) and more.

Important: We hope you will chime in after listening, or reading the transcript (or both), to share your own strategies with fellow gardeners. Use the comments box at the very bottom of the page.

Read along as you listen to the March 23, 2020 edition of my public-radio show and podcast using the player below. You can subscribe to all future editions on Apple Podcasts (iTunes) or Spotify or Stitcher (and browse my archive of podcasts here).

Margaret: Hi, Ken. We could tell everybody we’ve been talking virtually every day, haven’t we lately?

Ken: Yes, and we’re talking about what everyone’s talking about, which is the virus.

Margaret: And as you and I have talked about everything in our lives for the 30 years-ish that we’ve known