Welcome to Gardening for Hot People! This episode we talk about: the difference between a gardener and a landscaper, plant butts, hating leaf blowers, the uselessness of weed-blocker, upsetting the landscaping industry, how not to kill your tree with mulch, and swear a lot but manage to keep things light even when this ish is serious.

Guest Bio: Molly Janicki grew up surrounded by the forests of Vermont, which instilled in her a deep appreciation for nature. She has been privileged to build her career working in beautiful gardens throughout New England. When the links between traditional landscaping and climate change became impossible to ignore, Molly founded her own company to provide thoughtful horticultural solutions that reduce the energy and resources typically required of our landscapes. Find out more here: https://www.mollyjanicki.com/

Stuff we mentioned:
Plant Magic Gardens FREE Native Plant Designs - https://www.plantmagic.shop/free-native-plant-garden-designs
UMass Pollinator Steward Course - https://www.umass.edu/agriculture-food-environment/resources/pollinators/pollinator-steward-certification-program
Turtle Rescue League - https://turtlerescueleague.org/

Welcome to Gardening for Hot People! This episode we talk about: leaving the leaves STILL, bumble bee queens, more garden bed making, bunny damage and how to prevent it, types of habitats in your yard, plant identification, pollinator frogs, how tired we are, the difference between an annual and perennial, and manage to keep things light even when this ish is serious.

Welcome to Gardening for Hot People! This episode we talk about: Lepidoptera, milkweed, late season nectar, why butterfly bushes are Skittles, why butterflies flit around, the pollinator wars, mummichogs, The Monarch Gardener’s superhero origin story, planning out your native seed plantings, and manage to keep things light even when this ish is serious.

Katie Banks Hone (AKA The Monarch Gardener) has been gardening for her entire adult life. She was a 2012 recipient of the US Fish and Wildlife Service's Slow the Flow grant. This helped her transform her family's Ipswich River-front property from the traditional foundation plantings they inherited from the former owners into a haven for wildlife.

In the spring and summer Katie runs a native plant nursery in Topsfield, MA. And year round she brings her knowledge and wonder of the monarch butterfly to community groups in the form of lectures and classes. Find out more at themonarchgardener.com


Stuff we mentioned:
- Indian Skipper: https://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species/Hesperia-sassacus
- Monarch weigh station: https://monarchwatch.org/waystations/
- Piping Plover bird: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piping_plover
- Monarch Watch: https://monarchwatch.org/
- Monarch Joint Venture: https://monarchjointventure.org/
- Grow Native Massachusetts: https://grownativemass.org/
- NOFA/Mass: https://www.nofamass.org/
- Native Plant Trust: https://www.nativeplanttrust.org/
- Monarch Gardener website: http://www.themonarchgardener.com/
- The Monarch Gardener Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/1A9sysqGwA/?mibextid=wwXIfr
- The Monarch Gardener opens MAY 9TH 2025
OPEN 10-3 FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS:
MAY 9-JULY 26 AND SEPTEMBER 5-20
AT 180 IPSWICH ROAD, TOPSFIELD MA​​