Mt. Cuba Center

Mm-hmm.

We actually met Matthew Menarda at, at North Creek, or at, uh, sorry, at Mount Cuba Center.

Someone that works at North Creek Nursery.

Mm-hmm.

Yep.

Uh, Andy on Spotify from our Mount Cuba episode said, "Great episode.

I'm in Iowa, but I had the opportunity last summer to get to the Mount Cuba Center.

Took a vacation to Philly with my dad, who's a big US history buff.

I am Fran Chismar.

And I'm Tom Kanousek, and this is ep- episode 335, which we are featuring a nice panel at Mount Cuba Center here in Delaware.

Some familiar-

Some familiar faces

Yeah.

But thank you all for joining us today.

We hope that you've had a wonderful day so far, uh, learning from such wonderful staff here at Mount Cuba Center.

And we have some of them here with us, and we have some other experts with us.

I was

just going to say, let's carry that on when we get back from a break because the Mount Cuba Center report showed such a light on some of these solidagas, especially the goldenrods.

So, yeah, we'll take a break.

We'll be back.

We do want to take your calls, your questions, anything related to Gardening for Nature.

So we were talking about cultivars and especially Solidago and especially their worthiness for gardens and also how the different cultivars perform for pollinators.

And Mount Cuba Center has done incredible work And also Chicago Botanic, evaluating numerous different genera of plants in the cultivars for how many visits they get from pollinators.

So we were talking about Solidago and two that came up, Fireworks, which is a cultivar and a lower one, and a reasonably well-behaved one.

Yeah

... that happened live at Mount Cuba Center.

And if you were there, you'll get to hear your cheers for us.

Yes.

Not all of it is native by any means, but they are really good about that.

Mount Cuba Center.

Mm-hmm.

These places that are research-based, that they are accountable to the information that they put out there.