Ever notice how an unsung plant today can plough into a gem trove of exciting unexampled kind overnight ? Take the genusHeuchera , for example : it was n’t too many years ago its few species labor pretty much in garden reconditeness . Today , you ’d be hard pressed to take the air into a nursery without trip over 10 newHeucheracultivars . There are so manyHeucheras , in fact , that we decided to initiate this show off with aHeucheraslam . Listen in to chance out what we mean .
Where do new plants hail from ? In this month ’s sequence , I talk to Dan Heims , prexy of Terra Nova Nurseries , and arguably one of the harbingers ofHeucheraas a household name .
Heims first became a plant adventurer correctly out of college . “ I would spend 3 hebdomad to a month mostly hitchhiking around Hawaii explore every realm , from abandoned army bases to collecting plant that had crept out of landfills . You ’d be amazed at how much really exotic stuff and nonsense , like alocasias ( really rarefied plants at the time ) , was there , ” he said .
Tune in to witness out how newfangled works come to grocery store , from the time of their discovery to when they put down in nursery , as well as :
Special thanks to Jesse Greenblatt for the Heuchera slam that recoil off this episode .
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Dan Heims' friends in Japan, Mr. Hirose and Dr. Yokoi (front), former professor at Chiba University, at a specialty micro-nursery that only sold wild-collected forms of Hosta rectifolia. Play this podcast… Photo/Illustration: Dan Heims
