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RADICAL GARDENING
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Program 09-06-21-A |
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The world of plants can be a dangerous place. Gorgeous monkshood, withstalks of purple blooms can cause delusions and death. A plump cashew can make you miserable if it isn't steamed properly. And aconite, almost indistinguishable from parsley can cause paralysis and stop your beating heart. Wicked plants, in this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge. Also, the guerrilla gardening movement and the Garden of Cosmic Speculation.
SEGMENT 1:
James William Gibson teaches sociology and is the author of "A Re-enchanted World: The Quest for a New Kinship with Nature." He talks with Anne Strainchamps about ways in which people are seeking to reconnect with the natural world and to protect it, rather than simply exploit it as a resource. Also, Amy Stewart is the author mostrecently of "Wicked Plants." She talks with Jim Fleming about plants, including some very lovely, common garden varieties, that can kill you. The lesson is: Don't eat it unless youre sure you know what it is.
SEGMENT 2:
Richard Reynolds tells Anne Strainchamps about his adventures as a guerrilla gardener, that is, someone who tends someone else's land for harvest. Reynolds blogs about the phenomenon on his website and is the author of "On Guerrilla Gardening: A Handbook for Gardening Without Boundaries." Also, Erin Clune brings us and her family to tour the garden of Izadore Fine and Mary Gray who've planted thousands of flowering bulbs on their property in Madison, Wisconsin. Their garden is so spectacular, all the neighbors drop by to wander around.
SEGMENT 3:
Architect Charles Jencks and his late wife started a private garden to explore scientific concepts through landscape art. Jencks published a book of photographs of The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, which inspired composer Michael Gandolfi to create a piece further exploring the same ideas. Jencks and Gandolfi take Steve Paulson on a tour through the musical composition and the garden that inspired it.
These are pictures afrom the garden.
The Sycamore Black Hole Terrace - © Charles Jencks
Universe Cascade - © Charles Jencks
CD copies are available at 1-800-747-7444. Ask for program number 09-05-24-A.
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Books & CDs:
| James Gibson, A Re-enchanted World: The Quest for a New Kinship with Nature (Metropolitan Books) | |
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Richard Reynolds, On Guerrilla Gardening: A Handbook for Gardening Without Boundaries (Bloomsbury) |
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| Amy Stewart, Wicked Plants:
The Weed that Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
(Algonquin) |
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Websites:
- Michael Gandolfi was just nominated for a Grammy for
this piece. His website:
http://www.michaelgandolfi.com/
- More Pictures of Charles Jencks' garden:
http://www.charlesjencks.com/current.html - Guerilla Gardening website:
http://www.guerrillagardening.org
- -Lullabye/ Bond/ Classified/ Decca
- -Skyline/ California Guitar Trio/ CGT
- -The Sorcerer's Apprentice/ Orchestre de Societe des
Concerts de Paris/The Readers Digest Association Inc.
- -Digging in the Dirt/ Frances England/Fascinating
Creatures/Frances England
- -La Jeunesse/ Carla Bruni
- Garden of Cosmic Speculation:
-Black Hole Terrace & The Universe Cascade & The Nonsense from The Garden of Cosmic Speculation/ Michael Gandolfi, Robert Spano and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra/ Telarc
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