Making It Grow Minutes
Mon-Sat, throughout the day
Amanda McNulty of Clemson University’s Extension Service and host of ETV’s six-time Emmy Award-winning show, Making It Grow, offers gardening tips and techniques.
Making It Grow Minutes are produced by South Carolina Public Radio, in partnership with Clemson University's Extension Service.
Latest Episodes
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Host Amanda McNulty laments how sometimes the former scientific names for plants she had memorized long ago are updated or changed entirely. -
Liquidambar styraciflua is our sweetgum tree, which has a stunning fall color but does drop those prickly seed pods.
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Metasequoia glyptostroboides, or Dawn Redwood, was considered long extinct from one hundred million years ago, until the 1940s.
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Biogeographic disjunction is one reason we share so many plants, at least at the generic (or genus) level, with other places.
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While on a trip to China, host Amanda McNulty realized the value of knowing the scientific names of plant life.
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Fall webworms are covered in harmless spines that serve as a warning to other organisms to think twice about these touching or eating these caterpillars.
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The webworms we’re seeing in record numbers this year started as eggs laid by a female moth on the ends of branches.
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Host Amanda McNulty explains why residents should not be alarmed at the massive number of fall webworms our state is seeing.
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Host Amanda McNulty explains why there have been an unusual amount of fall webworms outside lately.
