Nativars, an encore presentation.

In this week's repeat episode of Down the Garden Path, we reach the end of our month-long discussion on deciduous and evergreen shrubs. Each week in July, we discussed a variety of shrub-related topics including how to prune your shrubs and new and noteworthy deciduous and evergreen shrubs. On this week’s podcast, we continue the discussion about shrubs with a look at nativars.

Tune into this week's podcast as we discuss nativars.

Here are some of the topics we cover this week:

• What is a nativar?

• How are nativars produced?

• Substantial differences between cultivars and nativars and what to avoid.

• Reasons for planting as close to the native species as possible.

• Some popular North American nativars you might find in your local garden center.

Season 9, episode 17 - May 15th, 2023. Original air date: season 6, episode 27 - July 27th, 2020.

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