In this pilot episode of Plants Always Win, Erin and Sean give the Plant Face-Off a trial run…with a twist. Instead of competing for viewers’ votes with the most interesting information about a plant or gardening concept, they go head to head with competing interviews of each other. Find out what theft has to do with Erin’s early forays into gardening, why she makes content about gardening with chronic illness and disability, and how talking about plants every week complements her literary life. Then learn how Sean’s mom got him into a horticulture career, explore the pros and cons of the profession, and get excited about Sean’s dreams for a botanical garden in Muskoka, Ontario. We wrap up with some impromptu (and impassioned) tangents on invasive plants in garden centres, cities that plant only male trees, cultivars vs. nativars, and permaculture.

Find Sean online at @GardenGuyMuskoka on TikTok and Instagram.

Find Erin online at @EarthUndaunted on TikTok, @ErinAlladin on Instagram, and at https://earthundaunted.com/.

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Credits

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00:52 What's Growing On?

1:00: Erin vs. Quack Grass

2:17 Sean's Zone 4 Fruit Trees

3:27 Raccoons 1 | Chickens 0

4:50 First Frosts

6:24 Plant Face-Off

7:00 Sean's topic: Erin

7:52 Stealing Gardens from Parents

8:50 Gardening with Chronic Illness

12:40 Why Erin Agreed to Do This Podcast

13:52 Our Wives Think We’re Big Nerds

15:37 Erin's Least Favourite Thing About Gardening

19:15 Erin's Topic: Sean

19:20 Blame it on Sean's Mom

21:16 The Garden Labour Trap

22:57 The Master Gardeners of Ontario

24:00 Running a Landscaping Business

26:09 The Muskoka Botanical Garden Dream

27:26: Why Sean Started This Podcast

28:53: Sean's Rant: Stop Selling Invasive Plants

33:51 Erin's Rant: Male-Only City Trees

33:22 Nativars and Cultivars

38:17 Selfish Gardening vs. Permaculture

41:26 Contact Us & Outro