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Native plant gardening in the Midwest with PBS Wisconsin

Looking for tips to incorporate more native plants into your landscape?

Tara Lovdahl

04/17/26

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“Coneflower,” honorable mention in Plants and Flowers category at 2023 Garden Expo. Photo by: Heather Walker from Madison, Wisconsin.

Looking for tips to incorporate more native plants into your landscape? Explore these programs from PBS Wisconsin.

University Place and Garden & Green Living Expo

For many years, the University Place team has recorded lectures at PBS Wisconsin’s Garden & Green Living Expo to be more widely shared. If you’d like to see more lectures from Garden & Green Living Expo, save the date for next year’s event, Feb. 12-14, 2027, at the Alliant Energy Center in Madison.

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Let’s Grow Stuff

Each episode of Let’s Grow Stuff provides quick and easy techniques for the beginning gardener to make growing fun. Host Ben Futa also wrote a blog post providing an overview of options to eliminate your lawn and a follow-up post to help you design a meadow of native plants in its place.

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The Wisconsin Gardener

In this PBS Wisconsin throwback, host Shelley Ryan traveled throughout Wisconsin with her hands-in-the-dirt approach to growing plants, flowers and vegetables, contributing beauty and sustainability to everyday life in Wisconsin.

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