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Blooming brilliant tips for beautiful trees

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Garden Variety, hosted by Charity Nebbe

The blossoms on a spring blooming tree are so beautiful that many of us are willing to pick a tree based strictly on what it might look like for a week or two out of the year — and there is nothing wrong with that!

Jeff Iles is professor and chair of the Horticulture Department at Iowa State University and he is known in some circles as king of the crabapples. He shares his blooming brilliant advice.

Guests:

  • Jeff Iles, chair of the Horticulture Department at Iowa State University

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Charity Nebbe is the host of IPR's Talk of Iowa
Aaron Steil is a Consumer Horticulture Specialist with ISU Extension and Outreach. Aaron contributes his expertise to the Garden Variety podcast and newsletter and to Talk of Iowa's Horticulture Day program.
Caitlin Troutman is a talk show producer at Iowa Public Radio