Episode
Do "Designed Ecosystems" Function Like Natural Plant Communities?
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- Growing Greener
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- Jul 22, 2026
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- 1741
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Summary
A school of European and English garden designers, and now American ones too, claim their "designed ecosystems" of plants gathered from all over the world provide similar benefits to natural plant communities of locally co-evolved species. Peter Adler, a plant ecologist at Utah State University, helps us explore the potential of such a practice.