{"podcast":{"title":"Hort Culture","slug":"hort-culture-6205776","podcast_index_feed_id":6205776,"rss_url":"https://feeds.zencastr.com/f/PR-m9Hqj.rss","website_url":"https://zencastr.com/Hort-Culture","image_url":"https://media.zencastr.com/image-files/63e1206d67a36497510734a1/4420ef7a-b915-4a63-b9ca-68352ab91318.png","author":"atackett@uky.edu","episode_count":172,"summary":"Welcome to Hort Culture, where a group of Extension professionals and plant people talk about the business, production and joy of farming. So, join us for a chat on the culture of horticulture. Questions/Comments/Feedback/Suggestions for Topics: hortculturepodcast@l.uky.edu Check us out on Instagram! [https://www.instagram.com/hortculturepodcast/]","last_synced_at":"2026-06-29T02:18:19.043684+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hort-culture-6205776"},"episode":{"title":"Practical Botany Vocabulary Everyone Should Know","slug":"practical-botany-vocabulary-everyone-should-know","published_at":"2026-06-21T21:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hort-culture-6205776/practical-botany-vocabulary-everyone-should-know","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hort-culture-6205776","url":"https://zencastr.com/z/6WvImv-w","audio_url":"https://redirect.zencastr.com/r/episode/6a2ff8c0f1388944e76b9fb4/size/1345890294/video-files/63e1206d67a36497510734a1/ec44ae3e-4f05-4b1e-96d2-dcf144787af7.mp4","summary":"In this episode of Hort Culture, the hosts dive into practical botany vocabulary that gardeners, plant enthusiasts, and curious learners can use to better understand the plants around them. Through a lively and humorous discussion, they explain key botanical terms such as petiole, midrib, leaf margin, simple versus compound leaves, deciduous plants, allelopathy, monoecious and dioecious reproduction, grafting terminology, vivipary, and plant nodes. Along the way, they connect these concepts to real-world gardening situations, from identifying trees and selecting cover crops to growing asparagus, saving seeds, grafting fruit trees, and managing tomato plants. The episode blends plant science, gardening advice, and entertaining anecdotes to help listeners build their botanical vocabulary while gaining a deeper appreciation for how plants grow, reproduce, and interact with their environment. University of Kentucky Master Gardener Basic Botany [https://publications.mgcafe.uky.edu/sites/publications.ca.uky.edu/files/HO-96-Basic-Botany--Remediated.pdf] OSU Botany Terminology [https://extension.oregonstate.edu/sites/extd8/files/documents/10536/botany-terminology.pdf] Utah State University Tree and Botanical Glossary [https://extension.usu.edu/forestry/tree-identification/tree-botanical-glossary] Questions/Comments/Feedback/Suggestions for Topics: hortculturepodcast@gmail.com Check us out on Instagram! [https://www.instagram.com/hortculturepodcast/]","meta_description":"In this episode of Hort Culture, the hosts dive into practical botany vocabulary that gardeners, plant enthusiasts, and curious learners can use to better…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3103,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/hort-culture-6205776/episodes/practical-botany-vocabulary-everyone-should-know/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hort-culture-6205776/practical-botany-vocabulary-everyone-should-know.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}