{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Horticulturati: Metamorphosis & Victory Gardens","description":"On this Horticulturati, we bring you stories of adaptation and change. Leah has been studying up on butterfly holometabolism -- that is, complete metamorphosis -- with assistance from her niece, nephew, and Vladimir Nabokov. Colleen describes the history of Victory Gardens, from World War I to the present day, and outlines three ways to start a \u201cpandemic garden\u201d of your own. But first: we revisit the sleeper masterpiece that is the Secret Life of Plants doc (1979), which is only available in bootleg on YouTube. Watch it here. Mentioned in this episode:  A color guide to familiar Butterflies Caterpillars and Chrysalides by Josef Moucha; Butterfly Gardening for the South by Geyata Ajilvsgi; Gayata on Central Texas Gardener;  photo of a giant swallowtail chrysalis and a monarch chrysalis; Nabokov\u2019s 1948 \u201cButterflies\u201d essay from the New Yorker; Sebastian\u2019s rescued chrysalis and newly emerged monarch; National Audubon Society Field Guide to Butterflies of North America; A Brief History of Gardening by Neil Fairbairn; Nature\u2019s Garden for Victory and Peace by George Washington Carver;  Victory Garden (undated propaganda film); \u201cHow to Plant a Victory Garden\u201d (NYT Sunday Style); this article about panic gardening; this article about scallions; and Central Texas Seed Savers. Many thanks to our young lepidopterists in the field, Sebastian and Margot. Get in touch with us on our website.  ","author_name":"Hothouse","author_url":"http:\/\/hothousepodcast.com","html":"