Bec Stanley
Cutting the grass? Cut it out!
Lawn owner William Ray looks at the ecological benefits of not mowing and letting your grass grow longer. Audio
Cutting the grass? Cut it out!
Lawn owner William Ray looks at the ecological benefits of not mowing and letting your grass grow longer.
AudioKauri Dieback
Nights' big league botanist, Bec Stanley from Auckland Botanic Gardens joins us to share her expertise on the oomycete that's killing trees. What is it and what can we do about it? Audio
Nights' Science : Botany
Auckland Botanical Gardens Curator Bec Stanley on the chlorophyll-filled bio-mass that photosynthesises around us. Audio
Botany : Bec Stanley
Nights regular botanist Bec Stanley joins us to talk about pollination in all it's many forms. Audio
Nights' Science : Botany
Auckland Botanical Gardens curator Bec Stanley on the chlorophyll-filled bio-mass that photosynthesises around us. Audio
Nights Science - Bec Stanley
Auckland Botanical Gardens curator Bec Stanley on the chlorophyll-filled bio-mass that photosynthesises around us. Audio
Nights' Science - Botany
Auckland Botanical Gardens curator Bec Stanley shares the secret and curious history of tomatoes. Did you know that for several hundred years British people thought they were poisonous? Plus she's on… Audio
Are you plant blind?
Are many of us not seeing the wood… or the trees? ‘Plant blindness’ is a phrase used to describes the general failure of modern people to notice the plants around them. Audio
Holding up banks and shooting blanks
Agapanthus (agapanthus orientalis/praecox) are a feature of many gardens and public spaces here in New Zealand. With their ability to grow in many conditions, provide ground cover, and stabilise banks… Audio, Gallery
Nights' Science - Botany
Auckland Botanical Gardens curator Bec Stanley shares the secret world of plant communication - above and below ground. Audio
Nights' Science - Green Roofs
Auckland Botanical Gardens curator Bec Stanley on the chlorophyll-filled bio-mass that photosynthesises around us. Audio
Nights Science - Botany
Auckland Botanical Gardens curator Bec Stanley on the chlorophyll-filled bio-mass that photosynthesises around us... jumping the garden fence - weeds Audio
Bec Stanley - Botany
Auckland Botanical Gardens curator on the chlorophyll-filled bio-mass that photosynthesises around us including at the beach. Audio
Botany - Kauri dieback
Auckland Botanical Gardens curator Bec Stanley on the chlorophyll-filled bio-mass that photosynthesises around us. This time Bec tackles the kauri dieback disease. Audio, Gallery
Botany
Auckland Botanical Gardens curator Bec Stanley on the chlorophyll-filled bio-mass that photosynthesises around us. The freeloaders of the plant world - parasitic plants. Audio
Botany
Auckland Botanical Gardens curator Bec Stanley on the chlorophyll-filled bio-mass that photosynthesises around us. Phytoremediation or 'using plants to clean the world'. Audio
Botany - don't mow the lawn, grow a meadow!
Plant ecologist Bec Stanley from Auckland Botanical Gardens on the chlorophyll-filled bio-mass that photosynthesises around us... don't mow the lawn, grow a meadow! Audio
Science - Botany
Plant ecologist Bec Stanley from Auckland Botanical Gardens on the chlorophyll-filled bio-mass that photosynthesises around us, how our forest giants regenerate. Audio
Science - Botany
Plant ecologist Bec Stanley from Auckland Botanical Gardens on the chlorophyll-filled bio-mass that photosynthesises around us. Today she explains the curious phenomenon of periodic (not annual)… Audio
