Domestic Phytology (HOUSEPLANTS) with Tyler Thrasher

Oh hey, it's your neighbor who makes refrigerator magnets out of rocks. Allie Ward. And this is all G's, these are plants. These are roommates that are plants. Let's talk about it with this guest too. I'm just gonna be straight with you is very famous for an ability to do plant things, and rightly so. So he grew up loving chemistry and is a second generation botany nerd. He's hybridized plants. And created new cultivars. He's an artist and an educator and an author of the Grow a Dam Plant Journal, as well as the book The Universe in One Hundred Colors, Weird and Wondrous Colors from Nature, which features a forward by Hank Green, who is a former Ology's guest himself. And he's also experimented with glow in the dark. plant creations and opalized flowers, which we're gonna get to. But first, thank you to patrons of the show who sent in so many queries for him. We'll get to them. Also we have a spinoff G rated podcast for kids, in case you didn't know it's called Smallogy's. You can find it where we get podcasts. And Smology's are classic episodes trimmed for brevity and their classroom and family friendly because here in allogies we talk how we talk with

candor and emotion. Okay, so I I know like Cursing is cool, right? Like I Yes. If you did, that would be fine. I get excited.

And we do, especially on this episode. So just feel free to do a just tiny imperceptible butt dance. Take a sip of whatever you're drinking to celebrate the swears in this one'cause it's more than usual. it's plant passion through and through. I loved it. Instant classic. But before we get there, thank you also to everyone who leaves reviews for me to read and keeps the show up in the charts with them. And as proof, I thank one of you each week, such as Shark with Underbite, who wrote

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