Focus on Flowers

Virtuosos Paul Odette and Rolf Lislevand explore the baroque guitar music of Murcia.

IU faculty member Elinor Ostrom is the first woman to win the Nobel prize in the category of economics. Bloomington Provost and Executive VP Karen Hanson hosts.

Harmonia looks at world-premiere recordings of music by Mattheson and Fischer with the Koelner Akademie, in addition to exploring Byzantine chant with Greek-American singer John Michael Boyer. Paul O’Dette performs in a featured release of Renaissance lute music by Marco dall’Aquila.

Cate Whetzel grew up in Louisville, Kentucky, and studied at Kenyon College and Oxford University. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Indiana University.

Although their early spring blooms are especially treasured, hellebores are stalwarts in the garden during all seasons. Long lived, shade loving, deer resistant, hellebores have handsome evergreen or semi evergreen foliage depending on the harshness of the winter conditions.

Le Jardin Secret performs music for the Habsburg Imperial Court and for Cardinal Mazarin.

Ramee label releases of music by composers Bononcini, Touchemoulin, and Gaultier, as well a look at Pomerium’s Old Hall label recording of Orlandus Lassus.

Dustin Nightingale lives in Fargo, North Dakota. His poems have been published in various journals including Margie, Cimarron Review, Stickman and others. His band, the Citronella Hangovers is currently recording their 3rd spoken word album.

Plant breeders have been busy, and now SunPatiens® is the newest member of the impatiens family, and as one would guess, it is a sun tolerant variety of the tried-and-true favorite annual. It also is advertised as blooming longer and being bushier than the impatiens that we all use in our shady spaces.

Harmonia marks the 400th anniversary of the publication of Claudio Monteverdi’s “Marian Vespers” of 1610 with performances by Tragicomedia, Concerto Palatino, and the Magnificat Baroque Ensemble.

Cate Whetzel grew up in Louisville, Kentucky, and studied at Kenyon College and Oxford University. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Indiana University.

The malva plant is a mainstay in my cutting garden. The flowers are followed by small round seed heads that are similar to wheel-shaped cheeses. Because there are so many of these on each plant, they self seed well, and I have sufficient that the munching deer leave a few for me to enjoy in my bouquets.

At the Story Inn in Story, Indiana, wine expert Dr. Allen Dale "Ole" Olson is known as the "Pontiff of Palate." He speaks with WFIU's Daniel Robison.

Ryan Teitman is finishing his MFA in creative writing at Indiana University and will be a Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University this fall. New poems by him are forthcoming in Copper Nickel, Sycamore Review, and Washington Square.

Euphorbia, commonly called spurge, is related to Poinsettia, as the outer bracts look like flowers. There is usually a single colorful female bract, actually a leaf, surrounded by male bracts born beneath the inconspicuous true flowers.

Dame Evelyn Glennie is a Scottish virtuoso percussionist and composer who tours regularly throughout the world.

Haines Eason reads his poems "This Town Will Throw Itself at Anyone," "Crickets in an Airtight Jar," and "Musee Mecanique."

Because the deer do not eat the spiraeas in my garden, I am becoming more and more devoted to these shrubs. I would never have predicted this would happen, but one’s preferences are often shaped by unforeseen circumstances – in life as well as in the garden.

On this edition of The Poets Weave, Christopher Citro reads nonsense poems by Edward Lear.

Music from the English Renaissance with Piffaro and choral music by Vivaldi with Ensemble Caprice.

Media critic Ken Auletta in conversation with Owen Johnson

Cicely Mary Barker wrote a poem for children called “The Song of the Nasturtium Fairy.” Like all of her poetry, it is old fashioned and whimsical. She visualizes a nasturtium fairy using a leaf as an umbrella, or as she says, a brolly.

Sir Nigel Sheinwald, the British Ambassador to the United States, speaks with Patrick O’Meara and plays two favorite musical selections.

Raleigh Lee will soon receive his MFA in Creative Writing from Indiana University. At Indiana, he was a reader of poetry and nonfiction for the Indiana Review and the 2010 recipient of the school's Bertolt Clever Writing Prize. Raleigh grew up in Meadville, Pennsylvania, a small town in the northwest part of the state.

Tropaeolum minor was first found growing in Mexico and Peru and introduced to England in 1574. The English called the plant Indian Cress because the leaves tasted sharp. The peppery taste and characteristic scent led to the name “nasturtium,” which is from the Latin word meaning “nose twister.”