"I had a young daughter at the time, and she kept getting it out of the bin and saying, 'You can't do that. It's not dead yet'."
"You want to talk the scary? Knowing that you're working on one the rarest plants in the country and hoping they come back up next year — it's terrifying,"she said.
"Some of these species that I work on, we might have two populations with two individual plants in them,"Ms Radford said.
"Essentially that means that if you lose that wasp species from the ecosystem, then you will also lose the orchid species."
"You've planted all these little tiny babies and you're just hoping that they survive and that they come back next year,"she said.
"Sometimes I actually wonder if they're giving off some kind of crazy pheromone that's tricked me into following them around the landscape,"she said.