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Are you ready to be converted to living a gardening life? Each week, join Carol Michel and Dee Nash, both passionate gardeners, authors, and long-time bloggers, as they chat over the garden fence about flowers, veggies, and all the best dirt on gardening. Carol and Dee have the audacity to call themselves gardenangelists, evangelists for gardening, and want everyone to dig in the dirt, sow a few seeds, and enjoy the simple pleasures and even a few pitfalls of a gardening life. If you are ready to live a gardening life or already live one this is one podcast you don’t want to miss.
The podcast The Gardenangelists: Flowers, Veggies, and All the Best Dirt is created by Carol Michel, Dee Nash. The podcast and the artwork on this page are embedded on this page using the public podcast feed (RSS).
Dee and Carol talk about forsythia shrubs, ferns, fennel, fava beans and a lovely new book.
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Links:
The stand up dandelion weeder from Groot Pow
Little Dibby for seed pricking
Fennel seeds from Burpee
Fava beans from TrueLeaf Market
On the bookshelf: The Generosity of Plants: Shared Wisdom from the Community of Herb Lovers gathered by Rosemary Gladstar (Amazon link)
Dirt: Ice: From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks--a Cool History of a Hot Commodity by Amy Brady (Amazon link)
Rabbit holes:
Feathered Friends Cordial Cherry ajuga
The Allure of Immortality: An American Cult, a Florida Swamp, and a Renegade Prophet by Lyn Millner.
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On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol talked about flowers and veggies that start with "E", plus a new book on soil.
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A few links:
All-America Echinacea selections
All-America Elephant Ear Royal Hawaiian selection
All-America Eggplants selections
On the bookshelf: Start with Soil: Simple Steps for a Thriving Garden, by Juliet Sargent (Amazon Link)
Dirt: Does Birdsong Help Plants Grow?
Rabbit Holes: Koreshan State Park in Florida and Hedwig Michel on YouTube.
Link to register for Herb Society of America's program presented by Carol on Lost Ladies of Herbal and Garden Writing (April 22)
Link to register for National Garden Bureau's Book Authors Talk Gardening on April 10.
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For more info on Carol visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
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Watch this episode on YouTube.
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
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On YouTube.
Dee and Carol are back with another episode in their alphabet series, talking about dahlias, dianthus, dill, dragons and more.
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You can also see us on YouTube.
A few links:
Dragonfly Peppers, an All-American Selection from 2022
Dragon' Tail radishes from Burpee
On the bookshelf: The Big, Bad Book of Botany: The World’s Most Fascinating Flora by Michael Largo (Amazon link)
Dirt: Longan or Dragon's Fruit
Link to register for Herb Society of America's program presented by Carol on Lost Ladies of Herbal and Garden Writing (April 22)
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For more info on Carol visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
Watch us on YouTube.
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol pause their alphabetical episodes to talk about how to live a relaxed gardening life.
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On the bookshelf:
Jane Austen’s Garden: A Botanical Tour of the Classic Novels by Molly Williams and Jessica Roux by (Amazon link)
Dirt: Wassailing to the trees in early spring.
Rabbit Holes:
Link to register for Herb Society of America's program presented by Carol on Lost Ladies of Herbal and Garden Writing. Plus Helen K. Krauss info.
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For more info on Carol visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
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Watch us on YouTube.
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol talked about cleome, carnations, catnip and cabbages, along with a new book on vegetable gardening, and more.
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A few links:
Cleome Sparkler Blush F1,and Pink Queen, two All-America Selections
On the Bookshelf: High Yield, Small Space Organic Gardening: Practical Tips for Growing Your Own Food by Christy Wilhelmi, Owner of Gardenerd (Amazon link)
Dirt:
Tim James: 120 Years Since the Pest Phylloxera Came to Constantia
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For more info on Carol visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol talk about flowers and vegetables that start with the letter "B", a new book on foraging mushrooms, and more.
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A few links:
Baby's Breath - Gypsophilia 'Gypsy Rose Pink,' an AAS Winner
Brunnera 'Jack Frost' from Proven Winners
Bergenia 'Miss Piggy' from Proven Winners
Lettuce 'Buttercrunch,' an AAS Winner
On the bookshelf: Go Forth and Forage: A Guide to Foraging Over 50 of the Most Common Edible & Medicinal North American Mushrooms by Whitney Johnson (Amazon)
Dirt: Prairie Strips in Row Crops (Iowa State University)
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For more info on Carol visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
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On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol talk about alyssum, Agastache, artichokes, a new book, Gardening to the Max, and crown bees. Then they side-dressed it all with a few other books and topics.
Links:
Alyssum seeds at True Leaf Market
Agastache 'Golden Jubilee' at Select Seeds
Agastache foeniculum info from Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
Artichokes from Burpee
Our previous episode about asparagus
On the bookshelf: Garden to the Max: Joyful, Visionary, Maximalist Design, by Teresa Woodard (Amazon link)
Dirt: Crown Bees plus Sarah Raven's Podcast: Our role in supporting wild and solitary bees as gardeners with Richard Rickitt - Episode 213
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For more info on Carol visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol talk about the grandmacore trend and relate it to gardening, plus they talk about the new book Pansies by Brenna Estrada and Dee is making gluten-free sourdough bread.
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Links:
Southern Exposure Seed Exchange
On the Bookshelf: Pansies: How to Grow, Reimagine, and Create Beauty with Pansies and Violas by Brenna Estrada (Amazon)
Dirt: More on Grandmacore trend
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For more info on Carol visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
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On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol talk give tips for growing big zinnias, some things to consider for a new vegetable garden, a lovely book by Anya Lautenbach and more.
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Flowers:
Grow Great Zinnias - Floret Flowers
On the Bookshelf:
The Money-Saving Garden Year, a month-by-month guide to a great garden that costs less, by Anya Lautenbach. (Amazon link)
Dirt:
Cinnamon to Prevent Fungus Gnats?
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For more info on Carol visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol talked about how new flower varieties come to market, whether or not you should grow your own pepper and tomato plants, dirt about blue bees, and a book about historic flowers.
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Flowers:
Info on tissue culture
Veggies:
On the Bookshelf: Restoring American Gardens: An Encyclopedia of Heirloom Ornamental Plants, 1640-1940 (Amazon)
Dirt:
Rabbit Holes:
Dr. Cynthia Westcott, PhD, a Lost Lady of Garden Writing
Jane Austen’s Garden: A Botanical Tour of the Classic Novels, by Molly Williams, illustrations by Jessica Roux and Jane Austen at Home, by Lucy Worsley.
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Our newsletter is on Substack
For more info on Carol visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol talk about new varieties of flowers and veggies, plus a book about the history of tomatoes.
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Flowers:
Snapdragon DoubleShot™ Yellow Red Heart F1
Veggies:
On the Bookshelf: Ten Tomatoes That Changed the World: A History by William Alexander. (Amazon)
Dirt:
Garden Sown tomatoes and peppers from Burpee
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For more info on Carol visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol talk about Monstera houseplants, sage, a new book, Earthly Utopias, apple collecting and more.
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Links:
National Garden Bureau Year of the Monstera
How to grow sage from The Spruce
On the Bookshelf:
Earthly Utopias: Sacred Gardens of the World by Yolanda Zappaterra (Amazon Link)
Dirt: Meet Tom Brown, the Apple Hunter, from BlueDot Living
Rabbit Holes: Anna Gilman Hill, a Lost Lady of Garden Writing
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For more info on Carol visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
This week, we talked about milkweed, peas, Dee's new cookbook and more!
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Links:
National Garden Bureau's Year of Asclepias
National Garden Bureau's Year of the Pea
On the Bookshelf: JoyFull: Cook Effortlessly, Eat Freely, Live Radiantly (A Cookbook), by Radhi Devlukia-Shetty (Amazon link)
Dirt: A Prison Garden in Oklahoma (on FB)
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For more info on Carol visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol talk about calendula, borage, one of Dee's new cookbooks, tracking rain, and more!
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Flowers:
National Garden Bureau's Year of the Calendula
Veggies:
Borage, and information from The Spruce
On the Bookshelf:
La Vie Rustic: Cooking and Living in the French Style, by Georgeanne Brennan (Amazon link)
Dirt:
Raindrop App
See our newsletter for all the rest of the info!
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For more info on Carol visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol are back from their holiday hiatus talking about caladiums, comfrey, a new book, Plant Words, and more.
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Links:
Year of the Caladium, from National Garden Bureau
Comfrey, a perennial, from The Spruce, an herb from Wellness Mama, and for compost tea from Gardening Know How
On the Bookshelf:
Plant Words: A book of 250 curious words for plant lovers by Joe Richomme & Emma Wayland (Amazon)
Dirt:
Another color of the year: Lime Cream
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For more info on Carol visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol talk about some of their favorite Christmas plants, growing savory, a book, Small-Scale Homesteading and more.
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Links:
Queeny Lemon Peach zinnia from Burpee
14 Best Christmas Plants and Flowers for the Holiday Season from Family Handyman. Or if you prefer, read it on Birds & Blooms.
What is savory on Masterclass.
On the bookshelf: Small-Scale Homesteading: A Sustainable Guide to Gardening, Keeping Chickens, Maple Sugaring, Preserving the Harvest, and More, by Stephanie Thurow & Michelle Bruhn (Amazon Link)
Dirt:
Meet the Italian ‘Fruit Detective’, Who Investigates Centuries-Old Paintings for Clues About Produce That Has Disappeared From the Kitchen Table (via Smithsonian)
Joey Aprons | Roo Gardening
Rabbit Holes:
Lost Lady of Garden Writing, Marge Clark
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For more info on Carol visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol talked about amaryllis, holy basil, some apple dirt, and several books they are enjoying including The Botanists' Library.
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Links:
John Scheepers… for amaryllis bulbs and info on growing amaryllis bulbs
On Family Handyman's website: How to Keep an Amaryllis Alive
On the bookshelf: The Botantists’ Library: The Most Important Botanical Books in History by Carolyn Fry & Emma Wayland (Ivy Press, a Quarto Imprint) (Amazon)
Dirt: How Honeycrisp Apples Went from Marvelous to Mediocre on Serious Eats
Rabbit Holes:
Reclaiming Quiet by Sarah Clarkson. (Amazon link)
The Queens of Crime by Marie Benedict (Feb. 11, 2025) (Amazon link)
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Email us anytime at [email protected]
For more info on Carol visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol talk about why they love violas and zinnias, how to grow fennel, a new book, and leaf-shape-changing hollies, plus the usual rabbit holes and garden updates.
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Links:
The Quote Garden
Fennel Seeds from Botanical Interests
On the Bookshelf: The Cindervale Pearl by H.P. Jones
Dirt: Hollies Get Pricky for a Reason from National Geographic
Rabbit Holes:
The Dorito Effect by Mark Schatzker (Amazon Link)
Edna St. Vincent Millay documentary on YouTube
Elizabeth-Ellen Long, a Lost Lady of Garden Writing
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Email us anytime at [email protected]
For more info on Carol visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol talked about orange flowers, growing mache, and a new book on water-saving gardening, plus the usual dirt and rabbit holes.
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Links:
Carol's First Snow blog post
Dee's blog post on brightly colored flowers
An article from Epic Gardening on growing mache.
On the Bookshelf: The Water-Smart Garden: Techniques and Strategies for Conserving, Capturing, and Efficiently Using Water in Today’s Climate… and Tomorrow’s by Noelle Johnson (@az.plant.lady) Jan 7, 2025 (Amazon)
Dirt: Arctic Apples and the Non-GMO Project
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For more info on Carol visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol talked about using cottagecore gardening ideas in your flower and vegetable gardens and some of their favorite books on cottagecore style gardens. Plus, they went off on a few tangents, as happens.
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Links!
A definition of cottagecore from Country Living
A list of cottage garden flowers from Family Handyman
On the Bookshelf:
Life in a Cottage Garden by Carol Klein (Amazon link)
The Cottage Garden by Claus Dalby (Amazon link)
Dirt: The Story of this year's Rockefeller Center Christmas tree
and
Lego's new Botanical kits: pretty in pink, “floral arrangement," and Botanical Garden
Videos on iOS18 that Dee has been watching
Lost Lady of Garden Writing Helen Snow Wilson Goddard
Carol's dissolving mushroom on Instagram
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Email us anytime at [email protected]
For more info on Carol visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
As November continues, we talk about mums, celery, bananas, a new book on horticulture history and several other related topics.
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Flowers:
Are Mums Perennials and How to Care for Mums
On the bookshelf:
Heroines of Horticulture: A Celebration of Women Who Shaped North America’s Gardening Heritage by Stefan White (Amazon Link)
Dirt:
iFit used by Dee
Rabbit Holes:
How to control grubs with milky spore disease
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Territorial Seeds
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Email us anytime at [email protected]
For more info on Carol visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol talked about persistent perennials, carrots, a book about Japanese culture, armadillos and even the Duchess of Devonshire.
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A few links:
On the Bookshelf:
A Little Book of Japanese Contentments: Ikigai, Forest Bathing, Wabi-savi, and More, by Erin Niimi Longhurst (Amazon Link)
Dirt:
Leprosy from Armadillos?
Rabbit Holes:
Sipsworth, by Simon Van Booy (Amazon Link)
Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed, by Maureen Callahan (Amazon Link)
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Email us anytime at [email protected]
For more info on Carol visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
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We wrap up October with talk about trees, growing veggies in the winter, apples, and more.
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Some links:
Info on Sumacs
Sumac in Purdue's arboretum
Grave Landscapes: The Nineteenth Century Cemetery Movement by James R. Cochran and Erica Danylchak (Amazon Link)
Four-Season Harvest: Organic vegetables from your home garden all year long - Foreword by Barbara Damrosch (1992) (Amazon Link)
On the Bookshelf:
Better Homes and Gardens Special Publication Best Apple Recipes on eBay
Southern Living Best Fall Recipes issue
Dirt:
Chelsea Physic Garden
How the Victorian Fern Hunting Craze Led to Adventure, Romance, and Crime
Lost Lady of Gardening Writer and author of Ferns, Grace A. Woolson
New Apple Variety Needs a Name
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Email us anytime at [email protected]
For more info on Carol visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol talked about shrubs with fall interest, two cookbooks for vegetables, a lead poisoning mystery solved, and a new book, Plants for the Winter Garden: Perennials, Grasses, Shrubs, and Trees to Add Interest in the Cold and Snow, by Warren Leach
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Links:
Seed Savers Exchange
Link to register for National Garden Bureau's Book Authors Talk Gardening webinar on Nov. 14
A Midwest Gardener’s Cookbook, by Marian K. Towne, Illustrations by Ellen Walsh (Amazon Link)
The Ambitious Kitchen Cookbook: 125 Ridiculously, Good for You, Sometimes Indulgent and Absolutely Never Boring Recipes for Every Meal of the Day , by Monique Volz (Amazon link)
On the Bookshelf: Plants for the Winter Garden: Perennials, Grasses, Shrubs, and Trees to Add Interest in the Cold and Snow, by Warren Leach
Dirt:
Turmeric lead poisoning - quite the mystery - NPR article and Turmeric’s unexpected link to lead poisoning in Bangladesh
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Dee and Carol talked about fothergilla shrubs, vegetable gardening preferences and confessions, and more.
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Links:
Dee's blog post on Zinnias Favorites
Carol's blog post from the garden fairies
Fothergilla from Proven Winners
Black Flora: Inspiring Profiles of Floriculture’s New Vanguard by Teresa J. Speight (Amazon Link)
Dirt:
10 Creepy Plants to Haunt your House this Fall - Pistils Nursery.
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Dee and Carol talked about Silphium flowers, managing fall frosts, all black flower gardens, a new book on insects and more.
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Links:
Mastering the Art of Flower Gardening, by Matt Mattus
Flower Netting (Amazon link)
On the Bookshelf:
Insect Epiphany: How Our Six-Legged Allies Shape Human Culture by Barrett Klein (Amazon Link)
Dirt:
Kat Von D on Instagram, her field of black tulips.
Rabbit holes:
How to Grow Dracaena Draco (Dragon Tree) Indoors.
Jane Eayre Fryer, Lost Lady of Garden Writing
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We talked about collecting flower seeds, growing beets, a new book on garlic, witches bottles and more.
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Links:
Carol's 20th anniversary blog post
On the Bookshelf: The Garlic Companion by Kristin Graves. (Amazon link) (Her Instagram is FifthGenGardens)
Dirt
Witch Bottle discovery (YouTube Video)
Rabbit hole:
Reddit article on getting rid of skunk oil.
Duluth Trading Company Bib Overalls
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Dee and Carol talked about border plants, a new book on garden record-keeping, books by Anna Pavord and several other topics.
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Dee's Instagram reel about organic potting soil
Carol's blog post from 2010: The Wilderness Called
The Tiny Farm Planner: Recordkeeping, Seasonal To-Dos, and Resources for Manging Your Small-Scale Home Farm, by Jill Ragan, (Amazon), Author of The Tiny but Mighty Farm (Amazon)
On the Bookshelf: Anna Pavord
The Tulip: The Story of a Flower That has Made Men Mad. (Amazon link) Good used copies.
Bulb (Amazon link)
The Curious Gardener (Amazon Link) Another month-by-month, year in the garden book.
The Naming of Names: The Search for Order in the World of Plants (Amazon Link)
Dirt: Taxonimists are also changing bird names.
Rabbit Holes:
Not Just a Homemaker: The Extraordinary Life of Sheila MacGregor, by Paulette Brooks.
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Topics this week included refreshing your flower garden in the fall, vegetables you can still grow, a new book by Barbara Damrosch, some amazing plants, and poisonous book covers.
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Links:
Hayefield Seeds
Peony's Envy
Cobrahead Tools
The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener by Niki Jabbour
On the bookshelf: A Life in the Garden, Tales and Tips for Growing Food in Every Season, by Barbara Damrosch. (Amazon link)
Eliot Coleman and Barbara Damrosch's website
Dirt:
Plants are amazing!
Snow on the Prairie
Beautyberry Leaves
Rabbit Holes:
Arsenic and Old Gardening Books
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This week, we talked about spring-flowering trees to plant now, steps you can take to be ready for spring in the vegetable garden, a few favorite books by a favorite author and all kinds of other topics.
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Flowers:
A special shout out for J.C. Raulston from Oklahoma, who ran the JC Raulston Arboretum at North Carolina State University in Raleigh.
On the Bookshelf:
A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden, by Sydney Eddison (Amazon link)
Gardening for a Lifetime: How to Garden Wiser as You Grow Older, by Sydney Eddison. (Amazon link)
A Passion for Daylilies: The Flowers and the People, by Sydney Eddison (Amazon link) This one is all about famous dayliliy hybridizers, and if you’re a daylily aficionado, you should buy it.
Dirt:
There are some new botanical Lego sets… like poinsettias! And a Christmas wreath, and a chrysanthemum and plum blossoms.
Rabbit holes
Vegan color pens: Ohuhu Markers.
Another Lost Lady of Garden Writing: Rosetta E. Clarkson.
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As we enter another season in the garden, we talked about planting trees, how our vegetable gardens did, giant hogweed, some books we love, and a surprising rabbit hole.
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Links:
Flowers:
Tree Installation: Tips for Trouble-Free Tree Planting | Family Handyman
Info about washing off tree roots
Veggies:
Purple Magic Broccoli
Red Impact Peppers
Dragonfly Peppers
On the Bookshelf:
The Layered Garden by David L. Culp (Amazon Link)
A Year at Brandywine Cottage, by David L. Culp. (Amazon Link)
Dirt:
Giant Hogweed
Rabbit Holes:
Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health, by Casey Means, MD with Calley Means (Amazon Link)
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Lots of garden chatter this week about lawns, soil testing, herbicide dangers, an old gardening book and a few other misc. topics.
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A few links to tide you over if you haven't read the newsletter:
A couple of favorite flowers: Zinnia 'Benary’s Giant Wine' and Sunflower 'Concert Bell'
If you want to test your lawn and garden soil, Great Lakes is a soil testing lab, located in Ft. Wayne, Indiana.
On the bookshelf: This is the Way My Garden Grows and Comes Into My Kitchen, by Barbara Dodge Borland. (Amazon Link) Plus, Carol's YouTube video about her.
Dirt: Triclopyr: Off-Target Damage from Purdue Landscape Report
Rabbit Hole Links:
Touring the Cotswolds with Pam Ayres on YouTube
Two jigsaw puzzles, USA State Birds and USA State Flowers
Anne Ophelia Dowden
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Dee and Carol talked about giant flowers, soil fertility, a book of nature writing, and more on this week's episode.
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Links:
Heuchera 'Autumn Bride'
Hibiscus 'Moy Grande'
Information on green sand from Rutgers Cooperative Extension
On the bookshelf:
Sundial of the Seasons by Hal Borland (Amazon Link)
Our dirt: Trees don’t like to breathe wildfire smoke, either – and they’ll hold their breath to avoid it
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Dee and Carol talked about how to take in plants for winter, nitrogen for plant growth, The Tree Collectors by Amy Stewart, Girl's Tomato Clubs and more.
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Links:
Beacon Impatiens
Solarscape Impatiens
Dee's blog post on taking cuttings of favorite plants
Sarah Raven's podcast episode on pelargoniums
Verbena 'Vanity'
Verbena 'Bampton'
The Tree Collectors: Tales of Arboreal Obsession by Amy Stewart (Amazon Link)
The Girls’ Tomato Club movement
Lost Lady of Garden Writing Anna Bartlett Warner
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Dee and Carol discuss planting perennials in the fall, blackberries, and a book about two women botanists, plus several other topics
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Links:
Dee's Instagram video about Tidepool zinnias.
Carol's All-America Selections grown from seed: Zinnia angustifolia 'Crystal White Zinnia Profusion Red Yellow Bicolor, and Coleus Premium Sun Coral Candy.
Carol's blog post on her lavender cutback
Blackberry and Raspberry Culture for the Home Garden | Oklahoma State University.
On the bookshelf: Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon by Melissa Sevigny. (Amazon Link)
Dirt: Your RoundUp herbicide has changed.
Rabbit Holes: Carol' s Lost Ladies of Garden Writing
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Dee and Carol talked about spring-flowering bulbs to plant in the fall, amaranth and celosia, and more.
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Links:
Growing Bulbs in the Natural Garden: Innovative Techniques for Combining Bulbs in Every Season by Jacqueline van der Kloet (Amazon Link)
Colour Your Garden: Exciting Mixtures of Bulbs and Perennials (2018) (Amazon Link)
Carol's article for FH about growing Celosia
AAS winning celosias…Flamma Orange and Burning Embers.
Dee's Instagram video last fall of Hot Biscuits in my garden.
On the Bookshelf: Women in My Rose Garden: The History, Romance and Adventure of Old Roses by Ann Chapman (Author), Paul Starosta (Photographer) (Amazon link)
Dirt: the Verry Cherry Plum
Rabbit Holes: Anne Ophelia Dowden
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Dee and Carol talked about white flowers, gooseberries, and more on this week's episode.
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A few links:
Carol's old blog post about variegated evening primrose
Queen Sophia marigolds, an All-America Selection
Gooseberries from Stark Bros.
On the bookshelf: From Seed to Skillet: A Guide to Growing, Tending, Harvesting, and Cooking Up Fresh, Healthy Food to Share with People You Love, by by Jimmy Williams (Author), Susan Heeger (Author), Eric Staudenmaier (Photographer) (Amazon Link)
Dirt: False Mermaid Weed Spotted, via Smithsonian
Rabbit Holes:
George Jones HOJ Familiar Flower Plates
Leading Toward Autumn, a blog post Carol wrote about a book illustrated by Anne Ophelia Dowden
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Dee and Carol talked about begonias, dill, sweet-tasting fruit, and more on this week's episode
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Links:
Siskiyou Seeds
Info on Pine Bark Beetles
Flowers:
How to Care for Begonias: Family Handyman
American Begonia Society
All-America Selections begonias
Veggies:
Dill from Johnny's Selected Seeds
On the Bookshelf:
Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees by Aimee Nezhukumatathil (Amazon Link)
Dirt: Why America’s Berries Have Never Tasted So Good, from WSJ
Dee's post on Weeds Have Super Powers
Carol's article on another Lost Lady of Garden Writing
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Dee and Carol discuss Caladiums, growing garlic, a book about gardeners and more on this week's episode.
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A few links:
Kitchen Minis
All-America Selection cucumbers
Caladium of the Year: 'Lemon Blush'
Heart to Heart Caladiums
Garlic from Johnny's Selected Seeds
On the Bookshelf: The Roots of My Obsession: Thirty Great Gardeners Reveal Why They Garden, Edited by Thomas C. Cooper (Amazon link)
Dirt: Cultural Burning
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Dee and Carol talk about deer problems in Dee's garden, how to give your container plantings a mid-summer makeover, tomato questions, old gardening magazines, and more.
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Links:
A couple of Carol's blog posts: A Guide to Garden Fairies in Your House and Summer Squash Stages.
Dee's recent reel on watering.
'Bossa Nova' squash
Dee's Container Garden tutorial
Carol's Family Handyman article about tomato staking and caging
On the Bookshelf:
The Once & Future Gardener: Garden Writing from the Golden Age of Magazines 1900 - 1940, edited and with an introduction by Virginia Tuttle Clayton (Amazon link) and The American Gardener: A Sampler, edited by Allen Lacy (Amazon link)
Article about Queen's Memorial Garden
Carol's latest Lost Lady of Garden Writing
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Dee and Carol talked about biennials, eggplant, tacky gardens, some old but good gardening books and a few other topics in between.
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A few links:
How to Grow False Queen Anne's Lace
Carol's post about self-sowing annuals
All-America Selections of eggplants
Dee's recipe for Thai Basil eggplant
On the bookshelf:
Time and the Gardener: Writings on a Lifelong Passion by Elisabeth Sheldon (Amazon link) and The Gardener's Bed-Book: Short and Long Pieces to Be Read in Bed by Those Who Love Green Growing Things by Richardson Wright. (Amazon link)
Daily Mail article on tacky gardens
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This week, Dee and Carol take you through their own gardens, discuss a book of gardening essays, and more.
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Links:
BBC Archive with Michael Caine
Carol's new weekly gardening newsletter.
Flowers:
One of Dee's reels on daylilies
Veggies:
Dee's post about growing lavender in Oklahoma
On the Bookshelf:
The Grove: a Nature Odyssey in 19 ½ Front Gardens by Ben Dark (Amazon link)
Dirt:
Sunflowers as Phytoremediators
Nan Ondra's blog post about dephloxing
Rabbit Holes:
Alma C. Guillet, a Lost Lady of Garden Writing
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Dee and Carol discuss growing petunias from seed, growing sweet potatoes, Monty Don's new book and more.
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Links!
Flowers:
Old-fashioned, heirloom climbing petunia this year from Select Seeds.
Success! Silver Vein petunias
Wave Carmine Velour petunias, AAS winner
Veggies:
Purple Sweet Potatoes from Johnny’s Selected Seeds
On the Bookshelf:
The Gardening Book by Monty Don (Amazon Link)
Dirt:
Pugh Gardens on YouTube
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Dee and Carol mixed things up a bit this week. All the details are in our free Substack newsletter.
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Dee and Carol talked about lavender, current favorite books for vegetable gardeners, a new book on lavender, plus dirt, rabbit holes and more!
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Links:
Flowers:
'Phenomenal' Lavender
Veggies:
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On the Bookshelf:
The Lavender Companion: Enjoy the Aroma, Flavor and Health Benefits of This Classic Herb by Terry Barlin Vesci and Jessica Dunham (Amazon)
Dirt:
An English Gardener finds a 1,600 year old inscribed rock while weeding
Rabbit Holes:
RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024 on Britbox
Agatha Raisin mysteries by M. C. Beaton (Amazon)
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Dee and Carol talk about gomphrena, flowers in the vegetable garden, a new book on garden design and more in this week's episode.
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No Mow May
Reduce Your Lawn Day - May 20th
'Topcrop' green beans, an All-America Selection from 1950
Flowers:
Proven Winners Truffal Pink gomphrena
Fireworks gomphrena from Burpee
Veggies:
Carol's post on nine bean rows
Plant Partners: Science-Based Companion Planting Strategies for the Vegetable Gardens, by Jessica Walliser (Amazon)
On the Bookshelf:
Your Outdoor Room: How to Design a Garden You Can Live In, by Manoj Malde (Amazon link)
Dirt:
Barn owls for crop protection
Rabbit Holes:
Ida Bennett, a Lost Lady of Garden Writing
Rose Chat podcast
Sarah Raven podcast
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Dee and Carol talk about wisteria, bee balm, beans, and much more.
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American wisteria
Flowers
Wild Bergamot, Witchita Mountains Form from High Country Gardens
UK National Collection of Beebalm
Vegetables
Bean seeds from Seeds of Italy
Carol's Forktress Blog Post
On the Bookshelf
The Gardener's Guide to Prarie Plants, by Neil Diboll & Hilary Cox (Amazon)
Dirt:
Let Your Garden Grow Wild Ted Talk by Rebecca McMackin
Theme Gardens by Barbara Damrosch (Amazon Link)
Rabbit Holes
Farmer's Defense sleeves
Dee's blog post on gardening with Alpha-Gal Syndrome
The Field House: A Writer's Life Lost and Found on an Island in Maine by Robin Clifford Wood (Amazon)
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Dee and Carol talked about Geum flowers, strawberries, and more on this week's episode.
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Flowers:
'Totally Tangerine' Geum from Proven Winners
Prairie Smoke, Geum triflorum
A national Geum collection in Great Britain
Vegetables:
All-American strawberry, DeLizz
How To Winterize Strawberry Plants.
On the Bookshelf:
The Thousand Year Old Garden: Inside the Secret Garden at Lambeth Palace by Nick Stewart Smith (Amazon Link)
Dirt:
Rabbit Holes:
Dee's blog post on gardening with Alpha-Gal syndrome
Carol's latest Lost Lady of Garden Writing, Elvenia Slosson.
The Pilgrim’s Way to Britain’s Great Cathedrals, Episode 1, on YouTube
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Dee and Carol talked about peonies, the rose family, making gardens look old, and more on this week's episode.
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Links!
Lia’s Garden at Commonwealth
Duluth Trading Company Heirloom Gardening Bib Overalls
Flowers:
Natchez Glen House and their peony collection.
Veggies:
An Apple is a Rose? - Smithsonian Gardens
On the Bookshelf:
The Herbalist’s Guide: How to Build and Use Your Own Apothecary, by Mary Colvin, RH (AHG) (Amazon Link)
Dirt:
Thirty Ways to Make Your Garden Look Older from Garden & Gun magazine
The Le Fleur board game kickstarter campaign.
Rabbit Holes:
Complete this form to encourage your congress person to attend a hearing on May 2nd about Alpha Gal
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Carol and Dee talked about a new book, Floral Folklore, growing veggies in containers, Sarah Raven's new book on container plantings, plus much more!
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Links:
Flowers:
Floral Folklore: The Forgotten Tales Behind Nature’s Most Enchanting Plants, By Alison Davies. Illustrated by Sarah Wildling. (Amazon link.)
Veggies:
Cucumber Quick Snack from Burpee
Basil Bonsai from Burpee
On the Bookshelf:
A Year Full of Pots: Container Flowers for All Seasons, by Sarah Raven (Amazon link) Lavishly photographed by Jonathan Buckley.
Dirt:
Justin Davies woodworking on Instagram
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Dee and Carol talk about easy to grow from seed flowers and veggies, a new book on nature-inspired interior design, honey, and more!
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Links!
Carol's Pansy Blog Post
Seeds of Italy
Flowers:
Sunflower Houses, by Sharon Lovejoy (Amazon Link, used copies)
'Concert Bell' sunflowers, an All-America Selection
'Siam Gold' marigolds, an All-American Selection
Veggies:
Single-seed beets from Johnny's Selected Seeds
Book:
Outside In: Interiors Born From Nature, by Brian Paquette. Published by Gibbs Smith. (Amazon Link)
Dirt:
Spotted Lanternfly Honey
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Dee and Carol talked about native plants for their gardens, who's growing vegetables these days, the game Botany, a new book and more.
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Links!
Flowers:
A Northern Gardener’s Guide to Native Plants and Pollinators by Lorraine Johnson and Sheila Colla (Amazon Link)
Books:
Simple Country Living by Annette Thurmon of Azure Farm (Amazon link)
Dirt:
Botany from Dux Somnium Games and a YouTube Video of it being played
Rabbit holes:
Viola Brainerd Baird, a lost lady of garden writing
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Dee and Carol talked about flowers they wished they'd never planted, biggest disasters in their vegetable gardens, a great inspirational book, and more.
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Links:
Carol's blog post about rescuing pansies
On the Bookshelf:
Seedtime and Harvest: How Gardens Grow Roots, Connections, Wholeness, and Hope, by Christie Purifoy (Amazon Link)
Dirt:
Extend flower life in vases, per Oklahoma State Extension
The Offline Club
Rabbit holes:
Booklegging
Lost Lady is Frances Edge McIlvaine
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Dee and Carol talk about Phlox paniculata 'Jeana', favorite tools, etc. for the veggie garden, a great new book on bird friendly gardening and more.
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Links:
Flowers:
PPA's perennial for 2024 - Phlox paniculata 'Jeana.'
Mt. Cuba Center info
Veggies:
See the newsletter for links to our favorite tools! Plus, be aware of Asian Jumping Worms
On the Bookshelf:
Bird-Friendly Gardening: Guidance and Projects for Supporting Birds in Your Landscape, by Jen McGuiness. (Amazon Link)
Dirt:
Pansies are now a Texas Superstar!
Rabbit Holes:
Bebe Miles, a Lost Lady of Garden Writing
Carol's Seed Packet Poetry
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Dee and Carol talk about marigolds, a new book on growing vegetables and a new book on growing cut flowers, plus fascinating stuff.
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Links:
Flowers:
Rediscovering marigolds: John Scheeper's Kitchen Garden Seeds.
Carol's Family Handyman article on marigolds.
Siam Gold F1, a new AAS winner for 2024
Veggies:
Simplify Vegetable Gardening, by Tony O'Neill. (Amazon Link)
On the Bookshelf:
The Cut Flower Handbook, by Lisa Mason Ziegler. (Amazon Link)
Dirt:
Old Fruits and Vegetables
Rabbit Holes:
Ella Porter McKinney
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Dee and Carol talked about daffodils, new All-American Selections vegetables, a new book on gardening with bulbs and more.
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Flowers:
Daffodils!
Brent and Becky's Bulbs
Van Engelen Bulbs
Dee's blog post about planting bulbs
Vegetables:
AAS Winners for 2024
Broccoli 'Purple Magic F1'
Broccoli 'Skytree F1'
Pepper 'Red Impact F1'
On the Bookshelf:
Growing Bulbs in the Natural Garden by Jacqueline van der Kloet (Amazon Link)
Dirt:
'Firefly' Petunia
Rabbit Holes:
Quick Reference guides
Dorothy Childs Hogner
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Dee and Carol talk about the herb of the year, the vegetable of the year, a wonderful book about garden making, plus the latest on mulches. We both went down some interesting rabbit holes too!
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Flowers:
Yarrow, Herb of the Year
Veggies:
Year of the Squash, per National Garden Bureau
On the Bookshelf:
Garden Maker: Growing a Life of Beauty and Wonder with Flowers, by Christie Purifoy (Amazon)
Dirt:
Say "no" to cardboard for smothering weeds, the Garden Professors
Rabbit Holes:
Dee: Genexa OTC medications
Carol: Buckner Hollingsworth
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Dee and Carol talk about growing pollinator-friendly plants from seeds, edimentals, a new book, and more.
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Flowers:
Pollinator-friendly plants from seed from Select Seeds
Veggies:
Grow some "edimentals", as described by Homes & Gardens.
On the Bookshelf:
The Layered Edible Garden: A Beginner's Guide to Creating a Productive Food Garden Layer by Layer by Christina Chung of Fluent Garden (Amazon Link)
Her instagram page: Fluent.Garden
Dirt:
Monarch butterfly status from Monarch Watch
Baker Creek's purple tomato discontinues (currently on their FAQ page)
Rabbit Holes:
Eastern Red Cedars Wreak Havoc for Allergy Sufferers in Oklahoma!
C. Z. Guest and the swans of 5th avenue:
The Swans of Fifth Avenue by Melanie Benjamin (Amazon Link)
Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal and a Swan Song for an Era by Lawrence Leamer (Amazon Link)
Carol's Substack article about C. Z. Guest
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Dee and Carol talk about growing fragrant flowers from seeds, growing onions and other alliums, a new book on organic vegetable gardening, and more.
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Links:
Flowers:
John Scheepers' Kitchen Garden Seeds List of Fragrant Flowers from Seed.
Veggies:
'Creme Brulee', an All-America Selection of shallots
Article on how to grow leeks
On the Bookshelf:
The Backyard Homestead Guide to Growing Organic Food: A Crop-by-Crop Reference for 62 Vegetables, Fruits, Nuts, and Herbs by Tanya Denckla Cobb. (Amazon Link)
Dirt:
Article about control ticks on deer
Article about how lone star ticks find their prey
Rabbit Holes:
Carol: Mrs. Edward Harding
Dee: What We Sow by Jennifer Jewell (Amazon Link)
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Dee and Carol talk about Verbenas, early spring leaf and root crops, a lovely book on hummingbirds, and more.
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Flowers:
'Bampton' seeds from Hayefield
Native Verbenas:
Verbena hastata (American Blue Vervain)
Verbena stricta (Hoary Vervain)
Verbena halei (Texas Vervain)
Veggies:
Old episode on winter vs. summer radishes
On the Bookshelf: The Hummingbirds’ Gift: Wonder, Beauty, and Renewal on Wings by Sy Montgomery
Dirt:
GMO Tomato available to home gardeners. Norfolk Healthy Products…
Book Authors Talk Gardening, sponsored by the National Garden Bureau on March 7th at 7pm - a free event! Registration Link.
Rabbit Holes:
Margaret Roach’s article/discussion with Don Tipping of siskiyou seeds.
Carol's Substack article about Kate L. Brewster.
Carol's blog post about her plant labeling advice.
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Dee and Carol talk about the National Garden Bureau's Year of the Hosta, growing lettuce and peas, George Harrison's topiary garden, and more.
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Links:
Espoma products, also on Amazon
Flowers:
National Garden Bureau's Year of the Hosta
On the bookshelf: Mischievous Creatures: The Forgotten Sisters Who Transformed Early American Science by Catherine McNeur (Amazon)
Dirt:
George Harrison's Topiary Garden
Rabbit Holes:
Dorothy Giles, author of The Little Kitchen Garden
Capote and the Swans on FX
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Dee and Carol talk about Buddleia, more seed catalogs, cicada events this year, and more on this week's episode
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Links:
Flowers:
National Garden Bureau's Year of the Buddleia
Where is Buddleia invasive?
Vegetables:
Baker Creek Heirloom Seed
John Scheepers Kitchen Garden Seeds
On the Bookshelf:
Beautifully Said: Quotes by Remarkable Women and Girls Designed to Make You Think (Amazon link)
Dirt:
NPR article on big cicada brood emergence
Rabbit Holes:
Carol's blog post on tomato growing advice from 1926
Carol's substack newsletter article on Mrs. Francis King, a Lost Lady of Garden Writing
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Dee and Carol talk about NGB's Year of the Lily, two more seed catalogs, winter words and a host of other topics.
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Links:
Flowers:
National Garden Bureau Year of the Lily
North American Lily Society
Carol’s article on types of lilies in Family Handyman
Dee's blog post on lilies.
Veggies:
Dee's seed sleeves.
Pinetree Garden Seeds
Southern Exposure Seed Exchange
On the Bookshelf:
The Wisdom of Flowers: Essential Life Lessons for Joy and Wellbeing by Liz Martin (Amazon)
Dirt:
Winter Words
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Dee and Carol talk about angelonia, more seed catalogs, inspiring botanists, and much more.
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Flowers:
National Garden Bureau's Year of the Angelonia
Veggies:
Burpee Seed Catalog
Territorial Seed Catalog
On the Bookshelf:
Playing in the Dirt: 90 Devotions for Crazy Plant Ladies, by Dayspring (Amazon link)
Dirt:
Margaret Bradshaw in The Guardian
Rabbit Holes:
Clare Leighton and Wisdom from 1935 (Carol's blog post) and Planting garden bulbs is an act of faith (Dee's blog post)
Four Hedges by Clare Leighton (also Amazon)
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On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Carol and Dee discussed African Violets, a couple of seed catalogs, a new book of garden projects and more on this week's episode.
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Links!
Flowers:
National Garden Bureau's Year of the African Violet
Dee's blog post about African Violets
Veggies:
Select Seeds
Johnny's Selected Seeds
On the Bookshelf:
Verdura:Living a Garden Life: 30 Projecs to Nurture Your Passion for Plants & find your Bliss by Perla Sofia Curbelo-Santiago (Amazon link)
Rabbit Holes:
Documentary on Netflix: You Are What You Eat.
Wild Alaskan Seafood
Vegan at Times, by Jessica Seinfeld
What We Sow by Jennifer Jewell (Amazon Link)
Carol's starter list of month-by-month books
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Dee and Carol talked about peach fuzz colored flowers, a new book on growing vegetables, books on birds, a Gardeners' World winter special and more.
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A few links:
Carol's night-blooming cereus in The Washington Post
A few peach-colored flowers (more in our newsletter!)
Digitalis Arctic Fox Rose
Little Lucky Peach Glow Lantana
A new book on growing vegetables:
Gardening Know How – The Complete Guide to Vegetable Gardening: Create, Cultivate, and Care for Your Perfect Edible Garden by Editors of Gardening Know How (Amazon Link)
On the bookshelf:
The Birds of Indiana (Amazon Link)
The Birding Pro’s Birds of Oklahoma by Marc Parnell (Amazon Link)
The Little Book of Backyard Bird Songs, by Andrea Pinnington (Amazon Link)
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On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol talk about Christmas plants other than poinsettias, veggies to bring for Christmas, a J.R.R. Tolkien book, mistletoe and more.
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Links:
Carol's snowdrop reel on Instagram
Dee's blog post on paperwhites that don't stink.
Christmas plants other than poinsettias, by Dee Nash
Daisy Thomson Abbott with advice about poinsettias (from 1932!)
The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
Letters From Father Christmas by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Baillie Tolkien (Amazon link)
Mistletoe Friend or Foe?
Growing mistletoe from seed? Should you? Carol’s FH article from last year.
Rabbit Holes:
Insect Shield
Two Alpha Gals podcast episode
Mildred V. Luedy, co-author of The Christmas Rose, 1948.
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On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
This week's episode has a bit of an orchid theme.
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Flowers:
National Garden Bureau has an excellent article as they wrap up Year of the Orchid
The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean (Amazon)
Veggies:
Homemade Vanilla Extract
Buy a vanilla orchid from Logee's Greenhouse.
On the Bookshelf:
Orchid Muse: A History of Obsession in Fifteen Flowers by Erica Hannickel (Amazon)
Dirt:
Movie: A Haunting in Venice. Based on Agatha Christie’s book, Halloween Party (Amazon)
Planting wheatgrass on December 13th
Rabbit Holes:
A new Lost Lady of Garden Writing, Daisy Thomson Abbott
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On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol talk about cats and gardens.
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Flowers:
Catnip article from Univ. of Wisc. Extension
Proven Winners article about catmint
Gardening Know How: Do I Have Catmint Or Catnip: Are Catnip And Catmint The Same Plant
Veggies:
Be Chewy article on vegetables cats can eat
Mr. Milo the Chonk on Instagram
On the Bookshelf:
Rhapsody in Green by Beverley Nichols. (Amazon link)
Beverley Nichols’ Cat Book!
Dirt:
Cat Friendly houseplants from Gardeners World
IG reel of Dee fixing up a houseplant that Masha had her way with!
Rabbit Holes:
Zinnias at Basket of Flowers Farm
Salisbury Organist
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Dee and Carol talk about thermogenic flowers, a new book about growing vegetables, a flower clock, and assorted other topics.
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Links:
Brent and Becky's Bulbs
Dee's Blog Post on Paperwhites
Carols' Blog Post on Thanksgiving and Christmas Cacti
Garden Rant's Blog Post about Pleasure
Thermogenic Flowers on Science Direct
Vegetables:
Vegetable Gardening Made Easy: Simple Tips & Tricks to Grow Your Best Garden Ever, By Resh Gala (Amazon Link) and 100 Tomatoes LLC
On the Bookshelf:
Summer Kitchens: Recipes and Reminiscences from Every Corner of Ukraine by Olia Hercules (Amazon Link)
Dirt:
Linnaeus's Flower Clock
Rabbit Holes:
A Memory of Violets: A Novel of London's Flower Sellers, by Hazel Gaynor (Amazon Link)
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Topics this week include gourds, Dee's new craft project, an update on neonicotinoid pesticides and their impact, a new hardiness zone map, plus a fun book and a new rabbit hole.
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Links:
Flowers:
Neonicotinoid info from Texas A&M
American Beauty Native Plants
Veggies:
American Gourd Society
On the Bookshelf:
Of Flowers & a Village: An Entertainment for Flower Lovers by Wilfrid Blunt (Amazon Link)
Dirt:
Hardiness Zone Map
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On this week’s episode, we talked about fall leaf colors, winter squash, books of letters, and more.
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A few links:
Family Handyman Article: Best Shrubs for Fall Leaf Color
New World’s Record for a Pumpkin
Farmer Lee Jones in The Chef’s Garden!
Roasted Delicata Squash Recipe
On the Bookshelf:
Two Gardeners: Katharine S. White and Elizabeth Lawrence--A Friendship in Letters (Amazon link)
Dear Friend and Gardener: Letters on Life and Gardening (letters between Christopher Lloyd & Beth Chatto) (Amazon link)
A Year in Our Gardens: Letters by Nancy Goodwin and Allen Lacy (Amazon link)
Tell About Night Flowers: Eudora Welty’s Gardening Letters, 1940-1949, edited by Julie Eichelberger. (Amazon Link).
Dirt:
Mary Jane’s Farm magazine
Rabbit Holes:
An Episode of Sparrows by Rumer Godden (Amazon Link)
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Dee and Carol look back on the past year to review their favorite flower, veggie, and book topics as they celebrate five years of podcasting!
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Dee and Carol talk about vintage garden accessories, microgreens, a new book by Marc Hamer, and some pretty deep rabbit holes.
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Links:
Dee's Instagram reel featuring Sheffield mums
Flowers:
Blooming Vintage OK on Instagram
Gardener's World Episode 30 (via Britbox on Amazon)
Veggies:
The Microgreens Cookbook: A good water farms odyssey by Brendan Davison (Amazon)
Carol's FH article on growing microgreens
On the Bookshelf:
Spring Rain: A Life Lived in Gardens by Marc Hamer. (Amazon)
Dirt:
Emily Lex painting a robin on Instagram.
Article about differences between American and English robins.
Unearthing the Secret Garden: The Plants and Places That Inspired Frances Hodgson Burnett, by Marta McDowell
Rabbit Holes:
John Derian Company
At Target, on Amazon
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Dee and Carol talked about passalong plants from their gardens, fermenting to preserve vegetables, rice, gardening pants, plus more!
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Links:
Carol’s blog post about looking up the use of the word plastic.
Dee's Instagram reel of 'Blonde Ambition' blue grama grass
Flowers:
Passalong Plants, by Steve Bender and Felder Rushing (2002) (Amazon)
Vegetables:
Pickle and Ferment: Preserve Your Produce & Brew Delicious Probiotic Drinks, by Susan Crowther and Julie Fallone (Amazon)
On the Bookshelf:
The Book Lover’s Cookbook:Recipes Inspired by Celebrated Works of Literature, and the Passages That Feature Them, by Shaunda Kennedy Wenger and Janet Jensen (2003) (Amazon Link)
Dirt:
Lundberg Rice Farm
Rabbit Holes:
Duluth Trading Company
The Midwest Survival Guide: How We Talk, Love, Work, and Eat… Everything With Ranch, by Charlie Behrens. (Amazon)
Blooming Vintage OK on Instagram
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Dee and Carol talk about native asters, planting your garden for foraging, a new houseplant book, a new sunscreen, and more.
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Flowers:
Mt. Cuba Center Aster Trials
Vegetables:
How to Forage for Wild Foods Without Dying: An absolute beginner’s guide to identifying 40 edible wild plants, by Ellen Zachos (Amazon link)
On the Bookshelf:
Happy Plants, Happy You: A Plant-Care and Self-Care Guide for the Modern Houseplant Parent, by Kamili Bell Hill (Amazon link)
Dirt:
Supergoop sunscreen
Rabbit Holes:
Oklahoma Native Plants, by Connie Scothorn, ASLA, RLA with Brian Patric, ASLA, RLA. (Amazon link)
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Dee and Carol talk about poisonous plants in the garden, a new vegetable garden planner, the new book Gardening Can Be Murder, and more
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Links:
The Vegetable Garden Planner: A Crop-by-Crop Guide for Planning and Tracking Your Garden Bounty Each Year, from Seed Starting to Harvest by Lynn Bcyczynski (Amazon)
On the Bookshelf:
Gardening Can Be Murder: How Poisonous Poppies, Sinister Shovels, and Grim Gardens Have Inspired Mystery Writers by Marta McDowell (Amazon)
Dirt: The Beautiful Flower that Keeps Mice out of Your Home and Garden.
Rabbit Holes:
The 7 Creepiest Manor Houses in Mystery
And too many mystery books to list!
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Dee and Carol talk about late-flowering bulbs, kale, an Italian cookbook, and more.
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Links:
Armenian cucumber seeds from Botanical Interests
Premium Sun Coral Coleus, an All America Selection
Flowers:
Orange Lycoris for sale at Southern Bulb Company
Vegetables:
Stanley Tucci series, Searching for Italy
'Black Magic' kale from Eden Bros.
The Chef's Garden by Farmer Lee Jones (Amazon)
On the bookshelf: The Tucci Table, by Stanley Tucci and Felicity Blunt (Amazon link)
An Instagram reel with Stanley making drinks.
Dirt: Infiorate di Spello in Spello, Italy.
Rabbit Holes: The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man by David von Drehle (Amazon)
The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor by Eddie Jaku (Amazon )
Netflix series on "blue zones" Watch Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones | Netflix Official Site
Documentary about Iris Apfel on Amazon Prime
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Dee and Carol about mums, pumpkins, some lawn research, and more.
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Links:
Munstead Wood Rose from David Austin Roses
Carol's blog post about her toad.
Flowers:
Are Mums Perennials? And How to Care for Mums
Longwood Gardens Chrysanthemum Festival
Fan Displays at Longwood
Vegetables:
How to Grow a Jack-O-Lantern
Making Hubbard Squash Blossoms on Family Dinner on Magnolia
Stuffed Squash Blossoms – FARMER JONES FARM® AT THE CHEF'S GARDEN
On the Bookshelf:
The Writer’s Garden: How Gardens Inspired the World’s Great Authors by Jackie Bennett (Amazon link)
Dirt:
A Viable Alternative to Conventional Lawn? Cornell May Have Found One, NYT Times article by Margaret Roach
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Dee and Carol discuss milkweeds, perennials in a vegetable garden, a new book on milkweeds, chaos gardening and more.
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Links:
Great Comp Garden and William Dyson’s salvia collection
Floret's video about saving sweet peas.
Dee's instagram reel 'Blackhawks' big bluestem grass
'Blue Beauty' tomatoes
Flowers:
List of milkweeds by state
Oklahoma Milkweed guide
Allan Armitage’s recent article about natives and non-natives.
Dee’s article on monarchs and milkweed from last year.
On the bookshelf: The Milkweed Lands: An Epic Story of One Plant by Eric Lee-Mader
Dirt: Chaos Gardening Is Actually the Easiest Way to Grow Your Dream Garden Also FH article about this trend.
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Dee and Carol talk about what to do to overwinter plants, cold frames, a new book on cottage gardens and more.
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Links:
Carol's blog post about Signet marigolds
Bustani Plant Farm in Stillwater, OK
Dirty Punk Gardening on Instagram
Flowers:
Tropical Plants and How to Love Them by Marianne Willburn
Veggies:
What Is a Cold Frame Greenhouse? | The Family Handyman
Growing Under Cover by Niki Jabour
On the Bookshelf: The Cottage Garden by Claus Dalby (Amazon)
Dirt: Article about Jennifer Garner's Family Farm
Rabbit Holes:
Father by Elizabeth von Arnim (Amazon Link)
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Dee and Carol discussed buying bulbs for fall planting, lessons from our vegetable gardens and several other topics.
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Links:
Carol's Little Zinnias blog post
Katie Daisy Artist on Instagram
Flowers:
Van Engelen for wholesale bulb prices
Old House Gardens for old varieties of flowers and bulbs
PlantSkydd on Amazon
My Old Books on Instagram
On the Bookshelf: Why We Garden by Claire Masset, published by Batsford, with illustrations by Claire Harrup(Amazon Link)
Dirt:
The Loose Ends Project and on Instagram
Rabbit Holes: A movie, The Lost King, and book: Finding Richard III: The Official Account of Research by the Retrieval and Reburial Project.
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This week, we talked about flower farms, orb weaver spiders, pressed flowers and a new cookbook.
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Links:
Flowers:
Visit Ladybug Lane Flower Farm on Instagram
US Flower and Foliage Growers Look to Revive a Wilting Industry from Modern Farmer
Vegetables
Orb Weaver Spider - Wildlife Heritage Foundation.
Dee's blog post about her orb weaver: Three for Thursday, a lady in waiting - Red Dirt Ramblings®
On the Bookshelf: My Vermont Table by Gesine Bullock-Prado. (Amazon link)
Dirt: Pressing flowers, Margaret Roach article in the NYT.
Rabbit Holes:
Joolz Guides - London History Walks on YouTube
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This week, we discussed soil, mulches, compost, a new book on composting, and more.
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A few links:
Alec’s ice cream.
Carol's blog post about her potato harvest
Soil Science Society of America's website
Brooklyn Bridge Park gardens
On the Bookshelf: The Compost Coach by Kate Flood (Amazon Link). Follow her on Instagram "Compostable Kate."
Dirt: J. Philip Grime
Old House Gardens for heirloom bulbs.
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Dee and Carol talk about tall phlox, Joy Larkcom, a new book, and more on this week's episode.
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A few links:
The Big Leaf on Amazon
Favorite flowers this week
‘Meteor Mix’ zinnias
Van Gogh’s Fantasy mix sunflowers from Sunflower Steve.
Flowers:
Phlox paniculata 'Jeana' -- PPA Plant of the Year
Phlox paniculata 'Cover Girl' and Luminary Ultraviolet Phlox | Plant Addicts
Vegetables:
Creative Vegetable Gardening, by Joy Larkcom. (Amazon link)
On the Bookshelf:
Garden Maker’s Book of Wonder, by Allison Vallin Kostovick (creator of Finch & Folly) (Amazon link) (162 Recipes, Crafts, Tips, Techniques, and Plants to Inspire You in Every Season)
Dirt:
Article about the 2024 trends report from Garden Media Group
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Dee and Carol talk about salvias, what they are growing in their fall gardens, plus a book, some dirt, and watch out for green children!
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Links:
Dee's Instagram video about her 'Red Rocket crepe myrtle.
Snapdragon Doubleshot Orange Bi-Color, an AAS winner
Flowers:
Jimi Blake at Hunting Brook Gardens on Instagram
Salgoon series of Salvia from Hilverda Florist
Salvia ‘Love &Wishes’
Skyscraper Pink from Selecta
Dee's blog post about salvia earlier this spring
Veggies:
Umami Asian Blend Microgreen Seeds from Botanical Interests
On the Bookshelf: A Year in the Edible Garden, by Sarah Raven. (Amazon link)
Dirt: Korean Natural Farming
Rabbit Holes:
From the Source with Katie Button
The Green Children of Woolpit!
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This week, Dee and Carol talk about growing flowers for cutting, how they add beauty to their vegetable gardens, a new-to-them book, and boxwoods.
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Some helpful links!
The velvet ant, aka the cow killer
Carol's FH article on gardening gloves
Queeny Lime Orange Zinnia seeds from Botanical Interests
On the Bookshelf: Grow and Gather: A Gardener’s Guide to a Year of Cut Flowers, by Grace Alexander (Amazon link)
Boxwood winter dieback info Boxwood Browning, Blights, and Cankers – 2023 Update and Re-Visiting Volutella and Browned Boxwoods | BYGL plus Bob Hill on Boxwood Winter - GardenRant
Taste of Home’s Sausage Ratatouille to use up a lot of garden veggies…
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This week, Carol and Dee talk about caladiums, rocket/arugula, saving sweet pea seeds, plus two deep rabbit holes.
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Links!
Flowers:
The Prettiest Caladium Varieties 2023 | PLNTS.com
Vegetables:
Arugula/Rocket seeds from Botanical Interests
Update on Jalapeño-gate from Garden Professors
On the Bookshelf:
A Garden Catechism: 100 Plants in Christian Tradition and How to Grow Them, by Margaret Rose Realy, Obl OSB, Illustrated by Mary Sprague (Amazon Link)
Dirt:
Floret's Sweet Peas
Rabbit Holes:
Dee's Blog Post: Not enough time - Red Dirt Ramblings®
Explore Floret's Blog for Interviews with some of the people featured on Season 2 of Growing Floret
Carol's Blog Post: Lost Ladies of Garden Writing: Hanna Rion
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Dee and Carol talk about hardy hibiscus, melons, a book about Jane Austen's gardens and more.
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Links!
Flowers:
Hardy Hibiscus
Summerific® 'Holy Grail' and Summerific® 'Perfect Storm'
Top 10 Proven Winner Hibiscus
The Luna varieties from American Meadows.
Vegetables:
Ambrosia melon seeds from Park Seeds
On the Bookshelf:
In the Garden With Jane Austen by Kim Wilson (Amazon Link)
Dirt:
Pre-chilling seeds in ice cubes (Garden Gate)
Tree of Heaven info from Nature.org
Rabbit Holes:
The Novel Cure by Ella Berthoud and Susan Elderkin (2013) (Amazon Link)
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Dee and Carol talk once again about marigolds, then introduce a new basil, a salad cookbook and some interesting dirt and rabbit holes.
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A couple of links:
Carol's FH article about growing marigolds from seed
2023 Zinnia Seed Donation Mix – ZinniaSeeds.com
Salad Freak, by Jess Damuck. (Amazon Link)
The Jane Austen Escape Room Book, illustrated by Marjolein Bastin (Amazon Link)
On collecting John Deere Tractors, from the WSJ
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This week, we talked about cultivated and wild petunias, turnips, a book by Monty Don and what's going on in our gardens.
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This week, we talked about native echinaceas, transitioning the vegetable garden from spring to summer, a new book on grasses, plus mulch and Jalapeno-gate.
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Links!
Dee's 'Phenomenal' Lavender
Carol's blog post about Sweet Talk Deep Pink Cuphea
Flowers:
Native coneflower information from Missouri Botanical Garden
Echinacea pallida, E. tennesseensis, and E. purpurea
Vegetables:
Plant Partners by Jessica Walliser (Amazon Link)
Gardenaryco on Instagram
On the Bookshelf:
Grasses for Gardens and Landscapes: Design, Selection, Cultivation, by Neil Lucas (Amazon Link)
Dirt:
Arborist wood chips as mulch
Jalapeno-gate
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This week, we discussed cool coneflowers, new vegetable varieties, a few more Instagram accounts we enjoy, and a new gardening book we love.
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Links!
Flowers:
Misc. coneflower links include:
PowWow Wildberry
Sombrero series.
All-America Selections
Prairie Splendor Deep Rose.
Cheyenne Spirit
Vegetables:
Burpee's new vegetable varieties for 2024.
On the Bookshelf:
The 30-Minute Gardener, Cultivate Beauty and Joy by Gardening Every Day, by Greg Loades. (Amazon Link)
Dirt:
Two fun Instagram accounts:
Rosie Grant (@ghostly.archive)
Troy Drake (@troymadeit)
Rabbit Holes:
The next Lost Lady of Garden Writing - Viola Brainerd Baird
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On YouTube.
This week, we discussed sunpatiens, going organic in the vegetable garden, a new book on floriography and more.
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Links!
Carol's blog post on thinning seedlings.
Flowers:
Article about the origin of Sunpatiens in Green Profit magazine
Vegetables:
Our friend Doug Oster talking about pesticide use in the veg garden on Instagram
On the Bookshelf:
Flowers and Their Meanings: The Secret Language and History of Over 600 Blooms by Karen Azoulay (Amazon Link)
Dirt:
Our friend Jim Charlier announces his new book on Harry Potter Herbology Magic.
Bookshop Preorders, Amazon Preorders
Rabbit Holes:
SB Mowing on Youtube.
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On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
This week, we discuss roses, vegetable gardeners who inspire us on Instagram, and a new segment about our favorites!
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Links!
Flowers:
National Rose Month info on A Garden Diary
Grace Roses
Vegetables:
Our podcast episode: Starting a simple vegetable garden.
Instagram influencer links are in our newsletter
On the Bookshelf:
100 Plants to Feed the Birds: Turn Your Home Garden into a Healthy Bird Habitat, by Laura Erickson (Amazon Link)
And 100 Plants to Feed the Bees (Amazon link)
And 100 Plants to Feed the Monarch (Amazon link)
Dirt:
Around the World in 50 Plants puzzle
Also Around the World in 50 Trees puzzle
Rabbit Holes:
Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindburgh (Amazon link)
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Dee and Carol talk about irises (again), how to support tomato plants, and more in this week's episode.
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Links!
Flowers:
Yellow Flag Iris, Iris psuedocarus, an invasive iris
Eden Bros's guide for growing Siberian Irises.
Brent and Becky’s Bulbs for reticulated irises.
Seeds for Iris missouriensis for sale from Eden Bros.
Vegetables:
Carol’s article on supporting tomatoes in FH
Dee's rubberized wire ties
On the Bookshelf: Back to the New Basics: A practical guide and reference manual to the ways, the whys, and the news sciences of better, easier gardening, by Joe Seals (Amazon Link)
Dirt: Living Kitchen Farm & Dairy
Rabbit Holes:
Central Texas Gardener television show on YouTube.
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This week, Dee and Carol talk about bearded irises, the evolution of their vegetable gardens, and several other gardening topics.
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Links!
Flowers:
American Iris Society, their cultural information.
Vegetables:
Metal raised bed vegetable garden container from Botanical Interests (affiliate link)
On the Bookshelf:
American Wildflowers: A Literary Field Guide, edited by Susan Barba, illustrations by Leann Shapton (Amazon link)
Dirt: A new game coming: Botany: Flower Hunting in the Victorian Era.
Rabbit Holes:
Julie Newmar’s garden.
Plus Martha Stewart's new rose garden
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Dee and Carol talk about smaller perennials for smaller gardens, growing miniature vegetables and more.
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Flowers:
Monarda ‘Petite Delight’
Vegetables:
Baby Bubba Okra from Burpee…
On Deck Sweet Corn from Burpee
Masterpiece Peas from Burpee
Carol's Family Handyman article on mini vegetables.
On the Bookshelf: The Color of Roses: A Curated Spectrum of 300 Blooms by Danielle Dall’Armi Hahn (Amazon link)
Rabbit holes :
Potting Soil Test Oklahoma Gardening
An unnecessary ranking of books by Elizabeth Von Arnim from Stuck in a Book
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On YouTube.
This week, we talk about society garlic, stone fruit trees, allergies, and more.
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Flowers:
Info on Society Garlic from North Carolina Extension
Veggies:
Growing stone fruits like peaches, apricots and plums, a good article from Univ of Minnesota extension
On the Bookshelf: The Allergy-Fighting Garden: Stop Asthma and Allergies with Smart Landscaping by Thomas Leo Ogren (Amazon Link)
Dirt:
American Garden Rose Selections announcement and the Heritage Rose Foundation
Rabbit Holes:
A substack article on “A Pilgrimage for Book People.”
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Dee and Carol turned toward Great Britain to talk about flowers Dee has coveted from her trips to England, growing vegetables in England, the floral symbolism in the coronation invitation, plus some British inspired gardening books.
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A few links:
Flowers:
Proven Winner's Rise Up Amberness short climbing rose
Rose Chat Podcast
Vegetables:
Mushy Peas Recipe
On the Bookshelf:
Beatrix Potter’s Gardening Life, by Marta McDowell
The Bold and Brilliant Garden, by Sarah Raven
Dirt:
The Hidden Symbolism in King Charles and Queen Camilla's Coronation Invitation
Rabbit Holes:
Great British Gardens with Carol Klein. Gravetye Manor a William Robinson. History of Gardener's World.
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Dee and Carol talk about admiring and trying to grow delphiniums, heirloom/heritage vegetables, and then a whole lot about roses, plus more, of course.
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A few links:
Dee's Bloody Mary nasturtiums.
Flowers:
Eudora Welty quote about delphiniums on one of Carol's blog posts. Pacific Giants Blend Delphinium
Vegetables:
Santa Maria Pinquito Bean – Rancho Gordo and Santa Maria Tri-Tip Recipe
Carol’s FH article on "What are Heirloom Seeds?"
On the Bookshelf: Heirloom Vegetable Gardening: A Master Gardener's Guide to Planting, Seed Saving, and Cultural History, by William Woys Weaver (Amazon link)
Plus: The Heirloom Tomato: From Garden to Table: Recipes, Portraits, and History of the World's Most Beautiful Fruit by Amy Goldman (Amazon link) and Smith & Hawken: 100 Heirloom Tomatoes for American Gardens by Carolyn J. Male (Amazon link)
Dirt: Soldier fly larva compost article
Rabbit Hole: A Rose Chat podcast episode and a children's book: The Rose Without a Name: The Story of the Katrina Rose by Nancy Rust & Carol Stubbs.
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On YouTube.
Flowers:
So many salvias, including Salvia nemorosa ' Color Spires Pink Dawn' from Proven Winners.
Dummen Orange also has some great salvias like Salvia BODACIOUS Hummingbird Falls
And that other saliva, Salvia farinacea 'Augusta Duelberg' (not Alice... Dee remembers now.)
Flowers by the Sea is a nursery that specializes in Salvias
Dee's blog post on salvia!
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Dee and Carol talk about columbine flowers, perennial kale, a different kind of foraging book and more this week.
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A few links:
Carol's Easter eggs on Instagram
Muck Boots
Flowers:
Select Seeds sells a packet of Columbine seeds called National Collection Mix.
Eden Bros. also has a mix of European columbine seeds .
Nan Ondra at Hayefield has some seeds for interesting columbines.
The Story of Flowers and how they change the way we live by Noel Kingsbury. (Amazon link)
Vegetables
How to Grow Heritage Perennial kale - The Guardian
On the Bookshelf: The Flowerpot Forager: An Easy Guide to Growing Wild Food at Home, by Stuart Ovenden (Amazon link)
Dirt:
Dee's post on Dr. John Cho and his elephant ear breeding,
And April is Invasive Plant Pest and Disease Awareness Month
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Dee and Carol talked about stock, asparagus, sunflowers, a new flower book, and what's going on in Dee's garden after the fires in Oklahoma.
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A few links:
Carol's latest blog post about weeding.
Dee's article in Oklahoma Living about how it's hard to garden in Oklahoma.
Dee's Instagram post with more info about the fires and her garden.
Flowers:
Info on stocks from Missouri Botanical Garden.
Veggies:
Info about growing asparagus on Renee’s Gardens website
More asparagus history and growing info in The Seed Dectective, by Adam Alexander. (Amazon link) (last week's book) and The Chef's Garden, by Farmer Lee Jones (Amazon link)
On the Bookshelf:
The Story of Flowers and how they change the way we live by Noel Kingsbury. (Amazon link)
Our Dirt:
Sunflower Steve
Rabbit holes:
The Creative Cove on YouTube
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This week, Dee and Carol talk about tulips, rhubarb, the book The Seed Detective and more.
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A few links:
Dee's new plants from Southern Living Plants: Royal Hawaiian® ‘Waikiki’ Colocasia and Red Sky™ Ilex.
Cool Wave Pansies
Carol's new Epson label printer for her plant labels
Information about voles Dee wrote for Family Handyman
Flowers:
Brent and Becky's Bulbs - a family-owned place to order bulbs.
Veggies:
Rhubarb seeds at True Leaf Market
On the Bookshelf: The Seed Dectective: Uncovering the Secret Histories of Remarkable Vegetables, by Adam Alexander. (Amazon link)
Our Dirt:
Visit Nan Ondra's post Don't Be Ordinary, Grow Seeds With a Story. Visit her Hayefield Seed Shop on Etsy
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Carol and Dee talked about flowering cherry trees, Japanese vegetables, and The Sakura Obsession.
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A few links!
Flowers:
Garden Design has good info on flowering cherry trees.
Veggies:
Japanese vegetable seeds from True Leaf Market (search Japanese vegetables on their website to find all of them)
On the Bookshelf:
The Sakura Obsession: The incredible story of the plant hunter who saved Japan's cherry blossom, by Naoko Abe (Amazon link) (Naoko Abe's website)
Dirt:
A website that tells you all you need to know about when cherry trees will bloom in Washington D.C. (Hint: This week.) Also, there are several websites that provide information about cherry blossom time in Japan.
From Dee's Texas Bluebonnet trip, Salvia 'Augusta Duelberg'
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Dee and Carol chat about daffodils, hopniss, Easter amaryllis and more on this week's episode.
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A few links!
Little Dibby tool for seed sowing... Go to Spoken Garden on Etsy to find them
Lego Wildflower bouquet kit (Amazon link)
David Austin Roses
Teresa Byington and Rose Chat podcast
Flowers:
March Birth Flower and Their Meanings
The American Daffodil society
All About Daffodils - Brent & Becky's Bulbs - Blog
Veggies:
Hopniss aka Apios americana
Tubers from Sow True Seeds
Lots of info on Epic Gardener website too.
On the Bookshelf: The First-Time Gardener: Container Food Gardening: All the Know-How You Need to Grow Veggies, Fruits, Herbs, and Other Edible Plants in Pots by Pam Farley (Amazon Link)
Other First-Time Gardener books include Growing Vegetables, Raised Bed Gardening, and Growing Plants and Flowers
Rabbit Holes:
Wildflower trail info for Texas from the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
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Dee and Carol talked about annual flowers that attract butterflies, sowing early spring vegetables, a card deck of helpful veggie info and more.
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A few links!
Flowers:
'Phyllis' Marigold at Botanical Interests
'Kee's Orange' Marigold at Select Seeds
'Gem Blend Signet' Marigold Seeds at Botanical Interests
Veggies:
Optimum soil temps for vegetables grown from seed, compliments of Oregon State.
How to raise soil temps faster, from Penn State.
A basic soil thermometer or something fancier that measures temperature, pH, moisture, and sunlight intensity.
On the Bookshelf: Home Harvest: Your Pocket Card Guide to Kitchen Gardening by Bridie Cotter and Tom Gaunt. (Amazon link)
Shout out to the illustrator too, Edith Rewa; she has some botanical wrapping paper and a botanical coloring book.
Dirt: A Defense of Hellebores, by Marianne Wilburn.
Rabbit Holes:
Carol's Blog Post on Grace Woolson.
FrostKiss Anna’s Red Hellebore
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Dee and Carol talk about flowers and gardens for birds, edible berries birds like, and more.
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Links:
Little Dibby gardening tools by Sean and Allison McManus of Spoken Garden. Go to Spoken Garden on Etsy to find them.
Flowers:
Flowers for the birds. Hummingbirds Ten plants to naturally attract hummingbirds to your Oklahoma yard - Red Dirt Ramblings®
Article about birds as pollinators.
Veggies:
Carol’s FH article on how to grow strawberries
Carol’s FH article on how to grow raspberries
On the Bookshelf: Tiny + Wild: Build a Small-Scale Meadow Anywhere by Graham Laird Gardner (Amazon link)
Dirt:
Article about does Nandina kill birds?
Rabbit Holes:
Lost lady of garden writing Jean Hersey
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Dee and Carol discuss growing flowers and veggies without much water, a new book on dry climate gardening and more.
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Links:
Piper & Leaf Tea Co. in Alabama
Flowers:
Oklahoma: Hard to garden, by Dee Nash
Beth Chatto Gardens in the UK
On the Bookshelf: Dry Climate Gardening: Growing Beautify, Sustainable Gardens in Low-Water Conditions by Noelle Johnson
Dirt:
Little Dibby gardening tools by Sean and Allison McManus of Spoken Garden. Go to Spoken Garden on Etsy to find them.
Rabbit holes: The Urban Nemophilist on Instagram
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Dee and Carol talk about cutting gardens, southern heirloom vegetables and the woman behind them and more.
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Dee's post about seed-starting station. Carol's post about crocuses and eggshells
Flowers:
The nostalgia garden by National Garden Bureau.
Vegetables Love Flowers by Lisa Ziegler (Bookshop link).
Carol's post about peonies in July
Vegetables:
Ira Wallace, They Call Her the Godmother of Southern Seeds for a Reason.
Southern Exposure Seed Exchange .
Grow Great Vegetables: Indiana, edited by Bevin Cohen (Amazon Link)
On the Bookshelf:
The Container Victory Garden: A Beginner’s Guide to Growing Your Own Groceries by Maggie Stuckey (Amazon Link)
Dirt:
All the Presidents' Gardens by Marta McDowell (Amazon Link)
Our Affiliates:
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Email us anytime at [email protected] For more info on Carol visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens. For more info on Dee, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
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On YouTube.
This week's topics include advice for cleaning up flower and vegetable gardens plus more gardening-related topics.
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Links:
Dee's latest blog post on her garden plans and her reel on Instagram
Flylady's website, if interested
Carol's one-act play about a marigold
Dee's wasp poem
On the Bookshelf: The Vegetable Garden Problem Solver Handbook by Susan Mulvihill (Amazon Link) Susan's website and YouTube channel
DIrt:
Dr. Jared Barnes's blog Meristem and his post about how he handles cutting back plants in his Texas garden
And Ohio is the first state to ban the sale of Bradford pears!
Rabbit Holes:
Mr. Pelargonium on You Tube and his video on Feeding pelargoniums.
Flower pillows on Proven Winners
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For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website.
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On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol steeped this episode in a cup of tea with flowers and vegetables you can grow for tea, tea tips, and more.
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Links:
Dee's little Shark sweeper to clean up after Masha.
Flowers:
A few floral teas to consider
Lover’s Leap from Smith Tea Makers
Repose by Steep Echo
Vegetables:
A tea with 10 different dried veggies
On the Bookshelf
The Pleasure of Herbs: A Month-by-Month Guide to Growing, Using, and Enjoying Herbs by Phyllis Shaudys (1986) (Amazon Link) and Herbal Treasures: Inspiring Month-by-Month Projects for Gardening, Cooking, and Crafts by Phyllis V. Shaudys (1990) (Amazon Link)
A Taste for Herbs by Sue Goetz (Amazon Link)
Dirt:
Life is Better with Tea Website with info on how to brew the perfect tea:
Dee’s current favorite teas are: Bettys Tea Room tea from Yorkshire and Tetley loose leaf.
Carol’s current favorite tea is Earl Grey from Nuts.com.
Carol’s favorite electric tea kettle: Kitchenaid Kettle with an Infuser
Dee’s favorite tea kettle is Russell Hobbs.
Rabbit Holes:
Dee's new Puzzle protector
The Mitford Affair by Marie Benedict (Amazon Link)
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For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
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On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
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Dee and Carol discuss winter sowing, directly sowing vegetables, and more on this week's episode.
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Some Links:
Flowers:
Info on winter sowing from PennState Extension:
Susan Mulvilhill's website for more winter sowing info. Check out her books... The Vegetable Garden Problem Solver Handbook: Identify and manage diseases and other common problems on edible plants (Amazon link) coming out Feb. 7, and The Vegetable Garden Pest Handbook: Identify and Solve Common Pest Problems on Edible Plants - All Natural Solutions! (Amazon Link)
Veggies:
Carol's post on growing lettuce from last year
On the Bookshelf: Secret Gardens of the South East: A Private Tour by Barbara Segall (Amazon link)
A few other "Secret Garden" books in the series: Secret Gardens of the Cotswolds, and Secret Gardens of Somerset.
Dirt:
Farmer's Defense protective sleeves (affiliate link)
Rabbit Holes:
Another lost lady of gardening writing – Bebe Miles.
Sally Clarkson on Instagram, her book Awaking Wonder.
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On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
This week, Carol and Dee talk about starting flower seeds, starting vegetable seeds, and several other gardening topics.
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Some links:
Flowers:
Carol's article on growing mistletoe from seed.
Two older books on seed starting:
Seeds: The Definitive Guide to Growing, History & Lore by Peter Loewer (1995) (Amazon link to used copies)
Park’s Success with Seeds by Ann Reilly (1978) (Amazon link to used copies)
Veggies:
Two blog posts with more info:
Grow your own transplants from seed - Red Dirt Ramblings®
Starting tomato seeds - Red Dirt Ramblings®
On the Bookshelf:
Groundcover Revolution: How to use sustainable, low-maintenance, low-water groundcovers to replace your turf, by Kathy Jentz (Amazon Link)
Dirt:
Margaret Roach’s latest article in NYT: On flower seeds
Rabbit Holes:
Dee: What is a vitrectomy?
Carol: Another Lost Lady of Garden Writing (Josephine Nuese) and a Month by Month reading project.
The usual links:
Affiliate link to Botanical Interest Seeds. Book links are also affiliate links.
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For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt
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On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
This week, Dee and Carol discuss the flower and vegetable seeds they'll be starting indoors, a new book on botany, and other gardening topics.
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Some links:
Flowers:
All the flower links are in our substack newsletter, link above!
Veggies:
All the veggie lists are in our substack newsletter, link above!
On the Bookshelf:
A Gardener’s Guide to Botany by Scott Zona, Phd (Amazon Link)
Dirt:
World’s Hottest Pepper! Mike Rowe Battles Carolina Reaper Seeds! | Dirty Jobs
A few other links:
Seed Savers Exchange
Horticulture Week Podcastcr (from the UK)
Carol’s Family Handyman article on deciphering tomato seed and plant labels
Craig LeHoullier’s website, author of Epic Tomatoes
The usual links:
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This week, Dee and Carol go through the list of "Year of" plants announced by the National Garden Bureau, discuss favorite books of 2022, and provide updates of all sorts.
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Some links (more links on the newsletter!)
Flowers:
Check out more info on the Year of Plants on the National Garden Bureau website.
Carol's article on Family Handyman about celosia
'Lavender Cloud' nicotiana from Hudson Valley Seeds
Veggies:
Carol's article on How to grow broccoli in Family Handyman
Midnight Snack cherry tomatoes an All-America Selection back in the heyday of 2017.
On the Bookshelf:
The Chef’s Garden by Farmer Lee Jones
Dirt:
They Fought the Lawn. And the Lawn’s Done. - The New York Times.
Rabbit Holes:
Mildred Luedy who wrote The Christmas Rose with her husband, Arthur.
The usual links:
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For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
On this week’s episodes, Dee and Carol talk about new All-America Selections for 2023, a book on birding, and the Legend of the Christmas Rose.
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Here are some links:
Flowers:
Coleus ‘Premium Sun Coral Candy’, perfect for containers!
Salvia ‘Blue by You’, a lovely perennial salvia hardy to zone 4B
Snapdragon ‘DoubleShot™ Orange Bicolor F1’, so pretty!
Leucanthemum ‘Carpet Angel®’, a groundcover Shasta Daisy
Colocasia ‘ROYAL HAWAIIAN® Waikiki’, the first All-America Colocasia winner
Vegetables:
Jalapeno Pepper ‘San Joaquin’ (National Winner)
Kabocha Squash ‘Sweet Jade’ (National Winner)
Tomato ‘Zenzei’ (Regional Winner)
On the bookshelf:
Slow Birding: The Art and Science of Enjoying Birds in Your Own Backyardby Joan E. Strassmann (Amazon Link).
We also mentioned another book, The Bluebird Effect: Uncommon Bonds with Common Birds by Julie Zickefoose (Amazon Link)
The birding movie we mentioned: The Big Year
Dirt:
The Legend of the Christmas Rose: Five Christmas Paintings and Their Interpretations by Henry E. Jackson, M.A. (1914). (Good used copies if you search enough. Reprints if you must.)
Rabbit Holes:
Carol’s blog post about her grandmother’s school assignment.
The usual stuff:
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On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol talked about zinnias (again), growing greens, the Pantone color of the year and more on this week's episode.
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Links:
Flowers:
Zinnia seeds at Eden Brothers
Zinnia angustifolia 'Crystal White' seeds at Pinetree Garden Seeds
Miss Willmott’s Ghosts by Sandra Lawrence (Amazon Link)
Veggies:
Dee's blog post on beans and greens
Carol's blog post on heirloom lettuce varieties
Bloomsdale Spinach at Botanical Interests
Black Seeded Simpson Lettuce at Botanical Interests
On the Bookshelf:
My Father is the Gardener: Devotions in Botany and Gardening of the Bible by Shelley S. Cramm. Order from BRIT Press. Discount code THANKS20 to get 20% off, order by 12/18 to get delivery by Christmas. (This is not an affiliate link.) For more info about the illustrator, visit her website: Layla Luna. For more info about Shelley, visit her website, Garden in Delight.
Rabbit Holes: Tree DNA helped police...
The usual stuff:
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For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol talk about florist's cycleman, chlorophyll sauce, and the smells of Christmas.
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Links:
Flowers:
Cyclamen Society link.
Information on cyclamen from NC Extension
Veggies:
Chlorophyll sauce: The video showing how they made it is at 17:17 on La Pitchoune on Discovery Plus.
On the Bookshelf:
Common Spring Woodland Wildflowers in the Midwest: A Pocket Guide by Tess Park (Amazon link)
Dirt:
Impactful scent of a real Christmas tree
November 11, St. Martin’s Day,
Candle: Paddywax called Cypress and Fir.
Rabbit Holes:
Carols and Crumpets returns to Tulsa Garden Center
Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman by Lucy Worsley (Amazon Link)
The usual stuff:
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For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
This week, Carol and Dee talk about forcing bulbs vs. tropical bulbs, ube, microgreens, and other unusual plants.
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Links:
Dee’s new plant: Green Galaxy monstera!
Flowers: Forcing bulbs in vintage bowls and other containers - Red Dirt Ramblings®
Carol FH Christmas Plants article with mention of all the bulbs you could ever want to force for Christmas.
Forcing snowdrops, a blog post by Carol
Vegetables:
What is ube?
Purple sweet potato plants at Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds
Mexican sour gherkins at Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds
Bitter Gourd at Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds
On the Bookshelf: American Roots: Lessons and Inspiration from the Designers Reimagingin Our Home Gardens by Teresa Woodard, Nick McCullough, and Alison McCullough
Dirt:
Microgreens! The origins
A sweet video by Sophia Blackall as well.
Rabbit Holes:
All There Is with Anderson Cooper on Apple Podcasts.
Cicely Mary Barker and her flower fairies
The usual stuff:
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For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
This week, we talked about planning in the garden for both flowers and vegetables, another new cookbook, and we cut into the topic of pruners.
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Flowers:
It's time to plan for next year's garden - Red Dirt Ramblings®
Veggies:
Using a Trello board to plan and track your garden.
Our old episode about how to grow a basic summer vegetable garden
On the bookshelf: The Apricot Lane Farms Cookbook: Recipes and Stories from the Biggest Little Farm, by Molly Chester with Sarah Owens (Amazon link)
Some Dirt:
Cutting Edge Technology: History of Seceuters
Favorite pruners today: This set of little pruners and shears. Of course, you can’t go wrong with Felcos, but make sure to try the different sizes. And Dee loves her Dramm pruners.
Dee’s Rabbit Hole: La Pitchoune: Cooking in France - Official Trailer | Magnolia Network
Carol’s post about forcing Lily of the Valley into bloom, 1897 style
And the usual stuff:
Email us anytime at [email protected]
For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Season 5, Episode 2!
Dee and Carol talk about Christmas/Thanksgiving cactus, growing herbs indoors, walking in bad weather, and more.
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Links:
Carols' FH article about Christmas plants
Carol's blog post channeling Star Trek
Flowers:
We might cringe but here's an old, old episode we recorded...The Gardenangelists Episode 2 - Christmas Cactus, Where art thou?
Carol's FH article about Christmas Cactus
Veggies:
Some articles by Dee including: How To Grow Basil and How To Grow Rosemary | The Family Handyman
Carol's FH article on microgreens
A book: Herbal Houseplants by Susan Betz.
Also Botanical Interests has an article about growing herbs indoors. (Affiliate link)
On the Bookshelf: Farmhouse, by Sophie Blackall (Amazon link) and the YouTube video about the book
Dirt: Bad weather is good for you: take a walk in the wind and rain
Rabbit Holes:
Talimena Drive to see fall foliage
Another Lost Lady of Garden Writing, Lizzie Page Hillhouse.
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For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Season 5, Episode 1!
Dee and Carol talk about orchid houseplants, cold frames, a new book on ground covers, regenerative farming, and more this week.
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Links:
Good info on Phalaenopsis care from University of Maryland Extension:
Marianne Willburn's blog post on Garden Rant mentioning fake orchids at Costco.
Dee's info on What Is a Cold Frame Greenhouse? | The Family Handyman and her blog post: My tropical plants are all tucked into the greenhouse - Red Dirt Ramblings®
On the Bookshelf: The Complete Book of Ground Covers, by Gary Lewis. (Amazon link)
Dirt:
Article on geomapping old nurseries in Great Britain.
Article on Why experts say you shouldn't bag your leaves this fall : NPR and Leave the Leaves: Winter Habitat Protection | Xerces Society
The Rabbit Hole: Regenerative Agriculture: Will Harris, 4th generation Georgia rancher and farmer and Allan Savory Ted Talk
The usual links:
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Email us anytime at [email protected]
For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol talk about shrubs with colorful leaves, growing onions, and a new cookbook, Orchard, all wrapped up with lots of talk about leaf watching and apple eating.
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Links:
On record keeping, check out Trello and Carol's YouTube video about using it to keep track of a garden.
Oakleaf Hydrangeas at Proven Winners
Bunching vs. bulbing onions FH article
‘Tokyo Long’ bunching onions at Botanical Interests.
On the Bookshelf:
Orchard, by James Rich (Amazon link). He also posted his apple pie recipe in a video on his blog.
Dirt: How About Them Apples? Research Orchards Chart a Fruit’s Future.
Fall foliage in Oklahoma plus Rains trigger fall foliage burst
Rabbit hole links:
On English Orchards: Gardeners World Episode 28 and Heritage Apples
On Books: The Folio Society and Charles van Sandwyk
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For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol discuss soft stem cuttings, growing sprouts, and a new book with a fresh approach to garden design.
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Links:
Clonex rooting gel on Amazon
Two great organizations:
GardenComm International
American Horticultural Society
Botanical Interests has a nice article about sprouting seeds
BI also has a nice assortment of seeds for sprouts and they sell a seed sprouter kit. (all affiliate links)
On the bookshelf: Field Guide to Outside Style: Design & Plant Your Perfect Outdoor Space, by Ryan McEnaney. (Amazon Link)
Dirt for Halloween:
Weird spider info
And pumpkins!! How to grow giant pumpkins and what’s the record for a giant pumpkin? (2,554 pounds)
Plus The Science Behind the Aroma of Fall on PBS
Rabbit Holes:
Stanley Tucci’s Searching for Italy on Discovery Plus
Listen to forest sounds around the world and for Halloween… Haunted Forest Sounds with Ghostly Murmurs
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Dee and Carol talk about planting bulbs in containers, buying seeds, an interesting insect, and some beautiful books this week.
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Links:
Seed source for Verbesina encelioides, discussed last week.
Dee's Instagram post from last week- listen carefully!
Penny Pennington on Instagram
Containers in the Garden, by Claus Dalby (also Amazon)
Buy seeds now: Affiliate link to Botanical Interest Seeds
Books by Henry Mitchell on Amazon
On the Bookshelf: The Garden in Autumn, by Allen Lacy (1990) (Amazon link)
Our Dirt: Hibiscus Scentless Plant Bug | NC State Extension Publications.
Beautiful books illustrated by Marjolein Bastin, including Little Women and Emma. Older editions available on Amazon. Link to our YouTube video about these books.
The Little Ghost Who Lost Her Boo, by Elaine Bickell (also Amazon)
Dee's instagram post about her drip irrigation.
Carol's blog post with tips on what to do in October in the garden.
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For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
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Don't for
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol talk about poppies, Asian greens, and more on this week's episode.
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Links:
Carol's YouTube video about her figs.
The Millennial Gardener's helpful Youtube videos about growing figs.
Flowers:
Shirley 'Mother of Pearl' from Select Seeds.
Botanical Interests also has lots of poppy seeds. (Affiliate link)
Vegetables:
Asian greens at Hudson Valley Seed,
Double Garland Chrysanthemum greens
On the Bookshelf:
To Boldly Grow: Finding Joy, Adventure, and Dinner in Your Own Backyard by Tamar Haspel (Amazon link)
Dirt:
A fall foliage map
Rabbit Holes:
Asters of Autumn by Dr. Jared Barnes
Verbesina encelloides.
Buckner Hollingsworth, Carol's latest Lost Lady of Garden Writing.
Art of Gardening Hornby Island videos YouTube
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Dee and Carol talk about ways to save annuals and tropicals at the end of the season, garlic, and more on this week's episode.
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Links:
Two Family Handyman articles by Carol that relate are "Is coleus an annual or perennial?” and How to Grow and Care for Coleus.
Robin Parer, owner of Geraniaceae for more on pelargoniums
Garlic on Botanical Interests (affiliate link)
On the Bookshelf: The Halloween Hare by Carol J. Michel, illustrations by Ty J. Hayden. Coming out October 4, 2022. (Amazon Link)
Carol's first blog post about the Halloween Hare way back in 2008.
Dirt: YouTube video of Spotted Lantern Fly on SNL!
Some real info on Spotted Lantern Fly from Cornell University
More on Monarchs! Monarch Joint Venture, has a lot of webinars on monarchs.
An article from Purdue about monarchs in Indiana…
Dee’s blog post about monarchs
Monarchs and becorns, super cute video on Instagram.
More books! The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman, the third book in the Thursday Murder Club series. (Amazon Link) Another cozy mystery, Deadhead and Buried(The English Cottage Garden Mysteries #1) by H.Y. Hanna (Amazon Link). Silent Bud Deadly is the next one… (Amazon Link)
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On YouTube.
Dee and Carol discuss anemones, compact plants, and more!.
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Links:
Granny Hobbies, anyone?
Caro's blog post about Oriental Bittersweet
Fall blooming crocuses at Brent & Becky’s Bulbs
Flowers: Anemone blanda, and Anemone hupehensis, both described by the staff at the Missouri Botanical Garden. Note: Brent & Becky’s Bulbs carries both!
The native, Anemone canadensis, available from Prairie Moon Nursery
Vegetables:
Tomato 'Heartbreaker' from Territorial Seed Co.
Two books to consider, Micro Food Gardening:Project Plans and Plants for Growing Fruits and Veggies in Tiny Spaces by Jen McGuiness (Amazon Link) and Gardener’s Guide to Compact Plants: Edibles and Ornamentals for Small Space Gardening by Jessica Walliser. (Amazon link)
On the Bookshelf: Tender: A Cook and his Vegetable Patch by Nigel Slater (Amazon Link)
The Chef's Garden by Farmer Lee Jones (Amazon Link)
Dirt: Better Homes and Gardens Turns 100
Rabbit Hole: Hopwood Hall on YouTube and the book, Downton Shabby by Hopwood DePree (Amazon link)
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On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol discuss ways to simplify your garden, then talk about their favorite peppers from this summer and more on this week's podcast episode.
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Links:
Okies for Monarchs Facebook Page
Monet's Passion: Ideas, Inspiration, and Insights from the Painter's Garden, by Elizabeth Murray.
Spear Head Spade Gardening Shovel
Upgraded TomCare Garden Kneeler
Pruning shears for smaller hands
The Lifelong Gardener: Garden with Ease and Joy at Any Age, by Toni Gattone
Gardening for a Lifetime: How to Garden Wiser as You Grow Older, by Sydney Eddison (Amazon Link)
Peppers we liked this year: Candy Cane, Cubanelle Big Bertha, Peppers from Heaven, Poblano, Jalapeno, Shishito, and Big Jim (Anaheim)
On the bookshelf: A Year in My Garden, by Jacqueline van der Kloet (Amazon link)
Thanks to Linda at Each Little World blog for pointing out the book.
Growing Hope - Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
Some YouTube videos:
Bulbs with Jacqueline van der Kloet
Jacqueline van der Kloet’s Home Garden: Introduction
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For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
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Dee and Carol talk about stalwart flowers, recap their tomato season, talk about going outside, milkweed and monarchs, and more on this week's episode.
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Links:
Some of the flowers we mentioned:
Aster 'Bluebird' (American Meadows has it)
Atomic glass (American Meadows also has it)
Phlox 'Bright Eyes' (an American Meadows has it too)
Some of the tomato varieties we mentioned:
Purple Zebra, an All-America Selections winner for 2022, and in our gardens too.
Black Cherry
Sun Dipper
Missouri Love Apple
Brad’s Atomic Grape
Pink Berkley Tie Dye
Sunrise Bumblebee.
A book, Epic Tomatoes: How To Select and Grow the Best Varieties of All Time by Craig LeHoullier (Amazon Link)
On the Bookshelf: Outdoor Kids in an Inside World by Steven Rinella (Amazon Link)
1,000 Hours Outdoors project website
Cal Newport's blog post: Whitman in the Knapsack...
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Monarch websites: Monarch Watch, Journey North,
A book: Bees in Your Backyard by Olivia Messinger Carril and Joseph S. Wilson (Amazon Link))
Carol's Rabbit hole: What Do We Know About Crop Circles by Ben Hubbard. (Amazon Link) and Circular Evidence: A Detailed Investigation of the Flattened Swirled Crops Phenomenon by Pat Delgado and Colin Andrews
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Dee and Carol talk about self-sowing flowers, green bean success, saving seeds and homesteading.
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Links:
The Okies for Monarchs Central Oklahoma wildflower seed from Johnston Seed Company
Celosia seeds from Floret Flowers
Dee's zinnia video on Instagram
Zinnias Oklahoma series from Johnny's Selected Seeds
Provider green beans from Botanical Interests (affiliate link)
Carol's Green Bean story
On the Bookshelf: The First-Time Homesteader: A Complete Beginner’s Guide to Starting and Loving Your New Homestead by Jessica Soward. (Amazon Link) and check out her other book: The First-Time Gardener: Growing Vegetables. (Amazon Link)
Funk Farm Miniature Herefords on Facebook and Instagram
Rabbit Holes: Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street, and their podcast, Milk Street Radio with an episode on Julia Child.
The Mayfair Bookshop: A Novel of Nancy Mitford and the Pursuit of Happiness by Eliza Knight and Heywood Hill Bookshop (a real place!) plus two more books: Garden Stories, edited by Diane Secker Tesdell and Stories of Trees, Woods, and the Forest, edited by Fiona Stafford.
Flylady, to tame the chaos.
Central Oklahoma Daylily Society, plant sale September 10th! If you live in the area, Dee will have some of her daylilies in the sale.
Happy Birthday, Dee!
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Carol and Dee talk about flowers that bloom in the fall, enriching your soil with cover crops, a book on color in the garden, composting, and more in this week's episode.
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Links:
Acres Abloom on Instagram and their website
Dee's going to make elderberry syrup.
Carol's Green Bean Story on her blog
Dee's blog post about fall bulbs
Barnardia japonica (Japanese Jacinth) for sale from Hayefield [15 Seeds]
The Elizabeth Lawrence Houses and Garden in Charlotte, NC
Carol's Persian Violet Instagram.
Blackhawks Big Bluestem Grass, Andropogon | American Meadows
Botanical Interests has a nice article on cover crops (affiliate link)
On the Bookshelf: The Gardener’s Palette by RHS and Jo Thompson (Amazon link)
And we still love The Chef's Garden by Farmer Lee Jones (Amazon link)
Dirt: Gardeners' World’s Monty Don blasts show’s ‘gardening mafia’
Links for Dee's Rabbit Hole on the JS bioreactor for composting
Link to a manual on how to build one, an article about it. Also, Bioreactor - Regeneration International
Gert Schley, was the charming German gardener on Gardener's World, Episode 23 who wowed us with his Somerset gardening smock. Carol discovered his connection to Haddon Wood.
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Dee and Carol talk about crevice gardens, fall-sown vegetables, flowering houseplants and more in this week's episode.
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Links!
Are Mums Perennials in Family Handyman
Happy Frog Soil Conditioner used by Dee
Margaret Roach's article in the New York Times about crevice gardens.
The Crevice Garden: How to Make the Perfect Home for Plants From Rocky Places, by Paul Spriggs and Kenton Seth
RHS Wisley crevice gardens
North American Rock Garden Society
Botanical Interests article : How to Plan your Fall Vegetable Garden (affiliate link)
Carol's favorite French Breakfast radishes at Botanical Interests (affiliate link)
On the Bookshelf:
Bloom: The Secret of Growing Flowering Houseplants year-round, by Lisa Eldred Steinkopf, The House Plant Guru. (Also on Amazon)
Traffic slows down for wildflowers: Long Newnton Parish Council using flowers to reduce speeding - BBC News
Another Book: Appointment with Venus by Jerrard Tickell
Spotted Lantern Fly Info from Purdue University
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Dee and Carol focus on English gardens this week as Dee talks about her recent trip to the Cotswolds.
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Links:
Atlas nitrile gloves, like Dee wears.
Disposable gloves Carol uses for weeding.
Iris histriodes 'Katharine Hodgkins' at Old House Gardens
Allium schubertii at Brent & Becky's Bulbs
Crocus tommasinianus 'Hummingbird' at John Scheeper's Bulbs
Our zinnias vs. dahlias podcast episode from last year .
Carol's bloom day post for August
Dee's bloom day post for August
Smart Pots
On the Bookshelf: Botanical Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland by Lisa Schneidau (Amazon Link). (Carol listened to the audio book.)
Also, Woodland Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland by Lisa Schneidau (Feb 1, 2021) (Amazon Link) and River Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland by Lisa Schneidau (Amazon Link) (Coming out October 1)
Lisa Schneidau is a British author and storyteller, visit her website.
Dirt: Tower of London Wildflower Superbloom for the Queen’s Platinum jubilee, plus The Queen's Green Canopy project.
Dame Miriam Louise Rothschild was the entomologist we couldn't remember!
Peacock Neon Purple Phlox paniculata
Sunflower Houses by Sharon Lovejoy (out of print!)
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Dee and Carol talk about hidden lilies, some All-America Selection vegetables, monarchs, and more in this week's episode.
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Hidden Lilies, Curcuma alismatifolia
Dee's Instagram pics of these lilies - here and here
Newly announced All-America Selections winners for 2023
Pepper cayenne Wildcat F1
Watermelon Rubyfirm F1
Also, shout out for the 2022 All-America tomato, Tomato Purple Zebra F1 (National Winner) and Begonia Viking Explorer Rose on Green F1 (And on Carol's Instagram)
On the bookshelf: Green Kitchen: Quick & Slow: Joyful Vegetarian Recipes for Quick Weeknight Fixes and Slow Weekend Meals by David Frenkiel (Author), Luise Vindahl (Author) (Amazon Link) Check out the authors' blog, Green Kitchen Stories
Updates on Monarchs Daily briefing: Monarch butterflies are an endangered species and
Monarchs | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
The Language of Butterflies by Wendy Williams (Amazon Link)
More on Gladys Taber - Friend of Gladys Taber
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Dee and Carol discuss Cannas, the wisdom of doing nothing sometimes, and more on this week's podcast.
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Links!
Tropicanna Black Canna
Article on growing cannas
On the Bookshelf: Vegetable Literacy: Exploring the Affinities and History of the Vegetable Families, With 300 Recipes by Deborah Madison (Amazon link)
Other books referenced:
The Chef's Garden by Farmer Lee Jones (Amazon link)
Tropical Plants and How to Love Them by Marianne Willburn (Amazon link)
Bringing Nature Home by Doug Tallamy (Amazon link)
Ring of Forests around the top of the world Boreal Forests of the Circumpolar World | SpringerLink
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Dee and Carol talk about plant obsessions, hot peppers, and more on this week's episode.
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Some links:
Rose Chat podcast about the Rose Geek.
Some of the roses Dee mentioned:
Pomponella Fairy Tale, Benjamin Britten, Vanessa Bell, Mother of Pearl
Americal Hort Society list of plant societies.
What is a Scoville Unit?
First We Feast on YouTube to see people eating hot wings.
Top 10 Hottest Peppers In The World [2022 Update]
On the Bookshelf: New Wild Garden: Natural-Style planting and practicalities, by Ian Hodgson (Amazon link)
All America Selections, which we love for their plant recommendations.
Carol's blog post on her new Lego Orchid.
Agastache 'Blue Fortune' how to pronounce by the Missouri Botanical Garden staff
Dirt: Discovery of a new giant waterlily, Uncovering the giant waterlily: A botanical wonder of the world | Kew
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Dee and Carol talk about silver plants, cucumbers vs. melons vs. squash, regenerative farming, and more on this week's episode.
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The rest of the links:
Dusty Miller, Senecio cineraria ' Silverdust'. And there is also Angel Wings Senecio
Dee's blog post about dusty miller (so sweet!)
Carol’s Family Handyman article about growing squash.
American Gourd Society - headquarters in Indiana!
On the Bookshelf: Farming on the wild side : the evolution of a regenerative organic farm and nursery by Nancy J and John P. Hayden (Amazon link)
Rare oak found in Texas: Researchers Discover Oak Tree Thought to Be Extinct | Quercus tardifolia | The Morton Arboretum (with a h/t to Dr. Jared Barnes)
Other stuff we mentioned:
Addams Family TV show on Prime Video
Dee's blog post - 'Tour Gardens are Pageant Girls'
Carol's Family Handyman article on watering plants
Lego Orchid - Carol's new Lego kit.
Dee's blog post about the daylily convention
Carol's blog post with more Agatha Christie garden-y quotes
That shepherd guy that Dee mentioned is James Rebanks, author of Pastoral Song (Amazon Link)
Carol's latest jigsaw puzzle, Country Diary: Spring plus the YouTube video of the jigsaw puzzle competition!
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Carol and Dee talk about drought-tolerant flowers, starting fall veggies from seed now, plus more, with quite a few mentions of daylilies sprinkled in here and there.
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From All-America Selections, a Begonia: Viking Explorer Rose on Green F1
'Porky Pig' daylily
Nan Ondra's Hayefield site for unusual flower and vegetable seeds
Article on growing drought-tolerant plants
Hat tip to John Scheeper's Kitchen Garden Seeds for today's veggie topic
On the bookshelf: The Once & Future Gardener: Garden Writing from the Golden Age of Magazines 1900 - 1940, Edited and with an Introduction by Virginia Tuttle Clayton (1999)
Article about how bees chew holes in leaves to make plants bloom earlier: (from May 2020…)
Documentary Honeyland on Hulu.
Article on the ethics of documentaries
The rest of the story of the beekeeper featured in the documentary
Carol's blog post on another Lost Lady of Garden Writing, Mrs. Francis King.
The Aunt Dimity mystery series (Amazon link to first book. Bookshop link to first book)
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This week, Carol and Dee talk about hydrangeas, cilantro, regenerative agriculture, and more.
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Hydrangea links:
Carol’s Family Handyman article on growing Cilantro
On the Bookshelf: A Year Full of Flowers by Sarah Raven (Amazon Link)
Farmer Lee Jones video
The Pollinators documentary on Amazon Prime
Dee's post on Japanese beetles.
Jigsaw puzzle: A Year of the Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady.
Stickers that look like pressed violets! They really do look like pressed flowers!
Shall we wrap this up with Dee's post on Japanese beetles?
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Carol and Dee talk about Pentas, imperfect vegetable gardens, and more on this week's episode.
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Links:
Awards from the National Federation of Press Women!
Second Place for our podcast episode: We Almost Became a Math Podcast! Kidding!
First Place for Carol for a personal blog post: My New Gardening Admiring Service.
Pentas - an annual flower for your garden. Carol write a blog post about them.
On the bookshelf: Grow Your Own Mini Fruit Garden: Planting and Tending Small Fruit Trees and Berries in Gardens and Containers by Christy Wilhelmi (Amazon Link)
Piper and Ivy gardening T-shirts
Frosted Elfins found in Oklahoma
Roar Like a Dandelion, by Ruth Krauss
The Marginalian: The Dandelion and the Meaning of Life: G. K. Chesterton
Documentary: The Pollinators on Amazon
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Carol and Dee talk about moss roses, carrots, and more on this week's episode.
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Carol's lettuce post.
Dee's article on growing carrots on Family Handyman website.
On the Bookshelf:
The New Southern Garden Cookbook, by Sheri Castle (Amazon link) “Enjoying the best from homegrown gardens, farmers’ markets, roadside stands, and CSA farm boxes.”
Another Lost Lady of Garden Writing: Frances Edge McIlVaine.
Old-fashioned baked beans recipe.
Other books mentioned:
The Language of Butterflies: How Thieves, Hoarders, Scientists, and Other Obsessives Unlocked the Secrets of the World's Favorite Insect, by Wendy Williams (Amazon link).
The Chef’s Garden by Farmer Lee Jones (also Amazon link).
Aunt Dimity cozy mystery books.
A few new shows to watch when it's hot outside: The Garden Chronicles on the Magnolia Network.
This Beautiful Fantastic on Amazon Prime, suggested by Kathy from Cold Climate Gardening.
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Carol and Dee talk about artemisia, Japanese turnips, weeds, and more on this week's episode.
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A few other links:
Indiana’s invasive plant list
Dee's article, Identifying Invasive Oklahoma Plants, for Oklahoma Living.
Turnips! 18 Different Types Of Turnips. Who has seeds? We recommend you check Botanical Interests! They have a Japanese turnip called Market Express. (Affiliate Links)
On the bookshelf: Wild About Weeds by Jack Wallington (Amazon link)
Other books:
The Language of Butterflies: How Thieves, Hoarders, Scientists, and Other Obsessives Unlocked the Secrets of the World's Favorite Insect, by Wendy Williams (Amazon link).
The Chef’s Garden by Farmer Lee Jones (also Amazon link).
A Lost Lady of Garden Writing: Dorothy Giles,
Durant, Oklahoma magnolia festival
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Dee and Carol talk about milkweed and growing other natives for butterflies, why we don't / won't grow goji berries, and more topics related to butterflies.
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Links!
On the bookshelf:
The Language of Butterflies: How Thieves, Hoarders, Scientists, and Other Obsessives Unlocked the Secrets of the World's Favorite Insect, by Wendy Williams (and Amazon link)
Article about Eastern Monarchs population increasing
The Maria Sibylla Merian Society The Society will educate the public about Maria Sibylla Merian and encourage investigations related to her life and work. Also, Merianin.de is devoted to her work and life.
Dee's newsletter about Color me blue.
Family Handyman for gardening info, some of which has been written by Dee and Carol.
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Dee and Carol talk about lilies, raspberries, pulses, and more on this week's episode.
Some links!
Sunflower ‘Concert Bells’ an All-America Selection
‘Schéhérazade’ lilies info from Chicago Botanic Garden
More info on the legend: Scheherazade: the story of a storyteller | Art UK
Lilies for sale from Old House Gardens
On the bookshelf: Garden Allies: The Insects, Birds, & Other Animals That Keep Your Garden Beautiful and Thriving by Frederique Lavoipierre, Illustrations by Craig Latker (Also Amazon link)
Legumes and Pulses | The Nutrition Source | Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health
Aunt Dimity's Death, by Nancy Atherton (Book #1 in the Aunt Dimity mystery series).
'Texas Gold' tulips at John Scheepers.
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Dee and Carol talk about clove currants, bugs in the vegetable garden, mulch, Aunt Dimity, petunias, and more on this week's episode.
A few links:
“Clove Currant: Ribes odoratum, or Ribes aureum var. villosum" - A Way To Garden
Clove Currant from Shooting Star Nursery
Plant Partners: Science-Based Companion Planting Strategies for the Vegetable Garden, by Jessica Walliser (Also on Amazon)
The Rooted Life: Cultivating Health and Wholeness Through Growing Your Own Food, by Justin Rhodes (Also on Bookshop)
Brooklyn Bridge Park's New Mulch Guide
Information on Soil Horizons
Aunt Dimity's Death, by Nancy Atherton (Book #1 in the Aunt Dimity mystery series). Aunt Dimity's World.
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Dee and Carol talk about viburnums, elderberries, books by Anna Pavord, and more.
Helpful links:
Dee's blog post on Native shrubs to replace roses - Red Dirt Ramblings®
Carol's old blog post (2007!) on Who's Afraid of the Big Broad Shrubs
More on elderberries from Minnesota Wildflowers website
Amazon link to books by Anna Pavord
The Curious Gardener, by Anna Pavord
The Seasonal Gardener: Creative Plant Combinations, by Anna Pavord. (Also on Bookshop.org.
The Tulip, Twentieth Anniversary Edition, by Anna Pavord
Landskipping: Painters, Ploughmen and Places, by Anna Pavord
Cookbooks:
The Rancho de Chimayo Cookbook
Red or Green: New Mexico Cuisine
Wild Geese Bookshop, where Carol will be on the porch answering gardening questions on May 21st from 1:00 - 2:00 pm
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Dee and Carol talk about Spigelia, blackberries, a new book, Grow Now, by Emily Murphy, another Lost Lady of Garden Writing and more on this week's podcast episode.
Today's bird song is from Dee's garden!
Links:
Wild Geese Bookshop, where Carol will be on the porch answering gardening questions on May 21st from 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Dee's Korean hand hoe (and Amazon affiliate link)
Indian Pink Spigelia marilandica
Gregg's Mistflower Eupatorium greggii
“Raspberries and blackberries both produce a fruit made up of many individual sections, or drupelets.” Oregon State University.
Good info from Oklahoma State Extension that applies to almost everywhere.
On the Bookshelf: Grow Now by Emily Murphy. Go Beyond Organic, Rewild Your Land, Sequester Carbon, Support Biodiversity. From TimberPress. Her Instagram feed. The quiz we took is in her book. (Amazon link)
Carol's articles on lilacs on Family Handyman: This one, and this other one.
Dee's articles on containers from Oklahoma Living, May 2021
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Dee and Carol talk about peonies, strawberries, the new book Black Flora, and explore some interesting rabbit holes.
Links!
Viola 'Etain' at Proven Winners
From Select Seeds:
Viola odorata
Heliotrope 'Amaretto'
The Enchanted April, by Elizabeth von Armin
Peony's Envy, a place to buy peonies
A podcast episode about peonies
A podcast episode about strawberries
On the bookshelf: Black Flora: Profiles of Inspiring Black Flower Farmers + Florists, by Teresa J. Speight. Also, Where We Bloom, by Debra Prinzing. Teri's website, Cottage in the Court.
Frank’s Nursery & Crafts is back… online.
Lost Ladies of Garden Writing - Mrs. Edward Harding (Alice) author of Peonies in the Little Garden, 1923 and The Book of the Peony, 1917. Also The Peony (1993 reprint). Article about Alice Harding on the Historical Iris Preservation Society website
On the Magnolia Network, Rancho San Julian
Poem by Andrea Potos
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On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
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Dee and Carol talk about Kerria japonica, buzzwords that make you want to buy more plants, vegetable gardening for newbies, a lost lady of garden writing named Kate L. Brewster, and more on this week's epside.
Helpful links:
Tomato Purple Zebra F1 | All-America Selections
Dee’s Post: Grow an Oklahoma summer vegetable garden - Red Dirt Ramblings®
Podcast episodes:
Grow a Summer Vegetable Garden
An Early Summer Vegetable Garden Pep Talk
On the bookshelf: Philosophy for Gardeners: Ideas & paradoxes to ponder in the garden, by Kate Collyns. Her other book: Gardening for Profit: From Home Plot to Market Garden
First Aid for Gardeners:
DrySee bandage
No Bite Me insect repellent cream by SallyEAnder
Viking Explorer Rose on Green begonias, winner of a Gold Medal from All-America Selections
Carol's blog post about morel mushrooms.
Carol's blog post about Kate L. Brewster.
Dee's blog post with a late April garden update
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On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Carol and Dee talk about impatiens, basils, and more in this week's episode.
Beacon Impatiens.
Imara™ XDR series from Syngenta Flowers.
Northern Gardener Magazine
American Gardener magazine
Prospera® basil from Johnny's Selected Seeds
Amazel Basil from Proven Winners.
Devotion Basil from Johnny's Selected Seed
Everleaf Emerald Towers Basil from Botanical Interests
On the Bookshelf: Grow Bag Gardening by Lily Woods.
We use and recommend Smart Pots (affiliate link)
Dirt: New Game - Can You Dig It…
UC Davis Researchers Develop Ice Cube That Doesn't Melt or Grow Mold.
A Gardener’s Compendium: Volume 3 Gardening with the Senses by Teresa Watkins. (Also a Volume 1 and a Volume 2. All are also available on Amazon.)
An Interesting Podcast, not gardening related: Lost Ladies of Lit
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Dee and Carol talk about fertilizing roses, power tools, bird song apps, and more on this week's episode.
A few links:
Monrovia Nursery's perennial violas
Salvia 'Salvatore Blue' seeds from Swallowtail Garden Seeds
Happy Frog Soil Conditioner from FoxFarm Soil & Fertilizer
Tertill Garden Program for soil testing.
Redneck Rosarian, Chris VanCleave
DeWalt Power Tools on Amazon (Affiliate Link)
Worx Power Tools on Amazon (Affiliate Link)
On the Bookshelf: The Urban Garden: 101 Ways to Grow Food and Beauty in the City, by Kathy Jentz and Teri Speight.
The best birdsong apps - BirdWatching, written by Sneed B. Collard, III.
"The Gardener," a film about Frank Cabot, on Amazon Prime (Affiliate Link).
Garden Conservancy website
Ruth Bancroft Garden
The Bold Dry Garden: Lessons from The Ruth Bancroft Garden, by Johanna Silver
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For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol talk about gladiolus, their favorite tools, a new book on weed-free gardening, and more on this week's podcast episode.
A few links:
Dee's Greenhouse info: My tropical plants are all tucked into the greenhouse - Red Dirt Ramblings®
National Garden Bureau's Year of the Gladiolus
Gladiolus Mon Amour at Brent & Becky’s Bulb
Heirloom Glad Search at Old House Gardens
'Atom' Gladiolus at Old House Gardens
Tools:
Dee's Long-handled trowel
Fiskars loppers
Corona FS ComfortGEL Leaf & Stem Micro Snips,
Jakoti shears (sold many places, including Amazon)
Cobrahead mini cultivator
Cape Cod weeder at A.M. Leonard
Corona mini loppers
Perennial spade at Garden Tool Company
Rockery trowel at Garden Tool Company
Red Pig Tools
On the Bookshelf: Weed Free Gardening: A Comprehensive and Organic Approach to Weed Management by Tasha Greer
Flower Puns – Punpedia from our friend Katie Elzer-Peters at The Garden of Words
Groovy Plants Ranch
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On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Carol and Dee talk about begonias, spinach, hedgerows, and more on this week's podcast episode.
Links!
A few Instagram accounts: @tldawkins @anya_thegarden_fairy
American Begonia Society
30 Outstanding Begonia Types & Varieties To Grow In Shade & Indoor
Begonias lost to the trade - Carol's blog post about Buckner Hollingsworth and Begonia ‘Gloire de Lorraine'
National Garden Bureau - Year of the Salad Greens
Good info on spinach on Johnny’s Selected Seed 42 articles!
Spinach Bloomsdale (affiliate link to Botanical Interests)
Spinach Nobel (All-America Selection from 1933)
Malabar spinach, Basella alba – Wisconsin Horticulture
New Zealand Spinach (affiliate link to Botanical Interests)
This Time Next Year, We’ll be Laughing, by Jaqueline Winspear
On the Bookshelf: Containers in the Garden, by Claus Dalby. Claus is a famous Instagrammer as well.
Dirt: Hedgerow dating - TCV Practical Conservation Handbooks. Also Harnessing the Benefits of Wild Birds On Farms - Modern Farmer
Pastoral Song: A Farmer's Journey, by James Rebanks
Dee's Bee Rabbit Hole. Jerome Bee Farm & Homestead - YouTube and Sweet Stingers - YouTube.
Bees and Their Keepers: A Journey Through Seasons and Centuries, by Lotte Möller
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For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol talk about growing strawflowers, kitchen gardens, planting trees, and more on this week's podcast episode.
A few links:
Rainbow Bouquet Dwarf Strawflowers from Renee’s garden
15 Plants to Grow for Dried Flowers & How To Dry Them
Designing the New Kitchen Garden an American Potager, by Jennifer R. Bartley
On the Bookshelf: The Elegant and Edible Garden Design a Dream Kitchen Garden to Fit Your Personality Desires and Lifestyle by Linda Vater.
Planting trees for the Queen’s Platinum jubilee - as seen on Gardener’s World.
Montrose Garden in North Carolina
Garden of Bright Images on Facebook
Plant a spring blooming tree by Dee Nash
CocoRaHS - Community Collaborative Rain, Hail & Snow Network
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For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
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On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
This week, Carol and Dee talk about plant patents and their tips for successful plant shopping, plus a bit more on books and a special bonus ending!
A few links:
A primer on patents and trademarks from Greenhouse Product News
Proven Winners - Look for their plants at your local garden center or buy online
Dummen Orange - Look for their plants at your local garden center
Ball Hort - Look for their plants at your local garden center
Dee's article on invasives in Oklahoma
A link to information about invasives in Indiana
Do look up what is invasive in your state!
The Backyard Forager, Ellen Zachos
On the Bookshelf: Edible Plants A Photographic Survey of the Wild Edible Botanicals of North America, by Jimmy W. Fike
Country Livings Article on Five Ways to Design Your Garden Like the Royals
Graceful Gardens, for Delphiniums
More books:
Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life, by Tish Harrison Warren
This Must Be the Place, by Maggie O'Farrell
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For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
This week, Dee and Carol talk about daffodils, growing peas (with some new tips on pinching them back), storing seeds, sunflowers, and more.
(The good news is Dee's internet connection is super fast now. The bad news, her earbuds failed her a few times, as you will hear.)
A few helpful links:
Daffodils:
American Daffodil Society
Their daffodil FAQ
The divisions of daffodils
Brent and Becky's Bulbs for daffodils bulbs.
Peas:
‘Pea Shoots Baby Greens Seeds’ from Botanical Interests (affiliate link)
Pea seeds from Botanical Interests (affiliate link)
Carol's throwback blog post: The Year of the Pea
On the Bookshelf:
Grow Cook Eat: A Food Lover's Guide to Vegetable Gardening, Including 50 Recipes, Plus Harvesting and Storage Tips, by Willi Galloway
Dee's review on her blog: Grow Cook Eat by Willi Galloway - Red Dirt Ramblings®
Dirt:
Buying seeds grown in your region. The Buffalo Seed Company
Rabbit Holes:
Sunflowers marking support for Ukraine - NBC.com.
Books by Barbara Pym
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For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol talk about new rose varieties, growing potatoes, and more on this week's epsiode.
Links!
Roses: NEW! 2022 Winners - American Garden Rose Selections. Great video by Chris VanCleave and Paul Zimmerman about criteria and sustainability.
The Chef’s Garden by Farmer Lee Jones
Potato sources? Many are sold out. Check local garden centers!
On the Bookshelf: Four-Season Food Gardening: How to grow vegetables, fruits, and herbs year-round, by Misilla Dela Llana
Dirt: Seed Vault Opened for New Seeds, a video about it.
Rabbit Holes: Penguin's Great Food Series Released In the States | Kitchn.
Carol's Blog Post on Forcing Snowdrops Like It's 1877
Carol's secret source for finding old books to buy: Bookfinder
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For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
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On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol talk about four stages of gardening, some epiphanies about radishes, and more on this week's episode.
A few helpful links:
Dee's Blog Post: A redwork memorial quilt - Red Dirt Ramblings®
Carol's Blog Post: Barbara Pym gardening quotes
The Chef’s Garden by Farmer Lee Jones
On the Bookshelf: The Regenerative Garden: 80 Practical Projects for Creating a Self-Sustaining Garden Ecosystem, by Stephanie Rose
Cornell Bird Cams
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For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
This week, Dee and Carol talk about Bird of Paradise houseplants, grains and sunflowers to grow for birds, a bird book, and more.
(Apologies for some of the glitches... we had some Internet issues today which we will work to fix by next week.)
A few links:
Info on Bird of Paradise plants from Costa Farms
Broom Corn from Botanical Interests
Amaranth from Baker’s Creek
Botanical Interests Songbird Delight Flower Mix and Purple Majesty Ornamental Millet. German Foxtail Millet at Baker's Creek.
On the Bookshelf: The Bluebird Effect: Uncommon Bonds with Common Birds, by Julie Zickefoose. Julie has a YouTube Channel and a website.
Some other bird books worth checking out: The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think by Jennifer Ackerman
Crows: Encounters with the Wise Guys of the Avian World, by Candace Savage.
The Atomic Weight of Love by Elizabeth J. Church (a novel)
Dirt: Bird Feathers and where their color comes from. Blue Birds Aren't Blue, and This is How They Fool You
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For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol talk about African Violets, the Dwarf Tomato Project, Old Growth Forests, Funeral Flowers, and more on this week's episode.
A few links:
Dee's Blog Post - Snow days, a funeral, and food.
African Violet Society of America
How to Repot African violets Violets 101 - African Violet Society of America
Check out the OPTIMARA website to see different colors and types of African Violets OPTIMARA
A blog post on African Violets: How to Achieve Constant Bloom by Kevin Lee Jacobs.
Dress Like Your Plant Contest Page
Veggie: Dwarf Tomato Project
Epic Tomatoes: How to Select and Grow the Best Varieties of All Time, by Craig LeHoullier
Open Source Seeds – Dwarf Tomato Project
Open Source Seed Initiative
On the Bookshelf: The Hidden Histories of Houseplants: Fascinating Stories of Our Most-Loved Houseplants, by Maddie and Alice Bailey
More Links:
GardenComm
Wild Geese Bookshop in Franklin, Indiana
Old, Primeval Forests May Be a Powerful Tool to Fight Climate Change | Science | Smithsonian Magazine
Post Oaks and the Keystone Ancient Forest.
The History of Funeral Flowers | Petal Talk.
The Fascinating History of Funeral Wreaths: Scent And Violet
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For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol are joined by Jenks Farmer to talk about Crinums, which of course makes us want some. Our other topics include bitter melons, voles, and becorns on this week's episode.
Some links:
Crinum: Unearthing the History and Cultivation of the World’s Biggest Bulb, by Augustus Jenkins Farmer
Crinums we discussed include 'Milk and Wine', 'Pink Flamingo', 'Jubilee', and 'Menehune'.
Crinum 'Menehune' in a video
Jenks on the web: JenksFarmer.com
Instagram: Jenks Farmer (@jenksfarmer) • Instagram photos and videos
YouTube: Jenks Farmer - YouTube
Facebook: Jenks Farmer | Facebook
Bitter Melons!
Seeds from Botanical Interests (affiliate link)
Seeds from Baker's Creek
Info on bitter melon from North Carolina State Extension
Video of David M. Bird's becorns and his website
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For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol soldier on through winter with discussions about temperennials, favorite herbs to grow, more books, and even Mexican oregano on this week's episode.
Some helpful links:
Dee's blog post on basil
Carol's blog post on sorting seeds
Ask Carol to speak about violas! Her speaking info.
Proven Winner's info on temperennials
Watering can Carol bought from Botanical Interests (affiliate link)
International Herb Society
On the Bookshelf: The Chef’s Garden by Farmer Lee Jones
Cool Plant Lounge in Dallas, Texas on CBS Saturday Morning
More books:
These Precious Days, by Ann Patchett
Tacos: Recipes and Provocations: A Cookbook, by Alex Stupak.
Plus,
Mexican Oregano—A Tasty Twist on an Age-Old Flavor - Brooklyn Botanic Garden,
Susan Wheeler artwork... it's hard to find anything about her on the Internet, but here's the picture Dee and Carol talked about.
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For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol talk about flower seed sources, the year of the salad greens, beneficial insects and more on this week's episode.
A few helpful links!
Dee's blog post of indoor blooms
Flower Seed Sources:
Floret’s List of Flower Seed Companies.
A sweet pea seed source, Ardelia Farm
Eden Brothers: heirloom and open-pollinated seeds.
National Garden Bureau declares it's the Year of the Salad Greens
Carol’s blog post on growing lettuce like it’s 1957
Encino lettuce from High Mowing Garden Seeds.
The American Viscountess makes Lettuce Soup! A video
On the Bookshelf: Attracting Beneficial Bugs to Your Garden, Second Edition: A Natural Approach to Pest Control, by Jessica Walliser.
Lost LadyBug Project - Cornell University
Guilford Gardens CSA
Garden Rant Post on Robin Lane Fox by Allen Bush
Thoughtful Gardening, by Robin Lane Fox
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For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol talk about winter sowing seeds, growing microgreens, favorite seed catalogs and more on this week's episode.
A few links to explore!
Dee's blog post on the seeds she's ordered.
Carol's blog post on floracrats
Winter Sowing article from Univ of Illinois Extension
Winter Sowing 101 blog post and 16 Flowers to Winter Sow blog post both from A Garden for the House blog
A Few of our Favorite Seed Catalogs:
Botanical Interests. (affiliate link)
John Scheeper's Kitchen Garden Seeds
Seed Saver's Exchange
Southern Exposure Seed Exchange
High Mowing Seeds
Select Seeds and Plants
Carol's blog posts on vintage seed catalogs. Post one, Post two
Smithsonian magazine article on using your Instant Pot to germinate seeds.
Nymans, where the British Antiques Roadshow filmed some episodes and Faberge pear blossom sculpture valued at £1mill on Antiques Roadshow | UK | News | Express.co.uk
Dee's newest china obsession! Old Country Roses pattern of China.
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For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol love stories about flowers and vegetables and tell a few in this week's episode.
Helpful Links:
Phyllis Marigold from Botanical Interests (Affiliate Link)
Info on the Oxford Orphanage flower (scroll down to see it.)
A couple of pepper stories:
Creating a New Route for a Traditional Basque Spice
The Mystery of Big Jim
NuMex Joe E. Parker Anaheim Pepper Seeds from Botanical Interests (Affiliate Link)
On the Bookshelf: The Healthy Garden: Simple Steps for a Greener World by Kathleen N. Brenzel and Mary-Kate Mackey
PSA: A hockey fan who is studying to be a doctor saw a cancerous mole on Brian Hamilton’s neck
Info on the Hoopla app for getting books from your local library
Jazzy Mix Microgreens from Botanical Interests (Affiliate Link)
Tell us your flower and vegetable stories! Email us at [email protected] and we might feature your story on a future podcast episode.
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For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
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On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Carol and Dee talk about favorite flowers from the past year, highlights from their vegetable gardens and more on this week's episode.
Some helpful links:
Dee's lavender video with Oklahoma Gardener
Carol's blog post about what happens to poinsettias after Christmas
Carol's Instagram: Indygardener
On the Bookshelf: The Indoor Potted Bulb, by Rob Proctor
Amaryllis dressed in velvet from VivaTerra
AHS Tips on Christmas Plant Care
A piece on 60 Minutes about vineyards
The Bishop's Wife movie on Amazon Prime
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Email us at [email protected]
For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
Book links are also affiliate links.
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol talk about a variety of gardening topics including lilacs, peanuts, feeding birds, mistletoe, herbs, eggnog, and more on this week's episode.
Some helpful links:
Dee's latest newsletter
National Garden Bureau's Year of the Lilac Information
Burpee's Giant Virginia peanut seeds
National Peanut Board information
Tennessee Nut Company, which Dee says has the best peanuts.
On the Bookshelf: A Merry Christmas Herbal, by Adelma Grenier Simmons and the YouTube video featuring her on late night television with David Letterman (Go to about the 39:40 mark)
Article: Which birds are the biggest jerks at the feeder? A massive data analysis reveals the answer
Modern Framer Article about mistletoe
On television: An American Aristocrat Guide to English Estates Christmas Edition. And the related book: Christmas at Highclere: Recipes and Traditions from the Real Downton Abbey.
Martha Stewart's eggnog recipe
CBS Sunday Morning segment on Christmas Time is Here from the Charlie Brown Christmas.
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Email us at [email protected]
For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
Book links are also affiliate links.
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Carol and Dee talk about Peperomias and Pecans, plus books, gift ideas, and more on this week's podcast episode.
A few helpful links:
The Quotidian Mysteries, by Kathleen Norris.
NGB's Year of the Peperomia info, plus their Red Bubble Store with Pansy products
What are the Differences in Pecan Varieties? By Royalty Pecan Farms.
Pecan Varieties for Oklahoma | Oklahoma State University
Our friend, Jenks Farmer
On the Bookshelf: Planting for Honeybees: The Grower’s Guide to Creating a Buzz, by Sarah Wyndham-Lewis and James Lewis Weston
Also Some Ancient Gentlemen: Being an Examination of Certain People, Plants, and Gardens, by Tyler Whittle
Lego Botanical Bouquet, Lego Bird of Paradise, Lego Bonsai. (Affiliate links)
GeezLouiseDesigns on Etsy for miniature paper plants.
Email Carol if you want a typewritten note! [email protected]
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For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
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On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol talk about verbena, walnut trees, and more on this week's episode.
Helpful Links:
National Garden Bureau's 2022 Year of Verbena
What's the Difference Between English Walnuts and Black Walnuts?
Hammons Black Walnuts
Dee’s grandmother’s recipe for black walnut cookies: Black Walnut Cookies Recipe: How to Make It
And a video of a walnut commercial…
One of many Garden Professors' blog posts on the allelopathic nature of black walnuts
On the Bookshelf: Onward and Upward in the Garden, by Katharine S. White
Hitchhikers on Christmas trees from Purdue Landscape Report
Carol is still looking for a good, used typewriter to use for garden-y things. If you have a lead one one that works, email us!
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On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol talk about Jersusalem artichokes, chestnuts, conservatories and more on this week's episode.
Some links:
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Jerusalem Artichokes (aka Sunchokes, aka Helianthus Tuberosus) from our friend, Ellen Zachos…
History of the American Chestnut.
Chestnut Identification between European and American.
Fresh chestnuts from nuts.com
On the Bookshelf: The Conservatory: Gardens Under Glass by Alan Stein & Nancy Virts
ListenWell, the November essay is The Great Gardener
Cardening, gardening in your car
California Typewriter documentary on Amazon Prime
Cottage in the Court podcast episode with Carol
The Garden Lady, C.L. Fornari on WXTK radio
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On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
In this week's episode, Dee and Carol talk about St. John's Wort and Thanksgiving vegetables, and discover that all rabbit holes lead to gardens.
Some links!
Dee's blog post on paperwhites and amaryllis bulbs
Proven Winner's 'Sunny Boulevard' hypericum
Missouri Botanical Garden's info on Hypericum perforatum
Carol's blog post about Thanksgiving dinner topics for gardeners
On the Bookshelf: By Any Other Name: A Cultural History of the Rose, by Simon Morley
About Doug, The world’s largest potato.
Carol's blog post with a picture of her potato that looked like Winnie the Pooh.
Info about The Rosenbach Library
The Booksellers on Amazon Video
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On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol talk about plants for winter interest in the garden, how to save seeds for next spring, tiny houseplants, and more on this week's episode.
A few helpful links!
Dee's " a post about everything I could think of about the greenhouse."
Proven Winner's Winterberry Holly Guide
Nan Ondra's Hayefield Seed Shop
Tips to Keep Seeds Viable from Oklahoma State University.
On the Bookshelf: Tiny Plants: discover the joys of growing and collecting itty-bitty houseplants by Leslie F. Halleck
Rancho Gordo beans
Pollinator Pops (affiliate link)
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On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Carol and Dee look back on some of their favorite flowers, vegetables, books, and more on this first episode of their fourth season of podcasting.
Helpful links:
Phyllis African Marigold seeds from Botanical Interests (affiliate link)
Zinnia seeds from Botanical Interests (affiliate link)
On the bookshelf, some favorites from the last year.
Unearthing the Secret Garden by Marta McDowell
The Well-Gardened Mind by Sue Stuart-Smith
Tropical Plants and How to Love Them by Marianne Willburn
Dee's food obsession links:
A Cookbook! Nothing Fancy : Unfussy Food for Having People Over by Alison Roman.
Humble Hive Homestead Local to Oklahoma. Email Dee at [email protected] if you are interested in local to Oklahoma beef.
Carol's Rabbit Hole book links: The Man Who Died Twice and The Thursday Murder Club, both by Richard Osman
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Washington Gardener magazine, featuring a review of Carol's book, Digging and Delighted.
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On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
This week, Dee and Carol discuss planting flower bulbs in the fall, what to do with all that potting soil and leaves, plus more books they are reading and rabbit holes they are falling into!
A few helpful links:
Carol's blog post on planting a crocus lawn.
Dee's blog post on forcing bulbs indoors to bloom.f
SUNUP TV, agricultural resource from Oklahoma State Univ
On the Bookshelf: The Garden Awakening: Designs to Nurture Our Land and Ourselves, by Mary Reynolds
Mary Reynolds's website for We are the Ark: Acts of Restorative Kindness
Dirt: How Ex-Miners Turn Toxic Land into Lavender Farms | World Wide Waste
Visit their website: https://appalachianbotanical.com
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On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Carol and Dee celebrate Halloween week by talking about plants with black leaves or flowers, growing fewer tomato varieties next year, grave gardens, and more.
Some helpful links:
Carol's first blog post about the Halloween Hare
Flowers:
Black Plants: 75 Striking Choices for the Garden by Paul Bonine
Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities by Amy Stewart
Summerific® 'Perfect Storm' - Rose Mallow - Hibiscus hybrid from Proven Winners
Veggies:
Smart Pots
On the Bookshelf: A Garden Miscellany by Suzanne Staubach
Dirt: The Woodlands Grave Gardens and Grave Landscapes: The Nineteenth Century Rural Cemetery Movement by James R. Cothran and Erica Danylchak.
Panola Pansies at Ball Hort
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On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol talk about mums, vegetables they are going to stop growing, Marta McDowell's newest book, and more on this episode.
Helpful Links!
Flowers:
Old Fashioned Garden Mums | Clemson Univ. Home & Garden Information Center extension service.
The South's Best Mums from Southern Living
More info on Igloo series mums
Veggies:
Microgreens at Botanical Interests (affiliate link)
On the Bookshelf:
Unearthing the Secret Garden: The Plants and Flowers That Inspired Frances Hodgson Burnett by Marta McDowell.
Keri Wilt, the great-great-granddaughter of Frances Hodgson Burnett
Dirt: Simon Rogan and his famous restaurant, L'Enclume on CBS Saturday Morning
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Email us and tell us about your favorite apple varieties!
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On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol tried to make insects the overall theme for this week's podcast which is all about late-blooming flowers for pollinators, leaving the leaves for the insects, some cool books, and a wonderful documentary called The Love Bugs.
Some links:
National Garden Club's Blog post on overwintering pelargoniums indoors by Peggy Riccio
Dee's latest segment on Oklahoma Gardening
Dee's new hydrangea from Proven Winners Fairytrail Bride® Cascade Hydrangea.
Carol's new hydrangeas from Proven Winners include Invincibelle Garnetta® and Quick Fire Fab®. Fairytrail Bride® isn't hardy enough for Carol's garden!
Also, Hydrangea 'Bobo®' from Proven Winners
Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden
Solidago shortii 'Solar Cascade' - Plant Finder
Golden Torch Goldenrod
https://xerces.org for more info on overwintering insects.
On the Bookshelf: The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees, by Doug Tallamy
Rabbit Holes: Red Land Cotton Sheets and American Blanket Company.
Bringing Nature Home, by Doug Tallamy, Aldo Leopold’s classic A Sand County Almanac, and Tales from the Ant World, by Edward O. Wilson, Pastoral Song, by James Rebanks.
Dirt: POV | The Love Bugs, a wonderful documentary.
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On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Carol and Dee talk about fall pansies, caring for pumpkins, Adrian Higgins's last gardening column, and more on this week's episode.
Some helpful links:
Carol's blog post about moving rocks around.
Here’s a pretty in-depth article from the University of Georgia about pansies, plus Some advice from a North Carolina extension agent about caring for pumpkins.
Winterberry hollies at Proven Winners
Paul Laurence Dunbar, An American poet with quite an interesting history!
On the Bookshelf: Fallscaping by Nan Ondra
Adrian Higgins's last column in The Washington Post and more info about him.
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On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Carol and Dee talk about flowers to attract hummingbirds, growing figs, and farming, plus more!
Helpful links:
'Illuminati Arch® Mock Orange from Proven Winners
'Invincibelle Garnetta® Smooth Hydrangea from Proven Winners
Dee's Garden Coaching Info
'Little Trudy®' catmint from High Country Gardens
Dee's blog post Ten plants to naturally attract hummingbirds to your Oklahoma yard
Carol's video of bee on nicotiana
Carol's blog post about her figs.
Pamela's Products Figgie and Jammie Gluten-Free Cookies
On the Bookshelf: Pastoral Song, by James Rebanks.
Shepherd James Rebanks: ‘My ambition is to be a really good nobody’
Author James Rebanks on new book "Pastoral Song" and farming today
Story about Guardian Grange
How I Prepare Geraniums for Winter-Bloom – Kevin Lee Jacobs
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On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol talk about ecological horticulture and growing food with hydroponics, which leads to lots of insect and book discussions.
Links you may find useful!
Better Lawns and Gardens hosted by Teresa Watkins. Her show airs live on Saturday mornings from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA-AM 540 and several other stations in Florida. Click here to listen to Carol's segment from last Saturday.
Article in the NYT: Why You Should Do Your Spring Planting in the Fall, by Margaret Roach referring to the Brooklyn Bridge Park.
Hydroponics article in Modern Farmer.
On the Bookshelf: Hi Cacti: Growing Houseplants & Happiness, by Sabina Palermo
Article about Spotted Lanternfly found in Kansas.
USDA Spotted Lanternfly Info
Gooks by Dave Goulson including Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse (to be published September 28), A Sting in the Tail: My Adventures with Bumblebees, and A Buzz in the Meadow: The Natural History of a French Farm.
Ted talk by Dave Goulson.
Butterflies of North America (Kaufman guide) that Dee bought
Butterfly Fruit Feeder for your patio that Dee bought
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On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
This week, butterflies are floating in and around the topics as Dee and Carol discuss updating container plantings for fall, eco-regions, pests in the vegetable garden, and some very deep and meditative dirt and rabbit holes.
A few links:
Dee's blog post on watching butterflies
Mr. Plant Geek on What is Barakura Style Gardening?
On the vegetable gardening bookshelf: The Vegetable Garden Pest Handbook, by Susan Mulvihill.
Info on NWF GFW Plant List Ecoregion9.indd
Another book: Natures Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard, by Dr. Doug Tallamy
Info about Flight 93 Memorial
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On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Today, Dee and Carol celebrate 150 podcast episodes plus Dee's birthday, and also talk about fall-sown perennial flowers, kale, The Heirloom Gardener, the magic of fertilizing container plantings, plus Sark, one of the Channel Islands.
A few helpful links:
Fall Sown Perennials info and seeds from Botanical Interests.
Kale seeds from Botanical Interests
Dee's Kale Chip recipe
On the bookshelf: The Heirloom Gardener, by John Forti
Dee's latest segment on Oklahoma Gardener
Info on the Dame of Sark, plus a TV drama on YouTube about her life
A couple of books that take place in the Channel Islands: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows and another book I just read, The Girl from the Channel Islands by Jenny Lecoat.
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For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
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On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol are all over the garden this week discussing Stachys, garlic, Carol's new book, and more!
Helpful links:
Info about mulberry weed.
Stachys monieri 'Hummelo' 2019 Perennial Plant of the Year at American Meadows
Stachys byzantina 'Helen von Stein' at High Country Gardens
Russian Statice Seeds from Botanical Interests
Garlic from Botanical Interests
On the bookshelf: Digging and Delighted: Live Your Best Gardening Life, by Carol Michel. To order signed copies from Carol, visit her online store.
Carol's YouTube Video on giving up weeding and the garden fairies' blog post about it
More podcasts:
In the Red Clay podcast about true crime in the south
Book Talk, Etc. podcast about books
More books:
The Secret Life of Cows, by Rosamund Young
A Very Small Farm, by William Paul Winchester
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For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
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On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
This week, Dee and Carol talk about summer-blooming alliums, cover crops for the vegetable garden, a new product Dee tried out to keep the sweat off her face, and Carol's attempt to claim a world record!
A few helpful links:
Allium 'Millenium' at High Country Gardens
Allium 'Serendipity' at Proven Winners
Carol's Blog Post on Allium
Cover Crop info and seeds from Botanical Interests
On the Bookshelf: Lesson from Plants, by Beronda L. Montgomery
New Product: NoSweat liners for garden hats
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For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
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On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol talk about armyworms invading Oklahoma, passalong plants, sowing seeds for quick crops that mature in 60 days or less, Field of Dreams, and more on this week's podcast episode.
Helpful links:
A fact sheet on fall armyworms.
Barnardia japonica - It is hard to find the bulbs but Hayefield has seeds and Carol wrote a blog post about another possible source.
Quick crops for the vegetable garden from Botanical Interests Seeds
On the Bookshelf: World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
How farmers saved the Field of Dreams as reported in the Des Moines Register.
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For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
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On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
This week, Carol and Dee talk about sneezeweed, homesteading, responsible use of insecticides, plus the usual book review, garden updates, and rabbit holes
Some helpful links:
Helenium (Sneezeweed) cultivars at American Meadows
Helenium information from the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
On the bookshelf: Paris in Bloom, by Georgianna Lane
Another fabulous article about Wendell Berry by Gracy Olmstead.
Two podcasts Carol enjoyed and shared with Dee: Book Cougars - Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read and Cookbook Love - a podcast about publishing and collecting cookbooks from The Green Apron Company
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For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
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On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol debate zinnias versus dahlias, talk about summer savory, and share more gardening dirt, rabbit holes, and updates.
Helpful Links:
Zinnia 'Queeny Lime Orange', a 2018 All-America Selection
Summer Savory seeds from Botanical Interests
On the Bookshelf: A garden from a hundred packets of seeds, by James Fenton
YouTube Video on Little Island in NYC
Dee's second segment on Oklahoma Gardening, on YouTube
Carol's video of flowers in bloom in her garden, also on YouTube
Dee's Bee Puzzle at B&N
Information on GardenComm's Virtual Conference, August 11 - 14.
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For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
Affiliate links to purchase any of our books:
The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff, by Dee Nash
Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Seeded and Sodded: Thoughts from a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Creatures and Critters: Who’s in Your Garden, by Carol J. Michel
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Carol and Dee talk about coreopsis, leeks, letters between gardeners, and more.
Helpful Links:
Coreopsis at Mt. Cuba Center
Coreopsis at High Country Gardens
Info on growing leeks from Bonnie Plants
On the bookshelf: Dear Friend and Gardener by Christopher Lloyd and Beth Chatto
Well-Read Mom book club Dee joined.
PBS documentary on Wendell Berry
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For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
Affiliate links to purchase any of our books:
The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff, by Dee Nash
Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Seeded and Sodded: Thoughts from a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Creatures and Critters: Who’s in Your Garden, by Carol J. Michel
The Christmas Cottontail: A Story for Gardeners of All Ages, by Carol J. Michel
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol talk about Kniphofia flowers, tomato troubles and more!
Helpful Links:
Kniphofia Pyromania® varieties at Proven Winners
Tomato Troubles article in the Mercury News
Pepper Sweet Sunset from All-America Selections
A new board game about Monarch Butterflies
Dr. Jared Barnes's website
On the Bookshelf: Life in the Garden, by Penelope Lively
Interview with Penelope Lively
Cookbook Dee mentioned: Six Seasons: A New Way with Vegetables, by Joshua McFadden
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For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
Affiliate links to purchase any of our books:
The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff, by Dee Nash
Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Seeded and Sodded: Thoughts from a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Creatures and Critters: Who’s in Your Garden, by Carol J. Michel
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol talk about daisies, fall vegetable gardening, birds, worms, and bees! Plus some math for fun!
Helpful Links:
A few Shasta daisies, Leucanthemum x superbum:
'Daisy May’ a new daisy from Proven Winners.
‘White Lion’, also new from Pan American Seeds
‘Becky,’ 2003 Perennial Plant of the Year, at American Meadows.
‘Banana Cream’, also from Proven Winners.
Info on fall vegetable gardens from Oklahoma State Extension and from Purdue Univ Extension.
On the bookshelf: On the Bookshelf: Old Herbaceous, by Reginald Arkell.
Bird problems and hammerhead worm problems.
Carol's Blog Post on dried flowers.
French Hill Apiary website.
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For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
Affiliate links to purchase any of our books:
The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff, by Dee Nash
Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Carol and Dee discuss another flower type—corymbs—played a game of "is it too late" for the vegetable garden and discussed the bee waggle dance!
A few links:
An episode of Oklahoma Gardening with Dee talking about daylilies is now on YouTube.
Info on Yarrow varieties tested by the Chicago Botanic Garden
Info on Yarrow varieties from Rozanne and Friends®.
Rabbit hole! Blog post by the Wandering Botanist, Kathleen Keeler, Emeritus Professor, Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Plant Story - Yarrow, Achillea millefolium, a plant species complex.
On the Bookshelf:
My Summer in a Garden, by Charles Dudley Warner
Another Rabbit Hole! The Bee Waggle Dance Info: Honey Bee Waggle Dance & Hive Type Perspectives by Two Bees in a Podcast • A podcast on Anchor, plus TED talk by Margaret Couvillon from Virginia Tech
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For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
Affiliate links to purchase any of our books:
The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff, by Dee Nash
Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Seeded and Sodded: Thoughts from a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol talk about raceme type flowers, including Baptisia and collards, plus their love for the new Amazon Prime show, Clarkson's Farm.
Helpful Links:
A Brief Guide to the Different Flower Types, Shapes, and Growing Patterns
Baptisia Trials at Mt. Cuba Center
Baptisia seeds for sale from Nan Ondra/Hayefield
Heirloom Collards: Preserving the Future of Heirloom Collards
On the Bookshelf: Plant Families: A Guide for Gardeners and Botanists, by Ross Bayton and Simon Maughan, Latin for Gardeners: Over 3,000 Plant Names Explained and Explored, by Lorraine Harrison and Practical Botany for Gardeners, by George Hodge.
The family Legolaceae - links to Carol’s blog post and video.
Jeremy Clarkson’s Farm on Amazon Prime
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For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
Affiliate links to purchase any of our books:
The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff, by Dee Nash
Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Seeded and Sodded: Thoughts from a Gardening L
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Carol and Dee discuss flowers with umbel shapes, the big fertilizer question, plus Japanese beetles.
Helpful Links:
National Pollinator Week, June 21-27, 2021
Wildflower Meadows for Queen Bees
Swallowtail Garden Seeds
Angelica archangelica from Select Seeds
Angelica atropurpurea from Prairie Moon
Angelica gigas from Annie's Annuals
Angelica stricta purpurea discussed by C.L. Fornari, The Garden Lady
On the bookshelf: 100 Vegetables and Where They Came From by William Woys Weaver.
Japanese beetles on Oklahoma Gardening episode
Parasites on Japanese beetles via the Bug Guide
Japonica striped corn from Hudson Valley Seed Co.
Email us at [email protected]
For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
Affiliate links to purchase any of our books:
The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff, by Dee Nash
Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Seeded and Sodded: Thoughts from a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Carol and Dee discuss dahlias, blueberries, and boxwood moths.
A few helpful links:
Fundamentals of Growing Dahlias by the American Dahlia Society
Swan Island Dahlias
Old House Gardens
Bushel and Berry® blueberries
Southern Living blueberries.
Dee's column on blueberries in containers in Oklahoma Living.
On the Bookshelf: Under Western Skies, by Jennifer Jewell, photography by Caitlin Atkinson. Jennifer Jewell is an author and host of the popular podcast, Cultivating Place.
USDA Info on Box Tree Moths
Carol's Bloom Day Post
Dee's Bloom Day Post
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For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
Affiliate links to purchase any of our books:
The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff, by Dee Nash
Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Seeded and Sodded: Thoughts from a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol talk about growing hollyhocks and nasturtiums, plus the strange phenomenon which was the Cottingley fairies.
A few links:
Hollyhocks listed on All-America Selections
Nasturtiums listed on All-America Selections
Blog Post: Grow Some History with All-America Selections
On the Bookshelf:
All About Flowers: James Vick's Nineteenth-Century Seed Company by Thomas J. Mickey
The Kew Gardens Girls by Posy Lovell
The Well-Gardened Mind: The Restorative Power of Nature by Sue Stuart-Smith
History of the Cottingley Fairies
Email us at [email protected]
For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
Affiliate links to purchase any of our books:
The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff, by Dee Nash
Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Seeded and Sodded: Thoughts from a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Creatures and Critters: Who’s in Your Garden, by Carol J. Michel
The Christmas Cottontail: A Story for Gardeners of All Ages, by
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol talk about tiny little plants including Petite Knockout Roses, Kitchen Minis, and miniature paper plants.
Helpful Links:
Petite Knockout Roses from Star Roses and Plants
Kitchen Minis from PanAmerican Seed
Pot-a-peno peppers from All-America Selections
On the bookshelf: Micro Food Gardening: Project Plans and Plants for Growing Fruits and Veggies in Tiny Spaces by Jen McGuinness.
Miniature paper plants from Geez Louise Designs on Etsy
Carol’s webinar on self-publishing, sponsored by GardenComm
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For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
Affiliate links to purchase any of our books:
The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff, by Dee Nash
Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Seeded and Sodded: Thoughts from a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Creatures and Critters: Who’s in Your Garden, by Carol J. Michel
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Carol and Dee discuss Verbascum flowers, basil, herbal houseplants, and pottery.
Some links:
Carol's blog post about methods of harvesting
Dee's blog post about her rainy garden.
Carol's blog post about getting lost in the garden
Verbascum flowers and seeds from Burpee
Verbascum phoeniceum 'Violetta' on Gardener's World
Everleaf Thai Towers basil from Ball Seed
On the bookshelf: Herbal Houseplants: Grow beautiful herbs - indoors! For flavor, fragrance, and fun, by Susan Betz
All kinds of pottery: Holly Pots Stoneware in Nashville, Indiana; Ben Wolff and Guy Wolff pottery; Peter Wakefield pottery.
Carol's blog post about her garden admiring service
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For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
Affiliate links to purchase any of our books:
The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff, by Dee Nash
Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Seeded and Sodded: Thoughts from a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
This week, Dee and Carol talk about night-blooming flowers, strawberries, and moths!
A few links:
Annie's Annuals
Buried Treasure® Strawberries from Proven Winners
Berri Basket® Rose Strawberry from Ball Hort
On the Bookshelf:
The Moth Snowstorm: Nature and Joy by Michael McCarthy
Moth Info from the Smithsonian
Email us at [email protected]
For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
Affiliate links to purchase any of our books:
The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff, by Dee Nash
Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Seeded and Sodded: Thoughts from a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Creatures and Critters: Who’s in Your Garden, by Carol J. Michel
The Christmas Cottontail: A Story for Gardeners of All Ages, by Carol J. Michel
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Carol and Dee discuss clover and oxalis on this week's podcast episode.
Helpful Links:
Proven Winners Proud Berry® Coralberry
Proven Winners Charmed® Wine Shamrock (Oxalis triangularis)
On the Bookshelf: A Woman's Garden: Grow Beautiful Plants and Make Useful Things, by Tanya Anderson of Lovely Greens.
Incredible Edible, a group started by two women in Todmargen, U.K. plus an inspiring TED talk from Pam Warhust about it. (Also featured in The Well-Gardened Mind: The Restorative Power of Nature by Sue Stuart-Smith)
Email us at [email protected]
For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
Affiliate links to purchase any of our books:
The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff, by Dee Nash
Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Seeded and Sodded: Thoughts from a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Creatures and Critters: Who’s in Your Garden, by Carol J. Michel
The Christmas Cottontail: A Story for Gardeners o
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
This week, Dee and Carol discuss tropical plants in your temperate garden, inspired by a new book, Tropical Plants and How to Love Them by Marianne Willburn.
Some links:
Donahue's Clematis Specialists
Dee's blog post on tropical plants
A book about okra! The Whole Okra: a Seed to Stem Celebration, by Chris Smith.
On the bookshelf:
Tropical Plants and How to Love Them by Marianne Willburn.
Marianne'sarticle on her website about building giant nests in your garden.
Our favorite local places to buy plants:
In Oklahoma: Bustani Plant Farm and TaraCotta
In Indianapolis: Court's Yard and Greenhouse
Email us at [email protected]
For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
Affiliate links to purchase any of our books:
The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff, by Dee Nash
Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Seeded and Sodded: Thoughts from a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Creatures and Critters: Who’s in Your Garden, by Carol J. Michel
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol talk about flowers for containers, growing potatoes in Smart Pots, and being citizen scientists.
Helpful (we hope) links:
Carol's blog post about hardy cyclamen.
A few flowers recommend by Dee for containers: an orange sun coleus like Orange King or ColorBlaze Sedona Sunset as your filler, a lovely calibrochoa like Coral Sun SuperBells from Proven Winners. Plus the salvia Carol mentioned is Rockin'® Blue Suede Shoes™ also from Proven Winners.
Info on planting a memorial garden.
Video on planting potatoes in containers.
Smart Pots, fabric pots.
On the bookshelf: The First Time Gardener's Guide: Growing Plants and Flowers, by Sean and Allison McManus
Cicada Safari for tracking cicadas.
Journey North for tracking monarch butterflies and other migratory species.
Email us at [email protected]
For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
Affiliate links to purchase any of our books:
The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff, by Dee Nash
Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Seeded and Sodded: Thoughts from a Gardening Life, by
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol talk about digging and dividing perennials and spring flowering bulbs and themed vegetable gardens.
A few links:
Podcast Episode on Three Sisters Gardens
Carol's BlogPost on Book Spine Poetry
Using Trello to stay organized in the garden - YouTube Video
On the Bookshelf: The Well-Gardened Mind: The Restorative Power of Nature by Sue Stuart-Smith
Bustani Plant Farm, Stillwater, Oklahoma
Email us at [email protected]
For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
Affiliate links to purchase any of our books:
The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff, by Dee Nash
Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Seeded and Sodded: Thoughts from a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Creatures and Critters: Who’s in Your Garden, by Carol J. Michel
The Christmas Cottontail: A Story for Gardeners of All Ages, by Carol J. Michel
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Carol and Dee discuss foraging for food outside of your vegetable garden, inspired by The Forager's Pantry by Ellen Zachos, plus a story about plant hoarding.
Links:
Books by Ellen Zachos:
The Forager’s Pantry, Cooking with Wild Edibles,
Backyard Foraging: 65 Familiar Plants You Didn’t Know You Could Eat,
The Wildcrafted Cocktail: Make Your Own Foraged Syrups, Bitters, Infusions, and Garnishes; Includes Recipes for 45 One-of-a-Kind Mixed Drinks
Email us at [email protected]
For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website.
Affiliate links to purchase any of our books:
The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff, by Dee Nash
Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Seeded and Sodded: Thoughts from a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Creatures and Critters: Who’s in Your Garden, by Carol J. Michel
The Christmas Cottontail: A Story for Gardeners of All Ages, by Carol J. Michel
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Carol and Dee talk about Great Britain's National Plant Collections, hardening off seedlings, community and allotment gardens, and the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, Deborah Mitford.
A few links:
Search the National Plant Collections in Great Britain
American Community Garden Association
Allotment Gardening in Great Britain
On the Bookshelf: The Last Garden in England, by Julia Kelly
Dowager Duchess of Devonshire: Brief Video of her life
Gardens at Chatsworth House: Video narrated by the current Duke of Devonshire
Email us at [email protected]
For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website.
Affiliate links to purchase any of our books:
The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff, by Dee Nash
Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Seeded and Sodded: Thoughts from a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Creatures and Critters: Who’s in Your Garden, by Carol J. Michel
The Christmas Cottontail: A Story for Gardeners of All Ages, by Carol J. Michel
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Carol and Dee talk about their favorite wildflowers, layering material to create garden beds, and Trello for organizing your garden activities and plants.
Links of Interest:
All-America Selections where you can find out about Petunia Evening Scentsation F1 and Salvia Summer Jewel™ Lavender
Old House Gardens and Prairie Moon Nursery for buying wildflowers
Proven Winners Winterberry Holly
Info on using cardboard in your garden, from the Garden Professors.
On the Bookshelf:
A Naturalist's Book of Wildflowers, by Laura C. Martin
Carol's video on using Trello for gardening and keeping track of plant samples.
Email us at [email protected]
For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website.
Affiliate links to purchase any of our books:
The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff, by Dee Nash
Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Seeded and Sodded: Thoughts from a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Creatures and Critters: Who’s in Your Garden, by Carol J. Michel
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol discuss raised bed gardens, flowers for dry shade, and the Million Gardens Movement.
A few helpful links:
Diane's Flower Seeds
Hardy Ground Orchids and Epimedium described by the Missouri Botanical Garden
An article about CCA treated wood and gardens in Fine Gardening.
See how big roots get on this website, (thanks to Donna Balzer for the tip!)
On the bookshelf: The First-time Gardener: Growing Vegetables, by Jessica Sowards
Million Gardens Movement website
Email us at [email protected]
For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website.
Affiliate links to purchase any of our books:
The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff, by Dee Nash
Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Seeded and Sodded: Thoughts from a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Creatures and Critters: Who’s in Your Garden, by Carol J. Michel
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol talk about new flowers they are going to try this year, growing peas in the vegetable garden, plus upcoming virtual garden shows and programs, including Gardener's World with Monty Don.
Some helpful links:
Carol's YouTube video on using Trello to organize your garden
Carol's blooms in March
Viola 'Etain at American Meadows
Great Britain's National Plant Collections
Dee's Peas, a post on her blog
Seed Companies mentioned:
Renee's Garden
Seeds of Change
Burpee
On the Bookshelf: The New Heirloom Garden, by Ellen Ecker Ogden
Ellen Ogden's website
NYT's article on Monty Don and Gardener's World
The Great Grow Along virtual garden festival
Other virtual garden talks and programs listed on Great Garden Speakers.
Email us at [email protected]
For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
Affiliate links to purchase any of our books:
The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff, by Dee Nash
Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol talk about serviceberry trees, growing asparagus, and a bonsai anyone can "grow."
Helpful Links:
All-America Selections and Watermelon Cal Sweet Bush
Phyllis African Marigold Seeds from Botanical Interests Seeds
Smart Pots
Apple Serviceberry described by Missouri Botanical Garden
Oklahoma State University’s fact sheet on growing asparagus
Asparagus available from Stark Bros.
On the Bookshelf: Floratopia: 110 Flower Garden Ideas for Your Yard, Patio, or Balcony, Jan Johnsen
Lego's Botanical Collection with Bonsai and Flower Bouquets
Email us at [email protected]
For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
Affiliate links to purchase any of our books:
The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff, by Dee Nash
Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Seeded and Sodded: Thoughts from a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol talk about the flowers and vegetables they must grow every year, plus more including a review of New Naturalism by Kelly D. Norris.
Helpful links:
Carol's YouTube video featuring her lawn of crocuses.
One of Dee's blog post with a recipe for Grandma Nita's Wilted Lettuce Salad
On the Bookshelf: New Naturalism: Designing and Planting a Resilient Ecological Home Garden by Kelly D. Norris.
Our question for our readers! Tell us what flowers and vegetables you must grow. You can email us, or comment on our Instagram or Facebook posts. We can't wait to hear your stories of your favorite plants!
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For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
Affiliate links to purchase any of our books:
The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff, by Dee Nash
Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Seeded and Sodded: Thoughts from a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Creatures and Critters: Who’s in Your Garden, by Carol J. Michel
The Christmas Cottontail: A Story for Gardeners of All Ages, by Carol J. Michel
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol offer a special bonus episode with some advice on how to recover in the garden after a terrible, bad, bad winter.
Helpful links:
Article about nitrogen and snow in Fine Gardening.
Growth Mindset and Gardening, by Carletta Shannon
Email us at [email protected]
For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
Affiliate links to purchase any of our books:
The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff, by Dee Nash
Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Seeded and Sodded: Thoughts from a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Creatures and Critters: Who’s in Your Garden, by Carol J. Michel
The Christmas Cottontail: A Story for Gardeners of All Ages, by Carol J. Michel
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Carol and Dee talk about growing plants in microclimates, growing rhubarb, and more on this week's episode.
Some helpful links:
Carol's Gardening Motto Generator
Dee's post about her greenhouse
More info on growing rhubarb according to Purdue University.
Rhubarb plant from Stark Bros.
On the Bookshelf: Fearless Gardening: Be Bold, Break the Rules and Grow What You Love by Loree Bohl, The Danger Garden.
Meijer Garden Lectures starting March 2, 2021.
Email us at [email protected]
For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
Affiliate links to purchase any of our books:
The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff, by Dee Nash
Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Seeded and Sodded: Thoughts from a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Creatures and Critters: Who’s in Your Garden, by Carol J. Michel
The Christmas Cottontail: A Story for Gardeners of All Ages, by Carol J. Michel
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol talk about more annual vines to grow, slow-growing vegetables, plus seed saving.
A few links:
Dee's Recent Blog Post - Gardening Will Break Your Heart
Dee's French Box Subscription
Seed Catalog Puzzles put together and framed by Carol
Frames by Mail, where Carol purchased her picture frames
Seed sources for annual vines and vegetables include Botanical Interests and Renee's Garden Seeds
On the bookshelf: Garden Up! Smart Vertical Gardening for Small and Large Spaces, by Rebecca Sweet and Susan Morrison.
Article on Cherokee Nation Seeds
Seed Savers Exchange
Native Seeds Search
Email us at [email protected]
For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
Affiliate links to purchase any of our books:
The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff, by Dee Nash
Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Seeded and Sodded: Thoughts from a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Carol and Dee talk about morning glories and sweet potatoes with references to Lenny Kravitz and William Shakespeare.
A few links:
Vintage Seed Catalog puzzles
Morning Glory Seeds from Botanical Interests Seeds
Article about morning glories in Arizona
Sweet Potato Slips from Johnny's Selected Seeds
Article from MSU on growing sweet potatoes
Lenny Kravitz's ranch in Brazil
On the bookshelf: Plant Partners, by Jessica Walliser plus Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
Article on saving the sweet potato name.
Our friend Marie's Lazy W blog.
Email us at [email protected]
For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
Affiliate links to purchase any of our books:
The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff, by Dee Nash
Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Seeded and Sodded: Thoughts from a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol discuss their favorite flowering houseplants, growing plants from kitchen scraps, houseplants they are bored with, and more!
Helpful links:
Carol's YouTube video with her puzzle and affiliate link to the puzzle.
Carol's very old blog post about the night-blooming cereus plant.
On the bookshelf: House Plant Party by Lisa Eldred Steinkopf
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For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
Affiliate links to purchase any of our books:
The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff, by Dee Nash
Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Seeded and Sodded: Thoughts from a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Creatures and Critters: Who’s in Your Garden, by Carol J. Michel
The Christmas Cottontail: A Story for Gardeners of All Ages, by Carol J. Michel
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Carol and Dee talk about smaller seed companies, nasturtiums, starting seeds, and finding hidden treasure in your garden.
Some helpful links:
Smaller Seed Companies to consider ordering from:
John Scheepers Kitchen Garden Seeds,
Hudson Valley Seed Company,
Seed Savers Exchange Heirloom Seeds,
Territorial Seed Company,
Botanical Interests,
Renee's Garden
Good article from National Garden Bureau on buying seeds.
More info on seed starting from Purdue Cooperative Extensive Service
On the Bookshelf:
The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff, by Dee Nash
More info on Brood X Cicadas
Email us at [email protected]
For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
Affiliate links to purchase any of our books:
The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff, by Dee Nash
Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Seeded and Sodded: Thoughts from a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol discuss ordering seeds, growing sweet peas, growing a three sisters garden and the new Magnolia Network.
Helpful Links:
For seeds:
Botanical Interests
Pinetree Garden Seeds
Renee's Garden
Territorial Seed Company
Three sisters garden article from Native Seeds.
On the Bookshelf:
The Complete Guide to No-Dig Gardening: Grow beautiful vegetables, herbs, and flowers - the easy way! Layer Your Way to Healthy Soil-Eliminate tilling and digging-Build a productive garden naturally-Reduce weeding and watering, by Charlie Nardozzi
Magnolia Network
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For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
Affiliate links to purchase any of our books:
The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff, by Dee Nash
Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Seeded and Sodded: Thoughts from a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Creatures and Critters: Who’s in Your Garden, by Carol J. Michel
The Christmas Cottontail: A Story for Gardeners of All Ages, by Carol J. Mic
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol talk about Agatha Christie in the garden, plus an update on Dee's bees, how to pick vegetable varieties, and more.
Some links:
Dee's seed ordering blog post
Article in Garden Collage ‘Agatha Christie Loved her Poisonous Plants’
Carol's blog post on Agatha Christie and gardening, plus a post on Hercule Poirot
Carol's YouTube video about hyacinths on vases
Zucchini Squash info at All-America Selections.
Summer squash seeds from Botanical Interests Seeds
Tri-color summer squash seeds from Renee's Garden Seeds
Books:
Wicked Plants: the weed that killed Lincoln’s Mother and other Botanical Atrocities, by Amy Stewart
The Mystery of Mrs. Christie, by Marie Benedict
The Only Woman in the Room, by Marie Benedict
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For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
Affiliate links to purchase any of our books:
The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff, by Dee Nash
Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Seeded and Sodded: Thoughts from a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Mic
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol talk all things gardening... monarda, early spring vegetables, color in the winter garden, plus colors of the new year!
Links:
Carol's YouTube Channel
Dee's blog post on soil
10 ten 2020 gardening books in Washington Gardener magazine.
National Garden Bureau
Sugar Buzz® Monarda at Roberta's Gardens
‘Petite Delight’ Monarda from American Meadows
Monarda fistulosa seeds from Botanical Interests Seeds
Article: Bee Balm Native to State, by Russell Studebaker.
Books:
Mastering the Art of Vegetable Gardening, by Matt Mattus
Colour in the Winter Garden, by Graham Stuart Thomas.
Four colors that will dominate our homes in 2021 from Dwell magazine
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For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
Affiliate links to purchase any of our books:
The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff, by Dee Nash
Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Seeded and Sodded: Thoughts from a Gardening Life, by Carol J.
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Carol and Dee discuss growing sunflowers and microgreens and then discover what's in Pepper Pot Soup!
Helpful Links:
Carol's YouTube Video of Terrarium Containers
Previous Podcast Episode on Sunflowers
Year of the Sunflower from National Garden Bureau
Sunflower Seeds from Botanical Interests
Microgreen Seeds from Botanical Interests
On the Bookshelf: Grow Your Own Spices: Harvest homegrown ginger, turmeric, saffron, wasabi, vanilla, cardamom, and other incredible spices -- no matter where you live, by Tasha Greer (Affiliate Link)
National Garden Bureau's “national day of” calendar.
Email us at [email protected]
For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
Affiliate links to purchase any of our books:
The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff, by Dee Nash
Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Seeded and Sodded: Thoughts from a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Creatures and Critters: Who’s in Your Garden, by Carol J. Michel
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol talk about hyacinths, green beans (again), fungus gnats, #realhouseplants, and other fun gardening topics!
Some helpful links:
Dee's recent blog post and newsletter.
Carol's most recent blog post.
Helleborus, the pink one is actually Cinnamon Snow!
From National Garden Bureau its the Year of the Hyacinth and the Year of the Garden Bean!
On the Bookshelf:
Complete Container Herb Gardening: Design and Grow Beautiful, Bountiful Herb-Filled Pots, by Sue Goetz.
Plus... Sue's previous books
A Taste for Herbs: A guide to seasonings, mixes and blends from the herb lover's garden, by Sue Goetz.
The Herb Lover's Spa Book: Create a Luxury Spa Experience at Home with Fragrant Herbs from Your Garden, by Sue Goetz..
Dirt:
Good article in Family Handyman about reusing potting soil
As always...
Email us at [email protected]
For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
Affiliate links to purchase any of our books:
The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff, by Dee Nash
Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Seeded and Sodded: Thoughts from a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Carol and Dee talk about mistletoe, rosemary, books on snowdrops and hellebores, plus gift ideas for gardeners.
Some helpful links:
Mistletoe in the LadyBird Johnson Wildflower Center’s newsletter
The Mystery of Mistletoe - Purdue University
Tips on growing rosemary from Burpee
On the bookshelf (affiliate links):
Snowdrops by Gunter Waldorf
Hellebores: A Comprehensive Guide by C. Colston Burrell and Judith Knott Tyler
On becoming a member of American Horticultural Society
Email us at [email protected]
For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
Affiliate links to purchase any of our books:
The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff, by Dee Nash
Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Seeded and Sodded: Thoughts from a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Creatures and Critters: Who’s in Your Garden, by Carol J. Michel
The Christmas Cottontail: A Story for Gardeners of All Ages, by Carol J. Michel
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Carol and Dee talk about new 2021 winners from All America Selections, terrariums, and flocked trees.
Helpful Links:
All America Selections
Leucanthemum ‘Sweet Daisy Birdy’
Zinnia ‘Profusion Yellow Bicolor’ - Gold Medal!
Echalion ‘Creme Brulee’ F1
Pepper ‘Pot-a-pen’ F1
Squash ‘Goldilocks’ (an acorn squash)
On the bookshelf: A Family Guide to Terrariums for Kids: Imagination-inspiring Projects to Grow a World in Glass - Build a mini ecosystem! by Patricia Buzo.
Doodle Bird Terrariums
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For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
Affiliate links to purchase any of our books:
The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff, by Dee Nash
Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Seeded and Sodded: Thoughts from a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Carol and Dee continue to discuss gardening trends, including sustainability and houseplants, Martha Stewart's new gardening show on HGTV and Hulu, and more.
Links of interest:
Garden Design Trends
Dee's blog post on red aglaonemas
On the Bookshelf: Beautiful Winter: Holiday Wreaths, Garlands & Decorations for Your Home and Table, by Edle Catharina Norman (affiliate link)
Martha Knows Best on HGTV and Hulu
Tilling isn’t suggested anymore because of earthworms and other tiny creatures. It messes up the food web for microorganisms. Here’s some info about that from the National Resources Conservation Service.
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For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
Affiliate links to purchase any of our books:
The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff, by Dee Nash
Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Seeded and Sodded: Thoughts from a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Creatures and Critters: Who’s in Your Garden, by Carol J. Michel
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
This week, Carol and Dee discuss two gardening trends, monochromatic gardens, and growing food, plus they discuss hydrangeas, blue spruces, and what they plan to do in and out of their gardens this week.
Helpful Links include:
Carol wrote a blog post for Thanksgiving about a little bunny named Thumper.
Dee wrote about blue flowers in her latest newsletter.
Narcissus 'Silver Charms' at John Scheeper's Bulbs
Garden Design's Garden Trends
Green Flowers, by Alison Hoblyn, photographs by Marie O’Hara (affiliate link)
A Book of Blue Flowers, by Robert L. Geneve (affiliate link)
Color Trend Highlights Pantone.
Hydrangeas: beautiful varieties for home and garden by Naomi Slade (affiliate link)
Purdue's report on blue spruce problems
Email us at [email protected]
For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
Affiliate links to purchase any of our books:
The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff, by Dee Nash
Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Seeded and Sodded: Thoughts from a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol discuss Christmas tree options, why they don't grow celery, plus a hint of garden trends.
Helpful Links:
University of Illinois Extension Christmas Tree Facts
Celery and celeriac seeds (if you want to try to grow either one) at Burpee.
No Waste Kitchen Gardening, by Katie Elzer-Peters
On the Bookshelf: The Modern Cottage Garden: a Fresh Approach to a Classic Style, by Greg Loades
Garden Trends from Garden Design
Email us at [email protected]
For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
Affiliate links to purchase any of our books:
The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff, by Dee Nash
Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Seeded and Sodded: Thoughts from a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Creatures and Critters: Who’s in Your Garden, by Carol J. Michel
The Christmas Cottontail: A Story for Gardeners of All Ages, by Carol J. Michel
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol discuss the earliest blooming shrubs, how learning how to garden is not a one season event, choosing good trees and more.
Helpful Links:
Early Spring Blooming Shrubs
Spice Bush
Ozark Witch Hazel
Hybrid Witch Hazel
The Garden in Autumn, by Allen Lacy. Written in 1990.
Allen Bush on Garden Rant
'Hella Lacy' Aster
Plant Ice Resistant Trees, by The Tree Care Industry Association.
The Kentucky coffeetree at the Morton Arboretum
Brent and Becky's Bulbs for paper whites, other bulbs.
Email us at [email protected]
For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
Affiliate links to purchase any of our books:
The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff, by Dee Nash
Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Seeded and Sodded: Thoughts from a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol talk about the ice storm that left Dee's garden a mess, plus scent in the garden, agrihoods, and the courage it takes to garden sometimes.
Some Links:
Dee's Post on "No power, but not powerless"
Carol's Post on "Those Autumn Crocuses!"
The Scentual Garden: Exploring the World of Botanical Plants, by Ken Druse and Botanical Photographs by Ellen Hoverkamp.
Welcome to the Agrihood, by Anne DeSimon
Uprooted: A Gardener Reflects on Beginning Again, by Page Dickey
NPR Article about how plants can smell!
Link to Carol and Dee's GardenComm webinar on social media taking place on November 5, 2020
Email us at [email protected]
For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
Affiliate links to purchase any of our books:
The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff, by Dee Nash
Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Seeded and Sodded: Thoughts from a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Creatures and Critters: Who’s in Your Garden, by Carol J. Michel
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Carol and Dee discuss scary stuff about gardening and calm all your fears, whether it is a fear of deadheading or of spiders or of killing your plants.
Helpful Links:
Digz Gloves at Home Depot
The Sneeboer Rockery Trowel Carol uses to plant small bulbs in her lawn from Garden Tool Company
TED Talk on spiders and silk by Cheryl Y Hayashi
An article about spider webs and why they decorate their webs and what that zig-zag part is called (stabilimentum).
On the bookshelf: Black Plants: 75 Striking Choices for the Garden, by Paul Bonine (Affiliate Link)
Green Fingers “Everything I plant grows, even me” episode of Night Gallery.
Carol's blog post about The Halloween Hare.
Link to Carol and Dee's GardenComm webinar on social media taking place on November 5, 2020
Email us at [email protected]
For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
Affiliate links to purchase any of our books:
The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff, by Dee Nash
Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Seeded and Sodded: Thoughts from a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Carol and Dee talk about cosmos flowers, ornamental peppers, books, calendars, and accept new garden commissions.
Some helpful links:
Dee's most recent newsletter
Carol's most recent newsletter
Cosmos flower seeds from Botanical Interests
Article on cosmos flowers
Ornamental Pepper Guide
All-America Selections
On the Bookshelf:
A History of Zinnias by Eric Grinnell (affiliate link)
Theodosia: The Flower Wizard of California by Myrtle Shepherd Francis (affiliate link)
Backyard Foraging 2021 wall calendar by Ellen Zachos (affiliate link)
Link to Carol and Dee's GardenComm webinar on social media taking place on November 5, 2020
Email us at [email protected]
For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website.
Affiliate links to purchase any of our books:
The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff, by Dee Nash
Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Seeded and Sodded: Thoughts from a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Creatures and Critters: Who’s in Your Garden, by Carol J. Michel
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol talk about yellow mums, fall-blooming crocuses, leftover peppers and more on this week's episode.
Some helpful links:
Carol's blog post on growing figs.
Dee's blog post to taking cuttings of your favorite plants.
Saffron Crocus at American Meadows
Floret Flowers website
On the Bookshelf: Uprooted: a gardener reflects on beginning again, by Page Dickey. Link to Margaret Roach’s podcast episode with Page. Page Dickey's website.
Link to Carol and Dee's GardenComm webinar on social media
Email us at [email protected]
For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website.
Affiliate links to purchase any of our books:
The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff, by Dee Nash
Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Seeded and Sodded: Thoughts from a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Creatures and Critters: Who’s in Your Garden, by Carol J. Michel
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
This week, Carol and Dee talk about big, woody vines, both native and introduced and why you should be careful planting them. They also discuss overwintering vegetable plants, landscape fabric and more.
Some links:
Dee's Post - Pelargoniums on the move
Carol's Post - Beware of the Big, Woody Vines
Trumpet vine? Just say no to trumpet vine.
10 native vines to get you started from the Wildlife Habitat Council, but only after listening to this podcast episode!
On the Bookshelf: The English Vicarage Garden, by Miss Read. (Affiliate Link)
Article on why landscape fabric is bad!
And in Psychology Today, why gardening is good for you.
Email us at [email protected]
For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website.
Affiliate links to purchase any of our books:
The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff, by Dee Nash
Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Seeded and Sodded: Thoughts from a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel
Creatures and Critters: Who’s in Your Garden, by Carol J.
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Today, Dee and Carol discuss money spent on gardens and how even if you don't have a lot of money, you can still learn from those who do.
Clematis recta 'Serious Black' at Brushwood Nursery
Helianthus helianthoides 'Loraine Sunshine' at Monrovia Nursery
'Bartzella' Itoh Peony at American Meadows
On the Bookshelf: Private Gardens of Santa Barbara: The Art of Outdoor Living, by Margie Grace
Dirt: A fascinating documentary (on Amazon Prime) to watch is The Gardener, about Frank Cabot and his gardens, Les Quatre Vents.
More information about The Garden Conservancy.
Hear Dee speak at the Denton County (Texas) Master Gardeners Fall Garden Fest, now virtual on October 3.
Email us at [email protected]
For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website.
(Some links are affiliate links. If you make a purchase after clicking on an affiliate link, we may receive a tiny commission. It does not affect the price you pay!)
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol celebrate their 100th podcast episode by talking about some lessons they've learned from the garden.
Helpful links:
Asters from American Meadows
'Frizzle Sizzle' pansy seeds from Swallowtail Garden Seeds
'Provider' Green Beans from Burpee and Botanical Interests
On the Bookshelf: Edible Spots & Pots, by Stacey Hirvela
Email us at [email protected]
For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website.
(Some links are affiliate links. If you make a purchase after clicking on an affiliate link, we may receive a tiny commission. It does not affect the price you pay!)
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol talk about favorite fall blooming flowers for meadow gardens, growing grains in the vegetable garden and remind everyone it is time to bring houseplants indoors.
Helpful Links include:
Carol's Bloom Day Post
Dee's Bloom Day Post
American Meadows, a good source for fall blooming flowers for meadows and other gardens.
Broom Corn from Botanical Interests.
Great seed companies include Botanical Interests, Burpee, Johnny's Selected Seeds, and Renee's Garden Seeds.
On the bookshelf is Sowing Beauty: Designing Flowering Meadows from Seed, by James Hitchmough and Gardening with Grains, by Brie Arthur.
Plus more info on growing grains from National Garden Bureau.
Email us at [email protected]
For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website.
(Some links are affiliate links. If you make a purchase after clicking on an affiliate link, we may receive a tiny commission. It does not affect the price you pay!)
On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Dee and Carol discuss picking flowers to honor and share with your kids, Glass Gem Corn, and books that inspire us. All the quotes are from Tony Hawk and the world of skateboarding. (Because we can relate anything to gardening.)
Gluten-free biscuits and wildflower honey, please!
'Bright Eyes' phlox at American Meadows
Glass Gem Corn at Burpee Seeds
On the Bookshelf, Theme Gardens, by Barbara Damrosch.
The Great American Lawn. A video from CBS Sunday Morning.
Here’s a post on Dee’s blog where she mused about tupelo honey, Scotts-Miracle Gro and how the perfect lawn should have weeds like tupelo trees and clover.
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Dee and Carol channel a little Eudora Welty in the garden while discussing flowers, veggies, books, dirt, and a garden commission they've taken on.
A few highlights and notes:
Carol's blog post on cicada killing wasps.
Flowers:
Allium 'Millenium' described by MOBOT.
Allium 'Millenium' for sale at High Country Gardens,
Veggies:
Check out Honey Tree Farm on their YouTube channel
On the Bookshelf:
One Writer’s Garden: Eudora Welty’s Home Place by Susan Haltom and Jane Roy Brown and Tell About Night Flowers: Eudora Welty’s Gardening Letters 1940-1949 Selected and edited by Julie Eichelberger
Interview with Susan Haltom on how she came to curate/restore the Eudora Welty’s mother’s gardens (Chestina Welty).
Eudora Welty’s House & Garden and a good, short video on the history of the house and place.
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Dee and Carol discuss roses in the updated White House rose garden and why the garden needed to be updated, plus a little bit about Bunny Mellon, and for vegetable gardeners, a shoutout to kalettes and Ron Finley. How's that for covering a lot of ground?
Helpful Links:
Newly planted Roses in the White House gardens include:
'John F. Kennedy'
‘Pope John Paul II’
'Peace'
A cool video about Peace on YouTube.
Carol's post on zinnias, the best she's ever grown.
In the veggie garden, seeds for kalettes at John Scheepers Kitchen Garden Seeds.
More info about Ron Finley on his website
On the Bookshelf:
The Gardens of Bunny Mellon, by Linda Jane Holden (Author), Roger Foley (Photographer.).
Bunny Mellon: The Life of an American Style Legend, by Meryl GordonGarden Secrets of Bunny Mellon, by by Linda Jane Holden (Author), Thomas Lloyd (Author), Bryan Huffman (Author.)
All the Presidents’ Gardens: Madisons Cabbages to Kennedy’s Roses--How the White House Grounds Have Grown with America, by Marta McDowell.
Article in the Washington Post that explains more about the White House rose garden renovations and why they needed to be done.
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Dee and Carol discuss calamint, British names for common vegetables, and what to do in the vegetable garden now, all while channeling Williams Shakespeare!
Some helpful links:
Carol's Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day Post
Dee's Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day Post
Millinnium Park and the Lurie Garden as described by Garden Design
Calamint available from Bluestone Perennials
Video of pollinators on calamint and allium in Carol's garden
For more info on vegetable names and info and the difference between American and British names, see Separated by a Common Language blog.
Some of our favorite seed companies include:
Botanical Interests
Burpee
John Scheepers Kitchen Garden Seeds
Johnny's Selected Seeds
Renee's Garden
On the Bookshelf:
Shakespeare’s Gardens, by Jackie Bennett.
Botanical Shakespeare: An Illustrated Compendium of All the Flowers, Fruits, Herbs, Trees, Seeds, and Grasses Cited by the World's Greatest Playwright, by Gerit Quealy (Author), Sumie Hasegawa Collins (Illustrator), Helen Mirren (Foreword)
Victoria Magazine, which always has some good gardening info.
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Dee and Carol tempt you to grow toad lilies and ground cherries, and read about old vegetable varieties, then pick up some good gardening magazines!
Helpful Links:
Dee's Bee Update
Carol's Mulch Update
Article on Toadlilies by Beth Botts
Ground Cherry seeds from Johnny's Selected Seeds
100 Vegetables and Where They Come From, by William Woys Weaver.
Roughwood Seed Collection
'Habanada' Sweet Peppers at Botanical Interests Seeds
A few gardening magazines:
Fine Gardening
The American Gardener. (To subscribe, you join American Horticultural Society.)
Royal Horticulture Society
Gardens Illustrated (UK)
The English Garden (UK)
Pacific Horticulture Magazine (no longer published but back issues are available)
Wildflower Magazine published by Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center.
For more info:
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Dee and Carol discuss growing blackberry lilies, growing and eating tomatillos, and some new cookbooks Dee has discovered.
Helpful links:
Blackberry Lily Seeds from Swallowtail Garden Seeds
Candy Lily Seeds from Park Seeds
Our podcast episode on Surprise Lilies
Tomatillo Seeds from Southern Exposure Seed Exchange or Seed Savers Exchange or Burpee.
Recipe for avocado dip that has tomatillos in it.
Carol's Seed Sorting video series
On the bookshelf is A Gentle Plea for Chaos: The Enchantment of Gardens, by Mirabel Osler.
Plus some cookbooks! America’s Test Kitchen Best-Ever Salads and Better Homes and Gardens New Cookbook
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Carol and Dee discuss a variety of gardening topics including cannas, fallow ground, cover crops, Martha Stewart, and the guilt one feels about the state of the midsummer garden.
Some helpful links:
'Silor Mini' cucumbers from John Scheeper's Kitchen Garden Seeds
Canna Bulbs from Burpee
'Tropicanna®' Canna Bulbs from High Country Gardens
'Cleopatra' Canna Bulbs from American Meadows
Cover Crop information and seeds from Botanical Interests
Carol and Dee's Blog Posts about Social Media:
Green grows the meadow.
A garden blogger’s tale.
On the bookshelf is In Bloom: Growing, Harvesting and Arranging Flowers by Clare Nolan.
Martha Stewart on CBS Sunday morning
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This week, Carol and Dee sing the praises of Agastache, provide an update on their pepper crops, and discuss Dee's Monarch Way Station.
Carol's New Fairy Garden
Lemony Snicket books
Flowers:
Agastache at American Meadows
'Hyperion' Daylily at American Meadows
Veggies:
Hatch Chile Peppers
Shishito Chile Pepper seeds at Botanical Interests
Big Bertha Bell Pepper seeds at Park Seeds
On the Bookshelf:
Garden Mosaics: 19 Beautiful Projects to Make for Your Garden, by Emma Biggs and Tessa Hunkin
Digital Minimalism, by Cal Newport.
Dirt:
Dee's garden is now registered as a waystation with monarchwatch.org and also bought a tagging kit to tag Monarchs that come through her garden (or those she raises this fall.
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On this week's episode, we provide advice on buying spring-flowering bulbs this summer for fall planting and buying garlic this summer, also for fall planting, plus we recommend a podcast we recently discovered.
Helpful Links:
Dee's favorite recipes this week include a fresh tomato sauce for pasta, refrigerator corn relish, and a caprese salad.
Basil 'Emerald Towers' at Burpee
Flower Bulb Sources include:
Brent & Becky’s Bulbs for lots of varieties, including daffodils
Van Engelen - for larger quantities especially. John Scheepers for smaller quantities.
Old House Gardens - for Heirloom varieties.
Colorblends - with interesting collections
Garlic sources include Botanical Interest Seeds, Burpee, and Johnny’s Selected Seeds.
On the Bookshelf: Honey and Venom: Confessions of an Urban Beekeeper by Andrew Coté.
Another podcast we recommend is The Stubborn Light of Things with Melissa Harrison
We also recommend our weeding episode, Weeding with the Gardenangelists, to help you with your weeding!
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Dee and Carol talk about Shasta Daisies, their bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwiches, and what to do instead of social media!
Flowers:
Shasta Daisies from Proven Winners
Flower Magazine article on Shasta Daisies and Luther Burbank
The Garden of Invention: Luther Burbank and the Business of Breeding Plants, by Jane S. Smith.
Veggies:
Blue Plate mayo
Wild Wild West Gardener in Georgia on Instagram
On the Bookshelf:
The Planter of Modern Life: Louis Bromfield and the Seeds of a Food Revolution, by Stephen Heyman
Dirt:
Recipe sites:
Dee really enjoys Yummly app for cooking (also on computer,) and the NYT Cooking app. You do have to pay for both of them. Allrecipes is another great website for recipe ideas.
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Dee and Carol talk about hibiscus, both hardy and tropical, plus tomato troubles and triumphs.
Helpful Links:
Flowers:
Hardy Hibiscus from “Rozanne & Friends”
Tropical Hibiscus from Hollywood Hibiscus
'Sugar Tip' Rose of Sharon from Proven Winners
'Emerald Towers' Basil from Burpee
'Amazel Basil' Basil from Proven Winners
Nolo Bait for grasshopper control
Veggies:
Environmental issues with tomatoes, from Purdue University
Tomato Blight information from Purdue University
On the Bookshelf:
French Country Cottage Inspired Gatherings, by Courtney Allison
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Dee and Carol discuss Dee's favorite flower, the daylily, cucumbers in the veg garden, the landscape designer Beatrix Farrand, and the new book, Mini Meadows.
Some helpful links:
Flowers: The American Daylily Society aka the American Hemerocallis Society
Veggies: Cucumber seeds at Burpee's
On the Bookshelf: Mini Meadows by Mike Lizotte
Mike's Instagram page: Mike_theseedman
All the Best Dirt: Documentary: Beatrix Farrand's American Landscapes on PBS until July 15, 2020
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Dee and Carol talk about growing lavender, keeping ahead of weeds, and watching Gardeners World on Britbox.
Links:
Flowers:
2020 is The Year of the Lavender, according to National Garden Bureau!
United States Lavender Growers Association
Lavender 'Phenomenal' at High Country Gardens
Lavender 'Primavera' from Darwin Perennials
Lavender 'Gro So'
On the Bookshelf: On the Bookshelf: The Herbalist’s Kitchen: Cooking and Healing with Herbs by Pat Crocker.
Britbox where you can watch Gardeners World
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Dee and Carol provide a pep talk of sorts for everyone gardening.
A few links:
Flowers:
Annual Vincas - Soiree Kawaii varieties from Suntory
Salvia 'Rose Marvel' from American Meadows
Zinnia 'Profusion Red', an All-America Selection from 2017
Vegetables:
Three types of peas from Botanical Interests - Snow, Snap, and Shelling
On the Bookshelf: Gardener’s Guide to Compact Plants by Jessica Walliser.
Dirt: More info on Asian jumping worms from Cornell University
Carol's videos on three kinds of peas and the Chelsea Chop. And yes, Carol does remember that "pea pods" are snow peas.
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Dee and Carol discuss insects in the garden and how to approach controls with cautions, starting with these least harmful first!
Helpful Links:
Salvia 'Rose Marvel' at American Meadows
'Avalanche' Peas at Johnny's Selected Seeds
Myrmecochory further explained on Carol's Blog
Ants on peonies, an example of biological mutualism
Nolo Bait for young grasshoppers.
On the Bookshelf:
The Truth About Organic Gardening: Benefits, Drawbacks, and the Bottom Line by Jeff Gillman.
The Truth About Garden Remedies: What Works, What Doesn’t, and Why by Jeff Gillman
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Dee and Carol talk about David Austin Roses, growing roses for hips, and general garden updates!
Some helpful links:
Dee's post on David Austin Roses: A very rosy spring
Mills Rose Magic fertilizer
Back to Nature cotton burr compost
On the Bookshelf: The Roses at the End of the Road by Pat Leuchtman
Jennifer Jewel’s Cultivating Places podcast episode, The Comfort of Roses with Michael Marriott.
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Dee and Carol talk about ways to get children out into the garden.
A few helpful links:
Zinnias from Burpee
Sunflower 'Teddy Bear' from Burpee
'Buried Treasure Red' Strawberries from Proven Winners
Sunflower Houses: Inspiration from the Garden a Book for Children and Their Grown-Ups by Sharon Lovejoy
Smart Pots, with handles.
On the Bookshelf: Gardening with Emma: Grow and Have Fun: A Kid-to-Kid Guide by Emma Biggs and Stephen Biggs. Their podcast Food Garden Life Show.
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Dee and Carol talk about taking houseplants outdoors for the summer, some more gardening myth, what's on the bookshelf and the murder hornets that are in the news.
A few links:
'Sticks on Fire' Euphorbia at Gardenia
Coffee for Roses by C.L. Fornari
On the Bookshelf: The Garden Tourist: 120 Destination Gardens and Nurseries in the Northeast by Jana Milbocker
On murder hornets:
The Valhalla Organics blog had a great post about the hornet and what’s being done to counteract it
Here is where Japanese honey bees, which have evolved with the hornet, are able to ball it and kill it.
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Dee and Carol discuss a native honeysuckle vine, growing green beans, and a new kitchen garden book.
Some links:
Year of the Iris at National Garden Bureau
Whimsy Key West, where Carol's cool new rock came from.
Rosa glauca at High Country Roses
Honeysuckle vine at High Country Gardens
Green Bean seed sources:
Burpee
Botanical Interests
Previous episode on green beans
On the bookshelf: Kitchen Garden Revival by Nicole Johnsey Burke of Gardenary (Instagram)
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Dee and Carol discuss the two sides of black locust trees, Square Foot Gardening™ and some of their personal gardening failures.
A few helpful links:
Dee purchased milkweed plugs from Monarch Watch Milkweed Market
Flowers: More information about Black Locust Trees:
A interesting article on black locust trees in Live Science.
Missouri Botanical Gardens opinion of this tree.
Veggies: Square Foot Gardening™
On the book shelf: Get any edition of the square foot gardening book to get started with this method of planting.
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Dee and Carol talk about Solomon's seal, a woodland flower, plus how to grow radishes, and what to do after a late spring freeze.
Some Links:
Variegated Solomon's Seal at Plant's Delight.
Radishes from Botanical Interests Seeds
A shoutout to Edward Joseph Farms in Harrah, Oklahoma for listeners in Oklahoma looking for tomato and pepper transplants.
Carol's favorite wheelbarrow for moving mulch is the Allsop Home and Garden Wheeleasy.
Dee's favorite cart for moving mulch is the Vermont Cart.
On the bookshelf:
When Wanderers Cease to Roam: A Traveler’s Journal of Staying Put by Vivian Swift (Bloomsbury, 2008). Other books by Vivian Swift include Gardens of Awe and Folly: A Traveler’s Journal on the Meaning of Life and Gardening and Le Road Trip: A Traveler’s Journal of Love and France
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Dee and Carol discuss a variety of topics including
Flowers: It's all about Dianthus this week.
Check out these dianthus flowers from Proven Winners. Ask for them at your favorite independent garden center or buy them online. Find a friend with 'Bath's Pink' dianthus to share or if you can't find them at your garden center, Bluestone Perennials has them. Several varieties of Dianthus are also All-Americas Selections!
Veggies: The National Garden Bureau encourages us to plant a Victory Garden 2.0. If you need more help, listen to our previous podcast episode How to Grow A Basic Summer Vegetable Garden
On the Bookshelf: We are still reading Margery Fish! This week it's Cottage Garden Flowers, originally published in 1961.
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Our local bookstores include: Wild Geese Bookshop in Franklin, Indiana and Best of Books in Edmond, Oklahoma.
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Dee and Carol talk about irises because it is the Year of the Iris, growing asparagus, Margery Fish, citizen diarists and garden journals. Some helpful links:
Irises:
National Garden Bureau
American Iris Society
Longue Vue House and Garden
Asparagus:
How to grow Asparagus
On the Bookshelf: We Made a Garden by Margery Fish
On CBS Sunday Morning:
Victory Gardens for the war against COVID-19.
Virtual garden tours, videos and talks from PennLive
Citizen diarists and Garden Journals
Writing prompts:
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Carol and Dee talk about spring blooming Corydalis, what self-sows in a vegetable garden, and why you should garden now.
Helpful Links:
Flowers:
Brent and Becky’s Bulbs, a source for Corydalis corms
Veggies:
Burpee has seeds for dandelions
Johnny's Selected Seeds has seeds for purslane
On the Bookshelf:
Shrubs and Hedges by Eva Monheim
Dirt:
How Gardening Will Keep You Well During the Coronavirus Pandemic from AIPH.
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Dee and Carol talk about growing Alyssum, how to care for your seedlings, and how to take care of your gardening tools.
A few links!
Proven Winners varieties of Alyssum
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
A cooperative extension article on seedling care.
On the Bookshelf: Mastering the Art of Flower Gardening by Matt Mattus.
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Dee and Carol talk about a variety of gardening topics.
Some helpful links:
Epimediums:
Garden Vision Epimediums
Digging Dog Nursery.
Our friend, Layanee, from Ledge and Gardens
Strawberries:
Berried Treasure® Red Strawberry Fragaria ananassa
Sunflower Houses, by Sharon Lovejoy
On the Bookshelf:
Gardening Your Front Yard, by Tara Nolan.
This week's dirt, Carol's new book, Creatures and Critters: Who's in My Garden
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Dee and Carol talk about some alternative seed sources, International compost week, and some of the worst gardening advice they've ever read.
Some helpful links:
Seeds:
Chiltern’s
Renee’s Garden
Hayefield on Etsy
Veggies: International Compost Awareness Week is May 3 - May 9 sponsored by Composting Council Research and Education Foundation
What’s on the Bookshelf:
Reprint of The Gardeners’ Year by Karel Capek
Science Books for Kids website.
The Little Composter by Jan Gerardi. A board book for the wee ones. It’s part of the Teenie Greenies series. So cute! Maddy must have one!
Compost Stew: An A to Z Recipe for the Earth by Mary McKenna Siddals and illustrated by Ashley Wolff
In the 3-7 range, there’s:
Grubs, Bugs, and Worms: Invertebrates of the Underground (Underground Safari) by Jody S. Rake
Magic School Bus Meets the Rot Squad : A Book about Decomposition by Joanna Cole and illustrated by Carolyn Bracken and Bruce Degen. Dee’s kids loved the Magic School Bus books and tv show.
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Links of interests
Flowers:
Nasturtium ‘Baby Rose’ from Park Seed
Nasturtium 'Empress of India' from Renee’s Garden Seeds.Other Nasturtiums from Botanical Interests
Previous episode where we talk about violas and pansies.
Veggies:
Upland Cress from Johnny’s Selected Seeds.
Corn Salad or Mache from Botanical Interests Seeds.
Arugula or rocket from Botanical Interests Seeds
Mesclun from Botanical Interests Seeds
On the Bookshelf:
Mastering the Art of Vegetable Gardening, by Matt Mattus
Mastering the Art of Flower Gardening, by Matt Mattus
Dirt:
CoCoRaHS - Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network. Volunteers register their location and then record daily rainfall totals on the CoCoRaHS website. Rain gauge from Weather Your Way
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Dee and Carol were inspired this week by plantswomen, 75 of whom were profiled in a new book, The Earth in Her Hands: 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants by Jennifer Jewell
A few other books and links of interest:
The Bold and Brilliant Garden by Sarah Raven
The Timber Press Guide to Vegetable Gardening in the Southeast by Ira Wallace
Gardenista: The Definitive Guide to Stylish Outdoor Spaces by Michelle Slatalla
Collards: A Southern Tradition from Seed to Table by Ed Davis and John Morgan
Renee's Garden: The Garden to Table Seed Company
Dahlia 'Babylon Bronze at Floret Flowers
Dahlias at Swan Island Dahlias
Dahlia ‘Juanita’ at Old House Gardens
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Why Gardens Matter by Dee Nash, as posted on her blog, Red Dirt Ramblings.
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Dee and Carol talk about how to grow perennial flowers from seeds, debate instructions for growing sprouts indoors, and give a shout out to the National Garden Bureau, celebrating their 100th anniversary. Plus, they highlight another book from their bookshelves!
A few links:
National Garden Bureau
National Garden Bureau’s 100th anniversary celebration.
Chiltern Seeds
Territorial Seeds
Perennials to Start from Seeds - Gardener's Supply
Botanical Interests - Sprout Seeds
Botanical Interests - Sprouting Seeds at Home: Disinfecting, Growing, and Harvesting Tips
Garden Alchemy, by Stephanie Rose.
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Dee and Carol talk about flowers and houseplants that make great gifts for Valentine's Day or any occasion. Plus vegetables that are good for your heart, a new gardening book, and why gardening may make you live longer.
Some helpful Links:
Heart-healthy Vegetables to Grow
New Zealand spinach from Botanical Interests - heat tolerant!
On the bookshelf:
The Pollinator Victory Garden, by Kim Eierman.
Plus:
The Happiness Project, by Gretchen Rubin
The Rabbit Effect: Live Longer, Happier, and Healthier with the Groundbreaking Science of Kindness, by Kelli Harding, MD, MPH
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Dee and Carol talk about how easy it is to sow seeds for some flowers, what the two most important dates are for gardeners, a new book on ferns, and soil enhancers.
Links with more information:
Botanical Interests Drop Dead Red Sunflower Seeds
Burpee's Envy Zinnias
Burpee's Queen Lime Orange Zinnias
Johnny's Seed's Oklahoma series of Zinnias
On our bookshelf: The Complete Book of Ferns: Indoors - Outdoors - Growing - Crafting - History & Lore by Mobee Weinstein (Cool Springs Press 2020)
Washington State University Horticultural Myths Site by Prof. Linda Chalker-Scott
Soil Enhancers - Liqui-Dirt
For more information on the last frost and first frost for your region, please do an online search for your cooperative extension services latest bulletin.
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Dee and Carol discuss the world's dullest plant, the Chinese Evergreen, plus sweet potatoes and potting soil.
Some helpful links.
Costa Farms has a downloadable pdf on aglaonemas, commonly called Chinese Evergreens.
Dee's IGTV post about aglaonemas.
Making Things Grow by Thalassa Cruso
Sweet potato vines at Proven Winners
Sweet potatoes for your vegetable gardens at Johnny's Selected Seeds
Smart Pot fabric pots
Happy Frog potting soil
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Dee and Carol discuss flowering tobacco (Nicotiana sp.), vegetables that are easy to grow and hard to grow plus a new app to help all gardeners grow vegetables, and a few of their favorite old gardening books. Here are some helpful links:
Flowers:
The lime-green Nicotiana langsdorffii, with a narrow bell-shaped flower is hard to find seeds for but Louis the Plant Geek also grows this flower.
Nan Ondra from Hayefield has an entire post on Nicotianas she’s loved. She also has a cross between Nicotiana langsdorffii and N. alata ‘Lime Green’ called ‘Ondra’s Green Mix’ which she may have in her Etsy shop now. Botanical Interests also sells a flowering tobacco called Indian Peace Pipe.
Veggies:
Information on a new app for growing vegetables is at From Seed to Spoon.
Dirt:
A few favorite old books include:
Theme Gardens by Barbara Damrosch
Mrs. Greenthumbs: How I Turned a Boring Yard into a Glorious Garden and How You Can, Too by Cassandra Danz (1993)
Mrs. Greenthumbs Plows Ahead: Five Steps to the Drop-Dead Gorgeous Garden of Your Dreams by Cassandra Danz (1998)
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Some helpful links:
New Varieties of David Austin Roses for 2020
Botanical Interest Seeds
More on P.L.A.N.T.S. for gardening goals
Our special Vegetable Gardening Podcast Episode "How To Grow A Basic Summer Garden"
Our past episode on roses, Everything's Coming Up Roses
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Dee and Carol discuss Lantana and Corn and prove that any topic can be related to gardening.
Some helpful links
National Garden Bureau
All-America Selections
Lantana varieties at Proven Winners
Sweet corn varieties at Botanical Interests Seeds
Garden Pickers on Facebook and the Original Idea for Garden Pickers
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Carol and Dee look back at their favorite moments in the flower and veggies gardens in 2019 and discuss resolutions for the new year!
Books mentioned: Atomic Habits, by James Clear.
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Dee and Carol discuss tea which reminds them of C.S. Lewis. Helpful links:
The movie - Shadowlands, which is sad but has a great Christmas scene in it. Also, Becoming Mrs. Lewis was a book both Carol and Dee Enjoyed
Links to some teas you might want to try:
Jubilee Blend
Royal Blend
Taylor of Harrogate Earl Gray
Teas with rose petals
An electric tea kettle
Spode dishes.
Book: Botanical Shakespear: An Illustrated Compendium of All the Flowers, Fruits, Herbs, Trees, Seeds, and Grasses Cited by the World's Greatest Playwright, by Gerit Quealy
Veggies:
New botanical name for Rosemary
Decoding Flower Meaning in the Garden.
Dirt:
Previous Christmas Plant Episode
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Varieties of calendula to grow
'Pink Surprise'
'Flashback' series
'Radio' - Cool shade of orange with long petals.
'Zeolights - Kind of a pink.
Some of our favorite seed catalogs include: Botanical Interests, Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, Burpee, Johnny’s Selected Seeds, Pinetree Garden Seeds, Renee’s Garden Seeds, and Swallowtail Garden Seeds, Chiltern Seeds.
Books we mentioned:
The Christmas Cottontail
Mr. Putter & Tabby
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Dee and Carol discuss birds in the garden, planting for them, feeding them, and reading about them.
Some helpful links:
Flowers: Planting for the birds!
Veggies:
Broom Corn
Botanical Interest Seeds
Should you feed the birds? Info for the Audubon society
Info on Passenger Pigeons
Books:
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century, by Kirk Wallace Johnson
A Sweet, Wild Note: What We Hear When the Birds Sing, by Richard Smyth
How to Know the Birds by Ted Floyd, editor of Birding magazine.
The Blue Jay's Dance: A Memoir of Early Motherhood, Louise Erdrich.
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Flowers: African Violets - Not your granny’s flower!
More info on the UGA Extension website
These are not your grandma's houseplants, by Ary Bruno. There’s a yellow one!
African Violet Society of America.
Veggie: The Herb Lover's Spa Book: Create a Luxury Spa Experience at Home with Fragrant Herbs from Your Garden, by Sue Goetz.
Dirt: GrowIt App to connect with other gardeners via your smart phone
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Remove All Politics from Facebook which is a Chrome extension so you need to be running Chrome to make it work
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Flower: Helleborus niger - Christmas Rose which we talked about in a previous podcast: “You can’t have Christmas Without the Plants.”
Veggies: Favorite books about vegetable gardening that make great Christmas gifts!
Mastering the Art of Vegetable Gardening, by Matt Mattus
Veggie Garden Remix, Niki Jabbour
Vegetables Love Flowers: Companion Planting for Beauty and Bounty, by Lisa Mason Ziegler
No Waste Kitchen Gardening, Katie Elzer-Peters
How to Grow Vegetables and Fruits with Organic Methods (OLDIE!) Editors from Rodale Press.
The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff, by Dee Nash
Heirloom Vegetable Gardening: A Master Gardener's Guide to Planting, Seed Saving, and Cultural History, by William Woys Weaver (Dee just wants this one for her own.)
Designing the New Kitchen Garden: An American Potager Handbook , by Jennifer Bartley
Dirt: Painted flowers. Do you like them?
Plus, bonus discussion about Ugly Dolls!
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Dee and Carol discuss and debate the best paperwhites to grow, how to grow (or not grow) Brussel sprouts and the truth about houseplants in the news.
Links:
Sources for Paperwhites:
Brent and Becky's Bulbs
John Scheepers
Not all Paperwhites Stink on Dee’s blog.
Vodka! Supposed to add to the water to keep the paperwhites shorter and stockier. Pickling your paperwhites.
Waxed Amaryllis:
QVC
Burpee
Brussels sprouts:
Burpee
Roasted Brussels sprouts with Balsamic vinegar and honey. Add bacon!
University of Minnesota Extension full instructions for growing Brussels sprouts.
The Truth About Houseplants
The Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology published an article called “Potted plants do not improve indoor air quality: a review and analysis of reported VOC removal efficiencies.”
GrowIt Mobile 2020 Houseplant Report
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We talk about growing amaryllis bulbs, including waxed bulbs, a mast year and acorn flour, plus a new book, The Artist's Garden by Jackie Bennett.
Helpful links:
Sources for amaryllis bulbs:
Brent and Becky's Bulbs
John Scheepers Bulbs
Sources for waxed amaryllis bulbs:
Burpee
Three Company via Amazon
Amaryllis accessories and info
Copper amaryllis stakes
Tips to get your amaryllis bulb to re-bloom
What is a mast year?
Helpful blog post on mast years
Backyard Forager's instructions for cold-leaching acorns
Books:
The Artist's Garden by Jackie Bennett
The Writer's Garden by Jackie Bennett
Island Gardens by Jackie Bennett
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Dee and Carol talk about the little bulbs, growing pumpkins, and some of their favorite older gardening books by Elizabeth Lawrence and Allen Lacy.
Sources for little bulbs include:
Brent And Becky's Bulbs
John Scheeper's Beauty from Bulbs
Sources for pumpkin seeds include:
Botanical Interests
Burpee Seed Co.
Books we enjoy:
The Little Bulbs: A Tale of Two Gardens by Elizabeth Lawrence
The Gardener's Eye by Allen Lacy
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Dee and Carol talk about ornamental grasses in the garden, native fruit trees including pawpaws and persimmons and Halloween suggestions for gardeners. Here are some helpful links:
Blog post from Dee on Ornamental Grasses
High Country Gardens, a great source for ornamental grasses
Article Dee wrote for HGTV on Tips on Growing Persimmons.
Article on Pawpaws: Pawpaw-The Midwest Banana
Stark Bro's, a great source for pawpaw and persimmon trees
Story of The Halloween Hare
The book The Christmas Cottontail by Carol J. Michel
"It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown"
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Here are some links to go with the podcast episode:
Daffodil sources:
Brent and Becky's Bulbs
Colorblends
John Scheeper's Beauty with Bulbs
Daffodil Info:
American Daffodil Society
Paperwhites that don't stink up your house!
Kale Seeds:
Botanical Interests
Other Links:
Cobrahead Weeders
"Leave the leaves: I think not" on Garden Rant
Dee’s recipe for kale chips.
PlantVillage, A division of Penn State University
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Some helpful links from our show notes:
Tulips:
French Blend Rose tulips from Colorblends Wholesale Bulbs.
The Princely Mixture from VanEngelen which includes: balanced mixture of Candy Prince (blush-pink), Purple Prince(lilac-purple) and Sunny Prince (lemon-yellow). Jacqueline Van der Kloet planting style. Garden Design has a good article on it.
Tulipa clusiana ‘Lady Jane’
Tulipa sylvestris (Woodland tulips)John Scheepers has a good article about tulips and all the types.
Garden Rant
ProPlugger bulb planter
Seed sowing:
Nan Ondra’s Etsy Shop: Hayefield. (Seed source for unusual flowers)
American Meadows Wildflower Seed
If you are interested in doing winter sowing, check out this article from PennState Cooperative Extension Service.
Books:
Marta McDowell’s new book Emily Dickinson’s Gardening Life: The Plants and Places That Inspired the Iconic Poet by Marta McDowell
Emily by Michael Bedard (Author), Barbara Cooney (Illustrator)
Sowing Beauty, Designing Flower Meadows from Seed by James Hitchmough.
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More info about Carol at www.caroljmichel.com
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Some helpful links:
Flowers:
Matt Mattus’s Growing with Plants blog post on fancy mums
Old House Gardens, a great source for heirloom crocuses and other flower bulbs
Veggies:
Mississippi State Cooperative Extension guide with information about storing seeds over the winter.
Dirt:
Two great books:
Forest Therapy by Sarah Ivens. We should all get out into nature and soak up everything. This book is arranged by seasons and has nature, outdoor projects for the whole family.
Wake Up, Woods by Michael Homoya (Author), Shane Gibson (Author), Gillian Harris (Illustrator). A beautifully illustrated book about spring wildflowers found in the woods. Great to read with kids and get them interested in finding flowers in the springtime. Great Easter gift!
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Some helpful links:
Flowers - all the bulbs that deer and other critters don't like. Sources for bulbs include:
ColorBlends.
Van Engelen.
Brent and Becky’s Bulbs.
List of deer and rodent resistant bulbs.
Old House Gardens.
Veggies - Fall sowing still going on! Sources for fall-sown seeds include:
Botanical Interests
Burpee
Johnny's Selected Seeds
All the best dirt - how to keep deer and other critters away from bulbs they do like:
Plantskydd
Deer-Resistant Design by Karen Chapman
Dee Nash
Carol Michel
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Some helpful links and info on the giveaway:
For the giveaway of seeds from Botanical Interests, Here's how to enter:
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Fine Print: The contest will be open for two weeks starting today and will end Wednesday, October 9 at 12:00 Midnight CST. We will randomly choose the winners from the comments on this post. This giveaway is open only to readers and listeners in the continental U.S.
Mums:
Igloo Mums
'Will's Wonderful' mum at Burpee
'Country Girl' mum at Niche Gardens
Lettuce:
Lettuce seeds from Botanical Interests
Heatless Habanero Peppers, 'Habanada' from Burpee.
Dirt:
Wool Pellets from Wild Valley Farms
Available on Amazon if your local garden center/hardware store does not sell them.
Journey North, tracking migrations and seasons
More info on Dee Nash
More info on Carol Michel
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Dee and Carol celebrate National Indoor Plant Week by talking about flowering houseplants, houseplants you can eat, and a couple of new books on houseplants.
A new plant for 2020 that can be grown as a houseplant is Proven Winners: Peppy Le Pom™ Pomegranate.
Books mentioned include:
Grow in the Dark: How to Choose and Grow Low-Light Houseplants by Lisa Eldred Steinkopf. Lisa is “the Houseplant Guru" on Instagram.
How to Make a Plant Love You: Cultivate Green Space in Your Home and Heart by Summer Rayne Oakes. Summer shares more info on Homestead Brooklyn on YouTube and Instagram.
Upcoming webinar:
If you'd like more info on houseplants: Move Over Hydrangeas, Houseplants are Taking Over with Lisa Eldred Steinkopf on Sept. 24. Open to anyone. $30
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Show Notes:
Asters at American Meadows High Country Gardens.
Garlic Sources include:
Carol’s new author website.
Dee’s author website.
Dee is speaking to the Denton County, TX Master Gardeners at their Fall Fest on October 12.
Carol is speaking at the Lake County Master Gardener’s 7th annual symposium in Crown Point on September 28th.
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Dee and Carol talk about goldenrod flowers, growing melons in the vegetable garden, and a couple of books about bees they enjoy. Which led to a conversation about wasps, somehow.
Some helpful links:
American Meadows has several goldenrods available.
Burpee Seeds has 'Ambrosia' melons.
And a few books on bees:
The Beekeeper’s Lament by Hannah Nordhaus.
Bea’s Bees by Katherine Pryor
The Little Book of Bees by Hilary Kearney.
Carol's website
Dee's website
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Carol and Dee discuss crapemyrtles, growing veggies in the fall, and Hamilton, both the musical and the gardener!
Some helpful links.
Crapemyrtles (Lagerstroemia indica):
Crapemyrtles, 'Cherry Dazzle®'
Black Diamond Crapemyrtles
Sources for seeds for fall grown vegetables:
Johnny's Selected Seeds
Burpee Seeds
Botanical Interests Seeds
Hamilton:
An article in Magnolia, the Southern Garden History’s newsletter about Alexander Hamilton and his gardens.
The book, Founding Gardeners by Andrea Wulf.
You might also be interested in:
Dee's Books
Carol's Books, including the new hardback edition of The Christmas Cottontail
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Dee and Carol talk about Lycoris, also known as surprise lilies, resurrection lilies, etc., eggplant, and The Posy Book: Garden-Inspired Bouquets That Tell a Story by Teresa H. Sabankaya. Plus, Dee makes a special announcement!
Some helpful links:
Sources for Lycoris include Old House Gardens and Brent and Becky's Bulbs.
Sources for eggplant seeds include Johnny's Selected Seeds, Burpee Seeds, and Botanical Interests Seeds.
For The Posy Book...
Find the book on Amazon at: The Posy Book: Garden-Inspired Bouquets That Tell a Story by Teresa H. Sabankaya
Visit Teresa Sabankaya's website for downloadable flower tags and check out her Instagram feed for more inspiration.
Visit The New Language of Flowers for information on flower meanings.
For more information on Carol, check out her website.
For more information on Dee, check out her website.
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Dee and Carol discuss some favorite flowers in the genus Rudbeckia, the current state of their vegetable gardens (good summer eating!) and the book The Lifelong Gardener by Toni Gattone.
Some links:
American Meadows, one of many sources for Rudbeckia plants
7 Perennials to Beat the Summer Heat, an article by Dee Nash
Grow What You Love: 12 Food Plant Families To Change Your Life by Emily Murphy
The Lifelong Gardener by Toni Gattone
Our Weeding Episode, listen while you weed!
Our favorite local bookstores:
Wild Geese Bookshop, Franklin, Indiana
Best of Books, Edmond, Oklahoma
Just for fun: National Sneak Some Zucchini onto Your Neighbor's Porch Day. It's August 8th!
Where to buy Carol's Books.
Where to buy Dee's Book.
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Dee and Carol talk about tall phlox for the garden, all the troubles you can have with tomatoes (and the best trouble is too many!) and if you see something strange in your garden—a weed, a bug, a weird plant disease—try to figure out what it is and talk to your local cooperative extension service if you need help identifying it. They want to know!
Some helpful links:
Phlox paniculata
Growing tomatoes and some of the troubles they have
Cooperative Extension Services listed by state
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Carol and Dee talk about coneflowers and some of the varieties they've had good success with, dill & fennel in the vegetable garden, and the mysterious world of herbalists.
Helpful links:
Echinacea 'Cheyenne Spirit', a 2013 AAS Winner.
Echinacea varieties at American Meadows.
Dill varieties from Burpee Seeds
Fennel varieties from Burpee Seeds
Books:
Culpepper's Complete Herbal
Herbs Through the Seasons at Caprilands by Adelma Simmons
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Dee and Carol discuss two native flowers, Spigelia marilandica and Asclepias sp., cucumbers in the vegetable garden, and Dee's new pelargonium theater.
For more info:
Spigelia marilandica 'Little Redhead'
Milkweed from High Country Gardens
Milkweed info from American Meadows
Dee's Cucumbers and Onions recipe
Geraniaceae.com, a source for pelargoniums
Groovy Plants Ranch, Marengo, Ohio
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Dee and Carol discuss all the types of hydrangeas you can grow in your garden, how to safely grow mint and what the old custom of Telling the Bees is all about.
Some links you may find useful:
From Plant Addicts, the different types of hydrangeas
Answers to the question, "Why isn't my hydrangea blooming?" From Proven Winners and the National Garden Bureau.
Hydrangea Festival on Cape Cod
Info on the practice of Telling the bees!
A novel where they tell the bees is The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd.
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Dee and Carol discuss growing sunflowers—all kinds of sunflowers—some of the calamities they've experienced in their own gardens, and a few presidential gardens worth a visit. Some helpful links:
Sunflower Houses by Sharon Lovejoy.
Sunflower seeds of all types from Botanical Interests
Suncredible™ Yellow sunflower from Proven Winners
The Essential Earthman: Henry Mitchell on Gardening by Henry Mitchell
Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson
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Dee and Carol talk about edible flowers, basil, and provide tips on touring other people's gardens.
Some helpful links include:
The Edible Flower Garden, by Rosalind Creasy, a book on growing and using edible flowers. (Affiliate link. We may earn a small commission if you make a purchase after following this link
Basil varieties:
Italian Basil ‘Genovese' from Burpee
‘Boxwood Basil’ from Burpee,
’Amazel Basil’ from Proven Winners,
‘Everleaf Emerald Towers’ basil from PanAmerican Seed
'Purple Ruffles' Basil from Burpee
Holy Basil from Burpee
Dee's recipe for Thai Basil Eggplant
Ellen Zachos, the Backyard Forager
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Carol and Dee discuss Japanese maples, which grow in both Indiana and Oklahoma. Dee suggests several varieties and provide tips on how to care for them in hot climates. They also talk about what to do with your vegetable garden when you leave it to go on vacation so when you return, the garden isn't overtaken by weeds or loaded down with overly ripe vegetables. They wrap up this episode with a lively discussion about chipmunks and other pesky animals in the garden.
For more information on Japanese maples, we recommend:
Japanese Maples, the Complete Guide to Selection and Cultivation by Peter Gregory and J.D. Vertrees.
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Carol and Dee discuss geraniums, both the perennial Geraniums and the annual Pelargoniums, figs, and a few plants they've failed to grow successfully in their gardens.
Some books mentioned include:
Merry Hall, by Beverley Nichols
Gods, Wasps, and Stranglers by Mike Shanahan
Back to the Garden by Ursula Buchan
Grow Figs Where You Think You Can’t by Steven Biggs
An Omelette and a Glass of Wine, by Elizabeth David.
And a favorite quote: “Long experience has taught me that people who do not like geraniums have something morally unsound about them. Sooner or later you will find them out; you will discover that they drink, or steal books, or speak sharply to cats. Never trust a man or a woman who is not passionately devoted to geraniums.” Beverley Nichols, Merry Hall
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All about growing roses, including different types and some of the problems with roses, including the virus, rose rosette. Also, Carol and Dee talk briefly about growing cabbage and how they met. They also discuss where to listen to learn more about organic and non-organic gardening.
Some books to read more about roses: Chasing the Rose: An Adventure in the Venetian Countryside by Andrea Di Robilant, Antique Roses of the South by William C. Welch, and The Sustainable Rose Garden: A Reader in Rose Culture.
The American Rose Society is a great organization to get involved in if you want to learn more about growing roses and connect with others who grow lots of roses.
To listen to find out about organic vs. non-organic gardening, we recommend an episode of Plantrama with C.L. Fornari and Ellen Zachos.
For more information about Rose Rosette disease, check out Dee's blog post.
You can also read about David Austin roses on her blog.
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How is it that Dee and Carol can go from peonies to Wallis Simpson to tomatoes and then the Chelsea chop in one episode? Well, just listen and you'll find out!
Flower: Peony, a wonderful long-lived perennial flower that both Dee and Carol and millions of other gardeners grow. Peony’s Envy is one site that will give you a good overview of peonies. Another source is Song Sparrow Nursery. And peonies are edible! At least the flower petals are. The petals taste lovely fresh in salads, or lightly cooked and sweetened. Carol learned this when she read Flower Chronicles by Buckner Hollingsworth, published in 1958. Shout out to our friend, Ellen Zachos, the Backyard Forager.
Vegetable: Tomato - The Queens of the Garden. There are whole books written on tomatoes, like Epic Tomatoes by Craig Lehoullier, that will blow your mind with all the varieties. A Proven Winners variety Dee and Carol are both trialing this year is Tempting Tomatoes™ Goodhearted™. Dee wrote in her book, The 20-30 Something Garden Guide, about how to cage tomatoes and how to grow them. Carol wrote a chapter in her book, Homegrown and Handpicked, about tomato lessons from her dad. For more information on the tomatoes Dee is growing this year, check out her latest blog post, "Tomatoes I'm growing this summer"
Dirt: The Chelsea Chop. This is the time of year to cut back late blooming perennials like asters, mums, and goldenrod to encourage more blooms and keep the plants somewhat in check. “Chelsea” refers to the big Chelsea Flower Show in London which takes place in late May. Carol calls this cutting back the Indy 500 Chop because it takes place in late May too. This year at the Chelsea Flower Show, they named Sedum takesimense ‘Atlantis’, the 2019 plant of the year.
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"Is there a better month in the garden than May when the skies are blue, the garden is lush, and there are flowers blooming in every color imaginable. The promises of the season have yet to be broken and optimism reigns!" ~~ Carol Michel
Flower: Clematis, a member of the Ranunculaceae family. A good place to buy clematis online if your local garden center doesn't have a good selection is Brushwood Nursery. Just browse their catalog online and you’ll find lots of clematis you never knew existed.
Vegetables: Don't panic! Memorial Day but it is still not too late to plant a vegetable garden. In Oklahoma, you don’t have much time though. Dee tries to have everything planted in her vegetable and ornamental gardens by June 6. However, with squash, and some other vegetables like green beans, you can do multiple plantings so those are ok. Also, pumpkins, you need to wait anyway. And Carol likes to wait until Memorial Day weekend to plant her summer vegetables including tomatoes and peppers.
Dirt: Garden Thugs, or all the plants we’ve planted so you don’t have to!
Definition of aggressive vs. invasive. Keep in mind though that a plant can be invasive in one region of the country and not in another. Some plants are considered invasive meaning they can readily spread into natural areas and pose a threat to disrupting ecosystems there. ~ Illinois Extension Service. Aggressive plants are those that tend to self-sow all over or have roots, like mint, that run throughout the garden.
Check your states invasive plant list and do not plant those plants listed in your garden
Oklahoma Invasive Plant List
Indiana Invasive Plant List
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Have you always wanted to grow vegetables, but didn't know where to start? Dee Nash and Carol Michel provide the information you need to get started growing your own vegetables, including tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, green beans, corn, okra and squash in this bonus episode of The Gardenangelists.
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“In my early childhood I had some kind of vague yearning to Save the World from something or other; now all I ask is to save a small part of it from over-working in the effort to produce things that are good to eat or are lovely to see.” Ruth Stout
Ruth Stout got people to stop double-digging their gardens, which is hard work. Her books included The Ruth Stout No-Work Garden Book: Secrets of the Famous Year-Round Mulch Method and How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening.)
Flower: Salvia, both perennial and annul. Commonly called sages. Where to begin? Dee and Carol grow quite a few between their two gardens including:
S. farinacea, ‘Victoria Blue’ ‘Evolution,’
S. nemerosa,’Cardonna,’ ‘Rose Marvel,’ ‘Blue Marvel’ (new for 2019) and ‘Blue Hill,’
S. guaranitica 'Black and Blue,’
S. viridis, clary sage,
Salvia officinalis (culinary sage)’ 'Purpurascens' is a purple variety, 'Icterina' is the yellow variegated one, 'Tricolor' is the white variegated one.
Salvia pratensis ‘Madeline’ - White and Purple blooms
Salvia x sylvestris ‘May Night’ - Dee doesn’t like this one. Carol grows it because it has “May” in it.
Salvia leucantha, Mexican bush sage
Salvia pratensis ‘Sweet Petite’ Fashionista series
Salvia elegans 'Golden Delicious' Really pretty!
Salvia greggii 'Wendy's Wish' - Hard to find!
Sages are in the plant family Lamiaceae, the mint family or dead nettle family
Perennial salvias generally have one big burst of bloom in mid-late spring. Get them to bloom again but cutting them back hard after their first bloom.
Annual salvias should be dead-headed regularly to keep them blooming. Dee cuts ‘Victoria’ salvia way back once it starts to look ratty.
Veggie: Corn, including Sweet, Popcorn (Glass Gem), Strawberry Popcorn, Field Corn, and Decorative Corn
The story of Glass Gem Corn and its Oklahoma roots!
So many varieties of Sweet Corn to choose from: All-American Selections would be a good place to start. The varieties listed there have been tested so it is a good source of info and you can avoid the hype of marketing. Carol grew 'Sweet American Dream' sweet corn last year and will be growing it again.
Burpee also has corn for container gardeners called ‘On Deck’. Don’t expect to grow enough corn to freeze it for the winter but it is fun to grow in a container.
Corn is basically a large grass so some gardeners like to grow it for the height and fall decorations. It’s good in the back of a border, for example. There are even varieties with variegated foliage like ‘Field of Dreams’ from Select Seeds.
Dirt: Who’s the best garden sage from the past? A gardener you can refer back to over and ove
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What do daisies, squash, and queen bees have in common. They are all topics in this week's episode!
A quote to start with...
“Gardening is an active participation in the deepest mysteries of the universe.” Thomas Berry.
This week we are harvesting radishes, lettuce, spinach, and green onions.
Our flower this week is daisies, members of the Compositeae or Asteraceae family. (Same family, different names.)
We are reminded of this quote:
“Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.” Ray Bradbury
Some of our favorite daisy and daisy-type flowers include:
Leucanthemum × superbum (Shasta Daisies) ‘Banana Cream’ and ‘Becky,’
Leucanthemum vulgare (oxeye daisy),
Erigeron annuus (Eastern daisy fleabane)
Matricaria recutita (Chamomile)
This week's vegetable is summer squash, including varieties like Crookneck and Cue Ball. Carol wrote in her second book, Homegrown and Handpicked, about how to get rid of extra summer squash, especially when it grows too big to eat.
Our dirt this week is another great book, Queen Spotting by Hilary Kearney. Girl Next Door Honey is Hilary’s Instagram account.
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While you weed in your garden, listen to Dee and Carol discuss weeding with quotes, advice, and encouragement to keep you on task so you'll weed faster, better, and stronger than you've ever weeded before.
Repeat this episode as often as you weed!
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Flowers: Columbine, a perennial in the family Ranunculaceae. Aquilegia vulgaris (native to Europe) and Aquilegia canadensis (native to North America). Most cultivated varieties are hybrids of Aquilegia vulgaris. Columbine are usually easy to grow from seed. It's easy to harvest seed to share but most flowers won’t come true from seed if they are hybrids, but you’ll get something pretty. Scatter seed and watch them come up like weeds in the spring. (We call them a short-lived perennial that reseeds itself all over)
Vegetables: Beans, green and dried. Easy-peasy! Pole beans (Phaseolus vulgaris), runner beans (Phaseolus coccineus) and bush beans (also P. vulgaris.) Pole beans must have support. Traditionally, people grow them up teepees. Bush beans are easier to grow. So many varieties!
Look for beans that are stringless or be prepared to remove strings as you snap the beans. Carol likes Provider and Contender for bush beans. Dee has grown both of those and Blue Lake 274, a more disease resistant variety. There’s also original Blue Lake and Blue Lake 47. Dee also loves Dragon or Dragon’s Tongue with speckled pods that cook up yellow.
Dee would like to try Tiger Eye, a dried bush bean that’s pretty. It is supposed to be creamier than pinto beans. Lazy Housewife is an heirloom variety that can be eaten green or allowed to dry and then picked and stored as dried beans. It’s a pole bean. It was 2015 Bean of the Year.
Remember shellie beans? Probably only if you’re older. Dee’s grandmother grew them. It was just a dry bean that she harvested fresh once the pods dried slightly. You can also buy varieties grown especially for this purpose called shell beans. Libby’s canned beans have shellie beans mixed with green beans. Here’s an article for shellie beans with recipes from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The recipes with olive oil, garlic and sage or summer savory sound good.
Dirt: Vegetables Love Flowers, by Lisa Mason Ziegler. Great book! Dee likes that Lisa is a champion of annual flowers (which have nectar because they must set seed), and she wrote about bumblebees and buzz pollination.
Carol recently won an award for her book The Christmas Cottontail. In honor of the award she is givin
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Dee and Carol talk about some of their favorite petunia varieties, some of which Dee saw in 2015 when she went to the California Spring Trials with the National Garden Bureau Some of the petunias she saw included Night Sky and Supertunia Honey petunias, Supertunia Vista types like Bubblegum and Silverberry, and Sweetunia Fiona Flash plus Crazytunia Moonstruck.
Another great bunch of petunias are the Wave petunias.
For more information on Petunias, visit Carol's blog post, "I might be hoarding petunias."
And containers. It's fun to plant in containers and Dee and Carol have some tips on what makes good containers and what is the best potting soil.
For more information on containers, visit Dee's blog post.
Finally, all the best dirt. Carol learned all about what's living in her house with her in a new book, Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millepedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live by Rob Dunn (affiliate link) and she and Dee talk about having a balanced ecosystem in your garden.
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Flowers:
The Easter lilies that you can buy in the store now are Lilium longiflorium, a type of trumpet lily. You can plant them out in the garden, zones 4 - 8, and they will come back each year. They like neutral soils, full sun, and cool soil. Don’t mulch right up to the stems or the stems may rot. Brent and Becky’s Bulbs has some named varieties including White Heaven.
Madonna lilies, Lilium candidum, are often shown in church windows, but hardly grown now because of a disease, gray mold. Mary is almost always shown with a Madonna lily because it represents her virginity. Easter lilies, on the other hand, represent the resurrection. Madonna lilies like neutral soils, dry summers, can be grown in sun to partial shade. They have been in cultivation for 3,000 years! Old House Gardens has Madonna Lilies.
Both types of lilies will bloom around June-July when grown in a garden. Both are also taller in a garden, 3 feet and up, than when potted and forced into Easter bloom.
Easter lilies are poisonous to cats ASPCA link.
Vegetables:
What to look for in vegetable transplants.
Plants should be labeled to ensure you get the variety you are expecting. No one wants to see Habanero peppers when they were expecting sweet bell peppers. Or cherry tomatoes when they were expecting a beefsteak tomato.
If your vegetable transplants are greenhouse grown, make sure to harden them off before planting them out.
Plant tomatoes deep, deep, deep unless they are grafted.
Looking for a new strawberry? Now is the time to plant Berried Treasure™ strawberry, a Proven Winners selections with red flowers.
Dirt:
It is always a good idea to wear gloves when working around plants, especially ornamentals, and wash your hands with soap and water after gardening. Euphorbias and other plants have a sticky sap that can irritate the skin. Be safe, not sorry. Carol's favorite brand of gloves right now are Mud gloves (affiliate link) Dee likes them too when it’s cooler and wetter outside. However, she’s fond of these bamboo gloves (affiliate link) when the weather warms.
Dee also likes heavy duty nitrile gloves (affiliate link) or leather ones for beekeeping.
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Snapdragons, Turnips and the Signs of Spring!
Flowers: Snapdragons
All about snapdragons. Antirrhinum majus is a short-lived perennial most often grown as annuals in colder climates. It is winter hardy in zones 7 - 10. They come in all colors and sizes and are fun for kids to grow. There is also another snapdragon, called Spanish snapdragon, Antirrhinum hispanicum, which is hardy to zone 6, maybe 5. Sometimes referred to as creeping snapdragons because they aren’t tall upright plants.
“Antirrhinum used to be treated within the family Scrophulariaceae, but studies of DNA sequences have led to its inclusion in a vastly enlarged family Plantaginaceae within the tribe Antirrhineae.”
‘Rocket’ is a tall snapdragon, easy to find in most garden centers. Burpee has some snapdragons for hanging baskets: the Candy Showers series. Plus Madame Butterfly which is double-flowering:
How to care for snapdragons. Treat mostly as annuals. They will tolerate some light frost. Keep cutting them back to encourage rebloom. Can be planted in a flower border or also do well in containers. They are easy to grow from seed indoors, but probably a little late to do that this year. Needs about 12 weeks before frost-free date. Unless sowing for fall.
Kind of an old-fashioned flower (can remember from our childhood so we know it is old) but new varieties such as the trailing type for hanging baskets, are bringing them back in favor a bit. They are fun for kids because you can pinch off the florets and then squeeze them between your thumb and finger to make them look like a dragon open and closing its mouth.
Veggies: Turnips
They are several different varieties of turnips other than the classic Purple Top.
Johnny’s Selected Seeds has Hakurei, Purple Top and Scarlet Queen.
Burpee has Tokyo Cross which is ready in about 35 days and Golden Globe, amongst others.
Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds has Nagasaki Akari Kabu. Dee is growing it this year.
Turnips prefer soils that are 50ºF or warmer to germinate. (Yes, soil temperature is a thing and if you want to know your soil’s temp, buy a Soil Thermometer (affiliate link)).
They need up to 70 days for full maturity so don’t plant too late, but you can plant all the way until 70 days before your usual frost date. For Carol that would be about mid-August for the last sowing.
There are all kinds of recipes online for cooking turnips,
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Want to know which flowers to plant for pollinators? Carol and Dee discuss easy to grow annuals and perennials that provide pollen and nectar for bees and butterflies. To follow the migration of monarchs, check out the Journey North website. For more information in general on monarchs, we recommend The Monarch: Saving Our Most-Loved Butterfly by Kylee Baumle (affiliate link).
For more information on pollen charts: Identifying pollen
For more information on some of the flowers mentioned:
Salvias, milkweeds--check for which ones are native in your area. For more nectar plants, check out the Xerces Society.
Agastaches: the only one successful planted in the garden for Dee has been ‘Bolero'. Carol has done well ‘Blue Fortune’ which doesn’t bloom until later in the season but then blooms until a killing frost.
‘Nectarwand Red’ false vervain, Stachytarpheta, is the best of the false vervains in Dee’s garden. She bought it at Bustani Plant Farm. It’s their introduction, but may become more available at other nurseries soon.
Chives and borage, lavender ‘SuperBlue’ and ‘Phenomenal and thyme are samples of herbs that are nectar powerhouses!
Carol and Dee also provided tips on how to be care for vegetable seedlings with proper light, water, and hardening off. Almost everyone needs to provide supplemental light for seedlings and go slowly with the hardening off to ensure success.
For all the best dirt:
2018 University of Texas at Austin study linking glyphosate to problems with Honey Bee gut rmicrobiota. Gut microbiota benefits growth and provides defense against pathogens. Bayer, who owns Monsanto, denies this study’s findings. More information on OMRI check out OMRI listed.
To see Carol or Dee in person, if you live near them...
Dee is speaking on Enchanted April at this April’s Wednesdays at Will Rogers on April 10 at 6:00 p.m.
Carol is speaking at the Hancock County Master Gardeners on Saturday April 6 on 12 Secrets to Happiness in Your Garden.
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The Gardenangelists, Dee and Carol, talk about daffodils and how easy they are to grow and how most critters won't touch them. And for those new to growing vegetables, they cover a range of topics including the benefits of raised beds and which plants to grow from seed and which to buy plants for. One of the best reasons to grow your own vegetables is to ensure you are getting vegetable grown without pesticides! For example, easy-to-grow kale has been named number 3 in the Dirty Dozen of pesticide-laden vegetables. But kale is so good for you. Grow your own or buy organic. If you'd like to make your own kale chips, Dee has a recipe on her blog.
For all the best dirt, they recommend listeners tune in to episodes of BBC's Gardeners World with host Monty Don. New episodes are sometimes available for a short time on YouTube and past seasons are available through streaming services, including BritBox.
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Dee and Carol talk about flowers in their lawns, including crocuses, glory of the snow, violets, and more. Then it is on to root crops and some of their favorites, including radishes, turnips and beets, and whether or not the phase of the moon at the time of planting makes a difference. Dee's husband is channeling Monty Don and Carol's sister wants to grow one of "every kind of vegetable you can grow in Indiana." They wrap up this episode talking about the latest research on growing tomatoes around walnut trees, presented in a new bulletin from Dr. Linda Chalker-Scott, PhD at the University of Washington. Follow us on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter where we are the Gardenangelists. Email us at [email protected]!
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This week on The Gardenangelists, Dee and Carol discuss planting pansies and violas and some of their favorite types of both flowers. In addition, they provide helpful tips for growing peas in the spring garden. Plus TWO bits of dirt. The first dirt is to join the American Horticultural Society. Membership gives you free access to over 300 gardens in the United States. The second dirt is to order grafted tomatoes early and why you would want to plant them in your garden instead of seed grown tomatoes.
Some sources for pansies and grafted tomatoes include:
Johnny’s Seeds, Royal Snow Pea
Promise Antique Shades Improved pansy, PanAmerican Seed
Nature Antique Shades, Floret Flower
Imperial Antique Shades, Harris Seeds
Heat Elite Pink Shades pansies, Swallowtail Garden Seeds
Grafted Tomato Plants: Johnny’s Selected Seeds
Totally Tomatoes also has grafted eggplant, peppers, and tomatoes
Territorial Seed Company, Grafted Vegetable Plants
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Terrariums are popular once again! Join Dee and Carol as they talk about terrariums and how to plant in them, plus why you might or might not want a greenhouse. The next thing you know, they are talking about the great conservatories of the world and then wrap up with sowing seeds under terrarium like conditions. More info? Sure!
Check out Dee's Pinterest boards on Glass Houses and Greenhouses and Terrariums for inspiration. Books mentioned (because there are always a few books mentioned) include Crystal Palaces by Anne Cunningham, The New Terrarium by Tovah Martin and of course Carol's recently published third book of humorous and light-hearted gardening essays, Seeded and Sodded: Thoughts from a Gardening Life.
To win a copy of Carol's new book, Seeded and Sodded: Thoughts from a Gardening Life, plus a copy of The New Terrarium go to our Facebook page and leave a comment on one of our posts about this podcast episode. (U.S. Residents only, must be over 18. Enter by midnight EDT on Monday, March 11, 2019. Drawing will be held on Tuesday, March 12, 2019 and the winner notified shortly thereafter.) Don't forget we are also The Gardenangelists on Instagram and Twitter.
And you can always email us at [email protected]
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It's all about houseplants. Dee got out of the house, finally, and went in search of houseplants. Carol shares about her Sansevieria collection. Both wax poetic about their love of houseplants. Dee's new plants include:
Carol’s snake plant collection currently includes:
Sansevieria trifasciata
Sansevieria cylindrica
Other popular houseplants discussed include:
Hottest houseplant hashtags on Instagram right now include : #plantshelfie #houseplantsofinstagram #boyswithplants #girlswithplants #girlsthatgarden #kokedama #succulents
Popular Houseplant Instagram Accounts include:
Pantenstudio (A lot of succulents)
Remember: “Studies have shown plants can knock out stress by calming the sympathetic nervous system, and can also make people feel happier. More
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It's the week of President's Day which naturally leads to talking about roses named after presidents. Carol interviews Dee about her roses and follows this up with a lively discussion about the vegetable at least one president didn't like that Carol has decided to grow this year anyway. They end the podcast with a few suggestions on some related books. (And yes, Carol does know that caterpillars don't lay eggs, butterflies do; she doesn't know why she said caterpillar instead of butterfly at least twice in this episode.)
Some helpful links:
Email contact: The [email protected]
Dee got her mushroom growing kits from Field and Forest Products.
The At Last® Rose is from Proven Winners.
Dee's posts on rose rosette disease are: Rose Rosette Disease in Oklahoma and Native Shrubs to Replace Roses
The article on broccoli growing Carol referenced is in the Early Spring 2019 issue of Country Gardens.
Books we mentioned include:
All the President's Gardens: Madison's Cabbages to Kennedy's Roses—How the White House Grounds Have Grown with America by Marta McDowell
Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation by Andrea Wulf
Andrea Wulf will be speaking in Indianapolis on May 5, 2019 at Newfields.
And finally, Dee's plant mister.
We have not been compensated for mentioning any of these products. Links to products on Amazon are affiliate links for which we receive a small compensation if you decide to purchase any of those products after click over to them. For books, please consider ordering them from your local independent bookstore!
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It's the week of Valentine's Day and what better topic is there than heart-shaped leaves and flowers that remind us of love, and vegetables, too. From Philodendrons to clematis to strawberries and even turtles, Dee and Carol talk about love in the garden! Some helpful links for more information:
Decoding Flower Messages, an article written by Dee for American Meadows
Slow Flowers, a place to find florists who sell locally-sourced flowers.
Some plants from Proven Winners, including Sweet Summer Love Clematis, Superbells® Doublette Love Swept™ Calibrochoa, Sweet Caroline Ipomoea
Moore Farms Botanical Garden, South Carolina
Brushwood Nursery, Clematis Specialists
David Austin Roses
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Listen in as Dee and Carol talk about plants and gardens in the movies. They discuss plants as the focal point of movies, plants as supporting actors, movies about gardeners, and more. They admit there might be a spoiler or two so be careful listening if you don't want to hear the end to Harry Potter.
Once you hear how two gardeners see plants in movies, you'll never see movies the same way again. It's all about the plants!
Plus a shout out to John Scheepers Kitchen Garden Seeds for sending Dee some seeds to try out.
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Dee and Carol talk all about seeds, both vegetable seeds and flower seeds. We encourage everyone to get over any fear of sowing seeds they might have and grab some seeds and start sowing. Also on the podcast, we give a shoutout to several seed companies including, in no particular order, Harris Seeds, Burpee Seeds, Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, Botanical Interests, Floret, Pinetree Garden Seeds, and Renee's Garden Seeds. Dee also clues us in on an interesting Instagram account to follow: Happy Holistic Homestead who posted a great idea for storing seed packets. In our segment on all the best dirt, we talk about a new book, Mastering the Art of Vegetable Gardening by Matt Mattus (Cool Springs Press, 2019) (affiliate link) and the mushroom catalog, Field and Forest Products. Other than Carol getting a review copy of Matt's book, we have not been paid to endorse any of these companies or products.
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Do you like old gardening books? Dee and Carol share just a few of their favorite old gardening book authors for flowers and for veggies. Then they take a twist into some British history and talk about the perils of wanting to grow old plants. Fans of books by Elizabeth Lawrence, Cynthia Westcott, Charles Dudley Warner, William Paul Winchester and Buckner Hollingsworth will enjoy this episode!
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Today's podcast includes discussions about flowering trees, including redbuds, magnolias, and tulip poplars; fruiting trees and shrubs including apples, peaches, honeyberries and pawpaws: and remarkable trees both dead and alive! Join Carol and Dee and find out just how fun gardening can be.
Links for more information:
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondō (Affiliate Link)
Huge Fossil is Oldest Flowering Tree in North America (National Geographic)
The Angel Oak on Johns Island, South Carolina
Stark Bro's, a source for fruiting trees and shrubs
White Flower Farms, a source for Lily of the Valley pips
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Dee and Carol talk about the National Garden Bureau's "Year of" Selections for flowers and vegetables and also talk about growing big pumpkins and other vegetables. Shout outs to Old House Gardens, the National Garden Bureau and Bonnie Plants 3rd Grade Cabbage Program.
For more information on growing giant pumpkins, check out the Smithsonian article we mentioned or the book, Backyard Giants by Susan Warren (affiliate link).
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Carol and Dee greet the new year with ideas on new flowers to grow, new veggies to grow, and some gardening resolutions. They also talk about allelopathic properties of sunflowers and other plants. And the book Carol couldn't remember the title of is "The Hidden Half of Nature: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health" by David R. Montgomery and Anne Bikle.
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Join Dee and Carol as they discuss how to care for cut flowers and flower arrangements so they last well beyond the holidays, what veggies they are eating at Christmas time, and how to deal with stress by gardening.
With a shout out to Farmgirl Flowers!
Merry Christmas from Dee and Carol and thank you for listening to our podcast!
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Dee and Carol discuss legends around the Christmas Rose, Helleborus niger, and how to grow it, the legend of the Poinsettia, two great books on growing vegetables, and some gifts they don't want for Christmas.
If you are interested in the veggie gardening books, check them out at these Amazon Affiliate links:
No-Waste Kitchen Gardening by Katie Elzer-Peters
Niki Jabbour's Veggie Garden Remix by Niki Jabbour
Other books mentioned included:
The Miracle of the First Poinsettia, A Mexican Christmas Story by Joanne Oppenheim and Illustrated by Fabian Negrin
The Legend of the Poinsettia by Tomie dePaola
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Dee and Carol discuss how to get orchids, amaryllis, and poinsettias to rebloom; why winter is a great time to buy seeds and more gift ideas for gardeners
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Carol and Dee talk about Christmas plants and flowers, growing microgreens and gifts for gardeners. They promise Santa they've been very good this year!
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Old houseplants, putting vegetable gardens to bed for the winter, Carol's new book, The Christmas Cottontail, and Dee's new website.
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Dee and Carol talk about paperwhites and amaryllis, vegetables for Thanksgiving, and how to get your guest to leave early after the big Thanksgiving dinner!
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In this episode of The Gardenangelists, Dee and Carol talk about Thanksgiving/Christmas Cactus, Swiss Chard, Saffron Crocus and SlowFlowers.com
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Are you ready to be converted to living a gardening life? Each week, join Carol Michel and Dee Nash, both passionate gardeners, authors, and long-time bloggers, as they chat over the garden fence about flowers, veggies, and all the best dirt on gardening. Carol and Dee have the audacity to call themselves gardenangelists, evangelists for gardening, and want everyone to dig in the dirt, sow a few seeds, and enjoy the simple pleasures and even a few pitfalls of a gardening life. If you are ready to live a gardening life or already live one this is one podcast you don’t want to miss.
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