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Carol’s Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day post

Ruth Stout, a Lost Lady of Garden Writing.

Flowers:

Gardening with vulgare flowers

Leucantheum vulgare - Ox-eye daises

Syringa vulgaris - Common lilac

Aquilegia vulgaris - Columbine

Primula vulgaris - Primroses.

Silene vulgaris - Bladder Campion.

Filipendual vulgaris - Dropwort.

Vegetables:

Growing with vulgare in the vegetable garden.

Some herbs:

Origanum vulgare - oregano

Thymus vulgare - common thyme

Foeniculum vulgare - fennel

Tanacetum vulgare - Tansy - don’t grow it.

Beta vulgaris - beets - what’s new in the beet world? There’s an AAS Winner from 2015 - Avalanche, which is white. The history of beets.

On the Bookshelf:

Love Letter to a Garden by Debbie Millman (Amazon Link)

Thank you to TimberPress for review copies!

Dirt:

Screaming Plants:

Rabbit Holes:

The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. by Sandra Gulland

The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, Vol 1 by Beth Brower.

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Carol and Dee talk about phenology, no-dig gardening, a new book on gardens in literature and more.

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Carol’s garden fairies wrote a blog post and Carol built Lego mini bonsai trees.

Insects of the week:

Wooly worms

Assassin bug. Wheel bug. Ugh bug. Info from the Missouri Dept. of Conservation

Flowers:

Phenology

Indiana Phenology and National Phenology Network, b

Vegetables:

Ruth Stout’s How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back. (1955) (Amazon)

Patricia Lanza’s Lasagna Gardening (Amazon)

Just say no to cardboard: the science from the garden professors

On the Bookshelf:

The Literary Garden: Imaginary Gardens of Writers and Poets by Sandra Lawrence, illustrations by Lucille Clerc (Amazon)

Dirt:

Cramscaping

Rabbit Holes:

A few books:

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce (Amazon)

Peace Like a River by Leif Enger (Amazon)

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Dee and Carol talk about snapdragons, giant vegetables, a new book on perennials and several other topics!

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Insect of the Week:

Boxelder bugs and milkweed bugs

Flowers:

Snapdragons, Antirrhinum majus

All-America Selections of snapdragons

Vegetables:

Growing giant vegetables

Pumpkinista in Maine

On the Bookshelf:

Essential Guide to Perennial Gardening from American Horticultural Society (Amazon link)

Dirt:

Carol’s blog post “What you do when the first frost of fall arrives tells us a lot about how you garden, and Gardening is good for you, from Martha Stewart

Rabbit Holes:

Dee: Golden kiwis. Can we grow them?

Carol: Catharine Osgood Foster, Lost Lady of Garden Writing

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