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Dee and Carol talk about buying and planting bulbs, garlic, and butterflies this week.

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Question of the Week:

What’s really wrong with Carol’s Black-eyed Susans?

Septoria leaf spot, most likely. And particularly susceptible is ‘Goldsturm.’ Listen to Hans Hansen talk about it on Instagram.

Insect of the Week

Butterflies, and how now is a great time to see them in your garden. The adults are flitting and mating and moving on.

Flowers:

Bulbs.

Vegetables:

Garlic

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 (Amazon, Bookshop)

Dirt:

State Animals

Rabbit Holes

Carol: I listened to The Book of Margery Kempe, by Margery Kempe, and is working on the next Lost Lady of Garden Writing.

A Garden to Visit:

Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, in Richmond, Virginia

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Dee and Carol talk about flowers that shine in the waning days of summer, winter squash and more.

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Insect of the Week:

Thread Waisted Wasp

Flowers:

Flowers and plants that peak or look great waning at the end of summer

Winning Zinnias from All-America Selections

Vegetables:

Winter squashes and why we don’t grow them

On the Bookshelf:

A Green and Pleasant Land: How England’s Gardeners Fought the Second World War by Ursula Buchan (Bookshop, Amazon)

Dirt:

People who read live longer: Instagram

Rabbit Holes

Another Lost Lady of Garden Writing, Alice Lounsberry.

A Garden to Visit:

Biltmore House and Garden, Asheville, NC

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Carol and Dee talked about refreshing container plantings for fall, new veggies for the vegetable garden, a book of garden columns, and more.

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Insect of the Week

Great Black Wasp… a solitary pollinator.

Flowers:

Is it worth refreshing annuals in late summer for fall?

Vegetables:

It’s not too soon to plan for 2027.

All-America Selections Winners for 2026:

Tomato BadaBing! F1

Kale Rubybor F1

Pole Bean ‘Majesty’

Butter Lamp F1 Winter Squash

Basil Treviso -

New Varieties sent to Carol from Burpee

Akoya Small-Fruited Tomato

Sweet 150 Small-Fruited Tomato

Pick N Pop Orange Sweet Pepper

Monteverde Late Flowering basil

On the Bookshelf:

Back to the Garden by Ursula Buchan (2009) (Amazon for used copies)

Dirt:

The five plants every pollinator garden needs

Rabbit Holes:

Judi Dench’s Shakespeare: The Man Who Paid the Rent.

Carol’s blog post for Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day.

A Garden to Visit:

Holcomb Gardens at Butler University and the Indiana Native Plant Society (INPS)

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With a shared love of gardening…

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