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Dee and Carol talk about coneflowers, share some new veggie recipes Dee is trying, discuss a book on wildflowers and more.

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Question of the Week:

How do I grow a wildflower meadow from seed? Mini Meadows, by Mike Lizotte. He explains it well.

Insect of the Week

Blue Orchard Mason Bee. You can make nesting boxes for them or buy commercial ones

Flowers:

The Enterprise of Echinaceas, and why do we have so many varieties? We are speaking of Echinacea purpurea.

Watch out for aster yellows, a disease that can infect coneflowers. More info from Missouri Botanical Garden

Vegetables:

Let’s share some summer recipes!

Authentic Shopska Salad Recipe

Cold Yogurt Cucumber Soup - Tarator

Princesses (Bulgarian Ground Meat Sandwiches) Recipe - Food.com

Dee’s Zucchini Squash Challenge on her blog

On the Bookshelf:

A Naturalist’s Book of Wildflowers: Celebrating 85 Native Plants of North America by Laura C. Martin (2021) (Amazon)

Dirt:

Another dose of cuteness on Instagram, a farmer-gardener with his two young daughters, the two “supervisors”. Meet Jeremiah_Farmer .They also have pigs!

Rabbit Holes:

Lost Lady of Garden Writing, Katharine S. White. And Carol’s tips for getting your garden to produce more veggies.

A Garden to Visit:

Dallas Arboretum. One hot place when we visited!

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Dee and Carol discuss rooting cuttings in water, mid-summer in the vegetable garden, and a new herbal book, plus discuss if ducks grow on trees.

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Insect of the Week:

Leaf cutter bees.

Flowers:

31 plants you can root in water, from Epic Gardening

On the Bookshelf:

Collected Curiosities; more stories and recipes from the historical apothecary cabinet by Amanda Edmiston (Amazon)

Dirt:

Do ducks grow on trees? Dictionary Diva on Instagram

Rabbit Holes:

Rural Free: A Farmwife’s Almanac of Country Living by Rachel Peden (1961)

A Garden to Visit:

Tall Grass Prairie Preserve

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This week, we talked about all the senses your garden awakens in you.

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Favorites This Week

You can see Carol’s lilies on Instagram and on Substack. Dee’s favorite flowers include Calibrachoa ‘Lemon Slice’ and dwarf morning glory (Evolvulus glomeratus), also known by its cultivar names 'Blue My Mind' or 'Blue Daze,'

Insect of the Week

Awful, horrible Japanese beetles.

Flowers:

Touchable flowers

Article - How to Design a Healing Garden:

Veggies:

Vegetable garden as a wellness garden

On the Bookshelf:

Good Nature: Why Seeing, Smelling, Hearing, and Touching Plants Good for Our Health by Kathy Willis (Amazon)

and

Botanicum: Welcome to the Museum by Kathy Willis, Illustrated by Katie Scott (Amazon)

Rabbit Holes:

Dee: American food week in Bulgaria on Instagram

Carol: Carol’s secret source for UK published books… Blackwell’s

Another lost lady of garden writing, Caroline Dormon, friend of Elizabeth Lawrence.

Clarkson’s Farm

A Garden to Visit: Kew Gardens.

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Dee and Carol talk about sound in the garden, inspired by a new book.

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Fireflies or Lightning Bugs. Such a loved little beetle, it has its own website.

Flowers:

Listen to your garden to hear how healthy it is:

Vegetables:

You better hear the hum of bees because you need pollination for so many crops, including squash and cucumbers.

On the Bookshelf:

Garden Voices: A Year of Gardeners’ Writing, Edited by Claire Masset (Amazon)

Dirt:

Control Mosquitoes with a Mosquito Bucket. (News Report)

Rabbit Holes:

Carol revisited Elizabeth Lawrence to write about her as the latest Lost Lady of Garden Writing.

A Garden to Visit:

Longwood Gardens - Famous for their fountains.

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Dee and Carol talk about how to fix the lulls in your garden, or not, plus a new book on garden design and more.

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Salvia ‘Blue by You’, Proven Winners

Shiny Blue Beetles.

On the Bookshelf:

The New Garden Designer’s Handbook: How to Design Useful Gardens from Start to Finish, by Daryl Beyers, Illustrations by Elara Tanguy

Dirt:

Poison Hemlock On Instagram, Instagram

Rabbit Holes:

Land by Maggie O’Farrell

Garden to Visit:

Monticello - Thomas Jefferson’s Garden.

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Carol and Dee talk about British awarding winning plants, vegetable gardens and more.

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Flowers:

Winning flowers at Chelsea Flower Show. More info RHS site

Hosta ‘Red Ninja’ if you want to buy it.

All-America Selections!

Vegetables:

The classic British vegetable garden… what do they grow:

On the Bookshelf:

My Gardening Life by Mary Berry (Amazon)

Mary Berry’s Country House Secret on PBS

Dirt:

The tree growing grandmother from Yorkshire. Via Instagram. Also, this article

Rabbit Holes:

Louise Riotte, the last Lost Lady of Garden Writing. A Garden to Visit:

A Garden to Visit:

Sissinghurst

Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History: The Quest to Restore a Working Farm at Vita Sackville-West’s Legendary Garden by Adam Nicolson (Amazon)

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Dee and Carol discuss all things bananas in the garden.

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Question of the Week:

Why does my plant need potassium? Info from the University of Minnesota:

Insect of the Week

Banana slugs, info from National Park Service

Flowers:

Growing bananas in the flower garden. Tropical Plants and How to Love Them, by Marianne Wilburn.

Everything you ever wanted to know about bananas from Brittanica

Vegetables:

High Potassium Veggies info from My Food Data

On the Bookshelf:

Plant by Number: Design your Dream Garden With 24, Step-by-Step Planting Plans by Stacy Tornio (Amazon)(Publishes on May 26. Thank you to Timberpress for review copies)

Dirt:

Banana Peel Water for fertilizer? No.

Rabbit Holes:

Dee: Roses and the Rose Chat podcast

Carol: old but good gardening books including Rose Recipes from Olden Times by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde and An Island Garden by Celia Thaxter

A Garden to Visit:

Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens in Pittsburgh.

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Dee and Carol talk all things herbal this week.

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Question of the Week:

What herbs grow well with roses?

Insect of the Week:

Mayflies, Good info from Birds & Blooms

Flowers:

Herbs to grow for the flowers

More info from Epic Gardening

Vegetables:

Herbs for the vegetable garden

Basil ‘Monteverde’ from PanAmerican Seed, for sale from Burpee.

What makes an herb good for the vegetable garden?

On the Bookshelf:

Carol recently bought Time Traveller’s Herbal: Stories and recipes from the historical apothecary cabinet by Amanda Edminston, an herbal storyteller (Amazon link) She’s on Instagram.

She has another book coming out on June 30th: Collected Curiosities: more stories and recipes from the historical apothecary cabinet. (Amazon link)

Dirt:

National Herb Week - May 7th - 13th - Always the week leading up to Mother’s Day, per the International Herb Association.

The Herb Society of America, and why you might want to join it.

Rabbit Holes:

Dee: ‘Kazanlik’ rose from Antique Rose Emporium

Carol: Anthropomorphism, where animals are given human characteristics… Watership Down by Richard Adams, Shady Hollow by Juneau Black, the new movie, The Sheep Detective, which is based on the book, Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann. Beanstack app for reading challenges.

Also the latest lost lady Elda Haring, who was all about growing plants from seed.

A Garden to Visit:

The Chelsea Physic Garden (visited by Dee) and Florilegium Society

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