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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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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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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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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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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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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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Dee and Carol talked about persistent perennials, carrots, a book about Japanese culture, armadillos and even the Duchess of Devonshire. 

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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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We wrap up October with talk about trees, growing veggies in the winter, apples, and more.

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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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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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