The Gardenangelists: Flowers, Veggies, and All the Best Dirt

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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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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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Links:

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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