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Dee and Carol debate zinnias versus dahlias, talk about summer savory, and share more gardening dirt, rabbit holes, and updates.

Helpful Links:

Zinnia 'Queeny Lime Orange', a 2018 All-America Selection

Summer Savory seeds from Botanical Interests

On the Bookshelf:  A garden from a hundred packets of seeds, by James Fenton

YouTube Video on Little Island in NYC
Dee's second segment on Oklahoma Gardening, on YouTube
Carol's video of flowers in bloom in her garden, also on YouTube

Dee's Bee Puzzle at B&N

Information on GardenComm's Virtual Conference, August 11 - 14.

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For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website.  Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website.  Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
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The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff, by Dee Nash

Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel

Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel

Seeded and Sodded: Thoughts from a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel

Creatures and Critters: Who’s in Your Garden, by Carol J. Michel

The Christmas Cottontail: A Story for Gardeners of All Ages, by Carol J. Michel

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Carol and Dee talk about coreopsis, leeks, letters between gardeners, and more.

Helpful Links:

Coreopsis at Mt. Cuba Center
Coreopsis at High Country Gardens

Info on growing leeks from Bonnie Plants

On the bookshelf:  Dear Friend and Gardener by Christopher Lloyd and Beth Chatto

Well-Read Mom book club Dee joined.

PBS documentary on Wendell Berry

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For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website.  Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website.  Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
Affiliate links to purchase any of our books:

The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff, by Dee Nash

Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel

Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel

Seeded and Sodded: Thoughts from a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel

Creatures and Critters: Who’s in Your Garden, by Carol J. Michel

The Christmas Cottontail: A Story for Gardeners of All Ages, by Carol J. Michel

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Dee and Carol talk about Kniphofia flowers, tomato troubles and more!

Helpful Links:

Kniphofia Pyromania® varieties at Proven Winners

Tomato Troubles  article in the Mercury News

Pepper Sweet Sunset from All-America Selections

A new board game about Monarch Butterflies
Dr. Jared Barnes's website

On the Bookshelf: Life in the Garden,  by Penelope Lively

Interview with Penelope Lively

Cookbook Dee mentioned:  Six Seasons: A New Way with Vegetables, by Joshua McFadden

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For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website.  Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website.  Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
Affiliate links to purchase any of our books:

The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff, by Dee Nash

Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel

Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel

Seeded and Sodded: Thoughts from a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel

Creatures and Critters: Who’s in Your Garden, by Carol J. Michel

The Christmas Cottontail: A Story for Gardeners of All Ages, by Carol J. Michel

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Dee and Carol talk about daisies, fall vegetable gardening, birds, worms, and bees! Plus some math for fun!

Helpful Links:

A few Shasta daisies, Leucanthemum x superbum:
'Daisy May’  a new daisy from Proven Winners.
‘White Lion’, also new from Pan American Seeds 
‘Becky,’ 2003 Perennial Plant of the Year, at American Meadows.
‘Banana Cream’, also from Proven Winners.

Info on fall vegetable gardens from Oklahoma State Extension and from Purdue Univ Extension.

On the bookshelf: On the Bookshelf: Old Herbaceous, by Reginald Arkell.

Bird problems and hammerhead worm problems.

Carol's Blog Post on dried flowers.
French Hill Apiary website.

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For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website.  Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website.  Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
Affiliate links to purchase any of our books:

The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff, by Dee Nash

Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel

Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel

Seeded and Sodded: Thoughts from a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel

Creatures and Critters: Who’s in Your Garden, by Carol J. Michel

The Christmas Cottontail: A Story for Gardeners of All Ages, by Carol J. Michel

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Carol and Dee discuss another flower type—corymbs—played a game of "is it too late" for the vegetable garden and discussed the bee waggle dance! 

A few links:

An episode of Oklahoma Gardening with Dee talking about daylilies  is now on YouTube.

Info on Yarrow varieties tested by  the Chicago Botanic Garden  
Info on Yarrow varieties from  Rozanne and Friends®.
Rabbit hole! Blog post by the Wandering Botanist, Kathleen Keeler, Emeritus Professor, Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Plant Story - Yarrow,  Achillea millefolium, a plant species complex.

On the Bookshelf:
My Summer in a Garden, by Charles Dudley Warner

Another Rabbit Hole! The Bee Waggle Dance Info: Honey Bee Waggle Dance & Hive Type Perspectives by Two Bees in a Podcast • A podcast on Anchor,  plus TED talk by Margaret Couvillon from Virginia Tech

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For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website.  Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website.  Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
Affiliate links to purchase any of our books:

The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff, by Dee Nash

Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel

Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel

Seeded and Sodded: Thoughts from a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel

Creatures and Critters: Who’s in Your Garden, by Carol J. Michel

The Christmas Cottontail: A Story for Gardeners of All Ages, by Carol J. Michel

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Dee and Carol talk about raceme type flowers, including Baptisia and collards, plus their love for the new Amazon Prime show, Clarkson's Farm.

Helpful Links:

A Brief Guide to the Different Flower Types, Shapes, and Growing Patterns

Baptisia Trials at Mt. Cuba Center
Baptisia seeds for sale from Nan Ondra/Hayefield

Heirloom Collards:  Preserving the Future of Heirloom Collards

On the Bookshelf: Plant Families: A Guide for Gardeners and Botanists, by Ross Bayton and Simon Maughan,  Latin for Gardeners: Over 3,000 Plant Names Explained and Explored, by Lorraine Harrison and Practical Botany for Gardeners, by George Hodge.

The family Legolaceae - links to Carol’s blog post and video.

Jeremy Clarkson’s Farm on Amazon Prime

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For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website.  Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website.  Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
Affiliate links to purchase any of our books:

The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff, by Dee Nash

Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel

Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel

Seeded and Sodded: Thoughts from a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel

Creatures and Critters: Who’s in Your Garden, by Carol J. Michel

The Christmas Cottontail: A Story for Gardeners of All Ages, by Carol J. Michel

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Carol and Dee discuss flowers with umbel shapes, the big fertilizer question, plus Japanese beetles.

Helpful Links:
National Pollinator Week, June 21-27, 2021

Wildflower Meadows for Queen Bees

Swallowtail Garden Seeds

Angelica archangelica from Select Seeds
Angelica atropurpurea from Prairie Moon
Angelica gigas from Annie's Annuals
Angelica stricta purpurea discussed by C.L. Fornari, The Garden Lady

On the bookshelf: 100 Vegetables and Where They Came From by William Woys Weaver.

Japanese beetles on  Oklahoma Gardening episode
Parasites on Japanese beetles via the Bug Guide

Japonica striped corn from Hudson Valley Seed Co.

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For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website.  Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website.  Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
Affiliate links to purchase any of our books:

The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff, by Dee Nash

Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel

Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel

Seeded and Sodded: Thoughts from a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel

Creatures and Critters: Who’s in Your Garden, by Carol J. Michel

The Christmas Cottontail: A Story for Gardeners of All Ages, by Carol J. Michel

Support the show

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On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
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Carol and Dee discuss dahlias, blueberries, and boxwood moths.
A few helpful links:

Fundamentals of Growing Dahlias by the American Dahlia Society
Swan Island Dahlias
Old House Gardens

Bushel and Berry® blueberries
Southern Living  blueberries. 
Dee's column on blueberries in containers in Oklahoma Living.

On the Bookshelf:  Under Western Skies, by Jennifer Jewell, photography by Caitlin Atkinson. Jennifer Jewell is an author and host of the popular podcast, Cultivating Place.

USDA Info on Box Tree Moths

Carol's Bloom Day Post
Dee's Bloom Day Post

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For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website.  Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website.  Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
Affiliate links to purchase any of our books:

The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff, by Dee Nash

Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel

Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel

Seeded and Sodded: Thoughts from a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel

Creatures and Critters: Who’s in Your Garden, by Carol J. Michel

The Christmas Cottontail: A Story for Gardeners of All Ages, by Carol J. Michel

Support the show

On Instagram:  Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
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Dee and Carol talk about growing hollyhocks and nasturtiums, plus the strange phenomenon which was the Cottingley fairies.

A few links:

Hollyhocks listed on All-America Selections
Nasturtiums listed on All-America Selections
Blog Post: Grow Some History with All-America Selections

On the Bookshelf:
All About Flowers: James Vick's Nineteenth-Century Seed Company by Thomas J. Mickey

The Kew Gardens Girls by Posy Lovell

The Well-Gardened Mind: The Restorative Power of Nature by Sue Stuart-Smith

History of the Cottingley Fairies

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For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website.  Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website.  Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
Affiliate links to purchase any of our books:

The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff, by Dee Nash

Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel

Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel

Seeded and Sodded: Thoughts from a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel

Creatures and Critters: Who’s in Your Garden, by Carol J. Michel

The Christmas Cottontail: A Story for Gardeners of All Ages, by Carol J. Michel

Support the show

On Instagram:  Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
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Dee and Carol talk about tiny little plants including Petite Knockout Roses, Kitchen Minis, and  miniature paper plants.

Helpful Links:

Petite Knockout Roses from Star Roses and Plants

Kitchen Minis from PanAmerican Seed
Pot-a-peno peppers from All-America Selections

On the bookshelf: Micro Food Gardening: Project Plans and Plants for Growing Fruits and Veggies in Tiny Spaces by Jen McGuinness.

Miniature paper plants from Geez Louise Designs on Etsy

Carol’s webinar on self-publishing, sponsored by GardenComm


Email us at [email protected] 

For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website.  Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website.  Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
Affiliate links to purchase any of our books:

The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff, by Dee Nash

Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel

Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel

Seeded and Sodded: Thoughts from a Gardening Life, by Carol J. Michel

Creatures and Critters: Who’s in Your Garden, by Carol J. Michel

The Christmas Cottontail: A Story for Gardeners of All Ages, by Carol J. Michel

Support the show

On Instagram:  Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.