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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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Dee and Carol talk about growing flowers and veggies in containers. 

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Links:

From Southern Living Plant Collection It’s A Breeze® Ivory Blush Rose. 

Carol’s garden fairies reviewed her performance so far this spring in a blog post.

Carol’s blog post on forcing peonies into bloom in July.

Insect of the Week

Crane flies. 

Flowers:

Queen Tut papyrus

Tattoo™ Papaya Vinca

Vegetables:

Examples of veggies good for containers from Burpee: On-Deck Corn, Patio Baby Eggplant, Sweetheart of the Patio Tomato, Mocha Swirl Sweet Peppers, Hamburg Lettuce.

On the Bookshelf:

The Creative Container Garden by Anders Royneberg with Erik Schjenven (Amazon)

Plus A Year Full of Pots: Container Flowers for All Seasons by Sarah Raven (Amazon)

Dirt:

Carol’s spinstercore gardening, and a search on Pinterest… for Unusual Plant Containers. 

Rabbit Holes:

Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy, by Rumer Godden (1979). Watership Down by Richard Adams. And another Lost Lady of Garden Writing, Elda Haring

A Garden to Visit:

Wing Haven in Charlotte, North Carolina, the gardens of Elizabeth and Edwin Clarkson, and Elizabeth Lawrence.

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Dee and Carol talk about plants to leave behind, basics of vegetable gardening, a new book on gardening as you grow older and more!

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Flowers:

What flowers and plants to leave behind as you grow older in the garden.

Vegetables:

Back to basics. Honestly, start with good soil and you are 99% there. 

On the Bookshelf:

Garden for Life: Strategies for Easier, Greener, More Joyful Gardening as We Age, by Rhonda Fleming Hayes (Amazon Link)

Dirt:

Boomers have a lot of stuff, an article,  and on Instagram Nick Fox Radio 

Rabbit Holes:

Books mentioned include Matilda by Roald Dahl,  Raising Hare: A Memoir by Chloe Dalton, and The Lark by E. Nesbit

A Garden to Visit:

Gibb’s Garden in Georgia, in a place called Ball Ground, north of Atlanta.

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Dee and Carol talked about different kinds of hydrangeas, failures in their vegetable gardens, using corn starch in your garden and a new book on hydrangeas.

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Insect of the Week

Mitchell’s Satyr Butterfly via Central Indiana Land Trust on Instagram. (The invasive plant Carol was trying to think of was Purple Loosestrife.

Flowers:

Hydrangeas

Proven Winners has an explanation of the five main types.

Vegetables:

How to learn from your failures and not throw in the trowel, partially inspired by an essay in American Gardener, from American Horticultural Society. 

On the Bookshelf:

Hydrangea Happiness: Planting, Pruning, and Blooming by C. L. Fornari (Amazon link) (Publishes April 30)

Dirt:

Using cornstarch in the garden, via Martha Stewart

Rabbit Holes:

Dee:  Heritage Rose Foundation and her upcoming talk on Old Garden Roses and Their Companions. The pelargonium Dee was trying to remember was ‘Mrs. Pollock.’

Carol: Working on her presentation on Tips and Tricks to Spring into Gardening for Franciscan Senior Promise, local group.

A Garden to Visit:

Atlanta History Center and in particular the Cherokee Garden Library. That was very special.

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Dee and Carol talked about self-sowing plants, how to shop at your local farmer's market and other gardening topics!

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Why didn’t my daffodils bloom? Info from the American Daffodil Society 

Insect of the Week

Hyles lineata, White-lined Sphinx moth. Info from Wisconsin Extension

On the Bookshelf:

Plantiful: Start Small, Grow Big With 150 Plants That Spread, Self-Sow, And Overwinter by Kristin Green (Amazon Link)

Dirt:

Folks, This Ain’t Normal: A Farmer’s Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World, by Joel Salatin

Rabbit Holes:

The Lost Lady of Garden Writing, Mrs. H. B. Tillotson

Also, books by David George Haskell, including How Flowers Made Our World, The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature, The Songs of Trees: Stories of Nature’s Great Connectors, and Thirteen Ways to Smell a Tree (Blackwells) from the library. 

A Garden to Visit:

University of Washington Botanical Garden, home of the Eleanor C. Miller Horticultural Library, 

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This week, Dee and Carol discuss new plants, vegetables of the world, and more.

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Question of the Week: Growing Nicotiana. Select Seeds i 

Insect of the Week: Great spangled fritillary butterfly, whose food source is violets!

Flowers:

What's new and eye-catching? Check out our Substack newsletter for links

Vegetables:

Bring the world to your vegetable garden, more info on our Substack newsletter

On the Bookshelf:

The Curious Kitchen Gardener: Uncommon Plants & How to Eat Them by Linda Ziedrich (Amazon Link) (Her website)

Dirt:

Growing Giant Tomatoes on IG and the seed that cost $2,000.

Rabbit Holes:

Dee: Mary Magdalene and the red egg on Instagram. 

Carol: Mrs. H. B. Tillotson, the next Lost Lady of Garden Writing, Burrowcore, and two podcast episodes: one with Adam Frost on the Talking Gardens with Gardens Illustrated podcast, the other with Monty Don on the Rosebud with Gyles Brendeth podcast.

A Garden to Visit:

Bloedel Reserve, Seattle, Washington. Dee’s blog post about it

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Carol and Dee discuss some Easter flowers you can plant in the garden, coloring Easter eggs with natural materials, a biography of Gilbert White and more.

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Insect of the Week:  Grubs… How to control them, from Bob Vila

Flowers:

Can I plant… Easter Lilies and other potted flowering plants. Which ones will grow in your garden?  Info from Family Handyman 

Vegetables:

Coloring Easter Eggs Naturally: From Martha Stewart. Other options: from BHG

On the Bookshelf:

A Year With Gilbert White: The First Great Nature Writer, by Jenny Uglow (Amazon Link)

Dirt:

Beware of the influencer gardening info! Also, for fun:  Dreams, defined via an IG post

Rabbit Holes:

Dee was on PBS talking about Alpha-Gal Syndrome.

Carol researched Ruth Shaw Ernst as a Lost Ladies of Garden Writing

A Garden to Visit:

Longue Vue House and Garden in New Orleans

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Dee and Carol talk about reasons why you might want to grow flowers or vegetables and how that helps you decide what to plant, plus all the usual topics.

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Other Links:

Insect of the Week. Chiggers, with info from the Cleveland Clinic 

On the Bookshelf:

Art From The Garden: Create 25 Beautiful Botanical Projects, by Kerry Michaels (Amazon link)

Dirt:

Dilston Physic Garden and Dr. Elaine Perry, an encounter on Instagram

Rabbit Holes:

Hanna Rion, Carol’s latest Lost Lady of Garden Writing.

Videos from a young woman in England named Hanna who tries out life in the 1940s on her YouTube channel Real Vintage Dolls House inspired Carol’s blog post about Spinstercore Garden

A Garden to Visit:

The Gardens at the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles County. 

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Dee and Carol talked about early spring annuals, other than pansies and violas, preparing your soil in the vegetable garden a new book on floriography, and more!

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 Insect of the Week

Midges or No-see-ums, from Insect Shield, plus Dee’s post about how to wear Insect Shield clothing.

On the Bookshelf:

Modern Floriography: Flowers, Gardens, and Gifts Inspired by the Language of Flowers by Teresa Sabankaya (Amazon Link)

Dirt:

Sussex Fairy Fossil (YouTube) and (Facebook)

Rabbit Holes:

Theo of Golden, and t an interview with the author, Allen Levi.  

Dee explained her life right now in this video

A Garden to Visit:

Botanical Gardens at The Huntington

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