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Dee and Carol discuss the world's dullest plant, the Chinese Evergreen, plus sweet potatoes and potting soil.

Some helpful links.

Costa Farms has a downloadable pdf on aglaonemas, commonly called Chinese Evergreens.

Dee's IGTV post about aglaonemas.

Making Things Grow by Thalassa Cruso

Sweet potato vines at Proven Winners
Sweet potatoes for your vegetable gardens at Johnny's Selected Seeds

Smart Pot fabric pots
Happy Frog potting soil

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Dee and Carol discuss flowering tobacco (Nicotiana sp.), vegetables that are easy to grow and hard to grow plus a new app to help all gardeners grow vegetables, and a few of their favorite old gardening books.  Here are some helpful links:

Flowers:  

The lime-green Nicotiana langsdorffii, with a narrow bell-shaped flower is hard to find seeds for but Louis the Plant Geek also grows this flower.

Nan Ondra from Hayefield has an entire post on Nicotianas she’s loved. She also has a cross between Nicotiana langsdorffii and N. alata ‘Lime Green’ called ‘Ondra’s Green Mix’ which she may have in her  Etsy shop now.  Botanical Interests also sells a flowering tobacco called Indian Peace Pipe.

Veggies:

Information on a new app for growing vegetables is at From Seed to Spoon.

Dirt:

A few favorite old books include:

Theme Gardens by Barbara Damrosch

Mrs. Greenthumbs: How I Turned a Boring Yard into a Glorious Garden and How You Can, Too by Cassandra Danz (1993)

 Mrs. Greenthumbs Plows Ahead: Five Steps to the Drop-Dead Gorgeous Garden of Your Dreams by Cassandra Danz (1998)

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Some helpful links:

New Varieties of David Austin Roses for 2020

Botanical Interest Seeds

More on P.L.A.N.T.S. for gardening goals

Our special Vegetable Gardening Podcast Episode "How To Grow A Basic Summer Garden"

Our past episode on roses, Everything's Coming Up Roses

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Dee and Carol discuss Lantana and Corn and prove that any topic can be related to gardening.

Some helpful links

National Garden Bureau
All-America Selections
Lantana varieties at Proven Winners
Sweet corn varieties at Botanical Interests Seeds

Garden Pickers on Facebook and the Original Idea for Garden Pickers

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Carol and Dee look back at their favorite moments in the flower and veggies gardens in 2019 and discuss resolutions for the new year!

Books mentioned:   Atomic Habits, by James Clear.

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Dee and Carol discuss tea which reminds them of C.S. Lewis. Helpful links:

The movie - Shadowlands, which is sad but has a great Christmas scene in it. Also, Becoming Mrs. Lewis was a book both Carol and Dee Enjoyed

Links to some teas you might want to try:
Jubilee Blend
Royal Blend   
Taylor of Harrogate Earl Gray
Teas with rose petals

An electric tea kettle

Spode dishes.

Book:  Botanical Shakespear: An Illustrated Compendium of All the Flowers, Fruits, Herbs, Trees, Seeds, and Grasses Cited by the World's Greatest Playwright, by Gerit Quealy

Veggies: 

New botanical name for Rosemary 

Decoding Flower Meaning in the Garden.

Dirt:
Previous Christmas Plant Episode

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Varieties of calendula to grow
'Pink Surprise'
'Flashback' series
'Radio' - Cool shade of orange with long petals.
'Zeolights -  Kind of a pink.

Some of our favorite seed catalogs include:  Botanical Interests, Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, Burpee, Johnny’s Selected Seeds, Pinetree Garden Seeds, Renee’s Garden Seeds, and Swallowtail Garden Seeds, Chiltern Seeds.

Books we mentioned:

The Christmas Cottontail
Mr. Putter & Tabby

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Dee and Carol discuss birds in the garden, planting for them, feeding them, and reading about them.

Some helpful links:

Flowers: Planting for the birds!  

 Veggies: 

Broom Corn   

Botanical Interest Seeds

 Should you feed the birds?  Info for the Audubon society 

Info on Passenger Pigeons

Books:

The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century, by Kirk Wallace Johnson

A Sweet, Wild Note: What We Hear When the Birds Sing, by Richard Smyth

How to Know the Birds by Ted Floyd, editor of Birding magazine.

The Blue Jay's Dance: A Memoir of Early Motherhood, Louise Erdrich.

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Flowers: African Violets - Not your granny’s flower! 
More info on the UGA Extension website 

These are not your grandma's houseplants, by Ary Bruno. There’s a yellow one!

African Violet Society of America.

Veggie: The Herb Lover's Spa Book: Create a Luxury Spa Experience at Home with Fragrant Herbs from Your Garden, by Sue Goetz.

Dirt:  GrowIt App  to connect with other gardeners via your smart phone

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Remove All Politics from Facebook which is a Chrome extension so you need to be running Chrome to make it work

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Flower: Helleborus niger - Christmas Rose which we talked about in a previous podcast: “You can’t have Christmas Without the Plants.”

Veggies: Favorite books about vegetable gardening that make great Christmas gifts! 

Mastering the Art of Vegetable Gardening, by Matt Mattus

Veggie Garden Remix, Niki Jabbour

Vegetables Love Flowers: Companion Planting for Beauty and Bounty, by Lisa Mason Ziegler

No Waste Kitchen Gardening, Katie Elzer-Peters

How to Grow Vegetables and Fruits with Organic Methods (OLDIE!)  Editors from Rodale Press.

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

Heirloom Vegetable Gardening: A Master Gardener's Guide to Planting, Seed Saving, and Cultural History, by William Woys Weaver (Dee just wants this one for her own.)

Designing the New Kitchen Garden: An American Potager Handbook , by Jennifer Bartley

Dirt:  Painted flowers. Do you like them?

Plus, bonus discussion about Ugly Dolls!

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