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Dee and Carol talk about flowers, herbs, and even a weed that all have the species name of "officianalis." Plus, they review a new book about growing vegetables for preserving.

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Insect of the week:

Mole Crickets: 

Flowers:

With “officinalis” as the species name.

• Primula officinalis - Cowslip (also called Primula veris) 
• Pulmonaria officinalis - Lungwort 
• Saponaria officinalis - Soapwort aka Bouncing Bet 
• Verbena officinalis - Common vervain 
• Hyssopus officinalis - Hyssop

Vegetables:

Herbs with “officinalis” as the species name.

• Salvia officinalis - Common sage 
• Rosmarinus officinalis - Rosemary (now generally classified as Salvia rosmarinus) 
• Melissa officinalis - Lemon balm,
• Calendula officinalis - Pot marigold 
• Borago officinalis - Borage 
• Levisticum officinalis - Lovage 

On the Bookshelf:

The Preserver’s Garden: How to Grow a Garden for Fermenting, Canning, Pickling, Dehydrating, Freeze Drying & Moreby Staci & Jeremy Hill (Amazon Link)

Dirt:

Taraxacum officinale - Common dandelion

Rabbit Holes:

Dee: CBD creams 

Carol:  Cozy mysteries and  talking flowers 

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Dee and Carol talk about plants with species name of "texensis" and briefly talk about the species name "cardinalis." They also talk about a new book, pollen banking, and some of their rabbit holes.

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Flowers we discussed. 

Lupinus texensis - Texas bluebonnet or Texas lupine, info from the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. 

Carex texensis - Texas sedge, info from the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center

Clematis texensis - Scarlet Clematis, Info from Gardenia

Vegetables:

Cercis canadensis var. texensis - Texas redbud, Info from Missouri Botanical Garden

Columbrian texensis - Texas hog plum, info from the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center

Quercus texana -Texas Red Oak, Info from Missouri Botanical Garden

On the Bookshelf:

Vibrant Harvest: Cultivating a Kaleidoscope of Colors in Your Vegetable Garden with Heirlooms, Modern Hybrids, and More by Sandra Mao of Sandra.UrbanGarden (Amazon Link) Publishes December 2. Sandra’s Instagram.

Dirt:

Pollen banking and a tiny unrelated tidbit: favorite crayola crayon colors

Rabbit Holes:

Dee: Gianni Rodari plus The Flowers of Little Ida by Hans Christian Andersen 

Carol: Harriet Klamroth Morse, a Lost Lady of Garden Writing. Plus she’s on Volume 3 of The Unselected Journals of Emma C. Lion.

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Dee and Carol talk about white flowers, winter squashes, Doug Tallamy's new Book, How Can I Help: Saving Nature with Your Yard and more.

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Insect of the Week:

Bald-Faced Hornets. info from Penn State and Iowa State

Flowers:

W is for:

Wabi-Sabi Gardening!  (Carol’s blog post about it) and White Flowers

Vegetables:    

“Patch for Kids” pumpkin from Burpee (coming soon!).  

Watermelons:  All America Selections has several winners 

On the Bookshelf:  

How Can I Help: Saving Nature with Your Yard, by Doug Tallamy (Amazon Link)

Dirt: 

Lone Star Ticks on Martha’s Vineyard: Tick Bites on Martha’s Vineyard Has Businesses Going Vegan - The New York Times

World’s Tallest Sunflower grown in Ft. Wayne Indiana this summer: WANE

Rabbit Holes:

Dee: Vivian Maier

Carol:

Edna King Mandeville and Atomic Gardening.

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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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Farmers Defense
Etsy
Territorial Seeds
True Leaf Market
Eden Bros
Nature Hills Nursery <-- NEW

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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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For more info on Carol  visit her website.  Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
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Dee and Carol discuss milkweeds, perennials in a vegetable garden, a new book on milkweeds, chaos gardening and more.

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Links:

Great Comp Garden and  William Dyson’s salvia collection
Floret's  video  about saving sweet peas.

Dee's instagram reel 'Blackhawks' big bluestem grass
'Blue Beauty' tomatoes

Flowers:

List of milkweeds by state
Oklahoma Milkweed guide

Allan Armitage’s recent article about natives and non-natives.
Dee’s article on monarchs and milkweed from last year. 

On the bookshelf: The Milkweed Lands: An Epic Story of One Plant by Eric Lee-Mader 

Dirt: Chaos Gardening Is Actually the Easiest Way to Grow Your Dream Garden  Also FH article about this trend.

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For more info on Carol  visit her website.  Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee, visit her website.  Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.

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