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Lots of garden chatter this week about lawns, soil testing, herbicide dangers, an old gardening book and a few other misc. topics.

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A couple of favorite flowers:  Zinnia 'Benary’s Giant Wine' and Sunflower 'Concert Bell'

If you want to test your lawn and garden soil, Great Lakes is a soil testing lab, located in Ft. Wayne, Indiana.

On the bookshelf: This is the Way My Garden Grows and Comes Into My Kitchen, by Barbara Dodge Borland. (Amazon Link) Plus, Carol's YouTube video about her.

Dirt: Triclopyr:  Off-Target Damage from Purdue Landscape Report

Rabbit Hole Links:
Touring the Cotswolds with Pam Ayres on YouTube
Two jigsaw puzzles, USA State Birds  and USA State Flowers
Anne Ophelia Dowden

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Dee and Carol talked about giant flowers, soil fertility, a book of nature writing, and more on this week's episode.

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Links:

Heuchera 'Autumn Bride'
Hibiscus 'Moy Grande'

Information on green sand from Rutgers Cooperative Extension

On the bookshelf: 
Sundial of the Seasons by Hal Borland (Amazon Link)

Our dirt: Trees don’t like to breathe wildfire smoke, either – and they’ll hold their breath to avoid it

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This week, Dee and Carol take you through their own gardens, discuss a book of gardening essays, and more.

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Links:

BBC Archive with Michael Caine
Carol's new weekly gardening newsletter.

Flowers:
One of Dee's reels on daylilies

Veggies:
Dee's post about growing lavender in Oklahoma

On the Bookshelf:
The Grove: a Nature Odyssey in 19 ½ Front Gardens by Ben Dark (Amazon link)

Dirt:
Sunflowers as Phytoremediators
Nan Ondra's blog post about dephloxing

Rabbit Holes:
Alma C. Guillet, a Lost Lady of Garden Writing

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Dee and Carol talk about stalwart flowers, recap their tomato season, talk about going outside, milkweed and monarchs, and more on this week's episode.

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Some of the flowers we mentioned:

Aster 'Bluebird' (American Meadows has it)
Atomic glass  (American Meadows also has it)
Phlox 'Bright Eyes' (an American Meadows has it too)

Some of the tomato varieties we mentioned:
Purple Zebra, an All-America Selections winner for 2022, and in our gardens too.
Black Cherry
Sun Dipper
Missouri Love Apple
Brad’s Atomic Grape
Pink Berkley Tie Dye
Sunrise Bumblebee.

A book, Epic Tomatoes: How To Select and Grow the Best Varieties of All Time by Craig LeHoullier  (Amazon Link)  

On the Bookshelf:  Outdoor Kids in an Inside World by Steven Rinella (Amazon Link)

1,000 Hours Outdoors project website

Cal Newport's blog post: Whitman in the Knapsack...

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Monarch websites:  Monarch Watch, Journey North,
A book: Bees in Your Backyard by Olivia Messinger Carril and Joseph S. Wilson (Amazon Link))

 Carol's Rabbit hole:  What Do We Know About Crop Circles by Ben Hubbard. (Amazon Link) and  Circular Evidence: A Detailed Investigation of the Flattened Swirled Crops Phenomenon by Pat Delgado and Colin Andrews

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Dee and Carol talk about self-sowing flowers, green bean success, saving seeds and homesteading.

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Links:   

The Okies for Monarchs Central Oklahoma wildflower seed from Johnston Seed Company

Celosia seeds from Floret Flowers

Dee's zinnia video on Instagram

Zinnias Oklahoma series from Johnny's Selected Seeds

Provider green beans from Botanical Interests (affiliate link)

Carol's Green Bean story   

On the Bookshelf:   The First-Time Homesteader: A Complete Beginner’s Guide to Starting and Loving Your New Homestead by Jessica Soward.  (Amazon Link) and check out her other book: The First-Time Gardener: Growing Vegetables.  (Amazon Link)

Funk Farm Miniature Herefords on Facebook and Instagram

Rabbit Holes:  Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street, and their podcast,  Milk Street Radio with an  episode on Julia Child. 

The Mayfair Bookshop: A Novel of Nancy Mitford and the Pursuit of Happiness by Eliza Knight and Heywood Hill Bookshop (a real place!) plus two more books:  Garden Stories, edited by  Diane Secker Tesdell and  Stories of Trees, Woods, and the Forest, edited by Fiona Stafford.   

Flylady, to tame the chaos.

Central Oklahoma Daylily Society, plant sale September 10th! If you live in the area, Dee will have some of her daylilies in the sale.

Happy Birthday, Dee!

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Carol and Dee talk about flowers that bloom in the fall, enriching your soil with cover crops,  a book on color in the garden, composting, and more in this week's episode.

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Links:   

Acres Abloom on Instagram and their website

Dee's going to make elderberry syrup.

Carol's Green Bean Story on her blog
Dee's blog post about fall bulbs

 Barnardia japonica (Japanese Jacinth) for sale from Hayefield [15 Seeds]   

The Elizabeth Lawrence Houses and Garden in Charlotte, NC

Carol's Persian Violet  Instagram.   

Blackhawks Big Bluestem Grass, Andropogon | American Meadows

Botanical Interests has a nice article on cover crops (affiliate link)

On the Bookshelf:  The Gardener’s Palette by RHS and Jo Thompson (Amazon link)

And we still love The Chef's Garden by Farmer Lee Jones (Amazon link)

 Dirt:  Gardeners' World’s Monty Don blasts show’s ‘gardening mafia’

 Links for Dee's Rabbit Hole on the JS bioreactor for composting

 Link to a manual on how to build one, an article about it.  Also, Bioreactor - Regeneration International

Gert Schley, was the charming German gardener on Gardener's World, Episode 23 who wowed us with his Somerset gardening smock.  Carol discovered his connection to Haddon Wood.

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Dee and Carol talk about crevice gardens, fall-sown vegetables, flowering houseplants and more in this week's episode.

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Links!

Are Mums Perennials in Family Handyman

Happy Frog Soil Conditioner used by Dee

Margaret Roach's article in the New York Times about crevice gardens.
The Crevice Garden: How to Make the Perfect Home for Plants From Rocky Places, by Paul Spriggs and Kenton Seth

RHS Wisley crevice gardens

North American Rock Garden Society

Botanical Interests article : How to Plan your Fall Vegetable Garden (affiliate link)
Carol's favorite French Breakfast radishes at Botanical Interests (affiliate link)

On the Bookshelf:

Bloom: The Secret of Growing Flowering Houseplants year-round,  by Lisa Eldred Steinkopf, The House Plant Guru.  (Also on Amazon)

Traffic slows down for wildflowers: Long Newnton Parish Council using flowers to reduce speeding - BBC News

Another Book: Appointment with Venus by Jerrard Tickell

Spotted Lantern Fly Info from Purdue University

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Dee and Carol focus on English gardens this week as Dee talks about her recent trip to the Cotswolds.

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Atlas nitrile gloves, like Dee wears.
Disposable gloves Carol uses for weeding.

Iris histriodes 'Katharine Hodgkins' at Old House Gardens
Allium schubertii at Brent & Becky's Bulbs
Crocus tommasinianus 'Hummingbird' at John Scheeper's Bulbs

Our zinnias vs. dahlias podcast episode from last year . 

Carol's bloom day post for August
Dee's bloom day post for August

Smart Pots

On the Bookshelf:  Botanical Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland by Lisa Schneidau (Amazon Link).  (Carol listened to the audio book.)

Also, Woodland Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland by Lisa Schneidau (Feb 1, 2021) (Amazon Link) and  River Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland by Lisa Schneidau (Amazon Link) (Coming out October 1)

Lisa Schneidau is a British author and storyteller, visit her website.

 Dirt:  Tower of London Wildflower Superbloom for the Queen’s Platinum jubilee, plus The Queen's Green Canopy project.

Dame Miriam Louise Rothschild was the entomologist we couldn't remember! 

 Peacock Neon Purple Phlox paniculata

Sunflower Houses by Sharon Lovejoy (out of print!)

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Dee and Carol talk about hidden lilies, some All-America Selection vegetables, monarchs, and more in this week's episode.

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Hidden Lilies, Curcuma alismatifolia 
Dee's Instagram pics of these lilies - here and here 

Newly announced All-America Selections winners for 2023

Pepper cayenne Wildcat F1
Watermelon Rubyfirm F1

Also, shout out for the 2022 All-America tomato, Tomato Purple Zebra F1                                        (National Winner) and Begonia Viking Explorer Rose on Green F1   (And on Carol's Instagram)

 On the bookshelf:   Green Kitchen: Quick & Slow: Joyful Vegetarian Recipes for Quick Weeknight Fixes and Slow Weekend Meals by  David Frenkiel  (Author), Luise Vindahl  (Author) (Amazon Link)   Check out the authors' blog, Green Kitchen Stories

Updates on Monarchs     Daily briefing: Monarch butterflies are an endangered species and

Monarchs | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

The Language of Butterflies by Wendy Williams (Amazon Link)

More on Gladys Taber - Friend of Gladys Taber

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Dee and Carol discuss Cannas, the wisdom of doing nothing sometimes, and more on this week's podcast.

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Tropicanna Black Canna

Article on growing cannas

Nolobait

On the Bookshelf: Vegetable Literacy: Exploring the Affinities and History of the Vegetable Families, With 300 Recipes by Deborah Madison  (Amazon link)   

Other books referenced:
The  Chef's Garden by Farmer Lee Jones (Amazon link)

Tropical Plants and How to Love Them by Marianne Willburn (Amazon link)

Bringing Nature Home by Doug Tallamy (Amazon link)

Ring of Forests around the top of the world Boreal Forests of the Circumpolar World | SpringerLink 

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