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Dee and Carol talk about growing fragrant flowers from seeds, growing onions and other alliums, a new book on organic vegetable gardening, and more. For complete show notes and more links, check out our Substack newsletter! Links: Flowers: John Scheepers' Kitchen Garden Seeds List of Fragrant Flowers from Seed. Veggies: 'Creme Brulee', an All-America Selection of shallots Article on how to grow leeks On the Bookshelf: The Backyard Homestead Guide to Growing Organic Food:  A Crop-by-Crop Reference for 62 Vegetables, Fruits, Nuts, and Herbs by Tanya Denckla Cobb. (Amazon Link) Dirt: Article about control ticks on deer Article about how lone star ticks find their prey Rabbit Holes: Carol:  Mrs. Edward Harding Dee:  What We Sow by Jennifer Jewell (Amazon Link) Our Affiliates (Linking to them to make a purchase earns us a small commission): Botanical Interests Farmers Defense Etsy Territorial Seeds True Leaf Market Eden Bros Nature Hills Nursery  Book and Amazon links are also affiliate links. Email us anytime at TheGardenangelists@gmail.com  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. Support the showOn Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists. On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club. On YouTube.

Dee and Carol talk about Verbenas, early spring leaf and root crops, a lovely book on hummingbirds, and more. For more information and more links, check out our Substack newsletter. Flowers: 'Bampton' seeds from Hayefield Native Verbenas:  Verbena hastata (American Blue Vervain) Verbena stricta (Hoary Vervain) Verbena halei (Texas Vervain) Veggies: Old episode on winter vs. summer radishes On the Bookshelf:   The Hummingbirds’ Gift: Wonder, Beauty, and Renewal on Wings by Sy Montgomery Dirt: GMO Tomato available to home gardeners.  Norfolk Healthy Products…   Book Authors Talk Gardening, sponsored by the National Garden Bureau on March 7th at  7pm  - a free event! Registration Link.    Rabbit Holes: Margaret Roach’s article/discussion with Don Tipping of siskiyou seeds.  Carol's Substack article about Kate L. Brewster. Carol's blog post about her plant labeling advice. Our Affiliates (Linking to them to make a purchase earns us a small commission): Botanical Interests Farmers Defense Etsy Territorial Seeds True Leaf Market Eden Bros Nature Hills Nursery  Book and Amazon links are also affiliate links. Email us anytime at TheGardenangelists@gmail.com  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. Support the showOn Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists. On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club. On YouTube.

Dee and Carol talk about the National Garden Bureau's Year of the Hosta, growing lettuce and peas, George Harrison's topiary garden, and more. For complete show notes and additional info, check out our Substack newsletter. Links: Espoma products, also on Amazon Flowers: National Garden Bureau's Year of the Hosta On the bookshelf: Mischievous Creatures: The Forgotten Sisters Who Transformed Early American Science by Catherine McNeur  (Amazon) Dirt:  George Harrison's Topiary Garden Rabbit Holes: Dorothy Giles, author of The Little Kitchen Garden Capote and the Swans on FX Our Affiliates (Linking to them to make a purchase earns us a small commission): Botanical Interests Farmers Defense Etsy Territorial Seeds True Leaf Market Eden Bros Nature Hills Nursery  Book and Amazon links are also affiliate links. Email us anytime at TheGardenangelists@gmail.com  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. Support the showOn Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists. On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club. On YouTube.

Dee and Carol talk about Buddleia, more seed catalogs, cicada events this year, and more on this week's episode For more information, more links, plus a video link, check out our Substack newsletter. Links: Flowers: National Garden Bureau's Year of the Buddleia Where is Buddleia invasive? Vegetables: Baker Creek Heirloom Seed John Scheepers Kitchen Garden Seeds On the Bookshelf:  Beautifully Said: Quotes by Remarkable Women and Girls Designed to Make You Think (Amazon link) Dirt: NPR article on big cicada brood emergence Rabbit Holes: Carol's blog post on tomato growing advice from 1926 Carol's substack newsletter article on Mrs. Francis King, a Lost Lady of Garden Writing Our Affiliates (Linking to them to make a purchase earns us a small commission): Botanical Interests Farmers Defense Etsy Territorial Seeds True Leaf Market Eden Bros Nature Hills Nursery  Book and Amazon links are also affiliate links. Email us anytime at TheGardenangelists@gmail.com  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. Support the showOn Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists. On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club. On YouTube.

Dee and Carol talk about NGB's Year of the Lily, two more seed catalogs, winter words and a host of other topics. For complete info, plus a video, check out our Substack newsletter. Links: Flowers: National Garden Bureau Year of the Lily North American Lily Society Carol’s article on types of lilies in Family Handyman Dee's blog post on lilies. Veggies: Dee's seed sleeves. Pinetree Garden Seeds Southern Exposure Seed Exchange On the Bookshelf:     The Wisdom of Flowers: Essential Life Lessons for Joy and Wellbeing by Liz Martin (Amazon) Dirt: Winter Words Our Affiliates (Linking to them to make a purchase earns us a small commission): Botanical Interests Farmers Defense Etsy Territorial Seeds True Leaf Market Eden Bros Nature Hills Nursery  Book and Amazon links are also affiliate links. Email us anytime at TheGardenangelists@gmail.com  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. Support the showOn Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists. On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club. On YouTube.

Dee and Carol talk about angelonia, more seed catalogs, inspiring botanists, and much more. For complete details and more links, check out our Substack newsletter! Flowers: National Garden Bureau's Year of the Angelonia Veggies: Burpee Seed Catalog Territorial Seed Catalog On the Bookshelf: Playing in the Dirt: 90 Devotions for Crazy Plant Ladies, by Dayspring (Amazon link) Dirt: Margaret Bradshaw in The Guardian Rabbit Holes: Clare Leighton and Wisdom from 1935 (Carol's blog post) and Planting garden bulbs is an act of faith (Dee's blog post) Four Hedges by Clare Leighton (also Amazon) Our Affiliates (Linking to them to make a purchase earns us a small commission): Botanical Interests Farmers Defense Etsy Territorial Seeds True Leaf Market Eden Bros Nature Hills Nursery  Book and Amazon links are also affiliate links. Email us anytime at TheGardenangelists@gmail.com  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. Support the showOn Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists. On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club. On YouTube.

Carol and Dee discussed African Violets, a couple of seed catalogs, a new book of garden projects and more on this week's episode. For more information and more links, check out our Substack newsletter! Links! Flowers: National Garden Bureau's Year of the African Violet Dee's blog post about African Violets Veggies: Select Seeds Johnny's Selected Seeds On the Bookshelf: Verdura:Living a Garden Life: 30 Projecs to Nurture Your Passion for Plants & find your Bliss by Perla Sofia Curbelo-Santiago (Amazon link) Rabbit Holes: Documentary on Netflix: You Are What You Eat. Wild Alaskan Seafood Vegan at Times, by Jessica Seinfeld  What We Sow by Jennifer Jewell (Amazon Link) Carol's starter list of month-by-month books Our Affiliates (Linking to them to make a purchase earns us a small commission): Botanical Interests Farmers Defense Etsy Territorial Seeds True Leaf Market Eden Bros Nature Hills Nursery  Book and Amazon links are also affiliate links. Email us anytime at TheGardenangelists@gmail.com  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. Sup Support the showOn Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists. On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club. On YouTube.

Dee and Carol talked about peach fuzz colored flowers, a new book on growing vegetables, books on birds, a Gardeners' World  winter special  and more. For more information, check out our Substack newsletter. A few links: Carol's night-blooming cereus in The Washington Post A few peach-colored flowers (more in our newsletter!) Digitalis Arctic Fox Rose Little Lucky Peach Glow Lantana  A new book on growing vegetables: Gardening Know How – The Complete Guide to Vegetable Gardening: Create, Cultivate, and Care for Your Perfect Edible Garden by  Editors of Gardening Know How  (Amazon Link)  On the bookshelf: The Birds of Indiana  (Amazon Link) The Birding Pro’s Birds of Oklahoma by Marc Parnell (Amazon Link) The Little Book of Backyard Bird Songs, by Andrea Pinnington (Amazon Link) Our Affiliates (Linking to them to make a purchase earns us a small commission): Botanical Interests Farmers Defense Etsy Territorial Seeds True Leaf Market Eden Bros Nature Hills Nursery  Book and Amazon links are also affiliate links. Email us anytime at TheGardenangelists@gmail.com  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. Support the showOn Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists. On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club. On YouTube.

Dee and Carol talk about Christmas plants other than poinsettias, veggies to bring for Christmas, a J.R.R. Tolkien book, mistletoe and more. For complete information, pictures, and more links, check out our Substack newsletter! Links: Carol's snowdrop reel on Instagram Dee's blog post on paperwhites that don't stink. Christmas plants other than poinsettias, by Dee Nash Daisy Thomson Abbott with advice  about poinsettias (from 1932!) The Homecoming: A Christmas Story Letters From Father Christmas by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Baillie Tolkien (Amazon link) Mistletoe Friend or Foe? Growing mistletoe from seed? Should you?  Carol’s FH article from last year. Rabbit Holes: Insect Shield Two Alpha Gals podcast episode Mildred V. Luedy, co-author of The Christmas Rose, 1948.   Our Affiliates (Linking to them to make a purchase earns us a small commission): Botanical Interests Farmers Defense Etsy Territorial Seeds True Leaf Market Eden Bros Nature Hills Nursery  Book and Amazon links are also affiliate links. Email us anytime at TheGardenangelists@gmail.com  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. Support the showOn Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists. On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club. On YouTube.

This week's episode has a bit of an orchid theme. For more information and links, check out our Substack newsletter and subscribe to get it delivered to your email inbox the day before the episode goes live. We include an early listen link! Flowers: National Garden Bureau has an excellent article as they wrap up Year of the Orchid The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean (Amazon)   Veggies: Homemade Vanilla Extract Buy a vanilla orchid from Logee's Greenhouse. On the Bookshelf: Orchid Muse: A History of Obsession in Fifteen Flowers by Erica Hannickel (Amazon) Dirt: Movie: A Haunting in Venice.  Based on Agatha Christie’s book,  Halloween Party (Amazon) Planting wheatgrass on December 13th Rabbit Holes:  A new Lost Lady of Garden Writing, Daisy Thomson Abbott Our Affiliates (Linking to them to make a purchase earns us a small commission): Botanical Interests Farmers Defense Etsy Territorial Seeds True Leaf Market Eden Bros Nature Hills Nursery  Book and Amazon links are also affiliate links. Email us anytime at TheGardenangelists@gmail.com  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. Support the showOn Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists. On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club. On YouTube.

Dee and Carol talk about cats and gardens. For more information and links, check out our Substack newsletter and subscribe to get it delivered to your email inbox the day before the episode goes live. We include an early listen link! Flowers: Catnip article from Univ. of Wisc. Extension Proven Winners  article about catmint Gardening Know How: Do I Have Catmint Or Catnip: Are Catnip And Catmint The Same Plant  Veggies: Be Chewy article on vegetables cats can eat Mr. Milo the Chonk on Instagram On the Bookshelf: Rhapsody in Green by Beverley Nichols. (Amazon link) Beverley Nichols’ Cat Book! Dirt: Cat Friendly houseplants  from Gardeners World  IG reel of Dee fixing up a houseplant that Masha had her way with!  Rabbit Holes: Zinnias at Basket of Flowers Farm Salisbury Organist Our Affiliates (Linking to them to make a purchase earns us a small commission): Botanical Interests Farmers Defense Etsy Territorial Seeds True Leaf Market Eden Bros Nature Hills Nursery -- NEW Book and Amazon links are also affiliate links. Email us anytime at TheGardenangelists@gmail.com  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. Support the showOn Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists. On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club. On YouTube.

Dee and Carol talk about thermogenic flowers, a new book about growing vegetables, a flower clock, and assorted other topics. For more information and more links, check out our Substack newsletter and subscribe to get it directly in your email inbox! Links: Brent and Becky's Bulbs Dee's Blog Post on Paperwhites Carols' Blog Post on Thanksgiving and Christmas Cacti Garden Rant's Blog Post about Pleasure Thermogenic Flowers on Science Direct Vegetables: Vegetable Gardening Made Easy: Simple Tips & Tricks to Grow Your Best Garden Ever, By Resh Gala  (Amazon Link)  and 100 Tomatoes LLC On the Bookshelf: Summer Kitchens: Recipes and Reminiscences from Every Corner of Ukraine by Olia Hercules (Amazon Link) Dirt: Linnaeus's Flower Clock Rabbit Holes: A Memory of Violets: A Novel of London's Flower Sellers, by Hazel Gaynor (Amazon Link) Our Affiliates (Linking to them to make a purchase earns us a small commission): Botanical Interests Farmers Defense Etsy Territorial Seeds True Leaf Market Eden Bros Nature Hills Nursery -- NEW Book and Amazon links are also affiliate links. Email us anytime at TheGardenangelists@gmail.com  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. Support the showOn Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists. On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club. On YouTube.