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Dee and Carol are back to talk about impatiens, quick wins in the vegetable garden, a new book on cut flowers and several other topics, planned and unplanned.

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Flowers: National Garden Bureau has declared it to be the Year of the Impatien.

On the Bookshelf: The Beginner’s Cut Flower Garden: Grow, Nourish, and Create Bliss Year-Round, by Elizabeth Brown with photos by Lindsay Fairchild (Amazon Link).

Dirt: Burp Your House.

Garden to Visit: Tucson Botanical Gardens

Rabbit Holes:

Bertha Damon, a Lost Lady of Garden Writing.

The series of books about Mrs. Pollifax, CIA spy!

Baba Marta Day, celebrated on March 1 in Bulgaria.

Also Marce Catlett: The Force of a Story by Wendell Berry? (Amazon Link)

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Dee and Carol talk about all kinds of sedums, ask about growing weird vegetable varieties, and all the other usual topics.

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Flowers: It’s the Year of the Sedum, per the National Garden Bureau.

On the Bookshelf: Gardenista: The Low-Impact Garden: A Guide to Creating Sustainable Outdoor Spaces by Kendra Wilson with the editors of Gardenista, Photographs by Caitlin Atkinson (Amazon)

Dirt: Prickle Free Plants

A Garden to Visit: Mission Garden in Tucson, Arizona.

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Dee and Carol talk about winter aconites, growing parsley, a book of nature-related essays and more.

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Insect of the week: Endangered insects like these in Indiana and the American Burying Beetle in Oklahoma.

Flowers: Winter Aconites, Eranthis hyemalis

More info about these early spring flowers on Old House Gardens

Vegetables: Parsley, Petroselinum crispum

Featured by Matt Mattus in American Gardener, Jan/Feb 2026, the magazine of the American Horticultural Society

Johnny’s Seeds has several varieties of parsley.

On the Bookshelf: The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year, by Margaret Renkl. (Amazon link)

Dirt: Don’t smell the roses… go local, go organic. Check lists on Slowflowers.com to find a florist in your area who is more likely to have pesticide-free flowers and maybe consider something other than roses for Valentine’s Day.

Rabbit Holes: Ann Leighton, the latest Lost Lady of Garden Writing.

A Garden to Visit: Garfield Park Conservatory.

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