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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 plants with a species name of virginina, a book on romantic garden and more in this week's episode.

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Flowers:

Tradescantia virginiana (Virginia Spiderwort). ‘Sweet Kate’ has lime-green foliage.

Physostegia virginiana (Obedient Plant) Dee’s reel on this flower.

Persicaria virginiana (Virginia Knotweed) Trees and shrubs

Juniperus virginiana (Eastern Redcedar)

Magnolia virginiana (Sweetbay Magnolia)

Rosa virginiana (Virginia Rose)

Vegetables:

American persimmon, Diospyros virginiana

On the Bookshelf:

The New Romantic Garden by Jo Thompson (Amazon Link). Jo’s Substack is The Gardening Mind.

Dirt:

Prue’s Great Garden Plot

Carol’s blog post from last week.

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Carol’s Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day post

Ruth Stout, a Lost Lady of Garden Writing.

Flowers:

Gardening with vulgare flowers

Leucantheum vulgare - Ox-eye daises

Syringa vulgaris - Common lilac

Aquilegia vulgaris - Columbine

Primula vulgaris - Primroses.

Silene vulgaris - Bladder Campion.

Filipendual vulgaris - Dropwort.

Vegetables:

Growing with vulgare in the vegetable garden.

Some herbs:

Origanum vulgare - oregano

Thymus vulgare - common thyme

Foeniculum vulgare - fennel

Tanacetum vulgare - Tansy - don’t grow it.

Beta vulgaris - beets - what’s new in the beet world? There’s an AAS Winner from 2015 - Avalanche, which is white. The history of beets.

On the Bookshelf:

Love Letter to a Garden by Debbie Millman (Amazon Link)

Thank you to TimberPress for review copies!

Dirt:

Screaming Plants:

Rabbit Holes:

The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. by Sandra Gulland

The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, Vol 1 by Beth Brower.

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