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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)

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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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Carol and Dee talk about phenology, no-dig gardening, a new book on gardens in literature and more.

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Carol’s garden fairies wrote a blog post and Carol built Lego mini bonsai trees.

Insects of the week:

Wooly worms

Assassin bug. Wheel bug. Ugh bug. Info from the Missouri Dept. of Conservation

Flowers:

Phenology

Indiana Phenology and National Phenology Network, b

Vegetables:

Ruth Stout’s How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back. (1955) (Amazon)

Patricia Lanza’s Lasagna Gardening (Amazon)

Just say no to cardboard: the science from the garden professors

On the Bookshelf:

The Literary Garden: Imaginary Gardens of Writers and Poets by Sandra Lawrence, illustrations by Lucille Clerc (Amazon)

Dirt:

Cramscaping

Rabbit Holes:

A few books:

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce (Amazon)

Peace Like a River by Leif Enger (Amazon)

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Dee and Carol talk about snapdragons, giant vegetables, a new book on perennials and several other topics!

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Insect of the Week:

Boxelder bugs and milkweed bugs

Flowers:

Snapdragons, Antirrhinum majus

All-America Selections of snapdragons

Vegetables:

Growing giant vegetables

Pumpkinista in Maine

On the Bookshelf:

Essential Guide to Perennial Gardening from American Horticultural Society (Amazon link)

Dirt:

Carol’s blog post “What you do when the first frost of fall arrives tells us a lot about how you garden, and Gardening is good for you, from Martha Stewart

Rabbit Holes:

Dee: Golden kiwis. Can we grow them?

Carol: Catharine Osgood Foster, Lost Lady of Garden Writing

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Dee and Carol turn their attention toward fall in the garden and discuss what to put in fall containers, lettuce they love to grow, a new book by Jacqueline van der Kloet, tracking invasive plants, and more.

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Insect of the Week:

Garden spiders

Flowers:

Refreshing your fall pots

Sarah Raven’s method for planting containers

Vegetables:

Lettuce worth growing, including:

Salanova® Green Butter Salanova® Lettuce

Black-seeded Simpson

Great Lakes 118, which is an heirloom variety

On the Bookshelf:

My Garden: A Year of Design and Experimentation by Jacqueline Van Der Kloet (Amazon Link)

Dirt:

Midwest Invasive Plant Network’s Public Gardens as Sentinels Against Invasive Plants

Rabbit Holes:

Dee: How do they make pelleted seed? (YouTube)

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Dee and Carol wrap up their project to garden through the alphabet with the letter Z!

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Dee’s virtual Fit walk took her to Yew trees of Borrowdale

Flowers:

Zephyranthes, commonly called rain lilies. Southern Bulb Company has them for sale.

Zinnias

Zantedeschia, commonly called Calla Lily

Vegetables:

Zucchini - summer squash.

Zebra-striped tomatoes - Purple Zebra F1 is an All-America Selection

Zingiber officinale - Ginger How to grow info from Old Farmer’s Almanac

On the Bookshelf:

The Essential Guide to Bulbs: Grow a Bounty of Beautiful Bulbs in Gardens and Containers by Jenny Rose Carey (TimberPress) (Amazon Link)

Dirt:

Light Pollution. Check out Dark Sky website and The Garden Goes Dark by Phyllis Graces

Rabbit Holes:

Zombie game link? DEE CHECK THIS IS THE RIGHT ONE

Louise B. Mansfield… the latest lost lady of garden writing.

The Night Gardener by Jonathon Auxier (2015)

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Dee and Carol have reached the letter Y as they near the end of the alphabet.

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Flowers:

Yarrow - Achillea millefolium. Growing info from Proven Winners. Herb info from the Old Farmer’s Almanac

Yews. Info on Yew Trees in the UK from the Woodland trust

Vegetables:

Yams

Yellow tomatoes - less acidic - I always try to include a yellow variety in my garden, but this year, just some yellow cherry tomatoes…

Yard Long Beans - Johnny’s has several varieties

Yerba mate: Ilex paraguariensis Info on growing from The Spruce

On the Bookshelf:

Your Asian Veggie Patch by Connie Cao (A guide to growing and cooking delicious Asian vegetables, herbs and fruits) Murdoch Books, October 8, 2025 (Amazon Link)

Dirt:

Clover the Sunflower smashes the world record: Guiness World Records

Rabbit Holes:

Helen Morgenthau Fox, a Lost Lady of Garden Writing

Garden Commissions:

Dee’s next big project, rose removal.

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