HNY, Back to the Garden
Season 6, Episode 7, January 3, 2024
Carol and I didn’t speak for two weeks, so we were excited to get together and discuss peach fuzz-colored flowers, a new book on growing vegetables, books on backyard birds, the third winter special from Gardeners’ World, and so much more.
First off, Carol's night-blooming cereus is now famous. It appeared in the Washington Post. A special thank you to the National Garden Bureau for recommending it!
After talking rhapsodically about my amaryllises, my favorite things this week, we settled down into peach fuzz-colored flowers. Peach fuzz is the Pantone color of the year. We know you were dying to know that. Digitalis Arctic Fox Rose and Little Lucky Peach Glow Lantana are two flowers that epitomize this lemony-pink shade. Listen to the podcast for even more!
For our vegetable topic, we reviewed 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 our bookshelves, we’re thinking of the birds.
Some of the bird books on our shelves include:
The Birds of Indiana (Amazon Link)
How to Know the Birds by Ted Floyd (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)
Birds of Oklahoma Field Guide (Amazon Link.)
We’re so appreciative of Gardeners’ World’s winter specials because they lift our gardening spirits in the winter. Winter Special 3 is our dirt this week, but there are four in total. We had to find this episode on YouTube because it wasn’t on BritBox yet. The rose cane sculptures were made by Jenny Barnes, who is also on Instagram. Check out her Best Nine. Monty Don also cleaned his tools, which made me want to clean mine. I’ll need equipment from Lee Valley Tools to do so. I especially need to clean my clippers. They are dirty and gooey from sap.
Carol’s rabbit holes were another Lost Lady of Garden Writing, Adelma Grenier Simmons, and the herbs of the Nativity. Mine was still about Alpha-gal Syndrome, but this time I learned about chemical compounds in medication. To relate it to gardening, Biote bioidentical hormones are made from yams, believe it or not. Also, vegan fillers like steric acid are often made from palm oil. Isn’t that interesting?
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I began watching the winter special on YouTube, but now it’s blocked. ☺️ What is the oil that Monty Don uses on his tools?