Plants Are Amazing, and a Few Other Gardening Topics
Season 6, Episode 3, November 29, 2023
Are you amazed at the change of seasons? We kind of were this week (that’s the link to listen early!) after Thanksgiving. But, in spite of freezing rain, sleet, and a touch of frost, Carol and I still managed to get a few garden things done.
I received my paperwhites and amaryllis bulbs from Brent and Becky's Bulbs. In celebration, I made a few Instagram videos about non-stinky paperwhites and how to plant them. It’s so easy! Look for more videos on planting amaryllis, too. I love my greenhouse when winter winds howl.
If you don’t want to watch a video, here’s my blog post on paperwhites. Actually, there are several.
Carol’s favorite things were her Thanksgiving cacti, and she’s got a line on a true Christmas cactus. She’s very excited. Maybe she’ll share with her Oklahoma friend? Here’s her blog post about Thanksgiving and Christmas cacti.
Then, we chatted this week about thermogenic flowers, which adapt to raise the heat around them in winter for pollinators. Plants are amazing! If you’d like to read more about these kinds of plants after listening, check out this article from Science Direct.
By the way, I said lilies aren’t true bulbs, but they are. Oops. Also, one of our quotes led us to talk about Anne Wareham’s blog post about pleasure on Garden Rant. It’s worth a read. You know what’s pleasurable? Smelling sweet peas for the first time.
Our vegetable topic was a new book! Vegetable Gardening Made Easy: Simple Tips & Tricks to Grow Your Best Garden Ever, By Resh Gala (Amazon Link.) She also owns 100 Tomatoes LLC which installs turnkey, raised-bed vegetable gardens in New Jersey.
On the bookshelf, I reviewed Summer Kitchens: Recipes and Reminiscences from Every Corner of Ukraine by Olia Hercules (Amazon Link).
The Linnaeus flower clock was our dirt. Listen to our discussion to learn more.
Carol’s rabbit hole was more fun than mine. She talked about a book she just finished: A Memory of Violets: A Novel of London's Flower Sellers, by Hazel Gaynor (Amazon Link.) I’m still trying to figure out which foods and medicines are prohibited because of Alpha Gal Syndrome.
Most of our quotes this week came from Four Seasons in Rome, by Anthony Doerr. (Amazon Link.) I read it years ago, and Carol just read it. We both think it is very good.
Carol also read No Two Persons by Erica Bauermeister (Amazon Link.) The idea of the book is that no two readers read the same book, which got us talking about how no two gardeners see the same garden.
We both do more reading when we’re not out in the garden much!
My garden commission is to plant my outdoor bulbs next week, and I shared my favorite bulb auger. It would make a great pre-Christmas gift, maybe for yourself? Carol said she was going to help her niece with a new houseplant. Otherwise, she makes no promises.
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