Summertime Means Time to Enjoy Your Garden

Season 6, Episode 26, July 24, 2024

After our weekly updates and discussion of our favorites, Carol and I went on to our normal topics of night-blooming flowers, gooseberries, and more on this week's episode.

‘Kee’s Orange’ marigolds in my garden. These are winners.

But, first, our favorites. My favorite this week was my African marigolds. Although I like ‘Queen Sophia’ marigolds, an All-America Selection, I like ‘Kee’s Orange’ more. I’m much more into African marigolds than any other kind.

Carol’s favorite were her salvias which have prolifically bloomed all summer. You know I love salvias too. I wrote an extensive blog post about mine last summer. They are fabulous performers in containers.

Carol’s favorite this week is her salvias, including ‘Saucy Red.’

(Carol says she would like to apologize for saying the chrysanthemum was Indiana’s first state flower. She meant carnation. I’d like to apologize for saying Queen Sophia was a petunia. Of course, it’s a marigold! Such is the nature of podcasting… we make mistakes, we leave them…)

We thought night-blooming flowers, most of which are all white, would be a fun topic. Here is Carol's old blog post about variegated evening primrose.

A container of white flowers Carol planted one year. It’s really pretty against the green expanse of lawn.

Then, we discussed our grandmothers and gooseberries. You can buy gooseberries from Stark Bros if you want to grow them. There are a few states where you still can’t grow them though. Listen to the podcast to hear why.

I read From Seed to Skillet: A Guide to Growing, Tending, Harvesting, and Cooking Up Fresh, Healthy Food to Share with People You Love, by by Jimmy Williams (Author), Susan Heeger (Author), Eric Staudenmaier (Photographer) (Amazon Link) for our bookshelf. I enjoyed it. You can only find used copies these days.

Our dirt was a teeny, tiny weed that everyone thought was extinct. False Mermaid Weed Spotted, via Smithsonian, lets us know it is not. Weeds have superpowers so I’m not surprised.

My rabbit hole involved finding a new George Jones HOJ Familiar Flowers plates which led me to investigate them more. I’m in the middle of decorating my office ao I’ve been creating a gallery wall that needs some plates. Sure it did!

My new George Jones HOJ Familiar Flowers plate. These are hellebores.

Carol did more research on another lost garden lady. She wrote a blog post, Leaning Toward Autumn, about a book illustrated by Anne Ophelia Dowden.

That’s all I have for this week. Enjoy this cooler weather before it’s gone.

As always, the best way to support our podcast is to tell your friends about us.

For other ways to support us…

Our Affiliates are listed below. (Linking to them to make a purchase earns us a small commission, and it costs you nothing extra!)

• Botanical Interests

• Farmers Defense

• Etsy

• Territorial Seeds

• True Leaf Market

• Eden Bros

• Nature Hills Nursery 

• Insect Shield. The discount affiliate link is DEENASHRDR.

You can also support us via a monthly subscription for as little as $3, or send a one-time donation through Paypal. Thanks to everyone who has already done so!

Book and Amazon links are also affiliate links.
Please email us anytime at TheGardenangelists@gmail.com 
For more info on Carol visit her website.  Visit her blog, May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee, visit her blog, Red Dirt Ramblings.

On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings.

Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube. All our episodes are now available to listen to on YouTube.