Super Sunday Gardening Episode
Season 7, Episode 11, February 12, 2025
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Dee and I got together on Sunday afternoon to chat about how new flower varieties come to market, discuss whether or not you should grow your own pepper and tomato plants from seeds, dish a bit of dirt about blue bees, and gush over a book about historic and heirloom flowers.
There aren’t a lot of links this week but keep reading for some tidbits about this episode.
We started by answering several questions sent to us by listeners last week. The answer to one of those questions is to listen to this old episode about cottage gardens. To hear the question, listen to our current episode.
If you want to know more about tissue culture, we found one article that tells how expensive it is to set up a tissue culture lab. We will not be setting up tissue culture labs.
Of course we have a link to the book we talked about On the Bookshelf: Restoring American Gardens: An Encyclopedia of Heirloom Ornamental Plants, 1640-1940, by Denise Wiles Adams (Amazon). We both bought good used copies long ago. Dee suggestsed checking eBay for old books; I like to use Bookfinder, which searches eBay and other sites for copies.
For our dirt, Dee found an article about a new blue bee found in Texas. She says they are also in Oklahoma.
Down in our rabbit holes, I talked about Dr. Cynthia Westcott, PhD, a Lost Lady of Garden Writing who led me to several other lost ladies. More later on those.
In the meantime, we visited about how 2025 is the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birthday, so we expect to hear more about her all year. Oops, we both pre-ordered Jane Austen’s Garden: A Botanical Tour of the Classic Novels, by Molly Williams, illustrations by Jessica Roux, which comes out March 11. Of course, we’ll give it a full review once we have our copies. I also checked out Jane Austen at Home by Lucy Worsley from my library.
And then at the end of the podcast, Dee’s MacBook decided “no more” and died. She thinks Masha, her cat, did something to the power cord. We were almost done anyway, so I finished the episode up by myself. You’ll have to listen to find out what garden commission I gave Dee for the week! She’s going to be busy!
And that’s another episode!
Oh, wait! Did you want to see my Lego Botanical Garden?
That’s really it for this week, unless you want to weigh in on whether or not I should buy a BookNook greenhouse kit. I built one last winter, but maybe I need another one? Listen to find out why Dee says I do.
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