What's the Answer to Every Gardening Question?
Season 5, Episode 49, October 17, 2023
On this week’s episode, Carol and I dished about many things including native asters, planting your garden for foraging, a new houseplant book, a new-to-us sunscreen, and so much more. We’re both in the midst of fall garden decorating. I write that because we both bought some mums. They are more decorator pieces than permanent plantings.
Here are mine.
We both love asters, but before you add one or more to your garden, check out Mt. Cuba Center’s aster trials. They give you good info about which asters make great garden plants but don’t become bullies. I’m talking to you, Drummond’s aster!
You might also check out the Chicago Botanic Garden’s article, Native Asters Shine in the Garden. If this is all too much info, just listen to us. We can direct you to the best asters for Indiana and Oklahoma at least. I featured ‘Bluebird’ smooth aster in an Instagram reel last week.
We also love Marianne Willburn’s article series in The American Gardener published by the American Horticultural Society. You need to join the AHS to get the magazine. It’s worth it.
For our vegetable topic, we connected it to How to Forage for Wild Foods Without Dying: An absolute beginner’s guide to identifying 40 edible wild plants, by Ellen Zachos (Amazon link.) Listen to hear how.
On our bookshelf this week is Happy Plants, Happy You: A Plant-Care and Self-Care Guide for the Modern Houseplant Parent, by Kamili Bell Hill (Amazon link) which we both enjoyed. It’s really a good self-care book that also features indoor gardening. A cool new way to talk about houseplants.
While I was on a motorcycle trip last summer, my friend Tammy hooked me up with Supergoop sunscreen. It is one of the few sunscreens I can stand to wear. It is thin and goes on smoothly.
My rabbit hole was about Oklahoma Native Plants, by Connie Scothorn, ASLA, RLA with Brian Patric, ASLA, RLA. (Amazon link.) Knowing more Oklahoma native plants is so helpful. Carol’s is way down the mystery rabbit hole starting with Agatha Raisin mysteries. They are tons of fun. She then moved on to Dorothy L. Sayers.
Just in time for October, we also chatted about bats. Carol also wrote a blog post about bats.
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