The Gardenangelists: Flowers, Veggies, and All the Best Dirt

Send us a text [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/225480/open_sms] Dee and Carol talk about plants with a species name of virginina, a book on romantic garden and more in this week's episode. For more info, check out our newsletter [https://thegardenangelists.substack.com/p/yes-virginia-there-is-a-garden]! To watch this week’s episode on YouTube, click here [https://youtu.be/3WZhaB7sHoY]. Flowers: Tradescantia virginiana (Virginia Spiderwort). ‘Sweet Kate’ has lime-green foliage. Physostegia virginiana (Obedient Plant) Dee’s reel on this flower.  Persicaria virginiana (Virginia Knotweed) Trees and shrubs Juniperus virginiana (Eastern Redcedar)  Magnolia virginiana (Sweetbay Magnolia)  Rosa virginiana (Virginia Rose)  Vegetables: American persimmon [https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/diospyros-virginiana/], Diospyros virginiana On the Bookshelf: The New Romantic Garden [https://bookshop.org/a/601/9780847846757] by Jo Thompson (Amazon Link [https://amzn.to/4qeIBUN]). Jo’s Substack is The Gardening Mind [https://jothompson.substack.com/]. Dirt: Prue’s Great Garden Plot [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15052234/] Carol’s blog post [https://caroljmichel.com/asking-for-gardening-tips/] from last week.  Check out our affiliate links here [https://thegardenangelists.substack.com/p/how-to-support-us]. We appreciate all our listeners and readers. Have a great week everyone! For more info, check out our Substack newsletter.  Support the show [https://www.paypal.me/dbaRedDirtRamblings] On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener [https://www.instagram.com/indygardener/], Dee: RedDirtRamblings [https://www.instagram.com/reddirtramblings/], Our podcast: TheGardenangelists [https://www.instagram.com/thegardenangelists/]. On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club [https://www.facebook.com/groups/583915635770216]. On YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvb-TIXzJX5Ug7q1zlVUhuQ].

Send us a text [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/225480/open_sms] To watch this episode on: click here [https://youtu.be/b-3kGEQgDrM] For more info, check out our newslette [https://open.substack.com/pub/thegardenangelists/p/gardening-with-vulgare?r=dnpde&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true]r Carol’s  Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day post [https://caroljmichel.com/garden-bloggers-bloom-day-october-2025/] Ruth Stout [https://lostladiesofgardenwriting.substack.com/p/ruth-stout], a Lost Lady of Garden Writing. Flowers: Gardening with vulgare flowers Leucantheum vulgare - Ox-eye daises Syringa vulgaris - Common lilac  Aquilegia vulgaris [https://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?taxonid=286072] - Columbine Primula vulgaris [https://www.selectseeds.com/products/wild-primrose-seeds?_pos=12&_sid=2294c6ed8&_ss=r] - Primroses.  Silene vulgaris [https://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/plantfinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?taxonid=279058] - Bladder Campion.  Filipendual vulgaris [https://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?taxonid=286347] - Dropwort.  Vegetables: Growing with vulgare in the vegetable garden. Some herbs: Origanum vulgare - oregano Thymus vulgare - common thyme Foeniculum vulgare - fennel Tanacetum vulgare [https://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/plantfinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?taxonid=277250] - Tansy - don’t grow it.  Beta vulgaris - beets - what’s new in the beet world? There’s an AAS Winner [https://all-americaselections.org/product/beet-avalanche/] from 2015 - Avalanche, which is white. The history of beets [https://www.americanhistory.si.edu/explore/stories/beauty-and-beets].  On the Bookshelf: Love Letter to a Garden [https://bookshop.org/a/601/9781643264981] by Debbie Millman (Amazon Link [https://amzn.to/4hiVp8y]) Thank you to TimberPress for review copies! Dirt: Screaming Plants [https://www.sciencealert.com/plants-really-do-scream-out-loud-we-just-never-heard-it-until-now]:  Rabbit Holes: The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. [https://amzn.to/3WKQoMl] by Sandra Gulland The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, Vol 1 [https://bookshop.org/a/601/9780998063614] by Beth Brower.  Check out our affiliate links here [https://thegardenangelists.substack.com/p/how-to-support-us]. We appreciate all our listeners and readers. Have a great week everyone! Support the show [https://www.paypal.me/dbaRedDirtRamblings] On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener [https://www.instagram.com/indygardener/], Dee: RedDirtRamblings [https://www.instagram.com/reddirtramblings/], Our podcast: TheGardenangelists [https://www.instagram.com/thegardenangelists/]. On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club [https://www.facebook.com/groups/583915635770216]. On YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvb-TIXzJX5Ug7q1zlVUhuQ].

Send us a text [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/225480/open_sms] Carol and Dee talk about phenology, no-dig gardening, a new book on gardens in literature and more. For more details, check out our weekly newsletter. To watch this week’s episode, click here [https://youtu.be/aC4nJZoWDkE]. Carol’s garden fairies wrote a blog post [https://caroljmichel.com/garden-fairies-breathe-a-sigh-of-relief/] and Carol built Lego mini bonsai trees [https://amzn.to/47mNdR2].  Insects of the week: Wooly worms [https://www.almanac.com/woolly-bear-caterpillars-and-weather-prediction] Assassin bug. Wheel bug. Ugh bug. Info from the Missouri Dept. of Conservation [https://mdc.mo.gov/discover-nature/field-guide/wheel-bug] Flowers: Phenology Indiana Phenology [https://www.indianaphenology.org/] and National Phenology Network [https://mynpn.usanpn.org/npnapps/species], b Vegetables: Ruth Stout’s How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back [https://bookshop.org/a/601/9781946963512]. (1955) (Amazon [https://amzn.to/4n14zrc]) Patricia Lanza’s Lasagna Gardening [https://bookshop.org/a/601/9780875969626] (Amazon [https://amzn.to/3KNhPlZ]) Just say no to cardboard: the science from the garden professor [https://gardenprofessors.com/the-cardboard-controversy/]s On the Bookshelf: The Literary Garden: Imaginary Gardens of Writers and Poets [https://bookshop.org/a/601/9781836002208] by Sandra Lawrence, illustrations by Lucille Clerc (Amazon [https://amzn.to/46OZBJB]) Dirt: Cramscaping [https://www.gardenista.com/posts/garden-decoder-what-is-cramscaping/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email] Rabbit Holes: A few books:  The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce (Amazon [https://amzn.to/4q6dk6j]) Peace Like a River [https://bookshop.org/a/601/9780802139252] by Leif Enger (Amazon [https://amzn.to/4oBuXth]) Check out our affiliate links here [https://thegardenangelists.substack.com/p/how-to-support-us]. We appreciate all our listeners and readers. Have a great week! Support the show [https://www.paypal.me/dbaRedDirtRamblings] On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener [https://www.instagram.com/indygardener/], Dee: RedDirtRamblings [https://www.instagram.com/reddirtramblings/], Our podcast: TheGardenangelists [https://www.instagram.com/thegardenangelists/]. On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club [https://www.facebook.com/groups/583915635770216]. On YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvb-TIXzJX5Ug7q1zlVUhuQ].

Send us a text [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/225480/open_sms] Dee and Carol talk about snapdragons, giant vegetables, a new book on perennials and several other topics! For more information, check out our newsletter. To watch this episode on YouTube, click here [https://youtu.be/mEy9ekTxGJk] Insect of the Week: Boxelder bugs and milkweed bugs [https://www.whatsthatbug.com/milkweed-bug-vs-boxelder-bug/] Flowers: Snapdragons, Antirrhinum majus [https://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?kempercode=a561] All-America Selections [https://all-americaselections.org/?s=snapdragon] of snapdragons Vegetables: Growing giant vegetables Pumpkinista in Maine [https://www.instagram.com/pumpkinista_maine/] On the Bookshelf: Essential Guide to Perennial Gardening from American Horticultural Society [https://bookshop.org/a/601/9780760392836] (Amazon link [https://amzn.to/4q0D4kw]) Dirt: Carol’s blog post “What you do when the first frost of fall arrives tells us a lot about how you garden [https://caroljmichel.substack.com/p/what-you-do-when-the-first-frost], and Gardening is good for you, from Martha Stewart [https://www.marthastewart.com/benefits-of-gardening-11767288] Rabbit Holes: Dee: Golden kiwis [https://www.zespri.com/en-US/blogdetail/green-vs-gold-kiwifruit]. Can we grow them? Carol: Catharine Osgood Foster [https://lostladiesofgardenwriting.substack.com/p/catharine-osgood-foster], Lost Lady of Garden Writing Check out our affiliate links here [https://thegardenangelists.substack.com/p/how-to-support-us]. We appreciate all our listeners and readers. Have a great week! Support the show [https://www.paypal.me/dbaRedDirtRamblings] On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener [https://www.instagram.com/indygardener/], Dee: RedDirtRamblings [https://www.instagram.com/reddirtramblings/], Our podcast: TheGardenangelists [https://www.instagram.com/thegardenangelists/]. On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club [https://www.facebook.com/groups/583915635770216]. On YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvb-TIXzJX5Ug7q1zlVUhuQ].

Send us a text [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/225480/open_sms]  Dee and Carol turn their attention toward fall in the garden and discuss what to put in fall containers, lettuce they love to grow, a new book by Jacqueline van der Kloet, tracking invasive plants, and more. For more information, check out our weekly newsletter [https://thegardenangelists.substack.com/p/lettuce-turn-our-gardens-toward-fall]. If you’d like to watch this podcast, click here [https://youtu.be/3jb-irpAq4A]. Insect of the Week: Garden spiders [https://hort.extension.wisc.edu/articles/garden-spiders/] Flowers:  Refreshing your fall pots Sarah Raven’s method for planting containers [https://www.inyourarea.co.uk/news/think-of-patio-plants-as-the-bride-the-bridesmaid-and-the-gatecrashe] Vegetables: Lettuce worth growing, including: Salanova® Green Butter Salanova® Lettuce [https://www.johnnyseeds.com/vegetables/lettuce/salanova-lettuce/salanova-green-butter-pelleted-lettuce-seed-3056JP.html] Black-seeded Simpson [https://www.botanicalinterests.com/products/black-seeded-simpson-leaf-lettuce-seeds?_pos=1&_psq=black+seeded+simp&_ss=e&_v=1.0] Great Lakes 118 [https://www.botanicalinterests.com/products/great-lakes-118-crisphead-lettuce-seeds], which is an heirloom variety On the Bookshelf: My Garden: A Year of Design and Experimentation [https://bookshop.org/a/601/9781643264561] by Jacqueline Van Der Kloet (Amazon Link [https://amzn.to/42IN8Va]) Dirt: Midwest Invasive Plant Network’s Public Gardens as Sentinels Against Invasive Plants [https://mipn.org/prevent-detect/pgsip/] Rabbit Holes: Dee: How do they make pelleted seed? (YouTube [https://youtu.be/P22K94t6Nrk?si=j8USUN3UEF0EPv6m]) Check out our affiliate links here [https://thegardenangelists.substack.com/p/how-to-support-us]. Support the show [https://www.paypal.me/dbaRedDirtRamblings] On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener [https://www.instagram.com/indygardener/], Dee: RedDirtRamblings [https://www.instagram.com/reddirtramblings/], Our podcast: TheGardenangelists [https://www.instagram.com/thegardenangelists/]. On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club [https://www.facebook.com/groups/583915635770216]. On YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvb-TIXzJX5Ug7q1zlVUhuQ].