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Dee and Carol talk about sound in the garden, inspired by a new book.
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Fireflies or Lightning Bugs. Such a loved little beetle, it has its own website.
Flowers:
Listen to your garden to hear how healthy it is:
Vegetables:
You better hear the hum of bees because you need pollination for so many crops, including squash and cucumbers. 
On the Bookshelf:
Garden Voices: A Year of Gardeners’ Writing, Edited by Claire Masset (Amazon)
Dirt:
Control Mosquitoes with a Mosquito Bucket. (News Report)  
Rabbit Holes:
Carol revisited Elizabeth Lawrence to write about her as the latest Lost Lady of Garden Writing.
A Garden to Visit:
Longwood Gardens - Famous for their fountains.  
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Dee and Carol talk about how to fix the lulls in your garden, or not, plus a new book on garden design and more.
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Salvia ‘Blue by You’, Proven Winners
Shiny Blue Beetles. 
On the Bookshelf:
The New Garden Designer’s Handbook: How to Design Useful Gardens from Start to Finish, by Daryl Beyers, Illustrations by Elara Tanguy
Dirt:
Poison Hemlock On Instagram,  Instagram
Rabbit Holes:
Land by Maggie O’Farrell
Garden to Visit: 
Monticello - Thomas Jefferson’s Garden.
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Carol and Dee talk about British awarding winning plants, vegetable gardens and more.
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Flowers:
Winning flowers at Chelsea Flower Show. More info  RHS site
Hosta ‘Red Ninja’ if you want to buy it. 
All-America Selections! 
Vegetables:
The classic British vegetable garden… what do they grow:
On the Bookshelf:
My Gardening Life by Mary Berry (Amazon)
Mary Berry’s Country House Secret on PBS
Dirt: 
The tree growing grandmother from Yorkshire. Via Instagram. Also, this article
Rabbit Holes:
Louise Riotte, the last Lost Lady of Garden Writing. A Garden to Visit:
A Garden to Visit:
Sissinghurst
Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History: The Quest to Restore a Working Farm at Vita Sackville-West’s Legendary Garden by Adam Nicolson (Amazon)
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Dee and Carol discuss all things bananas in the garden.
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Question of the Week:
Why does my plant need potassium?  Info from the University of Minnesota:
Insect of the Week
Banana slugs, info from National Park Service
Flowers:
Growing bananas in the flower garden. Tropical Plants and How to Love Them, by Marianne Wilburn.
Everything you ever wanted to know about bananas from  Brittanica
Vegetables:
High Potassium Veggies info from My Food Data
On the Bookshelf:
Plant by Number: Design your Dream Garden With 24, Step-by-Step Planting Plans by Stacy Tornio (Amazon)(Publishes on May 26. Thank you to Timberpress for review copies)
Dirt:
Banana Peel Water for fertilizer? No. 
Rabbit Holes:
Dee: Roses and the Rose Chat podcast
Carol:  old but good gardening books including Rose Recipes from Olden Times by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde and An Island Garden by Celia Thaxter 
A Garden to Visit:
Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens in Pittsburgh.
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Dee and Carol talk all things herbal this week.
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Question of the Week:
What herbs grow well with roses?  
Insect of the Week:
Mayflies, Good info from Birds & Blooms
Flowers:
Herbs to grow for the flowers
More info from Epic Gardening
Vegetables:
Herbs for the vegetable garden
Basil ‘Monteverde’ from PanAmerican Seed, for sale from Burpee.
What makes an herb good for the vegetable garden?
On the Bookshelf:
Carol recently bought Time Traveller’s Herbal: Stories and recipes from the historical apothecary cabinet by Amanda Edminston, an herbal storyteller (Amazon link) She’s on Instagram.
She has another book coming out on June 30th:  Collected Curiosities: more stories and recipes from the historical apothecary cabinet. (Amazon link)
Dirt:
National Herb Week - May 7th - 13th - Always the week leading up to Mother’s Day, per the International Herb Association. 
The Herb Society of America, and why you might want to join it. 
Rabbit Holes: 
Dee: ‘Kazanlik’ rose from Antique Rose Emporium
Carol: Anthropomorphism, where animals are given human characteristics…  Watership Down by Richard Adams,  Shady Hollow by Juneau Black, the new movie, The Sheep Detective, which is based on the book, Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann.  Beanstack app for reading challenges.
Also the latest lost lady Elda Haring, who was all about growing plants from seed.
A Garden to Visit:
The Chelsea Physic Garden (visited by Dee) and  Florilegium Society
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