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A Little Shakespeare for Your Garden

A Little Shakespeare for Your Garden

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


A Little Shakespeare for Your Garden

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

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Length:
29 minutes
Released:
Aug 19, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Dee and Carol discuss calamint, British names for common vegetables, and what to do in the vegetable garden now, all while channeling Williams Shakespeare!Some helpful links:Carol's Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day PostDee's Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day PostMillinnium Park and the Lurie Garden as described by Garden DesignCalamint available from Bluestone PerennialsVideo of pollinators on calamint and allium in Carol's gardenFor more info on vegetable names and info and the difference between American and British names, see Separated by a Common Language blog. Some of our favorite seed companies include:Botanical InterestsBurpeeJohn Scheepers Kitchen Garden SeedsJohnny's Selected SeedsRenee's Garden  On the Bookshelf:Shakespeare’s Gardens, by Jackie Bennett. Botanical Shakespeare: An Illustrated Compendium of All the Flowers, Fruits, Herbs, Trees, Seeds, and Grasses Cited by the World's Greatest Playwright, by Gerit Quealy  (Author), Sumie Hasegawa Collins (Illustrator), Helen Mirren (Foreword)Victoria Magazine, which always has some good gardening info.Email us at TheGardenangelists@gmail.com  For more info on Carol and her books, visit her website.For more info on Dee and her book, visit her website.(Some links are affiliate links. If you make a purchase after clicking on an affiliate link, we may receive a tiny commission. It does not affect the price you pay.)Support the showOn Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.On YouTube.
Released:
Aug 19, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Are you ready to be converted to living a gardening life? Each week, join Carol Michel and Dee Nash, both passionate gardeners, authors, and long-time bloggers, as they chat over the garden fence about flowers, veggies, and all the best dirt on gardening. Carol and Dee have the audacity to call themselves gardenangelists, evangelists for gardening, and want everyone to dig in the dirt, sow a few seeds, and enjoy the simple pleasures and even a few pitfalls of a gardening life. If you are ready to live a gardening life or already live one this is one podcast you don’t want to miss.