Springtime is Go Time in the Garden

Dee and Carol talk about salvia, growing potatoes, a new wild bee book, Smart Pots, and more on this week. 

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A few links:

Carol's  blog post about Spring Beauties
Dee's blog post about the Simpson wildfire that came to her neighborhood

Flowers:

So many salvias, including  Salvia nemorosa ' Color Spires Pink Dawn' from Proven Winners.   
Dummen Orange also has some great salvias like Salvia BODACIOUS Hummingbird Falls
And that other saliva, Salvia farinacea 'Augusta Duelberg' (not Alice... Dee remembers now.)
Flowers by the Sea is a nursery that specializes in Salvias

Dee's blog post on salvia!

Vegetables:

'Clancy F1' potatoes, an All-America Selection from 2019. 
Seeds available from Botanical Interests

On the Bookshelf:   
The Wild Bee Handbook: The Amazing Lives of Our Wild Species and How to Help Them Thrive by Sarah Wyndham-Lewis (Amazon link)

Dirt:
Smart Pots, and why we love them.
 

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