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A Garden Should Touch Your Senses

Jul 1, 2026 · 42 min · Ep 23

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This week, we talked about all the senses your garden awakens in you.

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Favorites This Week

You can see Carol’s lilies on Instagram and on Substack. Dee’s favorite flowers include Calibrachoa ‘Lemon Slice’ and dwarf morning glory (Evolvulus glomeratus), also known by its cultivar names 'Blue My Mind' or 'Blue Daze,'

Insect of the Week

Awful, horrible Japanese beetles.

Flowers:

Touchable flowers

Article - How to Design a Healing Garden:

Veggies: 

Vegetable garden as a wellness garden

On the Bookshelf:

Good Nature: Why Seeing, Smelling, Hearing, and Touching Plants Good for Our Health by Kathy Willis (Amazon)

and

Botanicum: Welcome to the Museum by Kathy Willis, Illustrated by Katie Scott (Amazon)

Rabbit Holes:

Dee: American food week in Bulgaria on Instagram

Carol:  Carol’s secret source for UK published books… Blackwell’s

Another lost lady of garden writing, Caroline Dormon, friend of Elizabeth Lawrence.

Clarkson’s Farm

A Garden to Visit: Kew Gardens

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