From AwayToGarden.com and RobinhoodRadio.com, this is AwayToGarden with Margaret Roach.

You're a weekly invitation to dig in and grow.

Hot and dry, that's the lament of gardeners in most regions in high summer and also of

many plants in their flower gardens.

The author of a new book called the Ultimate Flower

Gardener's Guide is here to suggest which perennials can stand up to the test

best, plus give us some lavender growing advice speaking of plants adapted to

hot and dry. Also on the agenda today a tip on a bulb you may not have grown

before but could order to plant this fall. Surprise lilies. So more in a moment

prefers these messages. Programming and underwriting support from Royal

Botanic Gardens publishes of cute pocketbooks, small gift books illustrated from

Q's vast collection of botanic alert. The most recent book, Fun Guy, about the

strange and singular world of mushrooms, toadstools and their kin in bookstores

now. Underwriting support from color blends,, supplying top quality spring blooming Dutch flower bulbs

to landscape professionals and ambitious home gardeners.

More information on the web colorblends.com.

Jenny Rose Kerry is former senior director

of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's

Meadowbrook Farm and taught in the Department

of Landscape Architecture and Horticulture

at Temple University, where she also directed

the Ambler Arboretum.

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