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

Carol Michel, Dee Nash
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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.

  1. Jun 17

    Listen To Your Garden. What Do You Hear?

    Send us Fan Mail Dee and Carol talk about sound in the garden, inspired by a new book. To watch this episode on YouTube, click here. For more info and links, check out our Substack newsletter I  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.   That’s it for this week! As always, we appreciate all of you for listening to our podcast and for reading this newsletter! (If you’d like to support us, check out our affiliate links here. Book links are also affiliate links.) Support the show On Instagram:  Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists. On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club. On YouTube.

    47 min

  2. Jun 10

    Lull in Your Garden? How to Fix It!

    Send us Fan Mail Dee and Carol talk about how to fix the lulls in your garden, or not, plus a new book on garden design and more. For more info and links, check out our Substack newsletter.  To watch on YouTube, click here. 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. (If you’d like to support us, check out our affiliate links here. Book links are also affiliate links.) Support the show On Instagram:  Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists. On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club. On YouTube.

    46 min

  3. Jun 3

    A Bit of British Gardening

    Send us Fan Mail Carol and Dee talk about British awarding winning plants, vegetable gardens and more. For more info, check out our Substack newsletter  To watch on YouTube, click here Links: 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) Thank you for being a listener! (If you’d like to support us, check out our affiliate links here. Book links are also affiliate links.) Support the show On Instagram:  Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists. On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club. On YouTube.

    46 min

  4. May 28

    Gardening With a Banana Theme

    Send us Fan Mail Dee and Carol discuss all things bananas in the garden. For more info, check out our Substack newsletter To watch on YouTube, click here 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. Thank you for listening   (If you’d like to support us, check out our affiliate links here. Book links are also affiliate links.) Support the show On Instagram:  Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists. On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club. On YouTube.

    45 min

  5. May 20

    Herbs! Here, There, and Everywhere!

    Send us Fan Mail Dee and Carol talk all things herbal this week. For more info, check out our Substack newsletter. To watch us on YouTube, click here.  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 As always, we appreciate all of you for listening to our podcast and for reading this newsletter! (If you’d like to support us, check out our affiliate links here. Book links are also affiliate links.) Support the show On Instagram:  Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists. On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club. On YouTube.

    45 min

  6. May 13

    Growing Flowers and Veggies in Pots and Other Containers

    Send us Fan Mail Dee and Carol talk about growing flowers and veggies in containers.  For more info, check out our Substack newsletter.  To watch on YouTube, click here. Links: From Southern Living Plant Collection It’s A Breeze® Ivory Blush Rose.  Carol’s garden fairies reviewed her performance so far this spring in a blog post. Carol’s blog post on forcing peonies into bloom in July. Insect of the Week Crane flies.  Flowers: Queen Tut papyrus Tattoo™ Papaya Vinca Vegetables: Examples of veggies good for containers from Burpee: On-Deck Corn, Patio Baby Eggplant, Sweetheart of the Patio Tomato, Mocha Swirl Sweet Peppers, Hamburg Lettuce. On the Bookshelf: The Creative Container Garden by Anders Royneberg with Erik Schjenven (Amazon) Plus A Year Full of Pots: Container Flowers for All Seasons by Sarah Raven (Amazon) Dirt: Carol’s spinstercore gardening, and a search on Pinterest… for Unusual Plant Containers.  Rabbit Holes: Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy, by Rumer Godden (1979). Watership Down by Richard Adams. And another Lost Lady of Garden Writing, Elda Haring A Garden to Visit: Wing Haven in Charlotte, North Carolina, the gardens of Elizabeth and Edwin Clarkson, and Elizabeth Lawrence. (If you’d like to support us, check out our affiliate links here. Book links are also affiliate links.) Support the show On Instagram:  Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists. On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club. On YouTube.

    48 min

  7. May 6

    Gardening Advice From Two Long-Time Gardeners

    Send us Fan Mail Dee and Carol talk about plants to leave behind, basics of vegetable gardening, a new book on gardening as you grow older and more! For complete info, check out our Substack newsletter. To watch us on YouTube, click here.  Flowers: What flowers and plants to leave behind as you grow older in the garden. Vegetables: Back to basics. Honestly, start with good soil and you are 99% there.  On the Bookshelf: Garden for Life: Strategies for Easier, Greener, More Joyful Gardening as We Age, by Rhonda Fleming Hayes (Amazon Link) Dirt: Boomers have a lot of stuff, an article,  and on Instagram Nick Fox Radio  Rabbit Holes: Books mentioned include Matilda by Roald Dahl,  Raising Hare: A Memoir by Chloe Dalton, and The Lark by E. Nesbit A Garden to Visit: Gibb’s Garden in Georgia, in a place called Ball Ground, north of Atlanta. As always, we appreciate all of you for listening to our podcast and for reading this newsletter! (If you’d like to support us, check out our affiliate links here. Book links are also affiliate links.) Support the show On Instagram:  Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists. On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club. On YouTube.

    54 min

  8. Apr 29

    A Little Garden Chat with Hydrangeas, Veggie Garden Flops, and Corn Starch

    Send us Fan Mail Dee and Carol talked about different kinds of hydrangeas, failures in their vegetable gardens, using corn starch in your garden and a new book on hydrangeas. For more info, check out our Substack newsletter. Insect of the Week Mitchell’s Satyr Butterfly via Central Indiana Land Trust on Instagram. (The invasive plant Carol was trying to think of was Purple Loosestrife. Flowers: Hydrangeas Proven Winners has an explanation of the five main types. Vegetables: How to learn from your failures and not throw in the trowel, partially inspired by an essay in American Gardener, from American Horticultural Society.  On the Bookshelf: Hydrangea Happiness: Planting, Pruning, and Blooming by C. L. Fornari (Amazon link) (Publishes April 30) Dirt: Using cornstarch in the garden, via Martha Stewart Rabbit Holes: Dee:  Heritage Rose Foundation and her upcoming talk on Old Garden Roses and Their Companions. The pelargonium Dee was trying to remember was ‘Mrs. Pollock.’ Carol: Working on her presentation on Tips and Tricks to Spring into Gardening for Franciscan Senior Promise, local group. A Garden to Visit: Atlanta History Center and in particular the Cherokee Garden Library. That was very special. As always, we appreciate all of you for listening to our podcast and for reading this newsletter! (If you’d like to support us, check out our affiliate links here. Book links are also affiliate links.) Support the show On Instagram:  Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists. On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club. On YouTube.

    51 min
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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.

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