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. 4d ago

    More Summer in the Garden

    Send us Fan Mail Dee and Carol discuss favorite summer annuals, what to do I the veg garden in August, and many books. For more information, check out our Substack newsletter To watch us on YouTube, click here. Links, etc: Question of the Week: What’s wrong with my tomatoes?   Insect of the Week: Black Saddlebags Dragonfly Flowers: Our favorite summer garden annuals. Branching out from perennials and native plants obsession. Vegetables: Timely reminders for August On the Bookshelf: In the Land of the Blue Poppies: The Collected Plant-Hunting Writings of Frank Kingdon Ward (2003) (Amazon, Bookshop)   Dirt: Hydrangea Pruning: What Stays, What Goes and When by Lorraine Ballato (Amazon) Rabbit Holes: The Churchill Sisters by Dr. Rachel Tretheway. (Bookshop, Amazon).  The Kennedys and the Windsors: The Story of Two Dynasties, One Born, One Made by Caroline Hallemann (Bookshop, Amazon)  Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent by Judi Dench (Amazon, Bookshop). (Listen to Judi Dench recite Shakespear on Instagram)  Adele Dawson, another Lost Lady of Garden Writing. Dear Hugo by Molly Claverly (Amazon, Bookshop), and sloes, the fruit of blackthorn.    The Artist and the Feast by Lucy Steeds. (Amazon, Bookshop)   Dee’s buying Bulgarian food   A Garden to Visit: Tulsa Botanic Garden Thank you: 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. And, if you have suggestions for topics for us to discuss, send us an email or leave a comment. With a shared love of gardening… Carol and Dee Support the show On Instagram:  Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists. On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club. On YouTube.

  2. Aug 5

    Joy Abounds in the Summer Garden

    Send us Fan Mail Dee and Carol talk about mandevillas, veggie cookbooks and more in this week's episode. For more info, check out our Substack newsletter. To watch us on YouTube, click here. Insect of the Week: Lily leaf beetle, prompted by a reader’s questions. Check Wisconsin Extension on how to identify and how to control. This site shows the range  Flowers: Mandevillas and Bougainvillas Vegetables: More recipes from the garden. My New Roots: Inspired Plant-Based Recipes for Every Season: A Cookbook by Sarah Britton. (Bookshop, Amazon) Check out her website and her Instagram account Six Seasons: A New Way with Vegetables by Joshua McFadden (Bookshop, Amazon) On the Bookshelf: My Summer in a Garden by Charles Dudley Warner (1899) (Bookshop, Amazon) Dirt: Chatsworth Garden Design Revealed in the Drought Rabbit Holes: The Botanist’s Assistant by Peggy Townsend (Bookshop, Amazon) Lots of interesting deadly plants mentioned.  Also  Time Traveler by Merriam-Webster: Words that first appeared in print for the year you were born… A Garden to Visit: Beth Chatto’s Gravel Garden Thank you: 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. And, if you have suggestions for topics for us to discuss, send us an email or leave a comment. With a shared love of gardening… Carol and Dee Support the show On Instagram:  Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists. On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club. On YouTube.

  3. Jul 29

    Bean Banter and Other Gardening Topics

    Send us Fan Mail Dee and Carol talked about decorative beans to grow for flowers, beans to dry, and other gardening topics. For more info, check out our Substack newsletter. To watch on YouTube, click here. Links! Verbena bonariensis 'Vanity’ from All-America Selections Insect of the Week June Beetles  Info from Wisconsin Horticulture Extension Flowers: Hyacinth beans - Lablab purpureus  Scarlet runner beans - Phaseolus coccineus Yardlong beans - Vigna unguiculata subsp. Sesquipedalis Corkscrew vine beans, Cochliasanthus caracalla Vegetables: Alternative beans to grow - black beans, kidney beans, northern beans - mostly for drying. General info from the  Old Farmer’s Almanac. Seed sources for older varieties: Rancho Gordo, Seed Savers Exchange, and Southern Exposure Seed Exchange On the Bookshelf: Saving Seeds, Preserving Taste by Bill Best (Amazon Link) Dirt: Harkening back to last week’s episode on trees: Planting Trees at Waddesdon Manor Rabbit Holes: Lost Lady of Garden Writing, Danske Dandridge,  The Garden at Rose Brake: Garden Writings of Danske Dandridge,   Muv: The Story of the Mitford Girls’ Mother by Rachel Tretheway (2026)   Slightly Foxed podcast. A Garden to Visit: Visit an All-America Selection garden near you!  Thank you: 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. And, if you have suggestions for topics for us to discuss, send us an email or leave a comment. With a shared love of gardening… Carol and Dee Support the show On Instagram:  Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists. On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club. On YouTube.

  4. Jul 22

    Talking about Trees

    Send us Fan Mail Dee and Carol talked about trees, including what to consider when buying a tree, pawpaws and walnut trees around the veggie garden, a tree essay book, and more. For more info, check out our Substack newsletter. To watch us on YouTube, click here. A couple of miscellaneous links: Carol’s ritual of the first tomato blog post from 2006 and Play-Doh Blooms (Amazon) Question of the Week: Why did a big limb that looked healthy suddenly fall out of my tree? More info from Davey Tree Company Insect of the Week: Mimosa Webworms - Info from Purdue - a tale of two kinds of treatment. Flowers: How to choose trees for your garden  Vegetables: Pawpaw trees - Check them out at Stark Bros Walnut trees - Info from Garden Professors Blog On the Bookshelf: Thirteen Ways to Smell a Tree: A celebration of our connection with trees by David George Haskell (Amazon Link). Haskell also wrote How Flowers Made Our World: The Story of Nature’s Revolutionaries and The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature. Check him out on Instagram. Dirt: Judi Dench and her passion for trees. A clip/intro to her documentary My Passion for Trees Rabbit Holes: Dee: A new cookbook, The HIgh Protein Plate, by Rachael DeVaux, RD.  Carol: Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann (2005), a new biography about Katharine S. White (The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at The New Yorker, by Amy Reading), and a new Lost Lady of Garden Writing. A Garden to Visit: United States National Arboretum Thank You: 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. And, if you have suggestions for topics for us to discuss, send us an email or leave a comment. With a shared love of gardening… Dee and Carol Support the show On Instagram:  Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists. On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club. On YouTube.

  5. Jul 15

    Coneflowers and Cooking Veggies

    Send us Fan Mail Dee and Carol talk about coneflowers, share some new veggie recipes Dee is trying, discuss a book on wildflowers and more. For more info, check out our Substack newsletter.  To watch on YouTube, click here. Question of the Week: How do I grow a wildflower meadow from seed?  Mini Meadows, by Mike Lizotte. He explains it well. Insect of the Week Blue Orchard Mason Bee. You can make nesting boxes for them or buy commercial ones Flowers: The Enterprise of Echinaceas, and why do we have so many varieties? We are speaking of Echinacea purpurea. Watch out for aster yellows, a disease that can infect coneflowers. More info from Missouri Botanical Garden Vegetables: Let’s share some summer recipes! Authentic Shopska Salad Recipe Cold Yogurt Cucumber Soup - Tarator Princesses (Bulgarian Ground Meat Sandwiches) Recipe - Food.com Dee’s Zucchini Squash Challenge on her blog On the Bookshelf: A Naturalist’s Book of Wildflowers: Celebrating 85 Native Plants of North America by Laura C. Martin (2021) (Amazon) Dirt: Another dose of cuteness on Instagram, a farmer-gardener with his two young daughters, the two “supervisors”. Meet Jeremiah_Farmer .They also have pigs! Rabbit Holes: Lost Lady of Garden Writing, Katharine S. White. And Carol’s tips for getting your garden to produce more veggies.  A Garden to Visit: Dallas Arboretum. One hot place when we visited! Thank you:  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.

  6. Jul 8

    Root It In Water and Other Gardening Topics

    Send us Fan Mail Dee and Carol discuss rooting cuttings in water, mid-summer in the vegetable garden, and a new herbal book, plus discuss if ducks grow on trees. To watch this episode on Youtube, click here. For more information, check out our Substack newsletter. Other links: Insect of the Week: Leaf cutter bees.   Flowers: 31 plants you can root in water, from Epic Gardening On the Bookshelf: Collected Curiosities; more stories and recipes from the historical apothecary cabinet by Amanda Edmiston (Amazon) Dirt: Do ducks grow on trees? Dictionary Diva on Instagram Rabbit Holes: Rural Free: A Farmwife’s Almanac of Country Living by Rachel Peden (1961) A Garden to Visit: Tall Grass Prairie Preserve (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.

  7. Jul 1

    A Garden Should Touch Your Senses

    Send us Fan Mail This week, we talked about all the senses your garden awakens in you. Here's  a link to watch us on YouTube.  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.  Thank you!   (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.

  8. 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.

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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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