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. 23h ago

    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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

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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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