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The Gardenangelists: Flowers, Veggies, and All the Best Dirt Carol Michel, Dee Nash
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4.8 • 121 Ratings
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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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Plants Are Amazing, and a Few Other Gardening Topics
Dee and Carol talk about thermogenic flowers, a new book about growing vegetables, a flower clock, and assorted other topics.
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Links:
Brent and Becky's Bulbs
Dee's Blog Post on Paperwhites
Carols' Blog Post on Thanksgiving and Christmas Cacti
Garden Rant's Blog Post about Pleasure
Thermogenic Flowers on Science Direct
Vegetables:
Vegetable Gardening Made Easy: Simple Tips & Tricks to Grow Your Best Garden Ever, By Resh Gala (Amazon Link) and 100 Tomatoes LLC
On the Bookshelf:
Summer Kitchens: Recipes and Reminiscences from Every Corner of Ukraine by Olia Hercules (Amazon Link)
Dirt:
Linnaeus's Flower Clock
Rabbit Holes:
A Memory of Violets: A Novel of London's Flower Sellers, by Hazel Gaynor (Amazon Link)
Our Affiliates (Linking to them to make a purchase earns us a small commission):
Botanical Interests
Farmers Defense
Etsy
Territorial Seeds
True Leaf Market
Eden Bros
Nature Hills Nursery -- NEW
Book and Amazon links are also affiliate links.
Email us anytime at TheGardenangelists@gmail.com
For more info on Carol visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
Support the showOn Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube. -
Of Flowers, Gourds, and Crafts
Topics this week include gourds, Dee's new craft project, an update on neonicotinoid pesticides and their impact, a new hardiness zone map, plus a fun book and a new rabbit hole.
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Links:
Flowers:
Neonicotinoid info from Texas A&M
American Beauty Native Plants
Veggies:
American Gourd Society
On the Bookshelf:
Of Flowers & a Village: An Entertainment for Flower Lovers by Wilfrid Blunt (Amazon Link)
Dirt:
Hardiness Zone Map
Our Affiliates (Linking to them to make a purchase earns us a small commission):
Botanical Interests
Farmers Defense
Etsy
Territorial Seeds
True Leaf Market
Eden Bros
Nature Hills Nursery -- NEW
Book and Amazon links are also affiliate links.
Email us anytime at TheGardenangelists@gmail.com
For more info on Carol visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
Support the showOn Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube. -
A Letter to Autumn
On this week’s episode, we talked about fall leaf colors, winter squash, books of letters, and more.
For all the info, check out our Substack newsletter!
A few links:
Family Handyman Article: Best Shrubs for Fall Leaf Color
New World’s Record for a Pumpkin
Farmer Lee Jones in The Chef’s Garden!
Roasted Delicata Squash Recipe
On the Bookshelf:
Two Gardeners: Katharine S. White and Elizabeth Lawrence--A Friendship in Letters (Amazon link)
Dear Friend and Gardener: Letters on Life and Gardening (letters between Christopher Lloyd & Beth Chatto) (Amazon link)
A Year in Our Gardens: Letters by Nancy Goodwin and Allen Lacy (Amazon link)
Tell About Night Flowers: Eudora Welty’s Gardening Letters, 1940-1949, edited by Julie Eichelberger. (Amazon Link).
Dirt:
Mary Jane’s Farm magazine
Rabbit Holes:
An Episode of Sparrows by Rumer Godden (Amazon Link)
Our Affiliates (Linking to them to make a purchase earns us a small commission):
Botanical Interests
Farmers Defense
Etsy
Territorial Seeds
True Leaf Market
Eden Bros
Nature Hills Nursery -- NEW
Book and Amazon links are also affiliate links.
Email us anytime at TheGardenangelists@gmail.com
For more info on Carol visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
Support the showOn Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube. -
Embracing a Season of Change In and Out of the Garden
Dee and Carol look back on the past year to review their favorite flower, veggie, and book topics as they celebrate five years of podcasting!
For more information and some links, check out our Substack newsletter. Subscribe to get it delivered directly to your email inbox.
Our Affiliates (Linking to them to make a purchase earns us a small commission):
Botanical Interests
Farmers Defense
Etsy
Territorial Seeds
True Leaf Market
Eden Bros
Nature Hills Nursery -- NEW
Book and Amazon links are also affiliate links.
Email us anytime at TheGardenangelists@gmail.com
For more info on Carol visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
Support the showOn Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube. -
As We Transition to Gardening Indoors...
Dee and Carol talk about vintage garden accessories, microgreens, a new book by Marc Hamer, and some pretty deep rabbit holes.
For all the links and more behind the scenes, check out our Substack newsletter. Subscribe to get it in your email, with a link to listen to the show a day early.
Links:
Dee's Instagram reel featuring Sheffield mums
Flowers:
Blooming Vintage OK on Instagram
Gardener's World Episode 30 (via Britbox on Amazon)
Veggies:
The Microgreens Cookbook: A good water farms odyssey by Brendan Davison (Amazon)
Carol's FH article on growing microgreens
On the Bookshelf:
Spring Rain: A Life Lived in Gardens by Marc Hamer. (Amazon)
Dirt:
Emily Lex painting a robin on Instagram.
Article about differences between American and English robins.
Unearthing the Secret Garden: The Plants and Places That Inspired Frances Hodgson Burnett, by Marta McDowell
Rabbit Holes:
John Derian Company
At Target, on Amazon
Our Affiliates (Linking to them to make a purchase earns us a small commission):
Botanical Interests
Farmers Defense
Etsy
Territorial Seeds
True Leaf Market
Eden Bros
Nature Hills Nursery -- NEW
Book and Amazon links are also affiliate links.
Email us anytime at TheGardenangelists@gmail.com
For more info on Carol visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
Support the showOn Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube. -
Sharing Flowers, Sharing Stories
Dee and Carol talked about passalong plants from their gardens, fermenting to preserve vegetables, rice, gardening pants, plus more!
For more information, check out our Substack newsletter and subscribe to get it delivered to your inbox, with a link to listen to the episode a day earlier.
Links:
Carol’s blog post about looking up the use of the word plastic.
Dee's Instagram reel of 'Blonde Ambition' blue grama grass
Flowers:
Passalong Plants, by Steve Bender and Felder Rushing (2002) (Amazon)
Vegetables:
Pickle and Ferment: Preserve Your Produce & Brew Delicious Probiotic Drinks, by Susan Crowther and Julie Fallone (Amazon)
On the Bookshelf:
The Book Lover’s Cookbook:Recipes Inspired by Celebrated Works of Literature, and the Passages That Feature Them, by Shaunda Kennedy Wenger and Janet Jensen (2003) (Amazon Link)
Dirt:
Lundberg Rice Farm
Rabbit Holes:
Duluth Trading Company
The Midwest Survival Guide: How We Talk, Love, Work, and Eat… Everything With Ranch, by Charlie Behrens. (Amazon)
Blooming Vintage OK on Instagram
Our Affiliates (Linking to them to make a purchase earns us a small commission):
Botanical Interests
Farmers Defense
Etsy
Territorial Seeds
True Leaf Market
Eden Bros
Nature Hills Nursery -- NEW
Book and Amazon links are also affiliate links.
Email us anytime at TheGardenangelists@gmail.com
For more info on Carol visit her website. Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee, visit her website. Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.
Support the showOn Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.
Customer Reviews
Great Garden podcast!
Love finding a gardening podcast that has a host from here in Oklahoma. But the other host is from Indiana so they cover a lot of problems in different gardens. Truly enjoy all the information and casual garden talk. They share good gardening books and lovely literary quotes about gardening. I recently found this podcast and am now listening to all the back episodes while in my car driving. I have many episodes to get through and I am learning a lot. Love that they recommend plants. And tell the good and the bad.
Gardening Love
I followed Dee on Instagram and enjoyed the views of her garden and her helpful tips. And then I found the podcast and I’m hooked. The information, quotes, and links included are all helpful. I’ve shared the podcast with my sister, ordered a book suggested by Dee and Carol and hope to whip my little garden into shape with their online help. I look forward to their chatty show every week.
Thank you ladies!
Enchanting!
I love the topics. I love the quotes. I love their chemistry. Thank you for leaving all the details in the show notes. I can easily refer to them when I have time.
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