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

Written by: Carol Michel Dee Nash
  • Summary

  • 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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Episodes
  • A Super Sunday Gardening Episode
    Feb 12 2025

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    Dee and Carol talked about how new flower varieties come to market, whether or not you should grow your own pepper and tomato plants, dirt about blue bees, and a book about historic flowers.

    For more details and links, check out our free newsletter!

    Flowers:

    Info on tissue culture

    Veggies:

    On the Bookshelf: Restoring American Gardens: An Encyclopedia of Heirloom Ornamental Plants, 1640-1940 (Amazon)

    Dirt:

    New blue bee found in Texas

    Rabbit Holes:

    Dr. Cynthia Westcott, PhD, a Lost Lady of Garden Writing

    Jane Austen’s Garden: A Botanical Tour of the Classic Novels, by Molly Williams, illustrations by Jessica Roux and Jane Austen at Home, by Lucy Worsley.

    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

    Book and Amazon links are also affiliate links.
    Email us anytime at TheGardenangelists@gmail.com
    Our newsletter is on Substack
    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 show

    On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
    On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
    On YouTube.

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    52 mins
  • Sow Something New!
    Feb 5 2025

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    Dee and Carol talk about new varieties of flowers and veggies, plus a book about the history of tomatoes.

    For more info and all the links, check out our free newsletter!

    Flowers:

    Verbena Sweetheart Kisses

    Snapdragon DoubleShot™ Yellow Red Heart F1

    Petunia 'Shake™ Raspberry F1'

    Zinnia Zydeco Fire

    Veggies:

    Pick-N-Pop yellow pepper

    Wildcat hot pepper

    Red Impact pepper

    Zenzei tomato

    Squash Green Lightning

    On the Bookshelf: Ten Tomatoes That Changed the World: A History by William Alexander. (Amazon)

    Dirt:

    Garden Sown tomatoes and peppers from Burpee

    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

    Book and Amazon links are also affiliate links.
    Email us anytime at TheGardenangelists@gmail.com
    Our newsletter is on Substack
    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 show

    On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
    On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
    On YouTube.

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    49 mins
  • Monstera, Sage, and More Garden-y Talk
    Jan 29 2025

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    Dee and Carol talk about Monstera houseplants, sage, a new book, Earthly Utopias, apple collecting and more.
    For complete info, check out our free weekly newsletter

    Links:
    National Garden Bureau Year of the Monstera
    How to grow sage from The Spruce

    On the Bookshelf:
    Earthly Utopias: Sacred Gardens of the World by Yolanda Zappaterra (Amazon Link)
    Dirt: Meet Tom Brown, the Apple Hunter, from BlueDot Living
    Rabbit Holes: Anna Gilman Hill, a Lost Lady of Garden Writing

    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

    Book and Amazon links are also affiliate links.
    Email us anytime at TheGardenangelists@gmail.com
    Our newsletter is on Substack
    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 show

    On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
    On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
    On YouTube.

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    53 mins

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