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

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
  • Back to the Garden in the New Year
    Jan 8 2025

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    Dee and Carol are back from their holiday hiatus talking about caladiums, comfrey, a new book, Plant Words, and more.

    For more info and more links, check out our free weekly newsletter.

    Links:
    Year of the Caladium, from National Garden Bureau
    Comfrey, a perennial, from The Spruce, an herb from Wellness Mama, and for compost tea from Gardening Know How

    On the Bookshelf:
    Plant Words: A book of 250 curious words for plant lovers by Joe Richomme & Emma Wayland (Amazon)

    Dirt:
    Another color of the year: Lime Cream

    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
    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.





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

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    51 mins
  • Gardening For and Through the Holidays
    Dec 18 2024

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    Dee and Carol talk about some of their favorite Christmas plants, growing savory, a book, Small-Scale Homesteading and more.

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    Links:

    Queeny Lemon Peach zinnia from Burpee

    14 Best Christmas Plants and Flowers for the Holiday Season from Family Handyman. Or if you prefer, read it on Birds & Blooms.

    What is savory on Masterclass.

    On the bookshelf: Small-Scale Homesteading: A Sustainable Guide to Gardening, Keeping Chickens, Maple Sugaring, Preserving the Harvest, and More, by Stephanie Thurow & Michelle Bruhn (Amazon Link)

    Dirt:
    Meet the Italian ‘Fruit Detective’, Who Investigates Centuries-Old Paintings for Clues About Produce That Has Disappeared From the Kitchen Table (via Smithsonian)

    Joey Aprons | Roo Gardening

    Rabbit Holes:
    Lost Lady of Garden Writing, Marge Clark

    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
    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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    54 mins
  • Gardening and Books, Books and Gardening!
    Dec 11 2024

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    Dee and Carol talked about amaryllis, holy basil, some apple dirt, and several books they are enjoying including The Botanists' Library.

    For more information and links, check out our weekly newsletter.

    Links:
    John Scheepers… for amaryllis bulbs and info on growing amaryllis bulbs

    On Family Handyman's website: How to Keep an Amaryllis Alive

    On the bookshelf: The Botantists’ Library: The Most Important Botanical Books in History by Carolyn Fry & Emma Wayland (Ivy Press, a Quarto Imprint) (Amazon)

    Dirt: How Honeycrisp Apples Went from Marvelous to Mediocre on Serious Eats

    Rabbit Holes:
    Reclaiming Quiet by Sarah Clarkson. (Amazon link)
    The Queens of Crime by Marie Benedict (Feb. 11, 2025) (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

    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 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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