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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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Send a text Dee and Carol talked about early spring annuals, other than pansies and violas, preparing your soil in the vegetable garden a new book on floriography, and more! For all the details and more links, check out our Substack newsletter. A few links: To watch the video of us recording over on YouTube, click here. Insect of the Week Midges or No-see-ums, from Insect Shield, plus Dee’s post about how to wear Insect Shield clothing. On the Bookshelf: Modern Floriography: Flowe...
Send us Fan Mail Dee and Carol talk about pelargoniums and scented geraniums, strawberries, and more. For complete info, check out our Substack newsletter To watch us on YouTube, click here Little brown ants! Carol uses Terro Ant Killer Baits Flowers: Pelargoniums and scented geraniums Vegetables: Carol’s blog post about growing microgreens On the Bookshelf: Watch out for AI generated books like these. Signs it is AI generated are too many books, unknown author, no pictures, only available ...
Send us Fan Mail Dee and Carol are back to talk about impatiens, quick wins in the vegetable garden, a new book on cut flowers and several other topics, planned and unplanned. For more information, check out our Substack newsletter To watch this episode on YouTube, click here. If you are interested in Dee's new garden hose, here’s the affiliate link. Flowers: National Garden Bureau has declared it to be the Year of the Impatien. On the Bookshelf: The Beginner’s Cut Fl...
Send us Fan Mail Dee and Carol talk about all kinds of sedums, ask about growing weird vegetable varieties, and all the other usual topics. For more information, check out our Substack newsletter. To watch us on YouTube, click here. Links: Flowers: It’s the Year of the Sedum, per the National Garden Bureau. On the Bookshelf: Gardenista: The Low-Impact Garden: A Guide to Creating Sustainable Outdoor Spaces by Kendra Wilson with the editors of Gardenista, Photographs by ...
Send us Fan Mail Dee and Carol talk about winter aconites, growing parsley, a book of nature-related essays and more. To watch us on YouTube, click this link For more info, check out our Substack newsletter! Insect of the week: Endangered insects like these in Indiana and the American Burying Beetle in Oklahoma. Flowers: Winter Aconites, Eranthis hyemalis More info about these early spring flowers on Old House Gardens Vegetables: Parsley, Petroselinum crispum Featured by Matt Matt...
Send us Fan Mail Dee and Carol talk about Ficus houseplants, easy seeds for the vegetable garden, a book on old roses, and more. For complete info, check out our Substack newsletter To watch this episode on YouTube, click here. Insect of the Week; Crystal Skippers, from The Last Butterflies: A Scientist’s Quest to Save a Rare and Vanishing Creatureby Nick Haddad. (Amazon link) Flowers: Year of the Ficus, as designated by the National Garden Bureau. See 10 Tips for Growing Ficus Vegetabl...
Send us Fan Mail Dee and Carol talked about azaleas, growing celery, winter's effect on plants, a book on urban nature and several other topics. For more info, check out our Substack newsletter. You can also watch us on YouTube. Links and topics: Flowers: 2026 is the Year of the Azalea per the National Garden Bureau. Vegetables: Celery, celeriac, and celery microgreens On the bookshelf: This is How a Robin Drinks: Essays on Urban Nature, by Joanna Brichetto (Amazon Link). Dirt: Th...
Send us Fan Mail Dee and Carol talk about crocuses, hot peppers (Capsicum), a new book: The Continuous Vegetable Garden, and celery vases. For more info, check out their weekly newsletter. To watch this episode on YouTube, click here. Insect of the Week: Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live by Rob Dunn (Amazon link) Flowers: 2026 is the Year of the Crocus per the National Garden Bureau. Great places to order bulbs f...
Send us Fan Mail Dee and Carol discuss some of their favorite topics from the past year as they sign off for 2025. To watch this episode on YouTube, click here For more information, check out our Substack newsletter. Insect of the Week Snow fleas, a type of springtail, and Snow Fleas?! Yes, They’re Real and Found in Indiana Flowers: Recaps of favorite flowers from 2025 episodes ZinniasPansiesLisianthusSignet MarigoldsViolasVegetables: Recaps vegetable topics Cole crops - have we talked ...
Send us Fan Mail Dee and Carol talk about winter plants for the garden, veggie cookbooks, chestnut trees, square foot gardening and more. For more info, check out our Substack newsletter. To watch us recording on YouTube, click here. (Even if you don’t regularly watch us on YouTube, we’d love it if you’d subscribe to our channel and hit the “like” on one of our videos. Question of the Week: What about root washing before planting? Is there a benefit? Seems traumatic to the tree or shrub...
Send us Fan Mail Dee and Carol talked about plants for Christmas, growing root vegetables, two books on Christmas plants, and more! For more information, check out our newsletter. To watch this episode on YouTube, click here. Flowers mentioned: Amaryllis Christmas Cactus Rosemary Poinsettia PaperwhitesCarol’s article about Christmas Plants in Family Handyman is still out there! Dee has a post on how to grow amaryllis and paperwhites indoors. Vegetables: ...
Send us Fan Mail Dee and Carol talk about flowers and veggies with 'viridis' as the species name, plus a book on houseplant propagation, and more. For all the details, check out our newsletter To watch this episode on YouTube: click here Insect of the Week: Paper Wasps Flowers: Ephedra viridis - Morman Tea Helleborus viridis - Green Hellebore Asclepias viridis - Green Milkweed Crataegus viridis - Green Hawthorn Acer palmatum ‘Viridis.’ Vegetables: Collard Greens - Brassica olerace...
Send us Fan Mail Dee and Carol continue to focus on different species names and this week it's "repens." For all the details, check out their newsletter! To watch them on YouTube, use this link! Insect of the Week: giant leopard moth. Flowers: Trifolium repens - White clover Ajuga reptans - Carpet bugleweed (“reptans” is close enough to “repens” for us!) Veronica repens - Creeping speedwell Mahonia repens - Creeping Oregon grape. Callisia repens - Turtle vine Vege...
Send us Fan Mail Dee and Carol talk about flowers, herbs, and even a weed that all have the species name of "officianalis." Plus, they review a new book about growing vegetables for preserving. To find out more, check out our weekly newsletter on Substack Watch us on YouTube! Insect of the week: Mole Crickets: Flowers: With “officinalis” as the species name. Primula officinalis - Cowslip (also called Primula veris) Pulmonaria officinalis - Lungwort Saponaria officinalis - Soap...
Send us Fan Mail Dee and Carol talk about plants with species name of "texensis" and briefly talk about the species name "cardinalis." They also talk about a new book, pollen banking, and some of their rabbit holes. For more links and details, check out our newsletter. To watch on YouTube, click here. Flowers we discussed. Lupinus texensis - Texas bluebonnet or Texas lupine, info from the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. Carex texensis - Texas sedge, info from the Lady Bird Jo...
Send us Fan Mail Dee and Carol talk about plants with a species name of virginina, a book on romantic garden and more in this week's episode. For more info, check out our newsletter! To watch this week’s episode on YouTube, click here. Flowers: Tradescantia virginiana (Virginia Spiderwort). ‘Sweet Kate’ has lime-green foliage. Physostegia virginiana (Obedient Plant) Dee’s reel on this flower. Persicaria virginiana (Virginia Knotweed) Trees and shrubs Juniperus virginiana (Eastern Redced...
Send us Fan Mail To watch this episode on: click here For more info, check out our newsletter Carol’s Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day post Ruth Stout, a Lost Lady of Garden Writing. Flowers: Gardening with vulgare flowers Leucantheum vulgare - Ox-eye daises Syringa vulgaris - Common lilac Aquilegia vulgaris - Columbine Primula vulgaris - Primroses. Silene vulgaris - Bladder Campion. Filipendual vulgaris - Dropwort. Vegetables: Growing with vulgare in the vegetable gar...
Send us Fan Mail Carol and Dee talk about phenology, no-dig gardening, a new book on gardens in literature and more. For more details, check out our weekly newsletter. To watch this week’s episode, click here. Carol’s garden fairies wrote a blog post and Carol built Lego mini bonsai trees. Insects of the week: Wooly worms Assassin bug. Wheel bug. Ugh bug. Info from the Missouri Dept. of Conservation Flowers: Phenology Indiana Phenology and National Phenology Network, b Vegetables: Ruth ...
Send us Fan Mail Dee and Carol talk about snapdragons, giant vegetables, a new book on perennials and several other topics! For more information, check out our newsletter. To watch this episode on YouTube, click here Insect of the Week: Boxelder bugs and milkweed bugs Flowers: Snapdragons, Antirrhinum majus All-America Selections of snapdragons Vegetables: Growing giant vegetables Pumpkinista in Maine On the Bookshelf: Essential Guide to Perennial Gardening from American Horticultural Society...
Send us Fan Mail Dee and Carol turn their attention toward fall in the garden and discuss what to put in fall containers, lettuce they love to grow, a new book by Jacqueline van der Kloet, tracking invasive plants, and more. For more information, check out our weekly newsletter. If you’d like to watch this podcast, click here. Insect of the Week: Garden spiders Flowers: Refreshing your fall pots Sarah Raven’s method for planting containers Vegetables: Lettuce worth growing, includ...
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