The Gardenangelists: Flowers, Veggies, and All the Best Dirt
by Carol Michel, Dee Nash
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Listen To Your Garden. What Do You Hear?
Jun 17, 2026
47m 02s
Lull in Your Garden? How to Fix It!
Jun 10, 2026
46m 29s
A Bit of British Gardening
Jun 3, 2026
46m 23s
Gardening With a Banana Theme
May 28, 2026
44m 44s
Herbs! Here, There, and Everywhere!
May 20, 2026
45m 24s
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| 6/17/26 | 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 Voi... | 47m 02s | ||||||
| 6/10/26 | 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 Ra... | 46m 29s | ||||||
| 6/3/26 | 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 ... | 46m 23s | ||||||
| 5/28/26 | 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 ... | 44m 44s | ||||||
| 5/20/26 | Herbs! Here, There, and Everywhere! | Send us Fan Mail Dee and Carol talk all things herbal this week. For more info, check out our Substack newsletter. To watch us on YouTube, click here. Question of the Week: What herbs grow well with roses? Insect of the Week: Mayflies, Good info from Birds & Blooms Flowers: Herbs to grow for the flowers More info from Epic Gardening Vegetables: Herbs for the vegetable garden Basil ‘Monteverde’ from PanAmerican Seed, for sale from Burpee. What makes an herb good for the vegeta... | 45m 24s | ||||||
| 5/13/26 | Growing Flowers and Veggies in Pots and Other Containers | Send us Fan Mail Dee and Carol talk about growing flowers and veggies in containers. For more info, check out our Substack newsletter. To watch on YouTube, click here. Links: From Southern Living Plant Collection It’s A Breeze® Ivory Blush Rose. Carol’s garden fairies reviewed her performance so far this spring in a blog post. Carol’s blog post on forcing peonies into bloom in July. Insect of the Week Crane flies. Flowers: Queen Tut papyrus Tattoo™ Papaya Vinca Vegetab... | 47m 37s | ||||||
| 5/6/26 | Gardening Advice From Two Long-Time Gardeners | Send us Fan Mail Dee and Carol talk about plants to leave behind, basics of vegetable gardening, a new book on gardening as you grow older and more! For complete info, check out our Substack newsletter. To watch us on YouTube, click here. Flowers: What flowers and plants to leave behind as you grow older in the garden. Vegetables: Back to basics. Honestly, start with good soil and you are 99% there. On the Bookshelf: Garden for Life: Strategies for Easier, Greener, More Joyful Gar... | 54m 29s | ||||||
| 4/29/26 | A Little Garden Chat with Hydrangeas, Veggie Garden Flops, and Corn Starch | Send us Fan Mail Dee and Carol talked about different kinds of hydrangeas, failures in their vegetable gardens, using corn starch in your garden and a new book on hydrangeas. For more info, check out our Substack newsletter. Insect of the Week Mitchell’s Satyr Butterfly via Central Indiana Land Trust on Instagram. (The invasive plant Carol was trying to think of was Purple Loosestrife. Flowers: Hydrangeas Proven Winners has an explanation of the five main types. Vegetables: How to learn from ... | 51m 26s | ||||||
| 4/22/26 | To Self-Sow or Not to Self-Sow? | Send us Fan Mail Dee and Carol talked about self-sowing plants, how to shop at your local farmer's market and other gardening topics! For more info and links, check out our Substack newsletter. To watch on YouTube, click here Why didn’t my daffodils bloom? Info from the American Daffodil Society Insect of the Week Hyles lineata, White-lined Sphinx moth. Info from Wisconsin Extension On the Bookshelf: Plantiful: Start Small, Grow Big With 150 Plants That Spread, Self-Sow, And Overwinter ... | 54m 32s | ||||||
| 4/15/26 | Springing into Busy April | Send us Fan Mail This week, Dee and Carol discuss new plants, vegetables of the world, and more. For more info, check out our Substack newsletter To watch on YouTube, click hereTo watch on YouTube, click here. Question of the Week: Growing Nicotiana. Select Seeds i Insect of the Week: Great spangled fritillary butterfly, whose food source is violets! Flowers: What's new and eye-catching? Check out our Substack newsletter for links Vegetables: Bring the world to your vegetable garden, mo... | 45m 06s | ||||||
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| 4/1/26 | A Bit of Real Gardening Before Easter | Send us Fan Mail Carol and Dee discuss some Easter flowers you can plant in the garden, coloring Easter eggs with natural materials, a biography of Gilbert White and more. For all the details, check out our Substack newsletter. To watch us on YouTube, which includes an extra segment at the end, click here. Insect of the Week: Grubs… How to control them, from Bob Vila Flowers: Can I plant… Easter Lilies and other potted flowering plants. Which ones will grow in your garden? ... | 38m 37s | ||||||
| 3/25/26 | Your "Why" Helps You Decide What to Plant | Send us Fan Mail Dee and Carol talk about reasons why you might want to grow flowers or vegetables and how that helps you decide what to plant, plus all the usual topics. For complete info, check out our Substack newsletter. To view us on YouTube, click here Other Links: Insect of the Week. Chiggers, with info from the Cleveland Clinic On the Bookshelf: Art From The Garden: Create 25 Beautiful Botanical Projects, by Kerry Michaels (Amazon link) Dirt: Dilston Physic Garden and Dr. Elaine... | 47m 52s | ||||||
| 3/18/26 | Flowers, Floriography, and Fairies | Send us Fan Mail 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: ... | 42m 32s | ||||||
| 3/11/26 | Pelargoniums, Strawberries , Surprises, and Blessings | 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 ... | 48m 34s | ||||||
| 3/4/26 | Impatiens, Quick Wins in the Veggie Garden, and More | 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... | 45m 37s | ||||||
| 2/18/26 | Year of the Sedum, Weird Veggies: Yea or Nay, and More | 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 ... | 38m 07s | ||||||
| 2/11/26 | We Talk About Pretty Things, Related to Gardening | 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... | 50m 39s | ||||||
| 2/4/26 | Ficus Houseplants, Easy Seeds, and Old Roses | 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... | 44m 05s | ||||||
| 1/28/26 | From Our Snow-Covered Gardens to Yours | Send us Fan Mail Dee and Carol discussed new All-America Selections they are growing from seed, a new book on cottage gardening, and more. To find out more about this episode, check out our Substack newsletter To watch this episode on YouTube, click here. Insect of the Week: Green Lacewings, info from Old Farmer’s Almanac Flowers: New All-America Selections from the National Garden Bureau to grow from seed Vegetables: New All-America Selections from the National Garden Bureau to grow fr... | 51m 24s | ||||||
| 1/21/26 | Planning a New Rose Garden and Going Analog with Seed Catalogs | Send us Fan Mail Dee and Carol discuss how to start a new rose garden from scratch, how to use seed catalogs, a new book, Wild & Free Gardening, plus a variety of other gardening topics. For more info, check out our Substack newsletter. To watch us on YouTube, use this link. Lavender ‘Phenomenal’ and Dollie’s Farm Bar Soap Flowers: Starting a rose garden from scratch. David Austin Roses Mill’s Magic Rose fertilizer Vegetables: Going analog with seed catalogs Onward & Upward in t... | 44m 45s | ||||||
| 1/14/26 | Azaleas, Celery, and Winter's Effect on Plants | 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... | 30m 40s | ||||||
| 1/7/26 | Crocuses, Capsicum, and Celery Vases: We Are Back for Season 8! | 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... | 38m 40s | ||||||
| 12/17/25 | A Little Garden Chinwag, With Squirrels and Snow Fleas | 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 ... | 45m 45s | ||||||
| 12/10/25 | The Holly and the Ivy, Plus Favorite Veggie Cookbooks | 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... | 43m 59s | ||||||
| 12/3/25 | Decking the Halls: Christmas Plants and Root Vegetables | 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: ... | 38m 33s | ||||||
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Chart Positions
3 placements across 2 markets.
Chart Positions
3 placements across 2 markets.