The Gardenangelists: Flowers, Veggies, and All the Best Dirt
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.
The Gardenangelists: Flowers, Veggies, and All the Best Dirt
A Little Garden Chinwag, With Squirrels and Snow Fleas
Dee and Carol discuss some of their favorite topics from the past year as they sign off for 2025.
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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
- Zinnias
- Pansies
- Lisianthus
- Signet Marigolds
- Violas
Vegetables:
Recaps vegetable topics
- Cole crops - have we talked people out of them?
- Why Dee doesn’t grow squash (Burpee’s self-pollinating squash is ‘Sure Thing.’)
- Microgreens!
- Start as early as you can in the spring (Peas!)
- Green beans
On the Bookshelf:
Recaps of favorite books from 2025 episodes.
Carol: Pansies: How to Grow, Reimagine, and Create Beauty with Pansies and Violas by Brenna Estrada (Amazon Link)
Dee: The New Romantic Garden by Jo Thompson (Amazon Link), also Vintage Roses by Jane Eastoe
Dirt:
Forget Pantone's Cloud Dancer… All the colors of the year for 2026…from The Spruce, and
Rabbit Holes:
Dee: Songlever on Instagram
Carol: Another Lost Lady of Garden Writing, Thalassa Cruso
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