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
Herbs! Here, There, and Everywhere!
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Dee and Carol talk all things herbal this week.
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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 vegetable garden?
On the Bookshelf:
Carol recently bought Time Traveller’s Herbal: Stories and recipes from the historical apothecary cabinet by Amanda Edminston, an herbal storyteller (Amazon link) She’s on Instagram.
She has another book coming out on June 30th: Collected Curiosities: more stories and recipes from the historical apothecary cabinet. (Amazon link)
Dirt:
National Herb Week - May 7th - 13th - Always the week leading up to Mother’s Day, per the International Herb Association.
The Herb Society of America, and why you might want to join it.
Rabbit Holes:
Dee: ‘Kazanlik’ rose from Antique Rose Emporium
Carol: Anthropomorphism, where animals are given human characteristics… Watership Down by Richard Adams, Shady Hollow by Juneau Black, the new movie, The Sheep Detective, which is based on the book, Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann. Beanstack app for reading challenges.
Also the latest lost lady Elda Haring, who was all about growing plants from seed.
A Garden to Visit:
The Chelsea Physic Garden (visited by Dee) and Florilegium Society
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