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
Bean Banter and Other Gardening Topics
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Dee and Carol talked about decorative beans to grow for flowers, beans to dry, and other gardening topics.
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Links!
Verbena bonariensis 'Vanity’ from All-America Selections
Insect of the Week
June Beetles Info from Wisconsin Horticulture Extension
Flowers:
Hyacinth beans - Lablab purpureus
Scarlet runner beans - Phaseolus coccineus
Yardlong beans - Vigna unguiculata subsp. Sesquipedalis
Corkscrew vine beans, Cochliasanthus caracalla
Vegetables:
Alternative beans to grow - black beans, kidney beans, northern beans - mostly for drying. General info from the Old Farmer’s Almanac. Seed sources for older varieties: Rancho Gordo, Seed Savers Exchange, and Southern Exposure Seed Exchange
On the Bookshelf:
Saving Seeds, Preserving Taste by Bill Best (Amazon Link)
Dirt:
Harkening back to last week’s episode on trees: Planting Trees at Waddesdon Manor
Rabbit Holes:
Lost Lady of Garden Writing, Danske Dandridge,
The Garden at Rose Brake: Garden Writings of Danske Dandridge,
Muv: The Story of the Mitford Girls’ Mother by Rachel Tretheway (2026)
A Garden to Visit:
Visit an All-America Selection garden near you!
Thank you:
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With a shared love of gardening…
Carol and Dee
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