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
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Dee and Carol talk about winter aconites, growing parsley, a book of nature-related essays and more.
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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 Mattus in American Gardener, Jan/Feb 2026, the magazine of the American Horticultural Society
Johnny’s Seeds has several varieties of parsley.
On the Bookshelf: The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year, by Margaret Renkl. (Amazon link)
Dirt: Don’t smell the roses… go local, go organic. Check lists on Slowflowers.com to find a florist in your area who is more likely to have pesticide-free flowers and maybe consider something other than roses for Valentine’s Day.
Rabbit Holes: Ann Leighton, the latest Lost Lady of Garden Writing.
A Garden to Visit: Garfield Park Conservatory.
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