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 Chat with Hydrangeas, Veggie Garden Flops, and Corn Starch
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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.
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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 your failures and not throw in the trowel, partially inspired by an essay in American Gardener, from American Horticultural Society.
On the Bookshelf:
Hydrangea Happiness: Planting, Pruning, and Blooming by C. L. Fornari (Amazon link) (Publishes April 30)
Dirt:
Using cornstarch in the garden, via Martha Stewart
Rabbit Holes:
Dee: Heritage Rose Foundation and her upcoming talk on Old Garden Roses and Their Companions. The pelargonium Dee was trying to remember was ‘Mrs. Pollock.’
Carol: Working on her presentation on Tips and Tricks to Spring into Gardening for Franciscan Senior Promise, local group.
A Garden to Visit:
Atlanta History Center and in particular the Cherokee Garden Library. That was very special.
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