The Gardenangelists: Flowers, Veggies, and All the Best Dirt

Send a text Dee and Carol talk about all kinds of sedums, ask about growing weird vegetable varieties, and all the other usual topics. For more information, check out our Substack newsletter. To watch us on YouTube, click here. Links: Flowers: It’s the Year of the Sedum, per the National Garden Bureau. On the Bookshelf: Gardenista: The Low-Impact Garden: A Guide to Creating Sustainable Outdoor Spaces by Kendra Wilson with the editors of Gardenista, Photographs by Caitlin Atkinson (Amazon) Dirt: Prickle Free Plants A Garden to Visit: Mission Garden in Tucson, Arizona. Check out our affiliate links here. Book links are also affiliate links. Support the show On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists. On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club. On YouTube.

Send a text Dee and Carol talk about winter aconites, growing parsley, a book of nature-related essays and more. To watch us on YouTube, click this link For more info, check out our Substack newsletter! 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. Check out our affiliate links here. Book links are also affiliate links. Support the show On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists. On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club. On YouTube.

Send us a text Dee and Carol talk about Ficus houseplants, easy seeds for the vegetable garden, a book on old roses, and more. For complete info, check out our Substack newsletter To watch this episode on YouTube, click here. Insect of the Week; Crystal Skippers, from The Last Butterflies: A Scientist’s Quest to Save a Rare and Vanishing Creatureby Nick Haddad. (Amazon link) Flowers: Year of the Ficus, as designated by the National Garden Bureau. See 10 Tips for Growing Ficus Vegetables: From John Scheeper’s Kitchen Garden Seeds: Ten easiest vegetables to grow from seed. On the Bookshelf: Where the Old Roses Grow: Vita Sackville-West and the Battle for Beauty during Wartime by Janelle McCulloch (Amazon Link). Dirt: The Frazzled English woman aesthetic. Rabbit Holes: Dee: A children’s Bulgarian alphabet book from Bookshop.org. Carol: Researching another Lost Lady of Garden Writing A Garden to Visit: Morton Arboretum How to support us Support the show On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists. On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club. On YouTube.

Send us a text Dee and Carol discussed new All-America Selections they are growing from seed, a new book on cottage gardening, and more. To find out more about this episode, check out our Substack newsletter To watch this episode on YouTube, click here. Insect of the Week: Green Lacewings, info from Old Farmer’s Almanac Flowers: New All-America Selections from the National Garden Bureau to grow from seed Vegetables: New All-America Selections from the National Garden Bureau to grow from seed On the Bookshelf: The Contemporary Cottage Garden: Climate-Friendly, Mindful Methods for Growing Flowers and Food by Pamela Hubbard (TimberPress, Feb. 10, 2026) (Amazon) Dirt: 8 Trends You’ll See in Gardens in 2026 via The Spruce, plus Outdated Backyard Trends from House & Garden. Rabbit Holes: Dee: Rose oil (DEE ADD LINK) Carol: Lost Lady of Garden Writing, Jessica Kerr. A Garden to Visit: Chicago Botanic Garden Check out our affiliate links here. Most book links are also affiliate links. Support the show On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists. On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club. On YouTube.

Send us a text Dee and Carol discuss how to start a new rose garden from scratch, how to use seed catalogs, a new book, Wild & Free Gardening, plus a variety of other gardening topics. For more info, check out our Substack newsletter. To watch us on YouTube, use this link. Lavender ‘Phenomenal’ and Dollie’s Farm Bar Soap Flowers: Starting a rose garden from scratch. David Austin Roses Mill’s Magic Rose fertilizer Vegetables: Going analog with seed catalogs Onward & Upward in the Garden by Katherine S. White On the Bookshelf: The Wild & Free Garden by Stephanie Rose of Garden Therapy. (Amazon link) Dirt: Roses are not red. Rabbit Holes: Dee: November’s Blue Ridge Mountain Apple Profile: Stayman Winesap Carol: More Lost Ladies of Garden Writing Gardens to Visit: Lurie Garden in Chicago Check out our affiliate links here. Most book links are also affiliate links. Support the show On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists. On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club. On YouTube.

Send us a text Dee and Carol talked about azaleas, growing celery, winter's effect on plants, a book on urban nature and several other topics. For more info, check out our Substack newsletter. You can also watch us on YouTube. Links and topics: Flowers: 2026 is the Year of the Azalea per the National Garden Bureau. Vegetables: Celery, celeriac, and celery microgreens On the bookshelf: This is How a Robin Drinks: Essays on Urban Nature, by Joanna Brichetto (Amazon Link). Dirt: Thermonasty and Chromoplasticity, as described on Substack by Ben Probert. Rabbit Holes: Another Lost Lady of Garden Writing, Audrey Wynne Hatfield. Check out our affiliate links here. Most book links are also affiliate links. Support the show On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists. On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club. On YouTube.

Send us a text Dee and Carol talk about crocuses, hot peppers (Capsicum), a new book: The Continuous Vegetable Garden, and celery vases. For more info, check out their weekly newsletter. To watch this episode on YouTube, click here. Insect of the Week: Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live by Rob Dunn (Amazon link) Flowers: 2026 is the Year of the Crocus per the National Garden Bureau. Great places to order bulbs from include Van Engelen for large orders and our friends Brent and Becky’s Bulbs. Vegetables: The National Garden Bureau has proclaimed 2026 is the year of the hot pepper! Capsicum sp. On the Bookshelf: The Continuous Vegetable Garden: Create a Perpetual Food Garden that Sows and Grows Itself by Charlie Nardozzi (Amazon link) Dirt: Celery vases are making a big comeback! Article in House Beautiful. Question for listeners… Do you have a celery vase? Rabbit Holes: A new Lost Lady of Garden Writing, Peggie Schulz. Elizabeth Coatsworth’s children’s book, The Cat Who Went to Heaven (Amazon link) Check out our affiliate links here. Support the show On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists. On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club. On YouTube.

Send us a text Dee and Carol discuss some of their favorite topics from the past year as they sign off for 2025. To watch this episode on YouTube, click here For more information, check out our Substack newsletter. 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 Vegetables: Recaps vegetable topics Sure ThinOn 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 Check out our affiliate links here. Thank you for listening and supporting us! Support the show On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists. On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club. On YouTube.

Send us a text Dee and Carol talk about winter plants for the garden, veggie cookbooks, chestnut trees, square foot gardening and more. For more info, check out our Substack newsletter. To watch us recording on YouTube, click here. (Even if you don’t regularly watch us on YouTube, we’d love it if you’d subscribe to our channel and hit the “like” on one of our videos. Question of the Week: What about root washing before planting? Is there a benefit? Seems traumatic to the tree or shrub! Good to do, according to the Garden Professors and Garden Myths Insect of the Week Buffalo treehopper. Flowers: Christmas-y Plants for your Garden Hellebores - The Christmas Rose, Helleborus niger Red-twig dogwood (Cornus sericea) and Yellow-twig Dogwoods (Cornus sericea ‘Budd’s Yellow) Any Hollies with Berries Fancy Evergreens - The Conifer Society Plants for the Winter Garden: Perennials, Grasses, Shrubs, and Trees to Add Interest in the Cold and Snow by Warren Leach (Amazon Link) Vegetables: Veggie Cookbooks including: Six Seasons, A New Way With Vegetables, by Joshua McFadden (Amazon link) and Tender: A Cook and his Vegetable Patch, by Nigel Slater. (Amazon link) On the Bookshelf: Square Foot Gardening - Fourth Edition (Amazon link) Dirt: The American Chestnut: Finding full-grown trees is a holy grail for some and efforts to restore them Check out our affiliate links here. Support the show On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists. On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club. On YouTube.

Send us a text Dee and Carol talked about plants for Christmas, growing root vegetables, two books on Christmas plants, and more! For more information, check out our newsletter. To watch this episode on YouTube, click here. Flowers mentioned: sCarol’s article about Christmas Plants in Family Handyman is still out there! Dee has a post on how to grow amaryllis and paperwhites indoors. Vegetables: Getting to the root of things. Root vegetables: Vegetables discussed included: On the Bookshelf: Decking the Halls: The Folklore and Traditions of Christmas Plants by Linda Allen (2000) and Decking the Halls: Trees, Flowers, Herbs & Greenery to Celebrate the Holiday Season by Janet Melrose and Sheryl Normandeau (2025) Dirt: Disney’s Record Breaking Tomato Tree Rabbit Holes: Dee: King and Conquerer on Amazon Prime. Carol: Lost Ladies of Garden Writing who wrote Christmas-themed books Check out our affiliate links here. We appreciate all our listeners and readers, and love it when you send us suggestions. Do you have a suggestion for a topic we should discuss or for our We Do Not Care segment? If so, send it our way! Have a great week, everyone! Support the show On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists. On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club. On YouTube.

Send us a text Dee and Carol talk about flowers and veggies with 'viridis' as the species name, plus a book on houseplant propagation, and more. For all the details, check out our newsletter: To watch this episode on YouTube: click here Insect of the Week: Paper Wasps Flowers: Ephedra viridis - Morman Tea Helleborus viridis - Green Hellebore Asclepias viridis - Green Milkweed Crataegus viridis - Green Hawthorn Acer palmatum ‘Viridis.’ Vegetables: Collard Greens - Brassica oleracea var. viridis Callaloo - Amaranthus viridis Cucumber Viridis F1 On the Bookshelf: The Ultimate Guide to Houseplant Propagation: Step-by-step techniques for making more houseplants… for free! By Lindsay Sisti from @alltheplantbabies on Instagram (Amazon Link) Dirt: Why do ginkgo trees lose their leaves all at once? On Instagram Rabbit Holes: Dee: Where does rose oil come from? An article, an Instagram link, and an article about how it’s used! Carol: The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, Volume 3 by Beth Brower, and The Killer Question by Janice Hallett. Check out our affiliate links here. Support the show On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists. On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club. On YouTube.

Send us a text Dee and Carol continue to focus on different species names and this week it's "repens." For all the details, check out their newsletter! To watch them on YouTube, use this link! Insect of the Week: giant leopard moth. Flowers: Trifolium repens - White clover Ajuga reptans - Carpet bugleweed (“reptans” is close enough to “repens” for us!) Veronica repens - Creeping speedwell Mahonia repens - Creeping Oregon grape. Callisia repens - Turtle vine Vegetables: Wild Strawberries: Fragaria repens Rubus repens - Star Violets aka False Violets aka Runaway Robin On the Bookshelf: Vintage Roses: Beautiful Varieties for Home and Garden by Jane Eastoe, Photographs by Georgianna Lane (Amazon Link) Dirt: A Fond Farewell From Farmer’s Almanac. Rabbit Holes: Lost Lady of Garden Writing, Florence Knock. Carol’s weekly newsletter, “In the Garden With Carol” Dee’s Instagram Reel on things to do in the garden now and what you can wait to do. The garden fairies wrote a post on Carol’s blog. Dee’s Instagram Reel about structure in your garden. Carol’s Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day post. Check out our affiliate links here. Support the show On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists. On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club. On YouTube.

Send us a text Dee and Carol talk about flowers, herbs, and even a weed that all have the species name of "officianalis." Plus, they review a new book about growing vegetables for preserving. To find out more, check out our weekly newsletter on Substack Watch us on YouTube! Insect of the week: Mole Crickets: Flowers: With “officinalis” as the species name. Primula officinalisPrimula verisPulmonaria officinalisSaponaria officinalisVerbena officinalisHyssopus officinalisVegetables: Herbs with “officinalis” as the species name. Salvia officinalisRosmarinus officinalisSalvia rosmarinusMelissa officinalisCalendula officinalisBorago officinalisLevisticum officinalisOn the Bookshelf: The Preserver’s Garden: How to Grow a Garden for Fermenting, Canning, Pickling, Dehydrating, Freeze Drying & Moreby Staci & Jeremy Hill (Amazon Link) Dirt: Taraxacum officinale - Common dandelion Rabbit Holes: Dee: CBD creams Carol: Cozy mysteries and talking flowers Check out our affiliate links here. We appreciate all our listeners and readers, and love it when you send us suggestions. Do you have a suggestion for our We Do Not Care segment? If so, send it our way! Have a great week everyone! Support the show On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists. On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club. On YouTube.

Send us a text Dee and Carol talk about plants with species name of "texensis" and briefly talk about the species name "cardinalis." They also talk about a new book, pollen banking, and some of their rabbit holes. For more links and details, check out our newsletter. To watch on YouTube, click here. Flowers we discussed. Lupinus texensis - Texas bluebonnet or Texas lupine, info from the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. Carex texensis - Texas sedge, info from the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Clematis texensis - Scarlet Clematis, Info from Gardenia Vegetables: Cercis canadensis var. texensis - Texas redbud, Info from Missouri Botanical Garden Columbrian texensis - Texas hog plum, info from the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Quercus texana -Texas Red Oak, Info from Missouri Botanical Garden On the Bookshelf: Vibrant Harvest: Cultivating a Kaleidoscope of Colors in Your Vegetable Garden with Heirlooms, Modern Hybrids, and More by Sandra Mao of Sandra.UrbanGarden (Amazon Link) Publishes December 2. Sandra’s Instagram. Dirt: Pollen banking and a tiny unrelated tidbit: favorite crayola crayon colors Rabbit Holes: Dee: Gianni Rodari plus The Flowers of Little Ida by Hans Christian Andersen Carol: Harriet Klamroth Morse, a Lost Lady of Garden Writing. Plus she’s on Volume 3 of The Unselected Journals of Emma C. Lion. Check out our affiliate links here. We appreciate all our listeners and readers. Have a great week everyone! For more info, check out our Substack newsletter. Support the show On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists. On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club. On YouTube.

Send us a text Dee and Carol talk about plants with a species name of virginina, a book on romantic garden and more in this week's episode. For more info, check out our newsletter! To watch this week’s episode on YouTube, click here. Flowers: Tradescantia virginiana (Virginia Spiderwort). ‘Sweet Kate’ has lime-green foliage. Physostegia virginiana (Obedient Plant) Dee’s reel on this flower. Persicaria virginiana (Virginia Knotweed) Trees and shrubs Juniperus virginiana (Eastern Redcedar) Magnolia virginiana (Sweetbay Magnolia) Rosa virginiana (Virginia Rose) Vegetables: American persimmon, Diospyros virginiana On the Bookshelf: The New Romantic Garden by Jo Thompson (Amazon Link). Jo’s Substack is The Gardening Mind. Dirt: Prue’s Great Garden Plot Carol’s blog post from last week. Check out our affiliate links here. We appreciate all our listeners and readers. Have a great week everyone! For more info, check out our Substack newsletter. Support the show On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists. On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club. On YouTube.

Send us a text To watch this episode on: click here For more info, check out our newsletter Carol’s Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day post Ruth Stout, a Lost Lady of Garden Writing. Flowers: Gardening with vulgare flowers Leucantheum vulgare - Ox-eye daises Syringa vulgaris - Common lilac Aquilegia vulgaris - Columbine Primula vulgaris - Primroses. Silene vulgaris - Bladder Campion. Filipendual vulgaris - Dropwort. Vegetables: Growing with vulgare in the vegetable garden. Some herbs: Origanum vulgare - oregano Thymus vulgare - common thyme Foeniculum vulgare - fennel Tanacetum vulgare - Tansy - don’t grow it. Beta vulgaris - beets - what’s new in the beet world? There’s an AAS Winner from 2015 - Avalanche, which is white. The history of beets. On the Bookshelf: Love Letter to a Garden by Debbie Millman (Amazon Link) Thank you to TimberPress for review copies! Dirt: Screaming Plants: Rabbit Holes: The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. by Sandra Gulland The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, Vol 1 by Beth Brower. Check out our affiliate links here. We appreciate all our listeners and readers. Have a great week everyone! Support the show On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists. On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club. On YouTube.

Send us a text Carol and Dee talk about phenology, no-dig gardening, a new book on gardens in literature and more. For more details, check out our weekly newsletter. To watch this week’s episode, click here. Carol’s garden fairies wrote a blog post and Carol built Lego mini bonsai trees. Insects of the week: Wooly worms Assassin bug. Wheel bug. Ugh bug. Info from the Missouri Dept. of Conservation Flowers: Phenology Indiana Phenology and National Phenology Network, b Vegetables: Ruth Stout’s How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back. (1955) (Amazon) Patricia Lanza’s Lasagna Gardening (Amazon) Just say no to cardboard: the science from the garden professors On the Bookshelf: The Literary Garden: Imaginary Gardens of Writers and Poets by Sandra Lawrence, illustrations by Lucille Clerc (Amazon) Dirt: Cramscaping Rabbit Holes: A few books: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce (Amazon) Peace Like a River by Leif Enger (Amazon) Check out our affiliate links here. We appreciate all our listeners and readers. Have a great week! Support the show On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists. On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club. On YouTube.

Send us a text Dee and Carol talk about snapdragons, giant vegetables, a new book on perennials and several other topics! For more information, check out our newsletter. To watch this episode on YouTube, click here Insect of the Week: Boxelder bugs and milkweed bugs Flowers: Snapdragons, Antirrhinum majus All-America Selections of snapdragons Vegetables: Growing giant vegetables Pumpkinista in Maine On the Bookshelf: Essential Guide to Perennial Gardening from American Horticultural Society (Amazon link) Dirt: Carol’s blog post “What you do when the first frost of fall arrives tells us a lot about how you garden, and Gardening is good for you, from Martha Stewart Rabbit Holes: Dee: Golden kiwis. Can we grow them? Carol: Catharine Osgood Foster, Lost Lady of Garden Writing Check out our affiliate links here. We appreciate all our listeners and readers. Have a great week! Support the show On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists. On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club. On YouTube.

Send us a text Dee and Carol turn their attention toward fall in the garden and discuss what to put in fall containers, lettuce they love to grow, a new book by Jacqueline van der Kloet, tracking invasive plants, and more. For more information, check out our weekly newsletter. If you’d like to watch this podcast, click here. Insect of the Week: Garden spiders Flowers: Refreshing your fall pots Sarah Raven’s method for planting containers Vegetables: Lettuce worth growing, including: Salanova® Green Butter Salanova® Lettuce Black-seeded Simpson Great Lakes 118, which is an heirloom variety On the Bookshelf: My Garden: A Year of Design and Experimentation by Jacqueline Van Der Kloet (Amazon Link) Dirt: Midwest Invasive Plant Network’s Public Gardens as Sentinels Against Invasive Plants Rabbit Holes: Dee: How do they make pelleted seed? (YouTube) Check out our affiliate links here. Support the show On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists. On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club. On YouTube.

Send us a text Dee and Carol wrap up their project to garden through the alphabet with the letter Z! For more information, check out our newsletter. To watch this episode: this link. Dee’s virtual Fit walk took her to Yew trees of Borrowdale Flowers: Zephyranthes, commonly called rain lilies. Southern Bulb Company has them for sale. Zinnias Zantedeschia, commonly called Calla Lily Vegetables: Zucchini - summer squash. Zebra-striped tomatoes - Purple Zebra F1 is an All-America Selection Zingiber officinale - Ginger How to grow info from Old Farmer’s Almanac On the Bookshelf: The Essential Guide to Bulbs: Grow a Bounty of Beautiful Bulbs in Gardens and Containers by Jenny Rose Carey (TimberPress) (Amazon Link) Dirt: Light Pollution. Check out Dark Sky website and The Garden Goes Dark by Phyllis Graces Rabbit Holes: Zombie game link? DEE CHECK THIS IS THE RIGHT ONE Louise B. Mansfield… the latest lost lady of garden writing. The Night Gardener by Jonathon Auxier (2015) Our affiliate links are now here. Support the show On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists. On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club. On YouTube.