Send us a text

Dee and Carol talk about white flowers, winter squashes, Doug Tallamy's new Book, How Can I Help: Saving Nature with Your Yard and more.

For more info and links, check out our newsletter. 

To watch on video, use this link

Insect of the Week:

Bald-Faced Hornets. info from Penn State and Iowa State

Flowers:

W is for:

Wabi-Sabi Gardening!  (Carol’s blog post about it) and White Flowers

Vegetables:    

“Patch for Kids” pumpkin from Burpee (coming soon!).  

Watermelons:  All America Selections has several winners 

On the Bookshelf:  

How Can I Help: Saving Nature with Your Yard, by Doug Tallamy (Amazon Link)

Dirt: 

Lone Star Ticks on Martha’s Vineyard: Tick Bites on Martha’s Vineyard Has Businesses Going Vegan - The New York Times

World’s Tallest Sunflower grown in Ft. Wayne Indiana this summer: WANE

Rabbit Holes:

Dee: Vivian Maier

Carol:

Edna King Mandeville and Atomic Gardening.

Our affiliate links are 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 are almost at the end of the alphabet, but there's still plenty of time in the gardening season. Join us to discuss the letter "V".

For more info, check out our newsletter.

Flowers:

V is for all-things Verbena 

Verbena bonariensis

Verbena ‘Bampton’ (Verbena officinalis var. grandiflora) 

Verbena hastata - Blue Vervain. Can get seeds from Select Seeds

Annual verbena, Verbena x hybrida  Like Verbena ‘Sweetheart Kisses, an AAS Winner. 

Vegetables:   

Vetch as a cover crop. Perennial that can become invasive.

Vitex - Vitex agnus-castus - Chaste Tree

On the Bookshelf:  

A Year and a Day on Just a Few Acres by Peter Larson (Amazon link) His YouTube channel is Just a Few Acres Farm. 

Also, A Very Small Farm by William Paul Winchester (Amazon Link)

Dirt: 

The 2,000-Year-Old ‘Perfume Garden’ in the Ancient City of Pompeii Has Been Restored to Its Former Glory: Smithsonian

And armadillos in Indiana! 

Rabbit Holes:

Dee: New blog post on Substack: Tomatoes, peppers, okra, and squash

Carol:  Discovered more Lost Ladies of Garden Writing and wrote a Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day Post. 

Our affiliate links are 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

This week, we dig into the letter "U" for topics for this episode.

For more info, check out our newsletter.

To watch our We Do Not Care Garden Club video, on YouTube, on Instagram

Flowers:

Under-utilized flowers

• Tradescantia pallida, purple heart, aka Mary’s tears. 
• Barnardia japonica, Japanese jacinth. 
• Begonia grandis, great for shade.. 

Our Choices Underplanting

• Daffodils
• Crocuses
• Snowdrops
• Summer snowflake
• Epimediums
• Hellebores
• Leadwort (Ceratostigma plumbaginoides)
• Caladiums
• Blackberry lilies
• Toad Lilies

Vegetables:    

Unusual vegetables. 

• Cucamelons
• Armenian cucumbers
• Celeriac
• Fall vegetables in general. Many people plant in the spring and then forget about fall planting
• And fall can be the best vegetable garden of the year especially in southern climates. 

On the Bookshelf:  

The Newfoundland Lunch Party: A Sisters of the Soil Novel with Recipes – Sonia Day (Amazon Link) 

Dirt: 

Roblox Grow a Garden Online Game

Rabbit Holes: 

Dee: Babylon Berlin. You can watch it with the MHZ Choice app

Carol: The latest lost lady of garden writing, Lena Mae McCauley and Honey Bee Mill Books. 

 Our affiliate links are 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 their series of gardening through the alphabet. This week, it's the letter T!

For more info, check out our newsletter

Flowers: 

Flowering Tobacco - Nicotiana 

Tulips 

Tithonia, Mexican sunflower. 

Tassel Flower ‘Irish Poet’  Emilia coccinea   From Select Seeds

Vegetables:  

Tomatoes 

Tomatillos 

Turnips - There is an All-America Selection Turnip. Tokyo Cross from 1969

Tulsi - Holy Basil 

On the Bookshelf:   

The 10-Minute Gardener: How to Have a Veggie Garden and a Life—85 Time-Saving Tactics to Be More Efficient and Grow More Food in Less Time by CaliKim (Amazon Link)

Dirt: 

Dogs Sniff out Spotted Lantern Fly (Virginia Tech) 

Rabbit Holes:

Dee:

Carol:  

Shakespeare’s Flowers jigsaw puzzle that I abandoned earlier in the spring.  

A made-for-TV movie about Barbara Pym starring Patricia Routledge called Miss Pym’s Day Out

 Our affiliate links are 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 features flowers and veggies for the letter S today, plus talk about a new book on herbs.

For more info, check out our newsletter.

S is for...

Flowers: 

Scabiosa - Pin Cushion flower.  

Sunflowers:  Sunflower Steve

All American Selection sunflowers include Concert Bell (2022), Ring of Fire (2001), Suntastic Yellow with Black Center(2014)  

Statice -  Limonium sinuatum

Saffron crocuses 

Vegetables:    

Shallots -  Creme Brulee is an All American selection from 2021. 

Swiss chard  

Savory: winter (Satureja montana and summer (Satureja hortensis). 

Sorrel 

On the Bookshelf:    

Herbs in Every Season: 48 Edible and Medicinal Herbs for the Kitchen, Garden, and Apothecary by Bevin Cohen (Amazon link)

Dirt:

Alpha gal: an article picked up by the AP. 

Rabbit Holes:

Dee:  Wall Street Journal article about Giverny. 

Carol’s Bread crumbs to : Fox in the Forest on Instagram

Carol’s rabbit hole of Molly Price, the latest Lost Lady of Garden Writing.

 Our affiliate links are 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 plow through the alphabet in their gardens and this week plow up some R's

For more info, check out our Substack newsletter.

Links!

RoseChat Podcast

Rue (Ruta graveolens) - Article from Mother Earth Gardener - Rue: The Forgotten Herb

Red Impact Bell Peppers, plus Dragonfly peppers

On the Bookshelf:    

Grow 5: Simple seasonal ideas for small outdoor spaces with just five plants, by Lucy Bellamy. (Amazon)

Dirt:

On Substack: Flowerology. She draws cute little pictures and goes in-depth on a flower for each post, like this one for Rest-Harrow Rabbit Holes:

Rabbit Holes:

Mouse Garden on Instagram.  

 Our affiliate links are 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 are back and talking about the letter Q in the garden.

For more details, check out our weekly newsletter.

Watch us on YouTube!

A few links:

From All-America Selections:

Queeny Lime Orange Zinnia  

Marigold Queen Sophia 

Hollyhock Queeny Purple

Basil Siam Queen

On the bookshelf:

Herbal Handbook: With Recipes, Tinctures, Teas, Balms and More by the New York Botanical Garden (Amazon Link)

Dirt: 

Missouri's Highway 13 Butterfly Trail

Rabbit Holes:

Maggie Watson Kamm, a new Lost Lady of Garden Writing

Our affiliate links are 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

We are persistent in gardening through the alphabet, and this week we focused on the letter P.

For more info, check out our newsletter.

Or watch us on YouTube.

A few links:

Easy Wave Sky Blue petunias

All-America Selections Petunia Tidal Wave Silver

On the bookshelf: 

The Hidden Histories of Flowers: Fascinating Stories of Flora by Maddie & Alice Bailey (Amazon Link)

Dirt:

USDA Pomological Watercolors

Rabbit Holes:

Doretta Klaber, latest Lost Lady of Garden Writing

Our affiliate links are 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 keep obstinately sticking to their alphabet theme, this week focusing on "O"  flowers and veggies.

For all info, check out our free weekly newsletter.

You can also watch us on YouTube

A few links: 

Orlaya grandiflora info from Johnny's Selected Seeds

Dee talks about Obedient Plant on Instagram.

On the bookshelf: 

Flower Fables by Louisa M. Alcott (Amazon)

Dirt: Leaf-cutter bee info from Missouri Botanical Garden

Rabbit Holes: A new series on Britbox, Outrageous, based on the Mitford sisters

Our affiliate links are 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

Carol and Dee are plowing through the alphabet and this week focus on the letter N to talk about nasturtiums, nigella, nosegays, nettles, and more.

For all the details, check out our free weekly newsletter.

Watch the recording on YouTube

Some links:

Heirlooms Roses

On the bookshelf: 

Radical Prunings:  A Novel of Officious Advice from the Contessa Compost by Bonnie Thomas Abbott (Amazon)

Dirt:  Historic Apple Trees

Rabbit Holes:

The Cushing Sisters on YouTube

Cassandra Danz, another Lost Lady of Garden Writing

Be sure and check out our newsletter for more links.

Our Affiliates (Linking to them to make a purchase earns us a small commission):
Botanical Interests
Farmers Defense
Etsy
Territorial Seeds
True Leaf Market
Eden Bros
Nature Hills Nursery 

Book and Amazon links are also affiliate links.
Email us anytime at [email protected] 
Our newsletter is on Substack
For more info on Carol  visit her website.  Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens.
For more info on Dee, visit her website.  Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.

Watch this episode on YouTube.

Support the show

On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.