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Send us Fan Mail Dee and Carol talked about self-sowing plants, how to shop at your local farmer's market and other gardening topics! For more info and links, check out our Substack newsletter. To watch on YouTube, click here Why didn’t my daffodils bloom? Info from the American Daffodil Society  Insect of the Week Hyles lineata, White-lined Sphinx moth. Info from Wisconsin Extension On the Bookshelf: Plantiful: Start Small, Grow Big With 150 Plants That Spread, Self-Sow, And Overwinter by Kristin Green (Amazon Link) Dirt: Folks, This Ain’t Normal: A Farmer’s Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World, by Joel Salatin Rabbit Holes: The Lost Lady of Garden Writing, Mrs. H. B. Tillotson Also, books by David George Haskell, including How Flowers Made Our World, The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature, The Songs of Trees: Stories of Nature’s Great Connectors, and Thirteen Ways to Smell a Tree (Blackwells) from the library.  A Garden to Visit: University of Washington Botanical Garden, home of the Eleanor C. Miller Horticultural Library,  As always, we appreciate all of you for listening to our podcast and for reading this newsletter! (If you’d like to support us, 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 Fan Mail This week, Dee and Carol discuss new plants, vegetables of the world, and more. For more info, check out our Substack newsletter To watch on YouTube, click hereTo watch on YouTube, click here. Question of the Week: Growing Nicotiana. Select Seeds i  Insect of the Week: Great spangled fritillary butterfly, whose food source is violets! Flowers: What's new and eye-catching? Check out our Substack newsletter for links Vegetables: Bring the world to your vegetable garden, more info on our Substack newsletter On the Bookshelf: The Curious Kitchen Gardener: Uncommon Plants & How to Eat Them by Linda Ziedrich (Amazon Link) (Her website) Dirt: Growing Giant Tomatoes on IG and the seed that cost $2,000. Rabbit Holes: Dee: Mary Magdalene and the red egg on Instagram.  Carol: Mrs. H. B. Tillotson, the next Lost Lady of Garden Writing, Burrowcore, and two podcast episodes: one with Adam Frost on the Talking Gardens with Gardens Illustrated podcast, the other with Monty Don on the Rosebud with Gyles Brendeth podcast. A Garden to Visit: Bloedel Reserve, Seattle, Washington. Dee’s blog post about it As always, we appreciate all of you for listening to our podcast! (If you’d like to support us, 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 Fan Mail Carol and Dee discuss some Easter flowers you can plant in the garden, coloring Easter eggs with natural materials, a biography of Gilbert White and more. For all the details, check out our Substack newsletter. To watch us on YouTube, which includes an extra segment at the end, click here.   Insect of the Week:  Grubs… How to control them, from Bob Vila Flowers: Can I plant… Easter Lilies and other potted flowering plants. Which ones will grow in your garden?  Info from Family Handyman  Vegetables: Coloring Easter Eggs Naturally: From Martha Stewart. Other options: from BHG On the Bookshelf: A Year With Gilbert White: The First Great Nature Writer, by Jenny Uglow (Amazon Link) Dirt: Beware of the influencer gardening info! Also, for fun:  Dreams, defined via an IG post Rabbit Holes: Dee was on PBS talking about Alpha-Gal Syndrome. Carol researched Ruth Shaw Ernst as a Lost Ladies of Garden Writing A Garden to Visit: Longue Vue House and Garden in New Orleans If you’d like to support us, 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 Fan Mail Dee and Carol talk about reasons why you might want to grow flowers or vegetables and how that helps you decide what to plant, plus all the usual topics. For complete info, check out our Substack newsletter. To view us on YouTube, click here Other Links: Insect of the Week. Chiggers, with info from the Cleveland Clinic  On the Bookshelf: Art From The Garden: Create 25 Beautiful Botanical Projects, by Kerry Michaels (Amazon link) Dirt: Dilston Physic Garden and Dr. Elaine Perry, an encounter on Instagram Rabbit Holes: Hanna Rion, Carol’s latest Lost Lady of Garden Writing. Videos from a young woman in England named Hanna who tries out life in the 1940s on her YouTube channel Real Vintage Dolls House inspired Carol’s blog post about Spinstercore Garden A Garden to Visit: The Gardens at the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles County.  If you’d like to support us, 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 Fan Mail Dee and Carol talked about early spring annuals, other than pansies and violas, preparing your soil in the vegetable garden a new book on floriography, and more! For all the details and more links, check out our Substack newsletter. A few links: To watch the video of us recording over on YouTube,  click here.  Insect of the Week Midges or No-see-ums, from Insect Shield, plus Dee’s post about how to wear Insect Shield clothing. On the Bookshelf: Modern Floriography: Flowers, Gardens, and Gifts Inspired by the Language of Flowers by Teresa Sabankaya (Amazon Link) Dirt: Sussex Fairy Fossil (YouTube) and (Facebook) Rabbit Holes: Theo of Golden, and t an interview with the author, Allen Levi.   Dee explained her life right now in this video A Garden to Visit: Botanical Gardens at The Huntington As always, we appreciate all of you for listening to our podcast! (If you’d like to support us, 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 Fan Mail Dee and Carol talk about pelargoniums and scented geraniums, strawberries, and more. For complete info, check out our Substack newsletter To watch us on YouTube, click here Little brown ants! Carol uses Terro Ant Killer Baits Flowers: Pelargoniums and scented geraniums Vegetables: Carol’s blog post about growing microgreens On the Bookshelf: Watch out for AI generated books like these. Signs it is AI generated are too many books, unknown author, no pictures, only available on Amazon, etc. Rose Chat podcast, the episode on growing roses in containers. Dirt: In Defense of the Gardener’s Voice by Marianne Willburn Rabbit Holes: Dee:  Theo of Golden, by Allen Levi.  Carol: Latest Lost Lady of Garden Writing, Edna F. McCormack The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax, by Dorothy Gilman A Garden to Visit: Gardens at the Getty Center in Los Angeles. As always, we appreciate all of you for listening to our podcast! (If you’d like to support us, check out our affiliate links here. Book links are also affiliate links.) To watch us on YouTube, click here Support the show On Instagram:  Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists. On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club. On YouTube.

Send us Fan Mail Dee and Carol are back to talk about impatiens, quick wins in the vegetable garden, a new book on cut flowers and several other topics, planned and unplanned. For more information, check out our Substack newsletter To watch this episode on YouTube, click here.  If you are interested in Dee's new garden hose, here’s the affiliate link. Flowers:  National Garden Bureau has declared it to be the Year of the Impatien.   On the Bookshelf:  The Beginner’s Cut Flower Garden: Grow, Nourish, and Create Bliss Year-Round, by Elizabeth Brown with photos by Lindsay Fairchild (Amazon Link).   Dirt:  Burp Your House.  Garden to Visit: Tucson Botanical Gardens  Rabbit Holes:  Bertha Damon, a Lost Lady of Garden Writing.   The series of books about Mrs. Pollifax, CIA spy!   Baba Marta Day, celebrated on March 1 in Bulgaria.  Also  Marce Catlett: The Force of a Story by Wendell Berry? (Amazon Link) (Check out our affiliate links here. Book links are also affiliate links.) As always, we appreciate all of you for listening to the podcast! Support the show On Instagram:  Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists. On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club. On YouTube.

Send us Fan Mail 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 us Fan Mail 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 Fan Mail 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 Fan Mail 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 Fan Mail 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 Fan Mail 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 Fan Mail 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 Fan Mail 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 ZinniasPansiesLisianthusSignet MarigoldsViolasVegetables: Recaps vegetable topics Cole crops - have we talked people out of them?Why Dee doesn’t grow squash (Burpee’s self-pollinating squash is ‘Sure Thing.’)Microgreens!Start as early as you can in the spring (Peas!)Green beansOn 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.