This week we decided to come clean and admit that, based on some of the amazingly detailed emails we’ve received since starting The Garden Mixer, our listeners are very much smarter than we are.

We’re dipping into a few of these [surprisingly polite] messages to bring their plant picks, techniques, and general wisdom to everyone.

Featured:

Garden writer Kathy Purdy from Upstate New York,

Paul Westervelt, Head Grower at Saunders Bros. in Virginia,

Tim Calkins, plantsman & galanthophile also from Virginia.

Matt Mattus, Senior Director of Horticulture for AHS

Are our listeners smarter than us? Oh hell yes.

(That should help to earn our explicit rating.)

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This week, the girls welcome Linda Vater to the Mix and try to stay focused on important topics like Marianne’s new topiary snail.

Linda Vater is a blogger, garden designer, stylist andlifestyle influencer with a penchant for grabbing shears and a gin and tonic and going after defenseless shrubs who don’t know how much they’re going to love their new look.

She has gardened for decades in Oklahoma City and is nationally known for inspiring others to shine a garden lens on everything from what’s for dinner to what you’re picking up at a thrift store.

Topiary, downsizing, and seeing the extraordinary in ordinary plants are all in the mix this week with Linda. Join us!

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This week we're mixing up indoor/outdoor lines with a #houseplantvacation.

Do you allow your hard-working houseplants a little time off during the growing season to be the plants they were born to be? Just as we could all use a little time soaking up the sun, getting the drinks in, and feeling fresh air on our faces, our houseplants could too.

What a shame that time outside doesn’t make us look years younger like our plants.

Marianne shares her thoughts as the author of Tropical Plants and How to Love Them, and Leslie shares her desperation as someone who wants a clean & beautiful house at the beginning of spring.

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