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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For those who begin to garden in May with the aid of a smoking credit card, an SUV, and a minion or two, very little goes wrong as the spring garden joyfully romps towards summer.

But for those who started partying hard as early as February, the super-sized hangover is real.

Where did the color go? Where did the time go? Why do I have a headache? The strength of spring is equaled only in its spectacular demise.

There are spring ‘gaps’ in every garden, but they’re not the same for everyone. This week the girls aim to clean up from the rager that just happened, reclaim that spring energy with succession planting strategies, and figure out how to push the daffodil foliage under the sofa.

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In One More Sip of the Garden Mixer, episode 13 1/2, Marianne and Leslie give you the lowdown on this burning garden question.

When the spring erupts in tones of yellow, lemon, gold, and that weird orangey-mustard that you’re not sure you love, it’s time to bring on the blue.

Leslie Harris and Marianne Willburn have suggestions for how to achieve that in your garden, and dip briefly into the controversy surrounding the [almost] universally loved daffodil.

From blue bells in the woods to blue spells when you're pulling out Vinca minor by the fistful, they'll touch on some of gardeners' favorites, and get sucked down a rabbit hole or two on their way.

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Welcome to One More Sip (of The Garden Mixer)

…a short form 15-minute episode for in-between weeks where Leslie & Marianne try — so far, successfully — to discuss one random topic that deserves some attention. But not necessarily agreement.

This week we're talking gardening click-bait. The good, the bad, and the what-the-actual-hell?

There have always been hucksters, shysters, snake oil salesmen, and dodgy characters selling magic beans.

And now we have the internet.

What’s the best way to approach the clickbait that tempts us all? Leslie’s approach is to watch two seconds and send it to Marianne to annoy her. Marianne’s approach is to dutifully wade through it and get annoyed. Smart people can do better than both of them. But what’s truly bad? What’s just clever marketing? What do you believe? Where should you go for good information? Links in the full show notes at The Garden Mixer’s Substack.

Join us for One More Sip of The Garden Mixer, and send us your comments, questions and suggestions at comments@thegardenmixer.com

It's a wild mix of topics this week on The Garden Mixer. Along with their guest, author and speaker Brie Arthur, Leslie and Marianne talk plant propagation, foodscaping, blooming shrubs, maintenance-hungry perennials, and lifechanging illness.

Turns out Brie is not just an expert on making baby plants, but can also share a thing or two about physically & mentally dealing with tick borne disease when your life is lived 100% in horticulture.

It's not going to stop her -- or either of them for that matter. (spoiler alert: Grey Goose vodka is your friend.) Join Leslie and Marianne for another episode of laughs, irreverence, and a viburnum or two on The Garden Mixer.

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