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All About Alliums
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May 22, 2026
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| 6/11/26 | All About Alliums | Alliums are more than just big purple lollipops — though those are magnificent and need no apologies. This episode covers the full arc of the genus: from the early-season small species to the big June globes, through the alien-landed wonders of late spring and early summer, into the summer-blooming perennial types that changed how many gardeners think about late-season color. Whether or not Leslie and Marianne can do a 24/7 Allium channel based on the amount of species in this cool genus (970), they can certainly do a dive deep into the allium rabbit hole. The Allium Channel. 24/7…. hmm… bears thinking about.___________________Please hit the subscribe button so we can keep you smiling while you hit the beautiful mess [your garden] out there.Full Show Notes at The Garden Mixer Podcast’s Substack____________________Socials – Pick Your Platform:Follow us on Instagram @thegardenmixerIndulge us on TikTok @the.garden.mixerSpar with us on X @gardenmixerpod“French Bistro” theme by Adieu Adieu. License D0LZBINY30GGTBBW | — | ||||||
| 5/29/26 | Container Gardening Hacks Beyond “Thriller, Spiller, Filler” | HACK YOUR POTS: SMART PLANTS. PERFECT PLACEMENTIt’s prime container gardening season, and everywhere gardeners are spending more than they should to achieve the dream of pots that stop people in their tracks and make their neighbors slightly jealous. But as anyone who has watched a lovingly assembled pot turn into a crispy disappointment knows — it’s not quite as simple as thriller, spiller, filler. (Those words. So useful. So annoying.) Today on The Garden Mixer, Leslie and Marianne are getting into the real business of containers: placement, proportion, pairing, and the hacks that professional container gardeners actually use — the ones they learned the hard way, so you don’t have to. There will be opinions about sweet potato vine. There will be strong feelings about saucers. And somewhere in there, a 95-year-old gardener named Donna is going to redefine your potting vocabulary. If Leslie can remember what she said. Grab your trowel. And maybe a dark and stormy.___________________Please hit the subscribe button so we can keep you smiling while you hit the beautiful mess [your garden] out there.Full Show Notes at The Garden Mixer Podcast’s Substack____________________Socials – Pick Your Platform:Follow us on Instagram @thegardenmixerIndulge us on TikTok @the.garden.mixerSpar with us on X @gardenmixerpod“French Bistro” theme by Adieu Adieu. License D0LZBINY30GGTBBW | — | ||||||
| 5/22/26 | Hot Flashes in the Garden! (actually, microclimates) | Before “microclimates” became a gardening buzzword, Leslie and Marianne were already having hot flashes in the garden. 🔥🌿In this vintage One More Sip episode of The Garden Mixer, we talk about:• hot vs cool pockets in the garden• why some plants fry in summer and freeze in spring• raised beds, slopes, walls, and heat traps• tropicals, hostas, wisteria heartbreak, and elephant ears• Thomas Jefferson’s surprisingly clever vegetable garden design• and how understanding your own garden is the real gardening superpowerAlso included:🍸 Marianne’s legendary goddess dress🍸 Leslie comparing gardening to golf bunker shots🍸 Hot Girl Summer Gardening™🍸 More botanical pronunciation adventures than anyone asked forThis episode originally aired for paid One More Sip subscribers and is now being released publicly one year later.#gardening #gardenpodcast #microclimates #gardeningtips #plants #thegardenmixer #horticulture #gardendesign | — | ||||||
| 5/15/26 | High Impact, Low Effort Flowers | HIGH IMPACT, LOW EFFORT FLOWERS THAT DO THE WORK FOR YOU When the growing season is moving at breakneck speed, an easy win in the form of copious, gorgeous, hey-I-forgot-about-THOSE! flowers is not only cherished, but longed for. Even gardeners who insist on making things more difficult for themselves (ahem…Marianne?) can enjoy the guilty pleasure of high impact, low effort blooms that do a disproportional amount of the work, and make you look like you know what you’re doing. In this week’s episode of The Garden Mixer, Leslie and Marianne share some of their favorite flower-power plants, and confess that sometimes, their best laid plans are made better by plants who showed up, grabbed a drink, and quietly got on with the business of being beautiful.___________________Please hit the subscribe button so we can keep you smiling while you hit the beautiful mess [your garden] out there.Full Show Notes at The Garden Mixer Podcast’s Substack____________________Socials – Pick Your Platform:Follow us on Instagram @thegardenmixerIndulge us on TikTok @the.garden.mixerSpar with us on X @gardenmixerpod“French Bistro” theme by Adieu Adieu. License D0LZBINY30GGTBBW | — | ||||||
| 5/1/26 | The Big Fat Peony Episode | Flamboyant, sophisticated, blousy and beautiful - the peony tops the favorites chart of so many gardeners (and non-gardeners), that we had to devote a spring episode to them. They are delicate, but tough, and can live for up to a century -– so it makes sense to figure out what you want and where you want it before you plant one. Leslie & Marianne start that conversation with their favorites today, on The Garden Mixer.___________________Please hit the subscribe button so we can keep you smiling while you hit the beautiful mess [your garden] out there.Full Show Notes at The Garden Mixer Podcast’s Substack____________________Socials – Pick Your Platform:Follow us on Instagram @thegardenmixerIndulge us on TikTok @the.garden.mixerSpar with us on X @gardenmixerpod“French Bistro” theme by Adieu Adieu. License D0LZBINY30GGTBBW | — | ||||||
| 4/3/26 | Spring Garden Panic with Erin The Impatient Gardener | Just when you thought winter would never end, spring comes and clobbers you with seeds, weeds, and a list that just won’t quit. Cue the panic. There is a TON to do — so how do we prioritize what’s important, what’s inconvenient, and what’s seriously not getting touched for a couple months? Leslie and Marianne thought that the best person to tell them was friend and Founding Mixer Erin Schanen, The Impatient Gardener. With her down-to-earth Wisconsin wisdom and general smart-assery, she’ll get us all in good shape — or at least slap us around a little over a cocktail. Today on The Garden Mixer.___________________Hit the subscribe button so we can keep you smiling while you hit the mess [your garden] out there.Full Show Notes at The Garden Mixer Podcast’s Substack____________________Socials – Pick Your Platform:Follow us on Instagram @thegardenmixerIndulge us on TikTok @the.garden.mixerSpar with us on X @gardenmixerpod“French Bistro” theme by Adieu Adieu. License D0LZBINY30GGTBBW | — | ||||||
| 3/20/26 | Do Gardeners Still Have a Voice? The Native Plant Debate | Absolute certainties make Marianne’s Spidey senses start to tingle; Leslie simply ignores absolutes and does her own thing. Which means Leslie would have been much more fun in high school. But where do they come down on the native/non-native debate? Bouncing off a recent article in GardenRant, where Marianne laid out the development of a powerful movement in US horticulture, the girls dig into the tension -- and once or twice, into each other.In an industry where plants are happily termed ‘good’ and ‘bad’, invasive plants have now been joined in purgatory by the new baddie term of ‘emerging invasives’, and not a little zealotry informs policy decisions that affect what we can buy, grow, work with, and write about, can we afford to ignore the issue? Have some thoughts? We would love to hear them AND read them on air in a future episode. Send them to comments@thegardenmixer.com or drop them in The Garden Mixer Chat on Substack with other Mixers from around the country.___________________Hit the subscribe button so we can keep you smiling while you hit the mess [your garden] out there.Full Show Notes at The Garden Mixer Podcast’s Substack____________________Socials – Pick Your Platform:Follow us on Instagram @thegardenmixerIndulge us on TikTok @the.garden.mixerSpar with us on X @gardenmixerpod“French Bistro” theme by Adieu Adieu. License D0LZBINY30GGTBBW | — | ||||||
| 3/6/26 | Pruning 101: Moving Past the Panic | It’s that time of year when we put blade to wood and help our shrubs and trees to become the best versions of themselves. Pruning is a big job and many gardeners are right in the middle of it by the beginning of March. Some of us are excited by the challenge. Others are dreading the many decisions still in front of them. Leslie and Marianne aim to channel that excitement, alleviate any anxiety, and set you loose on another pruning season. It’s not rocket science. It’s not even weird science. It’s working boldly and courageously — throwing in a little curiosity, and having fun. They’ll tell you why, how, and with what. And they’re definitely going to need the Dixter bell. Today, on The Garden Mixer.___________________Be sure to hit the subscribe button so we can keep you smiling while you hit the mess [your garden] out there.Full Show Notes at The Garden Mixer Podcast’s Substack____________________Socials – Pick Your Platform:Follow us on Instagram @thegardenmixerIndulge us on TikTok @the.garden.mixerSpar with us on X @gardenmixerpod“French Bistro” theme by Adieu Adieu. License D0LZBINY30GGTBBW | — | ||||||
| 2/20/26 | The Dirt on Composting | Compost: it’s so misunderstood. Vilified by HOAs, and loved by gardeners, it’s been ignored, worshiped, blamed, blessed, and then quietly banished to the far corner of the yard. Yet this magical garden process keeps working anyway, taking our scraps, our weeds, our gardening mistakes, and even items that we should have cleaned out of the fridge last month and turning them back into organically rich soil.What are the issues? What are the joys? What are the things that make the whole process easier? Leslie and Marianne don’t want you to overthink it, they just want you to start it — as they simplify and celebrate the compost pile, today on The Garden Mixer.___________________Be sure to hit the subscribe button so we can keep you smiling while you hit the mess [your garden] out there.Full Show Notes at The Garden Mixer Podcast’s Substack____________________Socials – Pick Your Platform:Follow us on Instagram @thegardenmixerIndulge us on TikTok @the.garden.mixerSpar with us on X @gardenmixerpod“French Bistro” theme by Adieu Adieu. License D0LZBINY30GGTBBW | — | ||||||
| 2/6/26 | A New Year for American Gardeners with Rochelle Greayer | They’re BAAAAAAAK! Season II kicks off today — WELCOME if you’re new and welcome back if you’re not! Even Leslie and Marianne have been missing the weekly mix of seasonal relevance and irreverence — and a chance to raise a glass in support of our gardening audience all over the world who are dedicated to the proposition that gardening shouldn’t be boring. The Garden Mixer is bringing you one of those gardeners today — Rochelle Greayer, the new editor of The American Horticultural Society’s American Gardener Magazine. Are you an AHS member? We hope you will be by the end of this episode. In a country of over 340 million people that covers over 3.7 million square miles of extremely confusing but necessarily detailed eco-regions, what exactly does it mean to be an American Gardener? Are the characteristics of an American Garden as easy to recognize as those of a British, Italian or French Garden? What are we adding to the conversation around gardening, and where are we owning it? And why does the RHS get all the good press anyway? July 2026 marks a big birthday for this country of gardeners — perhaps it’s time to take the microphone back and celebrate our strengths.We’re indulging our revolutionary tendencies today, on the Season II kickoff of The Garden Mixer!___________________Be sure to hit the subscribe button so we can keep you smiling while you hit the mess [your garden] out there.Full Show Notes at The Garden Mixer Podcast’s Substack____________________Socials – Pick Your Platform:Follow us on Instagram @thegardenmixerIndulge us on TikTok @the.garden.mixerSpar with us on X @gardenmixerpod“French Bistro” theme by Adieu Adieu. License D0LZBINY30GGTBBW | — | ||||||
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| 12/19/25 | Gardening on Social Media: What's Real and What's Not with Amanda the Everhopeful Gardener | In the beginning, social media and gardening seemed meant for each other. After all, how better to teach than to show? But it does feel like we might have lost our way in the last few years. Now we’re pushed towards viral moments, not moments of true discovery. Now we watch sexy six packs selling six packs; and find ourselves navigating a manufactured reality that makes everyday gardeners feel inferior, not empowered. Are we doing more following than we’re actually doing gardening? We’re talking to gardener and garden influencer Amanda Nadeau of The Ever Hopeful Gardener today about who to trust, why to trust, and when to just let go and have fun. Even Leslie’s cocktail is trying to be #authentic, today on The Garden Mixer.___________________Be sure to hit the subscribe button so we can keep you smiling while you hit the mess [your garden] out there.Full Show Notes at The Garden Mixer Podcast’s Substack____________________Socials – Pick Your Platform:Follow us on Instagram @thegardenmixerIndulge us on TikTok @the.garden.mixerSpar with us on X @gardenmixerpod“French Bistro” theme by Adieu Adieu. License D0LZBINY30GGTBBW | — | ||||||
| 12/5/25 | Deer Proof Your Garden: Where Deer Stop and Sanity Begins | Deer Damage. Few things crush a gardener’s spirit faster than to stroll outside and see that Bambi has invited himself for dinner.Coincidentally, few things crush Marianne’s spirit more than referring to these four-legged agents of the Devil in cute terms such as ‘Bambi’.What’s on their perfectly curated menu? Pretty much all of your favorite garden plants. Sprays, granular applications, and motion sensors can keep those deer at bay, for a minute or two. But what about the ultimate solution?No, the other ultimate solution — a fence. Leslie’s been there, and loved it. But just how tall, how expensive and how ugly does it need to be to protect our plants? The answer may surprise you. Today, the girls discuss the pros, the cons, and the many considerations of deer fencing, deer spraying, and all the things in between, as Marianne prepares to have her garden world rocked by the installation of a Bambi-blocking fence.___________________Be sure to hit the subscribe button so we can keep you smiling while you hit the mess [your garden] out there.Full Show Notes at The Garden Mixer Podcast’s Substack____________________Socials – Pick Your Platform:Follow us on Instagram @thegardenmixerIndulge us on TikTok @the.garden.mixerSpar with us on X @gardenmixerpod“French Bistro” theme by Adieu Adieu. License D0LZBINY30GGTBBW | — | ||||||
| 11/21/25 | Garden Season Wrap Up with The Impatient Gardener #31 | Promises, promises. We all make them at the beginning of each year. And — made desperate by the cold claws of winter — gardeners make even bigger ones at the beginning of each growing season. Today on The Garden Mixer, Leslie and Marianne take journalistic integrity to a new level and actually follow up with the promises made, the products they loved, and the season they foretold back in February when they hosted Erin Schanen, The Impatient Gardener. They’re catching up with this popular Midwestern gardener and social media star over large cocktails and larger garnishes, and Marianne is throwing out some suspiciously large statistics in honor of the first anniversary of their Substack debut. From the angst of sweet peas to the unbridled joy of bananas, it’s definitely confession time, and no-one’s skimping on the honesty or the drinks. Join these three gardener-friends as they beat their chests and rend their garments. Or is that just Marianne?___________________Be sure to hit the subscribe button so we can keep you smiling while you hit the mess [your garden] out there.Full Show Notes at The Garden Mixer Podcast’s Substack____________________Socials – Pick Your Platform:Follow us on Instagram @thegardenmixerIndulge us on TikTok @the.garden.mixerSpar with us on X @gardenmixerpod“French Bistro” theme by Adieu Adieu. License D0LZBINY30GGTBBW | — | ||||||
| 11/7/25 | The Late Autumn Garden: Let's Put Some Lipstick on This Pig #30 | Let’s be honest and dispense with the illusion of carefree, perfectly decaying, infinitely Instagrammable, late fall gardens. In reality, the leaves have blown off the trees, the decorative pumpkins are getting soft spots, and there’s a whole lot of flattened, crushed, eaten, and dejected going on where you had envisioned majestic seed heads, trusses of berries, and full-on fall splendor to welcome friends and family home for Thanksgiving. Today, Leslie and Marianne have some tips for successfully curating the reality of that garden. How do we uncover the good, downplay the bad, and plan for better next year? How do we put lipstick on this pig?The girls are transitioning to the winter garden — beautifully. Today on the Garden Mixer.___________________Be sure to hit the subscribe button so we can keep you smiling while you hit the mess [your garden] out there.Full Show Notes at The Garden Mixer Podcast’s Substack____________________Socials – Pick Your Platform:Follow us on Instagram @thegardenmixerIndulge us on TikTok @the.garden.mixerSpar with us on X @gardenmixerpod“French Bistro” theme by Adieu Adieu. License D0LZBINY30GGTBBW | — | ||||||
| 10/31/25 | #29 All About Bulbs. Plant Now, Thank Yourself Later | How better to take advantage of the experience, skill, and time of others than to buy and plant a plumped-up, pumped-up, ready-to-bloom-for-you bulb? Or maybe two hundred.When perennials need a couple years, shrubs insist on commitment, and trees require a selfless gift to future generations; bulbs are all about YOU — and it’s time to indulge. Granted, it’s the you of six months from now — but where else in life can you successfully pull off a surprise party for yourself? And afford the florist?Today, Leslie and Marianne explore all the options. Which ones will delight the senses, which ones will delight the critters, and which tools can help you get them in the ground. It’s not too late to grab those last-minute deals and give yourself the spring surprise party your family keeps meaning to throw. ___________________Be sure to hit the subscribe button so we can keep you smiling while you hit the mess [your garden] out there.Full Show Notes at The Garden Mixer Podcast’s Substack____________________Socials – Pick Your Platform:Follow us on Instagram @thegardenmixerIndulge us on TikTok @the.garden.mixerSpar with us on X @gardenmixerpod“French Bistro” theme by Adieu Adieu. License D0LZBINY30GGTBBW | — | ||||||
| 10/17/25 | #28 The Great Transplantation: How to Divide and Transplant the Right Way | Cool air and warm soils mean that it’s a great time to divide and multiply the plants that you love, and Leslie and Marianne want to help you do it easily, efficiently, and with the least amount of plant pain as possible. What are they dividing in their gardens and how are they doing it? And why is it so good for the plants to rip them from happy homes just when they were thinking of taking a well-earned nap? For that matter, why aren’t the girls sipping pumpkin lattes and waiting ‘till spring? Set down that bulb planter and grab those two forks, because it’s all about FREE this week on The Garden Mixer. (Just for the record Marianne hates pumpkin lattes. Leslie's a fan.)___________________Be sure to hit the subscribe button so we can keep you smiling while you hit the mess [your garden] out there.Full Show Notes at The Garden Mixer Podcast’s Substack____________________Socials – Pick Your Platform:Follow us on Instagram @thegardenmixerIndulge us on TikTok @the.garden.mixerSpar with us on X @gardenmixerpod“French Bistro” theme by Adieu Adieu. License D0LZBINY30GGTBBW | — | ||||||
| 10/3/25 | #27 The Cornwall Chronicles: Gardens in the Gulf Stream | Today, The Garden Mixer is highjacked by two jetlagged women drinking way too much coffee and trying to pull themselves together to adequately describe the many sights, tastes, and eureka moments of nine days visiting gardens in Cornwall and the Southwest of England. From new naturalism and earthworks at Wildside, to the breathtaking views across Tresco Island, to extraordinary fairy tale hotels, the girls discuss special moments and numerous takeaways — both for their gardens at home, and for future visits to this very special area of the UK, often under-visited by American garden-trippers looking for “The Big Five.” (Though which gardens constitute “The Big Five” is still up for debate.)For the WHOLE story, this is an episode you’ll particularly appreciate by following up on The Garden Mixer Youtube channel, where the video version is #jamfirst packed with photos and snark. (Even if Marianne insists it should be #creamfirst.)What the heck is she talking about? By the end of this episode, you’ll not only know what clotted cream is, but you’ll be well versed in the right way to layer it on a scone.At least according to Marianne.Plus, microscopes, dahlias, & unbelievably, Beavis and Butthead. All on this week’s Garden Mixer.___________________Be sure to hit the subscribe button so we can keep you smiling while you hit the mess [your garden] out there.Full Show Notes at The Garden Mixer Podcast’s Substack____________________Socials – Pick Your Platform:Follow us on Instagram @thegardenmixerIndulge us on TikTok @the.garden.mixerSpar with us on X @gardenmixerpod“French Bistro” theme by Adieu Adieu. License D0LZBINY30GGTBBW | — | ||||||
| 9/19/25 | #26 The Great Migration: Plants in the House | September has snuck up on most of us and cold weather is right around the corner.Suddenly it’s time to walk through your garden and decide who’s making the travel team and who’s sitting out this season in the great hereafter. Can you set aside sentiment and choose the strongest and healthiest to make winter a joy instead of a chore? Do you know when to bring them in? (And what you can get away with?) From bathing them, to babying them, Leslie and Marianne share personal anecdotes and practical tips for managing houseplants and storage plants, addressing pest control, and deciding which plants to prioritize based on space, aesthetics, sentiment, and good old-fashioned guilt. The girls are not always on the same page, but they’re generally aiming for the same ending: To avoid the last-minute first-frost scramble and a herniated disk.Plus, Damn I Wish I Planted That for the late September garden, ritualistic flogging in Clear Up Corner, and a fine red wine lessened un peu by a lousy French accent — all on this week’s episode of The Garden Mixer._______________________________Be sure to hit the subscribe button so we can keep you smiling while you hit the mess [your garden] out there.Full Show Notes at The Garden Mixer Podcast’s Substack________________________________Socials – Pick Your Platform:Follow us on Instagram @thegardenmixerIndulge us on TikTok @the.garden.mixerSpar with us on X @gardenmixerpod“French Bistro” theme by Adieu Adieu. License D0LZBINY30GGTBBW | — | ||||||
| 9/5/25 | #25 Autumn Blooms for Bees: Must Have Pollinators | Pumpkin spice may have snuck itself onto the shelves (and into Leslie’s cheesy introduction), but that doesn’t mean that the pollinating insects in your garden have stopped searching for pollen to store and nectar to sip. On today’s episode, Leslie and Marianne discuss some late blooming species you can grow to keep those pollinators healthy and gearing up for winter — and which will also make you smile as the garden moves from summer-sizzle to autumn-fizzle.Soil is warm, bugs are low, temps are cool, rains are coming, and nurseries are selling. Time to give that hard-working garden a few new picks to extend the bloom season until (and sometimes after) frost. Between them, the girls will give you nine terrific choices. But wait there’s more! A set of Ginsu knives, AND two further great plants for this time of year in Damn I Wish I’d Planted That.All this and competing tropical cocktails, Choppin’ Broccoli, and some serious cultural confusion over Matthew Perry resolved, on this week’s episode of The Garden Mixer._______________________________Be sure to hit the subscribe button so we can keep you smiling while you hit the mess [your garden] out there.Full Show Notes at The Garden Mixer Podcast’s Substack________________________________Socials – Pick Your Platform:Follow us on Instagram @thegardenmixerIndulge us on TikTok @the.garden.mixerSpar with us on X @gardenmixerpod“French Bistro” theme by Adieu Adieu. License D0LZBINY30GGTBBW | — | ||||||
| 8/22/25 | #24 The Art of Editing Your Late Summer Garden | As a gardener, you are not just creative, you are a creative. Your job is to go out there and create your tail off. But the other job you must strive to do well is that of an editor, tightening the voice of your garden with strategic cuts that help it shine and become the garden you envisioned (even when those cuts seem counterintuitive). This means that cruel things are going to happen. Cruel, and perhaps unusual. In this episode, Leslie and Marianne talk about everything from volunteer seedling strategies to de-browning the borders. Get ready to yank flowers, cut limbs, discard seeds, and mop your brow. It’s going to be bloody, but it’s going to be good._______________________________Be sure to hit the subscribe button so we can keep you smiling while you hit the mess [your garden] out there.Full Show Notes at The Garden Mixer Podcast’s Substack________________________________Socials – Pick Your Platform:Follow us on Instagram @thegardenmixerIndulge us on TikTok @the.garden.mixer Spar with us on X @gardenmixerpod“French Bistro” theme by Adieu Adieu. License D0LZBINY30GGTBBW | — | ||||||
| 8/8/25 | #23 Fabulous Foliage plants for Summer | You’re tired. You’re hot. You’re yearning for autumn to set you free. But how your garden looks right now has everything to do with the choices you made in past planting seasons and a lot to do with foliage. Have you capitalized on the resilient summer foliage options that keep working when the lobelia has melted and the poppies are so over? This week on The Garden Mixer, Leslie and Marianne explore six of their favorite foliage plants for summer — each choosing a perennial, a shrub, and a tender perennial (aka ‘temperennial’) — and then choose their favorite option from the suggestions sent in by listeners on The Garden Mixer Chat on Substack. Overall, the girls are in remarkable agreement this week…except for one, notable exception.What are we looking for in summer foliage? Are flowers a necessity or a bonus? And, how many times, precisely, should a gardener kill a plant before giving up?All this and Leslie learning the meaning of FFS, on this week’s The Garden Mixer._______________________________Be sure to hit the subscribe button so we can keep you smiling while you hit the mess [your garden] out there.Full Show Notes at The Garden Mixer Podcast’s Substack________________________________Socials – Pick Your Platform:Follow us on Instagram @thegardenmixerIndulge us on TikTok @the.garden.mixer Spar with us on X @gardenmixerpod“French Bistro” theme by Adieu Adieu. License D0LZBINY30GGTBBW | — | ||||||
| 7/25/25 | #22 Ten Great Ornamental Grasses Episode | They’re deer resistant, drought resistant, and boredom-resistant — and they’re not without controversy. Ornamental grasses might be the magic texture your garden has been missing all these years. Whether you want to ‘blur and merge’ as per Grasses for Gardens and Landscapes author Neil Lucas, or ‘punch and soften’ as per the more violent of your two co-hosts, Marianne Willburn — using ornamental grasses strategically can help your garden relax and sway into summer, filling gaps, feathering edges, and giving you three-season architecture without the bagworms.Join Leslie and Marianne as they share with listeners their top ten ornamental grasses and discuss why they are willing to risk censure and scorn for more than one of them.Plus, Marianne confesses to a criminal act. And it’s not displaying her bare over-50 arms either. Leslie’s criminal act this week is using the term “Tips and Tricks” before Marianne takes a sip of something that can help her cope with hearing it._______________________________Be sure to hit the subscribe button so we can keep you smiling while you hit the mess [your garden] out there.The Garden Mixer |Podcast on SpotifyFull Show Notes at The Garden Mixer Podcast’s Substack________________________________Socials – Pick Your Platform:Follow us on Instagram @thegardenmixerIndulge us on TikTok @the.garden.mixer Spar with us on X @gardenmixerpod“French Bistro” theme by Adieu Adieu. License D0LZBINY30GGTBBW | — | ||||||
| 7/11/25 | #21 The Beach or Beans Episode | You’d like to go on vacation. Your family wants you to go on vacation. But you don’t know how to leave your garden. So you don’t go on vacation.Wrong answer. You NEED a vacation. You just need to prep your garden and make it Vacay-Ready.This week Leslie and Marianne dive into what it really takes to leave your garden without the guilt. From prepping your plants to prepping your mindset, they want to help you take a break without sacrificing your blooms. Whether you’re heading to the beach or taking a long weekend right in the middle of the growing season, you can come home to a thriving garden. With the right prep, your beans will be just fine.All this plus the puzzling but indisputable link between testicles, armpit hair, and tomatoes.It's another wildly inappropriate episode of The Garden Mixer, so carpe your diems and get that garden Vacay-Ready!_______________________________Be sure to hit the subscribe button so we can keep you smiling while you hit the mess [your garden] out there.The Garden Mixer |Podcast on SpotifyFull Show Notes at The Garden Mixer Podcast’s Substack________________________________Socials – Pick Your Platform:Follow us on Instagram @thegardenmixerIndulge us on TikTok @the.garden.mixer Spar with us on X @gardenmixerpod“French Bistro” theme by Adieu Adieu. License D0LZBINY30GGTBBW | — | ||||||
| 6/27/25 | #20 The Tools Episode | Welcome back! The girls are rested, refreshed, reenergized, and ready to tackle the overgrown gardens that await them with the tools they love this week. From can't-be-without pruners to surprising new finds, Leslie and Marianne dish the dirt on the implements that help them dig it. Are brand names important? What’s a seckie? How do you pronounce Okasune? And what on earth is Marianne’s problem with the hori-hori and will the woman ever let it rest? Apparently not.Also up for discussion — herons, rabbits, the elusive golden shovel, and why these hard-working gardeners aren’t eating breakfast these days. Yep, it’s a random mix of wonderful and we’re so glad you’ve joined us. __________________________________________________________Be sure to hit the subscribe button so we can keep you smiling while you hit the mess [your garden] out there.The Garden Mixer |Podcast on SpotifyFull Show Notes at The Garden Mixer Podcast’s Substack________________________________Socials – Pick Your Platform:Follow us on Instagram @thegardenmixerIndulge us on TikTok @the.garden.mixer Spar with us on X @gardenmixerpod“French Bistro” theme by Adieu Adieu. License D0LZBINY30GGTBBW | — | ||||||
| 6/20/25 | #19 Interview with Marianne and Scott Beuerlein about Garden Rant (from the Archives) | Waaaayy back when this podcast was just Leslie doing Into the Garden with Leslie, Marianne was a frequent flyer even though she was just a guest at that time. In this episode, Marianne and Leslie team up with Scott Beuerlein to talk about their "Dear Gardener" correspondence on Garden Rant. Next week Leslie and Marianne, are back, tanned rested and ready for the summer garden and they will be talking about tools! | — | ||||||
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