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• #15 1/2 One More Sip: Our Listeners Are Smarter Than We Are

  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 AHSAre our listeners smarter than us? Oh hell yes.(That should help to earn our explicit rating.)_______________________________________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

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• #15 Linda Vater

  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!_______________________________________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

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• #14 1/2 One More Sip: House Plant Vacation

  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.Subscribe at The Garden Mixer Substack for full show notes, links and laughs.

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• #14 The Spring Hangover Episode

  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.For full show notes, links and laughs, subscribe at ⁠The Garden Mixer's Substack.⁠ Comments, questions or suggestions? We'd love to hear them. Drop us a line at [email protected] - and don't forget to leave a review on Spotify, YouTube or Apple Podcasts.

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• #13 1/2 One More Sip: Should You Label Your Plants?

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

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