The Garden Mixer
Marianne Willburn, garden author & columnist, and Leslie Harris, host of the podcast Into the Garden with Leslie, team up to bring you The Garden Mixer. This bi-weekly conversation provides guidance for beginner gardeners, encouragement for experienced gardeners, and amusement for all. Marianne and Leslie mix up opinions, strategies, the occasional guest, and cocktails as they discuss all things gardening.
- Update frequency
- every 11 days
- Average duration
- 49 minutes
- Episodes
- 160
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
#10 The Impatient Seeds Episode with Erin Schanen
We’re clinking glasses this week with Erin Schanen, YouTube’s Impatient Gardener, and we’re not asking her about her tomatoes.
That’s right, who needs to eat when June is a feast for the eyes? We’ll b…
#9 The Cheeky Seeds Episode
After an ill-advised foray into AI generated humor, the girls toast another conversation with a large glass of Cheeky Red and an expensively-bittered Old Fashioned, and turn their attentions to getti…
#8 The Boxwood and Cigarettes Episode
This week the girls mix inappropriate metaphors with vague certainties, and come up with yet another episode to amuse and inform their eight listeners.
Without an ounce of humility, Leslie jumps out …
#7 The Chicken Soup Episode
Chickens in broth and chickens in gardens are under the penetrating Garden Mixer gaze this week as Leslie Harris & Marianne Willburn move past their respective Christmas viruses and valiantly into th…
#6 The Big [Old] Book Episode
Leslie Harris and Marianne Willburn mix old books, new coats, and the usual laughs in the first episode of 2025. In response to a listener’s request, Leslie is forced to indulge Marianne’s book reco…
#5 The Downsized Episode
In this episode of the newly logo'd and newly music'd The Garden Mixer, Marianne tries her hand at interviewing Leslie -- posing transparently self-serving questions about Leslie's transition to a ti…
#4 The Beuerlein on Bulbs Episode: Part II
This week on The Garden Mixer, Leslie Harris, Marianne Willburn, and their guest, Scott Beuerlein from The Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Gardens, continue to wrestle over the big topic of bulbs for th…
#3 The Beuerlein on Bulbs Episode: Part I
In this week’s episode of The Garden Mixer, Leslie Harris & Marianne Willburn stir up a spirited two-part discussion about all things bulb with their inaugural guest, Scott Beuerlein of The Cincinnat…
#2 The Berries, Bananas and Books Episode
On this episode we talk about the premeditated murder of some large Abyssinian bananas, how Leslie is meh on winter berries, peonies (Leslie protests the look of singles, Marianne protests Leslie's c…
#1 The Inarguably Inaugural Episode
Marianne and Leslie are ready to start stirring things up in their inaugural podcast episode of The Garden Mixer. Jumping into the fray of native plant zealotry, they cool down a little with normal t…
Marianne Willburn Joins the Podcast Formerly Known As...
Topics include: What should we name this new enterprise of doing this podcast together? Don't worry, we quickly get into garden things such as...
What's blooming in the fall garden right now? What p…
Karl Gercens of Longwood and Garden Travel
If you like gardening, you can't not enjoy traveling to see gardens. The inspiration that you can get from any scene, pattern, color scheme or even a simple plant pairing is so great to take home. Ka…
With Marianne Willburn Mid September 2024
Well, we go over my Instagram saga, but you can FF through that if you want! By the way, I am back on now, @LeslieHarrisLulu and hope you follow me. Marianne and I discuss "de-browning" the garden, p…
Marianne Willburn on Native Plants
Marianne and I touch on my (too) quick visit to her garden, gardening with spouses, how to make instant and free improvements to the garden, but mostly we go down a bit of a rabbit hole in terms of n…
Heather Andrews, Garden Thoughtfully
Heather and I met at a speaking gig in North Carolina last fall. Her mantra is Garden Thoughtfully. What a coincidence because my presentation at that Master Gardeners symposium was called Thoughtful…
Marianne Willburn on Drought and Heat in the Garden
Did you feel the dog days of summer WAY earlier than you usually do? Marianne Willburn and I talk about climate change in the garden and some good strategies to learn from what your plants are experi…
Scott Beuerlein on Horticulture Magazine Interviews
Podcasters often host interesting experts in the field on which they love to talk. This episode is no different, but because the expert, Scott Beuerlein, Director of Horticultural Outreach at the Ci…
Marianne Willburn, Unpacking the English Garden Tour
Marianne and I are home from our travels and in this episode we talk about the very successful first garden tour put together by Marianne and Andrea Gasper. So many fabulous English Gardens-- Rousha…
Back From Travels Quick Episode
After a month away, I would like to re-introduce myself as the not serious and American garden Podcaster, Leslie Harris. I'll catch you up on how my garden fared with not much attention for over 30 …
Marianne Willburn England Garden Tour Preview
Summer is coming and so are vacations. How do we prepare our gardens to get along without us? Marianne Willburn and I discuss tips and tricks on this topic and we also preview the fabulous garden to…