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
40: The Arizona Cypress, Anthony Bellomo, Compost vs Fertilizer
In this episode, I give a fox update, answer questions about trugs and indoor plants (don't laugh! I knew the answer!), and interview Landscape Architect Anthony Bellomo of Millbrook, NY about his pi…
39: Fall Fiesta Sugar Maple, Erin the Impatient Gardener, planting a tree and more
I highly recommend you get your fall fiesta from the native Acer saccharum instead of that other colorful thing that is taking over our native forests: Burning Bush or Eonymus alatus. Erin Schanen th…
37: Ajania pacifica, Sister Sue Ann on bulbs, moving peonies and more
After a scintillating fox update (if you follow me on Instagram, you know that's a thing) I choose the Silver and Gold, or Ajania pacifica as the Plant of the Week. Sister Sue and I delve deep into h…
36: Oak Leaf Hydrangea, Lizzie Fox of the Rose Press Garden, Brooklyn Bridge Park
The color that most Oak Leaf Hydrangea leaves turn this time of year reminds me of a fine red wine sipped by the fire, so that means it has to be the Plant of the Week. You are going to be charmed by…
35: Japanese and native American Anemones, Christy Wilhelmi, more on compost!
Because we haven't featured a native Plant of the Week for a while, and because I could not ignore the Honorine Jobert in my yard, we double dip with both the Japanese anemone and the Anemone virgini…
34: Marianne Wilburn on bring plants in for the winter, the Rex Begonia, and the soil knife
This week the author of Tropical Plants and How to Love Them, Marianne Wilburn, takes us through steps on what plants we may want to over winter, and how to make them happy. This is Marianne's second…
33: The Chrysanthemum, fall gardening thoughts with Sister Sue Ann, and thoughts on noisy blowers
This week we get all pumpkin spicy autumnal with the mum as our POW, some dried hydrangea and dahlias cutting tips, and a long chat with sister Sue Ann about what is happening in her garden, mine, an…
33: Asian Jumping Worms, Zinnias, and Gregory Britt
Gregory Britt, "That Nice Guy Who Creates Epic Floral Artistry" joins me for a wandering (literally, as I chase him around the studio with my lame microphone and we battle traffic noise) chat about f…
32: The Pansy; Fall Containers with Steph Green of Contained Creations; Rusty Gear
Following up on the very successful Episode 32 with Steph Green of Contained Creations, we explore fall containers with her (7:35) after getting you primed for filling them with the Plant of the Week…
31: Marianne Willburn of American Gardener Magazine, and the Begonia grandis
This week, writer and gardener Marianne Willburn joined me on the pod. She is a monthly columnist for the American Gardener Magazine, as well as a writer for Garden Rant. You can also find her person…
30: Peggy Cornett of the Thomas Jefferson Center for Historic Plants and Snow on the Mountain
I visited Peggy Cornett, and lots of cicadas, hence the ambient noise, at The Thomas Jefferson Center for Historic Plants at Tufton Farm, about two miles from Monticello. We chat about plants that Je…
29: Coleus, Dean Norton of Mount Vernon
This week I visit Dean Norton, Director of Horticulture at George Washington's Mount Vernon (@ 5:47) and recommend Andrea Wulf's 'Founding Gardeners' in The Play List. The Plant of the Week really ha…
28: Dahlias, Beverly Lacey of Blue Heron Farms, late season pruning and Mosquitos
The Dahlia is the showy strumpet of the late season border, and she is a high maintenance diva that is so attractive she is worth all of the effort. We learn the ins and outs of growing the Dahlia fr…
Week 27: The August Garden with Scott Beuerlein and my mother-in-law's border
Traveling Garden Correspondent Leslie Harris is in hot and humid Hilton Head, South Carolina, picking apart why her mother-in-law's garden looks so darned good right now. Garden writer Scott Beuerlei…
26: Great Blue Lobelia, Bunny Williams Paul Tukey and Organic Lawns
I follow through on last week's threat of choosing the plant species named after a venereal disease as the Plant of the Week (Lobelia siphilitica) and Bunny Williams and I chat about gardens, garden …
25: White Pine, Andy Brand of the Coastal Main Botanical Gardens, Rusty Gear
When in Maine... you go see the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens and chat with Andy Brand (5:17) about how wonderful they are! The Plant of the Week is a the state flower of Maine, but here's the catc…
24: Mountain Mint, Brie the Plant Lady
Mountain Mint is a total winner-- edible native deer resistant pollinator that performs as well in sun as in shade. And edible ornamentals are the expertise of Brie the Plant Lady, who tells us all a…
23: Phlox, Garden Party Gardening with Sue Ann
The Plant of the week is another native, and a classic stalwart in the summer border, the Phlox paniculata. I chat with sister Sue Ann at 5:34 about how to get your garden ready to party, and give y…
22: Echinacea, Container =Gardening with Steph Green, and Pesky Bunnies, Tree of Heaven and Stilt Grass
The Plant of the Week is the coneflower-- a great American native that blooms for months in summer. We chat with Steph Green of Contained Creations (7:13) about having gorgeous containers, and turn t…
21: The Gardening Podcast Summary
Plant of the Week is Persicaria (00:40); good info from recent gardening podcasts such at ticks from Tom Christopher's Growing Greener (5:02), Nature and Gardening from Margaret Roach's A Way to Gard…