The Garden Mixer

Golden Hour in the Garden: Plants for Fall Color

With some surprise and not a little relief, the garden is hurtling towards late middle age by mid-September. The promise of spring and the relentless drive of summer have

Putting Your Best Friend Plants in Storage

Gardeners in cold climates dabbling with tropical and subtropical plants in their summer gardens are about to come to a hard stop: First Frost. If you’re a gardener who

Garden Center Secrets: Just in Time for Fall!

It’s planting season once again for many of us in the Northern Hemisphere – which of course means buying season, and splurging season, and did-I-really-need-that-many-cle

10 Things to STOP Doing in Your Garden

On this Barrel Aged and decanted episode of One More Sip of The Garden Mixer, Leslie and Marianne go full listicle and shelve the “Do!” for the “Better If You Don’t Do” o

Garden Travel: How to See a Garden Without Missing It.

Each year, millions of gardeners prowl the globe seeking ‘aha!’ moments that they can bring back to their own gardens at home. Are you one of them? Leslie has been visit

Should You Keep Bees?

This week, Leslie & Marianne dive into the sticky world of beekeeping as a gardener. Leslie is buzzing with questions (and incredibly bad puns) and mercilessly questions

Drought & Heat Strategies with Carol Reese

In the heat of August, it’s not just gardeners that want to check out — it’s their plants. But there’s a lot plants can tell us about the conditions we’re all navigating,

Botanical Plant Names: Tool or Weapon?

Botanical Names: Those complicated, two-part, dead language elements of tongue- torture that every gardener looking for a special plant will face at some point in their h

Garden Ornaments: Can We Go Too Far?

Every gardener has a tchotchke threshold — the point at which a garden stops being a garden and starts being a yard sale with better plants. But where exactly is that lin

Flopping Perennials? To Stake or Not to Stake

It’s mid summer and if you haven’t been staking your floppiest floppers, the chance is you haven’t quite gotten away with it. Some plants stand tall on their own. Others

Big, Juicy, Garden Regrets

Every gardener has them. The plant that ate the house, the catalog seduction that ended in tears, the tree you loved that didn’t love you. Regrets are how gardeners learn

Deadheading, Chelsea Chops & Other Garden Surgery

Deadheading, do we or don't we? The answer, as you expected, is complicated. And Leslie and Marianne want to dive into the nuance on this week’s One More Sip. In fact th

Hydrangeas Reconsidered: All You Need To Know

America has a hydrangea problem. In the best possible way. They’re consistently among the best-selling flowering shrubs in the country, they colonize every garden center

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

Container Gardening Hacks Beyond “Thriller, Spiller, Filler”

HACK YOUR POTS: SMART PLANTS. PERFECT PLACEMENT It’s prime container gardening season, and everywhere gardeners are spending more than they should to achieve the dream o

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 Gar

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-for

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 t

Flowering Ground Covers: Beauty & Protection, or Future Regret?

Leslie and Marianne have ground to cover today. And possibly, so do you. Spring hits, everything wakes up and suddenly your garden looks like it’s got a bad case of bed

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 h