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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 …
2 months, 1 week ago
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 …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
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 wher…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
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 …
2 months, 4 weeks ago
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 ar…
3 months ago
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 …
3 months, 1 week ago
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…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
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: …
4 months ago
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 …
4 months, 2 weeks ago
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…
4 months, 3 weeks ago