Erin Schanen, the Impatient Gardener, chats this week about her new garden designed with Roy Diblik, the perennial garden designer, plant nurseryman, and author of The Know Maintenance Perennial Garden. And of course like all garden chats we wander around and touch on topics like mulch, maintenance, and preferred cocktails.

Lots of fun topics on this post, including Little Lime Hydrangeas, pond scum, and deer control.

I first met Brad on Instagram when he weighed in on the squirmy subject of Asian Jumping Worms. Little did I think that just this week— even after our May conversation— I found out I have them here. We chatted about them a little on the podcast, but other, better subjects included Geums, Brad’s DIY greenhouse, using Roundup responsibly, and Brad’s favorite garden tool, the step edger.

Roxana Snediker of Soil and Margaritas and all about her lovely Indiana garden.

And tomatoes!

Episode 71 is about what happens when seven gardeners generously provide their favorite combinations of plants!

When Marianne Willburn and I first decided to that we were going to do a crazy gardening thing that we both decided on pretty last minute, we did a podcast episode together about how excited we were. Then we went to do the crazy gardening thing, which was the May Symposium at Great Dixter. So it only makes sense that we had to do another episode to talk about how it went, right?

Tasha Greer has a way of making the unimaginable suddenly seem at least somewhat accessible. There will always be weeds, but what if you know how to deal with them on a whole new level?

Maria Failla used to kill plants. But even then she was obsessed enough about them to learn and try and improve her plant game. Now a weekly Plant Podcaster (Bloom and Grow Radio) and regular YouTuber (Bloom and Grow YouTube Show), Maria loves to spread the joy of plants!