The Garden Mixer

Container Gardening Hacks Beyond “Thriller, Spiller, Filler”


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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 of pots that stop people in their tracks and make their neighbors slightly jealous. But as anyone who has watched a lovingly assembled pot turn into a crispy disappointment knows — it’s not quite as simple as thriller, spiller, filler.

 

(Those words. So useful. So annoying.)

 

Today on The Garden Mixer, Leslie and Marianne are getting into the real business of containers: placement, proportion, pairing, and the hacks that professional container gardeners actually use — the ones they learned the hard way, so you don’t have to.

There will be opinions about sweet potato vine. There will be strong feelings about saucers. And somewhere in there, a 95-year-old gardener named Donna is going to redefine your potting vocabulary. If Leslie can remember what she said.

 

Grab your trowel. And maybe a dark and stormy.

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