Garden Gab Podcast

Deck the halls with Tessa and Mollyyyy, fa la la la laaaa la la la laaaaa!!! Our gift to you this holiday season is gabbing some Christmas decorating gab in a special breakout session! While earlier this fall we divulged that we both aren't huge seasonal decorators, all bets are off when it's holly jolly season!!! Now there are some very deep questions the girls are asking... are you a real tree or fake tree person? Do you do color lights or white lights? Outdoor lights, yay or nay? Do you stay traditional or change things up each year...

Alright Garden Gabbers, the pod has officially entered the double digits... aka... the dawn of Garden Gab's pre-teen years!! In today's episode Tessa and Molly review their family Thanksgiving festivities which included pecan whacking research, Pauline the porch chicken update, and dahlia dividing and storage insights. Molly makes a motion from the floor to celebrate their 10 favorite things about winter gardening to celebrate 10 episodes of Garden Gab! Do you know the joy of cold air in your lungs or a well layered gardening outfit? Have you savored the stillness and quiet of a winter day?  Have you felt the f...

Gird your loins, it is pecan whacking and turkey season Garden Gabbers!! Today on the pod Tessa and Molly *finally* announce the giveaway winners (congrats Kim and Bailee!) They also announce that the Garden Gab Gift Guide is now LIVE on the show substack, which you can subscribe to below to get inspired for all your garden gifting needs! The ladies also unpack their time down home... For Tessa it included wrangling children while Brian was away, pecan whacking (perhaps the show's new favorite activity?), and herding chickens. For Molly it included the stomach bug, which really derailed any...

Calling the eighth Garden Gab Club meeting to order! Today, Tessa and Molly step up on their arboricultural soapbox to proclaim the virtues of all things trees! If you have found yourself swooning over the burst of this year's fall color or have pondered "how would I even go about planting a tree..." then today's meeting is for you!! Tessa was recently a part of a fundraiser for Trees Upstate, an organization that advocates for the planting, promotion, and protecting of trees in the Upstate region of South Carolina. She also planted two new black gum friends to keep...

Dearest Garden Gab Clubers, Molly and Tessa were reunited in Charleston and it was good for the soul, and Molly’s immune system! They know you all were on the edge of your seat waiting to hear the live experience of Molly’s inaugural Fire Cider baptism, and it delivered. In this club meeting Molly and Tessa also dive into their favorite question as a designer… how do you know what stays and what goes?? They also discuss the merits of listening, collaborating, and letting the **flow** of the design process whisk you away to an inevitable conclusion. Speaking of ine...

Welcome back to the Garden Gab Club! Today Tessa and Molly are discussing everything from apple picking to our **funky fall feelings** As our girl Bridget Jones once said, “It is a truth universally acknowledged that when one part of your life starts going okay, another falls spectacularly to pieces.” We couldn't agree more Bridget. Everyone needs an existential crisis every once in a while, right?

Tessa's **feelings** were triggered by a recent birthday and has left her staring wistfully out her kitchen window at her languishing Black Gum tree asking some life's deepest questions while researching Japa...

Well dear listeners, we gabbed a little too hard on the Italy front in episode 5... So, in true Italian fashion, we decided to serve an extra course with a BONUS Breakout Session to sneak in all those motions from the floor! In "Inspiration Station," Molly basks in her deep love of pro tennis and explains what in the world that has to do with garden design. As we enter spider season, Tessa enlightens us on Joro spiders vs. their pet Mr. Garden Spider. In "Garden Brag or Bust," Molly and Tessa discuss how what appears as garden busts can...

Ciao bella! In this fifth meeting of the Garden Gab Club, the girls dive straight into the deep end of Molly's recent trip to Bergamo, Italy for the International Landscape Festival. Although Molly is still slurring her words a bit from jet lag, they manage to have intelligent conversation about a number of big topics. And dear listener, while they might not have all the answers, there sure is a lot of food for thought!

First they gab all about trees and how we engage with the successional motion of the environment when choosing trees. If that...

Yo VIP, let's kick it! This episode of Garden Gab is all about stripes, stripes baby!! But before we venture into all things striped, Molly and Tessa discuss the merits of having green outside a hospital window, and Tessa walks us through a Japanese inspired pond screen she designed this week. Tessa is also waving farewell to her summer edibles and gearing up for some fall veg planting. As for the chatter about stripes, Molly and Tessa ask, what makes a stripe a stripe? Why do we like stripes, and how many things in this episode can we make...

Welcome back to the third meeting of the Garden Gab Club! While Tessa and Molly do not claim to be geologists, they do spend a good portion of today's episode discussing the merits of a good 10 ton boulder. If you are less mineral and more interested in the herbaceous... there is also a heavy dose of tulip talk, weed battles, and admiration of a good multi-trunk serviceberry tree. But maybe you are more of a creature lover? They have you covered too! Tune in to the Wildlife Committee to learn who has been stealing Tessa's hips (which also don't...

As the second Garden Gab Club meeting is called to order, Tessa and Molly kick off the discussion with a debrief on Molly's recent trip to Iowa for the Perennial Plant Association National Symposium. They dive into all things prairies vs. meadows, plant communities, and the humbling essence of "corn sweat." During the Down Home Committee Meeting, Tessa unpacks her current battle plan to take down summer mosquitos, her bounty of tomatoes, and a mystery book reveal that Molly is currently coveting. Don't forget to subscribe to the show HERE and leave a review to enter our door prize...

Welcome one, welcome all! The first Garden Gab meeting is now in session! Join plant pals Molly and Tessa as they dive into what you can expect from the Garden Gab podcast and give you allllll the scoop on how they met (which possibly includes being the youngest and tallest girlies at a Southern Garden History Society meeting). Stick around for a rapid fire Q&A hosted by the Garden Gab Membership Committee which includes, but is not limited to… an ode to overalls, imaginary trips to the Isles of Northern Sweden, and things we possibly covet for our ow...

Welcome to your new garden club! Join hosts and garden design pals Tessa Pinner and Molly Hendry each week as they discuss what they're growing, learning, and dreaming up — whether it is in their own cottage gardens or in their clients' outdoor spaces. This podcast is all about the joy of getting your hands dirty no matter the size of your garden or stage of your life. If you are curious about the garden world or want some green thumbed inspiration — you're invited to join the gab.