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Garden Gab Podcast
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Hosted by two garden design professionals and longtime friends, Tessa and Molly, Garden Gab is your weekly escape to a front porch conversation about living beautifully, both in the garden and beyond! Join our club as we chat about what we’re growing, learning, and dreaming up, whether it is in our own cottage gardens to our clients’ outdoor spaces. If you are curious about the garden world or want some green thumbed inspiration — you’re invited to join the gab.
Episodes
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Garden Gab Club 028: Gathered from the Garden | Fall Season #2
Fall is officially in the air, and the Garden Gab girls are gathering all sorts of good things! 🍂 This week, we're continuing our Harvest season with a conversation about gathering from the garden—and we're taking that idea well beyond the flower basket. First up, we've got BIG news! Our very...
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Garden Gab Club 027: The Harvest Loop | Fall Season #1
Well hello there Garden Gabbers! Welcome to the very first episode of Garden Gab’s fall season, where we’re spending six episodes digging into one big theme: HARVEST. But before we get philosophical, Molly is fresh off the plane from Bergamo, Italy, with plenty to report which included but was…
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Garden Gab Club FALL Trailer: In our Harvesting Era
Garden Gab is entering its seasonal era! 🍂 Just like the garden, we’re leaning into a new rhythm around here. Instead of popping in with whatever happens to be on our minds (don’t worry, there will still be plenty of that), Garden Gab is moving to six-episode seasons built around one big theme....
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Garden Gab Club 026: Summer Series - Dean Charlton, English Nurseryman Extraordinaire (and our first Garden Gab guest!)
Welcome back Garden Gabbers!! Today we are wrapping up our English Gardens Summer Series with a proper treat... and our very first Garden Gab guest! The one, the only… DEAN CHARLTON!🇬🇧🌿 Pull up a chair (preferably with a mug of Yorkshire Tea) as we catch up with our dear friend Dean—gardener,...
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Garden Gab Club 025: Summer Series - What England's Great Dixter Taught Two Southern Gardeners
What happens when you spend a month gardening at one of the world's most celebrated gardens... and then come home to the heat, humidity, clay soil, and deer of the American South? In Part 2 of our Summer Series on English Gardens, Tessa takes us behind the scenes at Great Dixter, where every...
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Garden Gab Club 024: Summer Series - English Gardens Galore!
Welcome to Part 1 of our three-part Summer Series on English Gardens! Cheers Garden Gabbers! What is it about English gardens that captivates gardeners around the world? Is it the romance, the history, the overflowing borders... or something deeper? In this first installment, Molly and Tessa...
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Garden Gab Club 023: Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Tomatoes
Grab your sparklers, pour yourself something fizzy, and report to the backyard—because this year's Fourth of July celebration comes with a guest list straight out of American history. While we go hard for America’s 250th birthday, make sure you stick around for an exciting chance to get more info...
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Garden Gab Club 022: Summer Solstice Shenanigans
Welcome back to the Garden Gab Club people! It's the lazy, hazy days of summer... and we are loving it. The garden has entered that glorious, slightly chaotic point in the season where the zucchini won’t stop coming, the weeds are winning (until they’re not), and every day seems to hold a small...
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Garden Gab Club 021: Little Tessa in the Big Apple
The girls popped a cold one today because the pod is officially 21 people! They are settling into summer with a proper catch-up episode, or should we say… just a good ole fashioned gab! This week, Tessa shares what she's learned from opening her own garden for workshops. They discuss why waiting...
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Garden Gab Club 020: Remembering Planting Designer Nigel Dunnett
Welcome back, garden gabbers. This episode is a little more reflective as Molly and Tessa remember Nigel Dunnett who was a giant in ecological planting design and someone whose work deeply shaped both of their own work as designers. In the wake of his passing at the end of April, it only feels...
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Garden Gab Club: Chelsea Draft Picks #3
The time has finally come! Tessa and Molly discuss the final three Main Avenue show gardens for the 2026 Chelsea Flower Show… and let’s just say this last batch has some big expectations on their shoulders! Can Tom Stuart Smith raise Best in Show once again? Will Kazuyuki Ishihara defend his 2025...
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Garden Gab Club: Chelsea Draft Picks #2
Garden Gabbers… did we forget to tell you that we are going to have on the ground correspondents at the 2026 Chelsea Flower Show?! It’s not Tessa…. and not Molly… IT’S DON AND JANICE, Molly’s beloved parents. Although it is rude they are not taking Molly with them, we can put that aside and live...
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Garden Gab Club 019: The Art of the Shagginess Metric
Welcome back Garden Gabbers for Episode 19, our final episode in our teenage years! And let’s just say in the words of Tessa Pinner, mama’s hot! The girls jump straight into the woes of a hot and dry spring, which has Tessa pinning for… a plunge pool baby! You know it's officially the kick off…
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Garden Gab Club 018: Still in Our Spring Basking Era
Hello Garden Gabbers!! Tessa and Molly are back with more plant talk and hope that you are joining with them by basking fully in the glory that is spring!! The girls dive straight into all things Down Home and Out-and-About including fairy garden parties, strawberry picking and a new way of...
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Garden Gab Club 017: This Is Our Garden Super Bowl!
Hello there Garden Gabbers! On this episode of the pod, Tessa and Molly spare no speck of enthusiasm whilst introducing what some might declare as the Super Bowl of the gardening world... The Chelsea Flower Show! On the episodes leading up to the best week of the year, Tessa and Molly are...
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Garden Gab Club 016: On Gardening in the Crack Time
Welcome back Garden Gabbers! Tessa and Molly cover a lot of ground today... from what's happening down home in the garden this spring, to what gardening has in common with improv comedy and seed dungeon joys and scalp hammers! As always, buckle up for a wild garden ride! However, the girls really...
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Garden Gab Club 015: Porch Chat Time!
Welcome to Episode 15, which is 1/4 of the way to 60 episodes as Molly points out on today's show! They kick off new business with Tessa's trip to an arboretum + seed sowing endeavors, as well as Molly's British besties visiting Bham + her very delayed seed order! As motions from the floor come…
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Garden Gab Club 014: Live from Greenville!
Live from Greenville, South Carolina... it's the 14th episode of Garden Gab!! Molly and Tessa enjoyed a weekend together in Tessa's homeland of South Carolina speaking at the Greenville Master Gardeners Annual Symposium with over 500 enthusiastic gardeners from across 10 states! If you were not…
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Garden Gab Club 013: Valentines Special!! Featuring Botanical Matchmaking + Speed Dating
Well hey there Garden Gabbers! Love is in the air in this episode. With all the ice and emotionally distressing temperatures Molly and Tessa hath been enduring in the South, they pretty much jump straight into the reason we are all here... GAMES! *Botanical* dating games to be exact. Molly the...
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Garden Gab Club 012: Hibernation Station
What's up Garden Gabbers?? Were you expecting the normal Out and About update?? Well, in today's episode you will learn that Molly and Tessa are leaning hard into hibernation this January, so Out and About is getting the ole boot! But never fear, there is lots of gab about what you can be doing...
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Garden Gab Club 011: An ode to a 2026 filled with Protections, Possums, and Processes!
The Garden Gab girlies are back in action baby! In this episode Tessa kicks us off with a porch chicken update (murder mystery style) and lessons are learned about *protection.* Then it is time to swing straight into Out and About because Molly is back from her Kiwi Christmas adventure with stars...
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Garden Gab Club 010 (BONUS Breakout Session): Christmas Decorating Palooza
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…
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Garden Gab Club 010: On Winter Gardening and Horticultural Hormones
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…
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Garden Gab Club 009: Have a Pecan Whacking Good Thanksgiving
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...
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Garden Gab Club 008: We Must Have Trees!
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...
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Garden Gab Club 007: Charleston, Charleston!
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…
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Garden Gab Club 006: I Thank You for These Truths
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...
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Garden Gab Club 005 (BONUS Breakout Session!): Busts into Brags
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...
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Garden Gab Club 005: Ciao bella!
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…
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Garden Gab Club 004: Stripes, Stripes Baby
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....
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Garden Gab Club 003: We Like Big Rocks (and we cannot lie)
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…
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Garden Gab Club 002: Little Molly on the Prairie
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...
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Calling the First Garden Gab Meeting to Order!
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...
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Garden Gab Trailer
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...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Hosted by two garden design professionals and longtime friends, Tessa and Molly, Garden Gab is your weekly escape to a front porch conversation about living beautifully, both in the garden and beyond! Join our club as we chat about what we’re growing, learning, and dreaming up, whether it is in our own cottage gardens to our clients’ outdoor spaces. If you are curious about the garden world or want some green thumbed inspiration — you’re invited to join the gab.
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Hosted by two garden design professionals and longtime friends, Tessa and Molly, Garden Gab is your weekly escape to a front porch conversation about living beautifully, both in the garden and beyond! Join our club as we chat about what we’re growing, learning, and dreaming up, whether it is in our...
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