Parsley and Sage Podcast
Join seasoned gardeners Pam Pooley and Jeanne Farewell as they shovel up tales and tips for your Great Outdoors, unearthing new, and testing tried and true ground rules for your landscape. Visit their gardens and send your questions to: www.pampooley.com
Episodes
Feb 14, 2023
Feb 14, 2023
16 min
Don't fret over bland winter landscapes in cold climates! This time of year is a gift to evaluate your garden, where it needs structure or pruning. And it's restful to plan and dream of spring!
Jan 11, 2023
Jan 11, 2023
16 min
Into the woods, we join Catherine Downs and learn how to better connect and reciprocate with nature. Forest bathing is an intentional way to wonder and wander outdoors in the forest, garden or backyard. Be prepared for the sounds (and interruptions) of the natural world.
Nov 19, 2022
Nov 19, 2022
16 min
Get your pots and containers ready for Thanksgiving and Christmas! Designer Cindy Young joins us to share her secrets. Here are lots of creative ideas to keep floral color and texture alive outdoors through the fall and winter.
Nov 6, 2022
Nov 6, 2022
14 min
Daffodils, bluebells, tulips and alliums need to get into the ground when it gets cold out. Here are helpful tips about placing and planting a variety of bulbs so that you will awaken in springtime to their first bursts of color.
Sep 29, 2022
Sep 29, 2022
16 min
No two gardens could ever look alike. Gardens vary like personalities and change all the time. What are benchmark styles that you can aspire to? Listen to advice where to begin to follow your garden bliss.
Sep 1, 2022
Sep 1, 2022
15 min
Garden paths help define your garden space and serve as the backbone to design. Pam and Jeanne explore the way a simple path can help you get started with a garden or connect cultivated areas for coherency. You can't go wrong planning paths as the entry to your gardening journey.
Aug 2, 2022
Aug 2, 2022
17 min
Packed with design tips, this episode introduces ways to achieve blooms in your garden throughout the garden season. It's one of our favorites!
Jul 18, 2022
Jul 18, 2022
12 min
Focal points help curate your garden— bird baths, tubs filled with flowers, water features, topiaries, tree stumps and more. This short episode is packed with ideas to spark up every corner of your landscape.
Jul 10, 2022
Jul 10, 2022
29 min
Learn loads about planting pots and containers with special guest Cindy Young who shares trade secrets about planning, prep and watering in this double episode. Not to be missed!
Jun 25, 2022
Jun 25, 2022
16 min
Dealing with a small outdoor space? Hear about elegant, compact trees that don't take up much real estate and how they add structure and appeal to any garden or patio. Pam and Jeanne talk about their favorites and where to plant them.
Pam Pooley
Following a career in public television production in New York City, Pam moved with her wonderful husband Eric, two lovely daughters, and a gentle labrador retriever to a bucolic town in New York, not far from the city, yet enticingly rural enough for her to drop a lot of what she was doing as she fell in love with gardening and all things green. Just as this evocation was taking root, Eric's job relocated the family to London, land of fine horticulture, where Pam immersed further into exploring gardens and landscape design. Back in her farmhouse, she relishes cultivating, restoring and loving the land. Visit: www.pampooley.com
Jeanne Farewell
Jeanne Farewell is a pianist who gives lecture-recitals on music and its association with art and literature, and is also a writer whose published work includes essays, stories, novels, and book reviews. As well, she has cultivated an interest in art and art history and her paintings have been presented in shows. Such an engagement in the arts has informed her approach to the design of her garden, with elements of harmony, color theory, rhythmic tread, perspective, pacing, and even musical “rests” considered. A study of Chinese monumental landscape painting has created a compulsion to read negative space of a garden as well as the areas that draw the eye.
A longtime member of the U.K.’s National Trust, Jeanne visits English gardens whenever possible and, when not possible, reads about them. She has aspired to integrate the formal elements of the English garden with the wild and craggy property in the foothills of the Appalachians that is her home. Visit: www.jeannefarewell.com
Special Thanks
Podcast Cover and Pam's Bio Photo: Benjamin Allen at Hudson Valley Photography
Audio Editing: Jimmy Kennedy
Music: Jeanne Farewell