Gardening gays
November 15, 2021
I can’t recall when I started tracking @gayswhogarden on Instagram, but their alliterative, cheeky, and decidedly out username caught my eye, as did their beautiful images of soft-petaled roses, colorful Texas wildflowers, and glowing dahlias (in Austin — how??). We started chatting online, and in due course I invited myself over, as I do. They graciously humored me by actually inviting me — and another gardener, Cale, they’d also met online — to come look their East Austin garden.
And so on Saturday I met Andrew Ong and Jared Goza, the young couple behind @gayswhogarden. They are as adorable, friendly, and knowledgeable as their emoji-studded and encouraging Instagram posts read. As we walked around their garden, they shared the stories behind their plants and design decisions and gave a sense of how much has changed in only a several years by pulling up pics of the moonscape they inherited with the house.
In terms of their gardening passions, Andrew and Jared may be a case of opposites charm. Andrew loves roses and growing plants from seed, both of which demand a good deal of fussing over. Jared (who goes
The Garden Mixer
This week the girls mix dry humor and deep honesty with Doug Oster, Emmy award-winning garden broadcaster & author from Pittsburgh. This, unbeknownst to Marianne, makes him a Yinzer — and that does not express he enjoys a Yingling from moment to time.
For years, on television, radio, newspapers and social media, Doug has been an outspoken champion for natural gardening, and for the passion and personality of average gardeners and the gardens they look after.
They'll discuss the importance of independent garden centers in helping to cultivate that personal tap , and dip into the changing demographics of gardeners across the nation from the perspective of three gardeners who have WAY too much dirt under their fingernails.
They’ll also touch on how garden media has changed, and which changes notice embraceable. (Hint: Leslie’s embracing everything.)
Join them as they depart deep and sometimes a little obscure — because killing the deer that just wiped out your lilies is going to abandon you in a Game of Thrones frame of mind.
Deer. It’s what’s for dinner. At least at Marianne’s.
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