Jul 23, 2026 · 59 min · 13 segments
In this episode of Land Language, we sit down with Julie Weiss, a designer and gardener based in the Pacific Northwest and board member of the North American Friends of Great Dixter. Julie spent…
Julie WeissGuest
Brit SastrawidjayaHost
Bethany RydmarkHostWhen you spent your time at Dixter, how did they teach, which I guess is more of a question of how did you absorb?
And you really don't, I learned there that if I wasn't sure about something, and I was pretty much a novice gardener, like I only had done my roof garden.
My roof garden was all containers and, you know, in the Northeast, so short season.
Like, you might, if it's raining, you might do picking out of seedlings or doing something like that for two days, possibly.
learning um every single day and you are with the team they really that's how they taught and Fergus Garrett who's the head gardener hands-on gardener so he's out there showing you I mean they would show us really specifically literally how to plant something how they do it and how they do it just means what are their standards yeah like how dig how deep do you dig the hole how do you you know how just how are you doing it and that's really it was really from experience hands-on experience and you can take that and go and I did just read everything and met so many people through there coming through that they have a lot of um plant identifications once a week you walk around and look at you know it's just it was hands-on learning and By people who, the gardeners, you know, there's a, the team is maybe like, at that time was maybe six.
But when I was there, there were a lot of, in the summer, there were a lot of students coming in from all over the world.
When you spent your time at Dixter, how did they teach, which I guess is more of a question of how did you absorb?
And you really don't, I learned there that if I wasn't sure about something, and I was pretty much a novice gardener, like I only had done my roof garden.
My roof garden was all containers and, you know, in the Northeast, so short season.
Like, you might, if it's raining, you might do picking out of seedlings or doing something like that for two days, possibly.
learning um every single day and you are with the team they really that's how they taught and Fergus Garrett who's the head gardener hands-on gardener so he's out there showing you I mean they would show us really specifically literally how to plant something how they do it and how they do it just means what are their standards yeah like how dig how deep do you dig the hole how do you you know how just how are you doing it and that's really it was really from experience hands-on experience and you can take that and go and I did just read everything and met so many people through there coming through that they have a lot of um plant identifications once a week you walk around and look at you know it's just it was hands-on learning and By people who, the gardeners, you know, there's a, the team is maybe like, at that time was maybe six.
But when I was there, there were a lot of, in the summer, there were a lot of students coming in from all over the world.
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