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MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN
A WAY TO GARDEN is the horticultural incarnation of Margaret Roach
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MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDENHortus Arboretum’s Unusual Fruits – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 1, 2024
Some of the many unusual fruits that Allyson Levy and Scott Serrano grow in their arboretum in the Hudson Valley of New York, like goji berries or maybe…
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Rodney Eason on Auditing Your Garden – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 24, 2024
Nobody wants to get the IRS notice in the mail that they’re being audited, heaven forbid. But when it comes to gardens, Rodney Eason believes that the…
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Ken Druse on Garden Visiting – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 17, 2024
What’s one of the best sources of inspiration and information about gardening you can get outside of a classroom, and that is also wonderfully…
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Hardy Kern on Neonic Dangers – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 10, 2024
I suspect every gardener has for years now, over and again, heard the warnings about the most widely used pesticides in the US, neonicotinoids – or neonics for…
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Neil Diboll on Prairie Plants – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 3, 2024
Interest and awareness around native plants has been trending in recent years, and it makes them almost feel new. But of course natives are the original plants…
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Basil Camu on Supporting Trees – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 27, 2024
Most people call in an arborist when they think it’s time for a tree to be removed—a costly process both financially and environmentally, since trees are…
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Apiary Studio on Regenerative Landscaping – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 20, 2024
Landscape design may be part of the green industry, but sometimes rethinking a garden space, or creating a garden where there didn’t used to be one, can create…
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Peter Zale on Native Orchids – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 13, 2024
Today’s topic is orchids, but not the ones you might be growing as a flowering houseplant. Our subject is native terrestrial types that are more often…
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Philadelphia Gardens – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 6, 2024
The area around Philadelphia is well-known for its richness of public gardens, including many historic ones, but the region is also home to an impressive…
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Mary Phillips on Rethinking the Lawn – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – April 29, 2024
You’ve probably heard the expression No Mow May in recent years, a campaign borrowed from an effort in the UK meant to increase diversity by leaving…
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Stephen Procter on Ceramic Garden Art – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – April 22, 2024
It’s that time of year when we gardeners are shopping, shopping, shopping, often in hot pursuit of just the right plant that will make the design of a bed or…
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Hilton Carter on Propagating Houseplants – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – April 15, 2024
I for one have a number of houseplants that would look a whole lot better right now if given a pinch or two or three, plus I could potentially enjoy the…
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Japanese Maples at Mr Maple – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – April 8, 2024
I confess to something of a weakness for Japanese maples, and I suspect I’m not alone. Now, thanks to breeding work by experts like today’s guests…
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Madeline Hooper on Staying ‘GardenFit’ – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – April 1, 2024
You know how it goes, especially in those tempting first spring-like days: You’re barely out of bed before you’re out in the garden having at it…
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David Mattern on Container Design – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – March 25, 2024
Wait! Before you find yourself at the garden center grabbing up every irresistible thing that calls out to you, figuring you can somehow find a role for it in…
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Tim Johnson on Bio-Productive Gardens – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – March 18, 2024
In a recent phone call, today’s guest, Tim Johnson, used the phrase “bio-productive gardens,” and it stopped me. What does he mean by that, I thought? And then…
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Darryl Cheng on Collectible Houseplants – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – March 11, 2024
Some people collect art, others collect vintage cars, or maybe stamps or coins. Darryl Cheng collects houseplants, and in his latest book, “The New Plant…
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Sam Hoadley on Amsonias – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – March 4, 2024
Early on in making my garden decades ago, I bought a nursery pot of bluestar, or Amsonia, at a native plant sale, and planted it in a border here. It has never…
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K Greene on Herbs – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Feb 26, 2024
When shopping the seed catalogs, I realize I’m probably more likely to consider a tomato or pepper I haven’t grown before, or some unusual annual flower, than…
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Rebecca McMackin on the Native Movement – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Feb 19, 2024
Maybe more than any other topic, the use of native plants has consistently figured among the top garden trends in recent years. Just how popular is the…
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Be a Better Bird Watcher – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Feb 12, 2024
Watching birds lifts my spirits, as it has for decades, and who couldn’t use their spirits lifted right about now? But there’s another much bigger…
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Don Tipping on Diversity of Zinnias – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Feb 5, 2024
What’s not to love about zinnias? Organic seed farmer and breeder Don Tipping of Siskiyou Seeds and I both vote an emphatic “yes” in favor of making…
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Nancy Lawson Asks Is Your Yard Undergrown? – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Jan 29, 2024
As she often does, naturalist and nature writer Nancy Lawson—perhaps known better to some of you as the Humane Gardener after the title of her first…
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David Culp on Snowdrops – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Jan 22, 2024
David Culp is a self-professed Galanthophile—a lover, and passionate longtime collector, of snowdrops in all their various incarnations.  He is also a…
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Ken Druse on Seed Planning – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Jan 15, 2024
If you think nothing’s on the to-do list in winter, fellow gardeners—that we’re all meant to be dormant like the cannas in the cellar and the herbaceous…
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Matt Mattus on Sweet Peas – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Jan 8, 2024
Every year when I get to the sweet pea listings in the seed catalogs, I think this is the year, the year I’ll organize some supports in the garden for…
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Uli Lorimer on Ecological Resolutions – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Dec 25, 2024
Like everyone around this time of year, I get into a “looking back while looking ahead” combined mindset. Today I want to do just that, but with a sort of…
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Jennifer Jewell on Beloved Seed Catalogs – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Dec 18, 2023
Ho-ho-ho: It’s seed season, among other festive reasons to celebrate in December. Today I invited a similarly seed-obsessed friend, Jennifer Jewell, to…
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New USDA Hardiness Zone Map – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Dec 11, 2023
You no doubt have seen news that the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map was just updated, and that half the country once again got reclassified a half-zone…
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Seed Shopping with Turtle Tree – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Dec 4, 2023
Let the seed-shopping season begin! The 2024 offerings are being loaded into seed-catalog websites, and the earliest print catalogs are already arriving in our…
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‘Gardening Can Be Murder’ Book – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Nov 20, 2023
I don’t think I’ve read a mystery novel since the “Nancy Drew” books of my long-ago childhood, though I will confess to having watched more than a…
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Eric Lee-Mader on Milkweeds – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Nov 13, 2023
Most of us may automatically think “monarch” after hearing the word “milkweed,” or vice versa. And that’s in fact a critical and intimate relationship…
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Ken Druse on Fall Cleanup – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Nov 6, 2023
Yes, it’s time or almost time to do some raking, and to dig the dahlias to stash – time to perform the rounds of the so-called “fall cleanup” and put the…
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Byron Martin on Citrus Houseplants – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Oct 30, 2023
Are any of your houseplants edible? A new book by the owners of the beloved rare plant business called Logee’s Greenhouses suggests that we make room for some…
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Cornell’s Natural Lawn – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Oct 23, 2023
Reducing the footprint of our lawns has been a key environmental message for gardeners in recent years, since lawns lack biodiversity, and involve huge amounts…
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Brandywine Valley du Pont Gardens – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Oct 16, 2023
It’s hard to think of another place so rich with major gardens as the Brandywine Valley in Chester County, Pennsylvania, and an adjacent portion of…
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The Wild-ish Garden of Margaret Renkl – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Oct 9, 2023
My how times have changed. That’s what I keep thinking looking around my own garden in recent years, and I’ve been struck by the same thought over and over as…
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The Real Organic Project – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Oct 2, 2023
When you shop for food—whether produce or meat or eggs—and see a label that says “organic,” what do you think that means? At its most fundamental level, I…
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Ross Gay on the Garden’s Delights – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 25, 2023
The words joy and delight figure prominently in writer Ross Gay’s work – and so do moments he spends in his garden, and descriptions of his relationship to…
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Marianne Willburn on Overwintering Tropicals – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 18, 2023
It’s not time quite yet for what I call the mad stash – storing those non-hardy plants for the winter that we wish to keep alive for another year of service –…
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Brad Herrick on Jumping Worms – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 11, 2023
The question “What do I do about the Asian jumping worms that are destroying my soil?” has outpaced what was the most common thing I was asked year in and out…
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Linda Lipsen on Pressed Plants – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Aug 28, 2023
I saw news of a new book called “Pressed Plants” recently, and it got me thinking about my grandmother, and one of the many crafts she enjoyed way back when…
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Claudia West on Immersive Landscapes – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Aug 21, 2023
Maybe seven or eight years ago, in a conversation with landscape designer Claudia West, she said a sentence that has really stuck with me, as she explained her…
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Michael Judd on Food Forests – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Aug. 14, 2023
The term food forest, from the permaculture world, sounds big—like if I suggested you start one, you’d probably say, “I don’t have room for a forest of…
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K Greene on Shallots – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – August 7, 2023
I saw a video reel on social media the other day of a harvest of shallots, and it made me realize that I haven’t grown those delicious little Allium bulbs in…
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Craig LeHoullier on Ripe Tomatoes – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 31, 2023
Around this time each summer I look forward to the onslaught of fresh tomatoes—while at the same time hoping against hope that what I call “tomato troubles”…
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Ken Druse on Lost Plants – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 24, 2023
We gardeners all know the experience of loss: of plants that don’t make it, for one reason or another—from a tomato felled by disease in a too-humid summer to…
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Harnek Singh on Succulent Stars – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 19, 2023
Succulents: You probably already grow some perennial ones in your garden, and perhaps others that aren’t hardy are among your favorite houseplants. But what if…
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Ethan Kauffman on Natives at Stoneleigh – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 10, 2023
Can a historic formal space become the home to a forward-thinking landscape of native plants? The team at Stoneleigh, a five-year-old public garden on an old…
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Erik Keller on the Garden as Therapy – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 3, 2023
No doubt all of you who are listening, all you gardeners, would agree that interacting with plants, and with nature, has a restorative benefit—that it has the…
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Ken Druse on Summer Edits – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 26, 2023
Summer has just officially arrived … and with it a whole new to-do list of tasks aimed at keeping the garden going in the best possible shape all season…
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Noah Charney on Reading Your Land – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 19, 2023
How well do you really know the piece of land on which you live and garden, or the bigger landscape context it sits within—that forms your neighborhood…
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Nancy Lawson on Weed-Fighting Natives – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 12, 2023
When I spoke to naturalist and nature writer Nancy Lawson recently about her adventures in wildscaping at her Maryland garden, there was one topic in…
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Ken Druse on Primula From Seed – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 29, 2023
I was remarking to my friend Ken Druse earlier this spring about a garden I’d just visited, and how the stands of primulas in it made me jealous, and crave…
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Jenks Farmer on Pineapple Lilies – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 1, 2023
I am crazy about pineapple lilies – bulbs in the genus Eucomis – and though in my Zone 5 garden they aren’t hardy, I can’t imagine a growing season without…
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Frances Palmer on Dahlias – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 8, 2023
Some of us plant a row or two of annuals for cutting, but Frances Palmer has taken the phrase “cutting garden” to the most delightful extreme. From the first…
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Nancy Lawson on Wildscaping – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – April 24, 2023
Our human-centric way of looking at things in the garden and tasting, hearing, seeing and touching things is just one person’s opinion, and hardly…