Leslie Halleck on Seed Starting Lights – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – January 18, 2020

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – April 29, 2024 – Mary Phillips on Rethinking the Lawn: 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 lawns unmown for the one spring month, but is that the answer for US... Read More › by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – April 22, 2024 – Stephen Procter on Ceramic Garden Art: 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 the larger landscape hang together—that elusive missing ingredient. But what... Read More &#8250 by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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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 benefit of more plants from those trimmings, whether to... Read More › by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – April 8, 2024 – Japanese Maples at Mr. Maple: 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, there are more and more varieties being made available that are suited to a... Read More &#825 by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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Staying ‘GardenFit’ With Madeline Hooper – 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. And then, by day’s end, your body’s screaming that maybe, just maybe, you overdid... by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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Container Design With David Mattern – 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 this season’s container designs, think again: What’s your plan for this year’s seasonal... Read by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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‘Bio-Productive Gardens’ With Tim Johnson – 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 he explained:  There are ways to manage our landscapes, he said, so... Read More › by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – March 11, 2024 – Darryl Cheng on Collectible Houseplants: 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 Collector,” Darryl suggests some gorgeous possibilities, with detailed guidelines for figuring out h by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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Amsonias With Sam Hoadley – 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 asked anything of me, never had any pests... Read More › by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Feb 26, 2024 – K Greene on Herbs: 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 to try some new-to-me herb. But what a shame.  I need to modify that... Read More &#8 by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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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 movement toward a more ecological focus in the way we design and care... Read More › by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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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 potential benefit, which is that sharing my sightings helps scientists understand what’s by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Feb 5, 2024 – Don Tipping on Diversity of Zinnias: Whats 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 zinnias a part of every garden year. But what goes into creating the diversity of zinnia colors and for by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Jan 29, 2024 – Nancy Lawson Asks Is Your Yard Undergrown?: 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 book—caught my attention the other day.  My yard isnt overgrown and neither is yours, Nancy wrote by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Jan 22, 2024 – David Culp on Snowdrops: David Culp is a self-professed Galanthophile—a lover, and passionate longtime collector, of snowdrops in all their various incarnations.  He is also a host of the annual Galanthus Gala symposium, which happens the first weekend of March in Down by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Jan 15, 2024 – Ken Druse on Seed Planning: 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 perennials outside in the flower beds—well, think again.  Most of us in colder zones, especia by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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Sweet Peas With Matt Mattus – 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 Ill organize some supports in the garden for them, and indulge in their unmatched extravagance of color and fragrance.  Todays guest doesnt by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Dec 25, 2024 – Uli Lorimer on Ecological Resolutions: 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 ecological filter, taking stock of how things in the garden fared in the bigger environmental pictu by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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Beloved Seed Catalogs with Jennifer Jewell – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Dec. 18, 2023: Ho-ho-ho: Its seed season, among other festive reasons to celebrate in December. Today I invited a similarly seed-obsessed friend, Jennifer Jewell, to help me curate some seed-catalog recommendations you might not otherwise browse, and to talk seeds in g by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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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 warmer—just as many of us did after the previous update of the map, in 2012. But what does it all mean by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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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 mailboxes, as if to help soften the separation anxiety we may feel if we’ve already put our ga by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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‘Gardening Can Be Murder’ Book – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach – Nov. 20, 2023: I dont think Ive read a mystery novel since the “Nancy Drew” books of my long-ago childhood, though I will confess to having watched more than a few who-done-it TV series over the years, most of them from the BBC.  But I never noticed how many my by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Nov 13, 2023 – Eric Lee-Mader on Milkweeds: Most of us may automatically think “monarch” after hearing the word “milkweed,” or vice versa. And thats in fact a critical and intimate relationship, the one between monarch butterflies and native milkweed plants.  But the genus Asclepias offe by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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Fall Cleanup With Ken Druse – 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 garden to bed.  But today Ken Druse and  I want to advocate for a sort of Cleanu by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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Citrus Houseplants With Byron Martin – 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 delicious candidates among our potted indoor plants, including a range of citrus. Their book is by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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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 of pollution between fertilizers, herbicides and the gas used in mowing. But what to cultivate by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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Brandywine Valley du Pont Gardens – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach – Oct. 16, 2023: Its hard to think of another place so rich with major gardens as the Brandywine Valley in Chester County, Pennsylvania, and an adjacent portion of Delaware. Five of those gardens have a historic connection—a family connection—as they were all by members by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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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 I read “The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year,” the latest book by Margaret Renkl that takes us by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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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 guess I always thought it meant vegetables grown on the fields of an organic farm—like, in the soil by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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The Garden’s Delights, With Ross Gay – 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 plants.  Is that a coincidence -- that the garden is a main character in his books, book by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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Leslie Halleck on Seed Starting Lights – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – January 18, 2020

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