MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN
A WAY TO GARDEN is the horticultural incarnation of Margaret Roach
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 27 minutes
- Episodes
- 171
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Bird Watching with Julie Zickefoose – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept. 8, 2025
The fall bird migration is under way, and that means the cast of characters we’re seeing and hearing in the garden is changing quickly – as we say goodbye for now to some species, and keep a close ey…
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Fri 05 Sep 2025
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 1, 2025 – Dr. Susan Pell on Poison Ivy
In the age of climate change, my guest on today’s reprise edition of the podcast told me, we can expect “more poison ivy and meaner poison ivy,” and I’d say from what I see growing around me and the …
00:24:43 |
Fri 29 Aug 2025
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Aug 25, 2025 – Rebecca McMackin on Garden Resources
Today’s guest and I were sitting having a cup of tea together recently and talking abou guess what? Plants! What came up pretty fast was how lately we both sometimes cringe at the results to our onli…
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Fri 22 Aug 2025
Patrick McDuffee on Scented Geraniums – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Aug 18, 2025
Patrick McDuffee believes that everyone should have at least one scented geranium on their windowsill year-round, for an on-demand invigorating whiff of fragrance, or to admire its colorful flowers…o…
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Fri 15 Aug 2025
Alla Olkhovska on Clematis – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Aug 11, 2025
The last time I spoke to Alla Olkhovska from her home and garden in Ukraine, she confessed to growing about 120 different types of Clematis—a number that after seeing her recently published e-book “C…
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Fri 08 Aug 2025
Trialing Seed for Seed Savers Exchange – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Aug 4, 2025
On the weekend of Aug. 8 and 9, the beloved Seed Savers Exchange will celebrate its 50th anniversary of preserving our seed heritage with festivities at its homebase in Decorah, Iowa. I wanted to cel…
00:27:16 |
Fri 01 Aug 2025
Thor Hanson on Wonders – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 28, 2025
For each of us, it’s probably safe to bet that our most familiar piece of the natural world is the outdoor space right beside the place we live – our own yard. But how well do we really know even... …
00:27:32 |
Fri 25 Jul 2025
Ken Druse on Foliage Power – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 21, 2025
There may be no moment in the year when my friend Ken Druse and I are more grateful for the range of textures and colors of foliage we made room for in our gardens than we are right now –... Read Mor…
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Fri 18 Jul 2025
George Schoellkopf of Hollister House – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 14, 2025
Today’s guest returned from a 1979 trip visiting English gardens inspired to do some garden-making of his own. His canvas was a northwestern Connecticut hillside and not the Cotswolds, and the home h…
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Fri 11 Jul 2025
Dr. John Marzluff on Crows – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 7, 2025
A couple of ravens have been shouting at each other across the garden each day this spring-into-summer, and their loud-mouthed antics reminded me of a somewhat less bawdy conversation about crows and…
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Fri 04 Jul 2025
Beth Brantley on Beech Diseases – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach – June 30, 2025
A big old copper beech tree is a focal point of my garden, and each time I look out the window at it admiringly these days, I feel the same love and gratitude I always have for its grandeur –... Read…
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Fri 27 Jun 2025
Mike Gibson on Topiary – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 23, 2025
Today we’re going to do some pruning, but not the same old straight-forward kind. Instead we’re going to talk topiary, and its transformative powers – not just on the plant that is the subject that’s…
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Fri 20 Jun 2025
Frances Palmer on Cutting Gardens – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 16, 2025
Some of us plant a row of particular annuals with the intention to cut them for bouquets in their moment of bloom – and some of us think bigger have a whole cutting garden within our landscape. I fee…
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Fri 13 Jun 2025
Abundant Landscapes with Kelly Norris – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 9, 2025
We may know one when we see it, but what word best describes an ecological landscape? Compared to traditional, more formal gardens, such native-plant-forward designs are variously labeled as looser, …
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Tue 03 Jun 2025
Gardening with My Sister – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 2, 2025
I’ve answered a lot of garden questions in my time as a garden journalist, but nobody has asked more of them than today’s guest—who’s also the person I’ve known longer than anyone else on the planet.…
00:27:57 |
Thu 29 May 2025
Eco Adventures with ‘The Bad Naturalist’ – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 26, 2025
Again and again, as I was reading the recent book “Bad Naturalist” by Paula Whyman, I kept thinking: Good thing I only have a couple of acres of land. Whyman tackled 200 acres on a Virginia mountaint…
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Fri 23 May 2025
Nancy Lawson on Mosquitoes – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 19, 2025
The first issue of “American Gardener,” the newly redesigned member magazine of the American Horticultural Society, arrived recently, and in it are lots of good reads—including an article by today’s …
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Fri 16 May 2025
Ken Druse on Shade Treasures – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 12, 2025
When I first started gardening, it wasn’t unusual to hear other gardeners lamenting the shady areas of their landscapes – wishing for more, more, more sun. But my friend Ken Druse never looked at the…
00:27:50 |
Fri 09 May 2025
Dan Wilder on Powerhouse Shrubs – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 5, 2025
Woody plants—the trees and shrubs—can be pure ecological powerhouses, but most of us don’t have room for an entire forest in our backyards. So on a garden scale, which shrubs in particular really get…
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Fri 02 May 2025
Uli Lorimer on Trillium & More – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – April 28, 2025
I look forward to spring for many reasons, not the least of which is the emergence and bloom time of the trilliums. There’s a saying that good things come in threes, and trilliums are certainly proof…
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Fri 25 Apr 2025
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