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
Peggy Anne Montgomery on Forcing Bulbs – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Nov 25, 2024
It’s practically December, but like many gardeners I’m already thinking about spring. One big element of that thinking is how to maximize the power of flower bulbs, and though you might have already …
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Fri 22 Nov 2024
‘WildStory’ Podcast’s Poetry + Plants – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Nov 18, 2024
I was invited recently to be a guest on a podcast called The Wildstory from The Native Plant Society of New Jersey that talks about plants, of course, and ecology … but unlike other garden-related p…
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Fri 15 Nov 2024
David Sibley on Birds in Winter – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Nov. 11, 2024
When cold weather approaches, we humans often have it easy: We can retreat to the shelter of central heating, or pile on more layers of clothing. The path to survival is a lot more complicated for bi…
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Fri 08 Nov 2024
George Coombs on Trees for the Future – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Nov 4, 2024
In the face of shifting weather patterns influenced by a changing climate, the garden can be a really confusing place these days. What stressors are coming next, and which plants will have the resili…
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Thu 31 Oct 2024
Flora & Frost on Solving Garden Mysteries – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Oct 28, 2024
The garden is my favorite escape from stress, of course, but as I have confessed before on the podcast, I sometimes succumb to the lure of swiping my way through Instagram during non-garden hours, li…
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Tue 22 Oct 2024
Sara Weaner on Lawn Transformation – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Oct 21, 2024
Today’s guest, Sara Weaner Cooper, and her husband, Evan Cooper, bought their first home a couple of years ago, and before long undertook transitioning the front lawn organically from mown grass into…
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Fri 18 Oct 2024
Joan Strassmann on a Birding Journal – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Oc. 14, 2024
It was almost two years ago to the day when today’s guest, Joan Strassmann, last visited me on the show, right around the time her book “Slow Birding” was released. Now, as then, I’ve seen what are p…
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Fri 11 Oct 2024
Tim Johnson on Native Seeds – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Oct 7, 2024
When I read the other day that Native Plant Trust, the nonprofit plant conservation organization in New England, had successfully raised the money to complete the endowment fund needed to save its re…
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Fri 04 Oct 2024
Daniel Weitoish on Managing Invasives – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 30, 2024
Increasingly in recent years, my garden “weeds” include more and more tenacious opponents – and the landscape along the roadsides nearby and pretty much everywhere I drive is one of hedgerows formed …
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Fri 27 Sep 2024
Preston Montague on Ecological Landscaping – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 23, 2024
If you have ever tried creating, and then caring for, a habitat-style garden with native plants … well, let’s just say it’s not exactly the same thing as combining a group of hostas with some astilbe…
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Fri 20 Sep 2024
Jared Rosenbaum on Native Plant Stories – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 16, 2024
“Plants tell the story of a place,” says field botanist and native plant nursery owner Jared Rosenbaum. “If you want to be rooted on the earth you live on, you can look to plants to interpret that st…
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Fri 13 Sep 2024
Real Organic Project on Soil-Supporting Advice – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 9, 2024
Organic farming and gardening have always been based on the principle of “feed the soil, not the plant.” In a recent interview, I got some expert advice for doing that, and also learn why our diligen…
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Fri 06 Sep 2024
Ken Druse on Bulb Shopping and Dividing – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Aug 26, 2024
Have you done your bulb shopping yet? It’s ordering time—both for fall-blooming treats like Colchicum, which you can only buy now if you hurry, and for the ever-wider assortment of fall-planted, spri…
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Thu 22 Aug 2024
Matt Mattus on Holiday Cactus – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Aug 19, 2024
I was scrolling through Instagram the other day – yes, sometimes I just cannot help myself – when I saw a post by Matt Mattus about Christmas cactus. Even though it was still high summer, it made me …
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Fri 16 Aug 2024
Daniel Weitoish on Extreme Weather – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – August 12, 2024
I suspect I’m not alone when I say that weather extremes in recent growing seasons have made me feel a bit like a stranger in a strange land in my own garden—wondering what will bloom when, and when …
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Fri 09 Aug 2024
Carly Still on Medieval Herbs – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Aug 5, 2024
When most of us think of growing herbs each spring, what we probably put into our shopping cart, whether from online seed catalogs or at the garden center, are the culinary must-haves: the basil, the…
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Fri 02 Aug 2024
Ken Druse on Hydrangea Time – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 29, 2024
It’s Hydrangea season, and in the Northeast, in particular, this summer, it’s REALLY been a crazy hydrangea season in 2024, with billows of blue bloom from big-leaf hydrangeas on view everywhere, it …
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Fri 26 Jul 2024
Amy Stewart on “The Tree Collectors” – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 22, 2024
We’re going to talk about collectibles today, but not the kind you score at a flea market or from an online auction. We’re going to talk about collectible trees. Yes, trees. A new book by Amy Stewart…
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Fri 19 Jul 2024
Benjamin Vogt on Meadow Making – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 15, 2024
Are you thinking about the possibility of transitioning an area of your lawn into something more diverse, like maybe a meadow? A question I’m asked a lot is how to go about it – the actual preparator…
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Fri 12 Jul 2024
Lessons from the High Line – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 8, 2024
It’s one of the best-known naturalistic gardens anywhere, and yet it’s perched in the most unnatural spot imaginable, 30 feet high above New York City traffic on an abandoned elevated railway line. T…
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Fri 05 Jul 2024
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