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
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 sighting…
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Thu 08 Feb 2024
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 zinnias a part of every garden year. But what goes…
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Fri 02 Feb 2024
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 book—caught my attention the other day. “My yard …
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Fri 26 Jan 2024
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 host of the annual Galanthus Gala symposium, whi…
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Fri 19 Jan 2024
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 perennials outside in the flower beds—well, th…
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Fri 12 Jan 2024
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 them, and indulge in their unmatched extravaganc…
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Fri 05 Jan 2024
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 ecological filter, taking stock of how thing…
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Fri 22 Dec 2023
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 help me curate some seed-catalog recommendation…
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Fri 15 Dec 2023
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…
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Fri 08 Dec 2023
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 sep…
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Fri 01 Dec 2023
‘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 few who-done-it TV series over the years, most of th…
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Fri 17 Nov 2023
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, the one between monarch butterflies and native …
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Fri 10 Nov 2023
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 garden to bed. But today Ken Druse and I wa…
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Fri 03 Nov 2023
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 delicious candidates among our potted in…
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Fri 27 Oct 2023
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, herbi…
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Fri 20 Oct 2023
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 Delaware. Five of those gardens have a historic con…
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Fri 13 Oct 2023
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…
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Fri 06 Oct 2023
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 g…
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Fri 29 Sep 2023
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 plants. Is that a coincidence — that the g…
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Fri 22 Sep 2023
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 – but it is time to make some plans... Rea…
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Fri 15 Sep 2023
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