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
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – October 10, 2022 – Nick McCullough on Garden Design
If I say “English garden,” you probably conjure a mental picture of colorful mixed borders and garden rooms enclosed by hedging. But what’s the essence of an American garden? That was what a new book…
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Mon 10 Oct 2022
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – October 3, 2022 – Charley Eiseman on Galls and Mines
Since I took a walk with today’s guest about 10 years ago, I’ve adopted a whole different way of looking at what I might have once seen as imperfections in plants. Now when I spy a squiggle in a colu…
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Mon 03 Oct 2022
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – September 26, 2022 – Joe Lamp’l on Vegetable Success
Becoming a successful vegetable gardener involves a lot of trial and error. As the seasons pass we hopefully get better at it—harvesting not just food for the table, but food for thought too, insight…
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Mon 26 Sep 2022
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – September 19, 2022 – Mark Richardson on Historic Apples
A collection of historic apples that was threatened by disease is having a second act at the New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill in Boylston, Mass., where a three-year-long restoration of their …
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Mon 19 Sep 2022
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – September 12, 2022 – Cornell Climate Change Garden
In emails received from many parts of the country, I’m hearing gardeners say the same thing: This year has been really hard. Count me in on those voicing that sentiment. Gardeners know first-hand th…
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Mon 12 Sep 2022
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 5, 2022 – Ken Druse on Seed Saving
Maybe like I do, you always mean to be better at seed saving, and it gets away from you. Well, right now is the perfect time with pen and paper or your cell phone in hand for making a list... Read Mo…
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Mon 05 Sep 2022
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – August 29, 2022 – Andy Brand on Beauty in Details
Ecological horticulturist Andy Brand can’t help himself. He just has to look closely at everything outdoors: every plant, every insect, every process that’s unfolding. And he has to take camera phone…
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Mon 29 Aug 2022
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – August 22, 2022 – Crevice Gardening
I’ve never had a rock garden, I confess. But a new book about a modern and extreme form of the art caught my attention recently. It’s called “The Crevice Garden: How to Make the Perfect Home for Pla…
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Mon 22 Aug 2022
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – August 15, 2022 – Jenny Rose Carey on Flowers for Hot Dry Spots
Hot and dry: That’s the lament of gardeners in most regions in high summer, and also of many plants in their flower gardens. The author of a new book called “The Ultimate Flower Gardener’s Guide” is …
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Mon 15 Aug 2022
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – August 8, 2022 – Craig LeHoullier on Tomato Troubles
I call the phenomenon tomato troubles. You know, the yellow-spotted foliage that falls off, or the plant that produces all those misshapen fruits and yes, the attack of the hornworms, too, when you w…
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Mon 08 Aug 2022
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – August 1, 2022 – Ken Druse on Shade Solutions
I recently hosted a shade-gardening webinar featuring my friend, Ken Druse. The enthusiastic registration and the outpouring of audience questions that evening reminded me how popular a topic shade i…
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Mon 01 Aug 2022
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 25, 2022 – Alan Branhagen on Natives
I’ve been undertaking more native-plant-focused garden transformations in recent years, as I know many of you listening have, too. Today’s guest is a naturalist with a background in landscape archite…
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Mon 25 Jul 2022
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 18, 2022 – Ali Stafford on Summer Squash
You know how the vegetable garden goes. One day, there are just two green beans ready to pick, and then there are 62 all at once. Famine and then feast. Some of that can be moderated by growing diff…
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Mon 18 Jul 2022
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 11, 2022 – Angela Sirois-Pitel on Stiltgrass
If you think that managing invasive plants in a garden is a challenge, imagine that on a larger scale—a much larger scale, like Angela Sirois-Pitel faces in the name of supporting native habitat on N…
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Mon 11 Jul 2022
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 4, 2022 – Hortus Arboretum on Native Fruits
More than 20 years ago, artists Allyson Levy and Scott Serrano started a botanical garden in the backyard of their Hudson Valley, New York, home. Today, the Hortus Arboretum and Botanical Gardens has…
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Mon 04 Jul 2022
Dan Wilder on Rethinking Lawn – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 27, 2022
The lecture that he’s been giving for a number of years is not so subtly called “Kill our Lawn.” Ecological horticulturist Dan Wilder knows that starting over and creating an entire native habitat i…
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Mon 27 Jun 2022
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 20, 2022 – Ken Druse on Surprise Plants
Today’s show is all about surprises—and the first one is my guest. He’s back: My old friend Ken Druse is here after too many months of absence, and our subject is the surprises our gardens have offer…
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Mon 20 Jun 2022
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 13, 2022 – Wes Knapp on Taking Stock of Natives
While researching a story about the endangered status of native trillium in North America recently, I was happy to meet today’s guest, botanist Wesley Knapp. Our trillium conversations got me thinki…
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Mon 13 Jun 2022
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 6, 2022 – Felicia Keesing on Ticks
How are we doing in the effort to reduce tick encounters, and the diseases that ticks carry and can transmit to humans? The results from a multi-year study in Dutchess County, New York, one of the ar…
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Mon 06 Jun 2022
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 30, 2022 – Sy Montgomery on Hawks
Today’s guest, author Sy Montgomery, writes that “we are on the cusp of either destroying the sweet green earth, or revolutionizing the way we understand the rest of animate creation. “It’s an impor…
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Mon 30 May 2022
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