MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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The Art of Crevice Gardening – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Oct. 26, 2026 Oct 23, 2026

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I’ve never had a rock garden, I confess, but a book about a modern and extreme form of the art caught my attention when it was published. It’s called “The Crevice Garden: How to Make the Perfect Home for Plants... Read More ›

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Oct 19, 2026 – Creative Use of Woody Plants at Stoneleigh Oct 16, 2026

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There’s power in numbers. That’s what the horticulture team at Stoneleigh, the historic estate turned native-focused public garden in Villanova, Pennsylvania, seems to be demonstrating time and again with its highly creative approach to using woody plants. Yes, planting a... Read More ›

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Oct 12, 2026 – Sam Jaffe on Extraordinary Caterpillars Oct 09, 2026

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“We’re so good at pretending the things around us are known and boring, or imagining that the worthwhile things are far away,” says Sam Jaffe, at the start of the documentary film “The Extraordinary Caterpillar.” Sam begs to differ, however,... Read More ›

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Oct 5, 2026 – Nancy Lawson on Awe-Filled Gardens Oct 02, 2026

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One late-August day, Nancy Lawson—or “The Humane Gardener,” as she is perhaps better known—was making a video about a spicebush swallowtail butterfly when something just beyond it in her Maryland yard caught her eye. A green heron was visiting a... Read More ›

Hannah Fries’s ‘A Forest Language’ – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 28, 2026 Sep 25, 2026

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In the introduction to her latest book “A Forest Language,” Hannah Fries acknowledges a fascination with the words we use to talk about trees – organisms she calls the backdrop of her life. From our human vocabulary of forest ecology... Read More ›

Bill Braun on Seed Saving – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 21, 2026 Sep 18, 2026

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I look around the garden and I see it happening everywhere, on so many different plants: seed is forming. Seed is the start of most everything we grow, yet most of the seed we gardeners and even more important the... Read More ›

Exceptional Woody Plants from ‘Arnold Selects’ – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 14, 2026 Sep 11, 2026

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What makes a tree or shrub exceptional – something worthy of introduction into the nursery trade, and eventually maybe making its way into your garden? There are many pathways a plant can travel to get there, including one unique one... Read More ›

JM Fortier on Vegetable Garden Wisdom – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 7, 2026 Sep 04, 2026

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When I heard that today’s guest, who’s been a guiding force in educating organic farmers, was finally publishing a book specifically for gardeners … I was thrilled. I’d been following JM Fortier since his first handbook on biointensive organic market... Read More ›

Leslie Halleck on Home Greenhouses – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Aug 31, 2026 Aug 28, 2026

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Is a greenhouse in your future? I’ve never had one, and I have always been not-so-secretly jealous of friends who do—whether to propagate their seedlings in late winter into spring, or grow more tropicals and other “houseplants” than fit in... Read More ›

Timothy Pakron on What’s Fresh From the Garden – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Aug 24, 2026 Aug 21, 2026

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The opening pages of Timothy Pakron’s about-to-be-released cookbook aren’t pictures of plates of food, but rather gorgeous flower photos – some dreamy cosmos, followed by a double-page spread of silvery mountain mint, or Pycnanthemum, gleaming against a moody dark background.... Read More ›

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