MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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Ken Druse on Hydrangea Time – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 29, 2024 Jul 26, 2024

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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 seems—which is not always the case, in colder... Read More ›

Amy Stewart on “The Tree Collectors” – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 22, 2024 Jul 19, 2024

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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 called “The Tree... Read More ›

Benjamin Vogt on Meadow Making – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 15, 2024 Jul 12, 2024

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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 preparatory steps – so... Read More ›

Lessons from the High Line – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 8, 2024 Jul 05, 2024

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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. The High Line on Manhattan’s West Side is... Read More ›

Hortus Arboretum’s Unusual Fruits – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 1, 2024 Jun 28, 2024

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Some of the many unusual fruits that Allyson Levy and Scott Serrano grow in their arboretum in the Hudson Valley of New York, like goji berries or maybe Schisandra, are ones you’re more likely to see on ingredient labels of... Read More ›

Rodney Eason on Auditing Your Garden – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 24, 2024 Jun 21, 2024

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Nobody wants to get the IRS notice in the mail that they’re being audited, heaven forbid. But when it comes to gardens, Rodney Eason believes that the occasional audit is a very positive process, and encourages us to perform one... Read More ›

Ken Druse on Garden Visiting – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 17, 2024 Jun 14, 2024

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What’s one of the best sources of inspiration and information about gardening you can get outside of a classroom, and that is also wonderfully entertaining? By making time to go visit other people’s gardens, we can open ourselves up to... Read More ›

Hardy Kern on Neonic Dangers – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 10, 2024 Jun 07, 2024

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I suspect every gardener has for years now, over and again, heard the warnings about the most widely used pesticides in the US, neonicotinoids – or neonics for short. In 2013 the American Bird Conservancy issued a report, warning of... Read More ›

Neil Diboll on Prairie Plants – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 3, 2024 May 31, 2024

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Interest and awareness around native plants has been trending in recent years, and it makes them almost feel new. But of course natives are the original plants of an area—and even in certain specialty corners of the nursery industry they... Read More ›

Basil Camu on Supporting Trees – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 27, 2024 May 24, 2024

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Most people call in an arborist when they think it’s time for a tree to be removed—a costly process both financially and environmentally, since trees are critical drivers of diversity. Today’s guest runs a tree-care company and also a tree-focused... Read More ›

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