MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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Darryl Cheng on Collectible Houseplants – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – March 11, 2024 Mar 08, 2024

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Some people collect art, others collect vintage cars, or maybe stamps or coins. Darryl Cheng collects houseplants, and in his latest book, “The New Plant Collector,” Darryl suggests some gorgeous possibilities, with detailed guidelines for figuring out how to make... Read More ›

Sam Hoadley on Amsonias – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – March 4, 2024 Mar 01, 2024

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Early on in making my garden decades ago, I bought a nursery pot of bluestar, or Amsonia, at a native plant sale, and planted it in a border here. It has never asked anything of me, never had any pests... Read More ›

K Greene on Herbs – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Feb 26, 2024 Feb 23, 2024

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When shopping the seed catalogs, I realize I’m probably more likely to consider a tomato or pepper I haven’t grown before, or some unusual annual flower, than to try some new-to-me herb. But what a shame. I need to modify that... Read More ›

Rebecca McMackin on the Native Movement – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Feb 19, 2024 Feb 16, 2024

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Maybe more than any other topic, the use of native plants has consistently figured among the top garden trends in recent years. Just how popular is the movement toward a more ecological focus in the way we design and care... Read More ›

Be a Better Bird Watcher – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Feb 12, 2024 Feb 08, 2024

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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 sightings helps scientists understand what’s going on with... Read More ›

Don Tipping on Diversity of Zinnias – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Feb 5, 2024 Feb 02, 2024

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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 into creating the... Read More ›

Nancy Lawson Asks Is Your Yard Undergrown? – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Jan 29, 2024 Jan 26, 2024

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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 isn’t overgrown and neither is yours,”... Read More ›

David Culp on Snowdrops – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Jan 22, 2024 Jan 19, 2024

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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, which happens the first weekend of March in Downingtown, Pa., and... Read More ›

Ken Druse on Seed Planning – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Jan 15, 2024 Jan 12, 2024

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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, think again. Most of us in colder... Read More ›

Matt Mattus on Sweet Peas – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Jan 8, 2024 Jan 05, 2024

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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 extravagance of color and... Read More ›

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