MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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Melissa Finley on Tree Care History and How-to – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Dec 22, 2025 Dec 19, 2025

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The earliest references to people cultivating trees date back to 6000 B.C., and there are records of tree-care tactics in the Bible, too, and from ancient Egypt. These person-to-tree interventions were the start of the science and art of arboriculture,... Read More ›

Uli Lorimer on Keystone Plants – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Dec. 15 2025 Dec 12, 2025

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Not so many years ago, relative to the history of horticulture, even a now-ubiquitous phrase like “pollinator plant” wasn’t part of our everyday gardening language and mindset the way it is today. Our collective consciousness about the importance of native... Read More ›

Matt Mattus on Holiday Blooms – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Dec 8, 2025 Dec 05, 2025

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If I say: quick, name a holiday flower, you might first answer poinsettia. But the poinsettia wasn’t always synonymous with this time of year, today’s guest tells me – like once upon a time more than a century ago the... Read More ›

Rob Moffitt on Unusual Houseplants – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Dec 1, 2025 Nov 28, 2025

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I can’t imagine life without my admittedly oddball collection of houseplants, many of whom have been with me for several decades already. So I was delighted recently to meet today’s guest, Rob Moffitt, whose Los Angeles-based botanical design studio specializes... Read More ›

Jamie Hanson on Heritage Apples – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Nov 24, 2025 Nov 21, 2025

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When I bought my place decades ago it was nestled in a tiny piece of former farmland with a little 1880s house and no garden. There were, however, five giant apple trees, at least a century old even then –... Read More ›

Joseph Tychonievich on Seed Sources – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Nov 17, 2025 Nov 14, 2025

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Once upon a time the seed catalogs came out around the start of the New Year, but these days the very first ones may arrive by Thanksgiving, and their listings may be posted online even earlier. So I guess what... Read More ›

Eco Garden Care with Dan Wilder – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Nov 3, 2025 Oct 31, 2025

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Besides their native-heavier plant palette and looser style, ecologically designed landscapes have another difference: The way we maintain them is not the same as with more traditional, ornamentally-focused gardens. I’m asked again and again by gardeners who have planted a meadow-like... Read More ›

Paul Bannick on Woodpeckers – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Oct 27, 2025 Oct 24, 2025

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Today’s guest didn’t have to convince me to be wild about woodpeckers, because I already am—utterly so. These charismatic, hardworking birds make oversized ecological contributions to the environments they inhabit and to the other creatures that they share them with... Read More ›

Max Ferlauto on Leaf Removal’s Impact – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Oct 20, 2025 Oct 17, 2025

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Every gardener has certainly heard the rallying cry each recent autumn to “leave the leaves”, invoking us to go gentler with our cleanup to support a diversity of beneficial invertebrates who call the fallen leaves their home. Now a recently... Read More ›

Kevin West on Winter Squash – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Oct 13, 2025 Oct 08, 2025

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Kevin West begins his newest book, called “The Cook’s Garden,” like this: “This is a book about flavor,” he writes. “It is a book about how to become a better cook by stepping into the garden.” His is not just... Read More ›

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