MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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Thor Hanson on Wonders – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 28, 2025 Jul 25, 2025

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For each of us, it’s probably safe to bet that our most familiar piece of the natural world is the outdoor space right beside the place we live – our own yard. But how well do we really know even... Read More ›

Ken Druse on Foliage Power – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 21, 2025 Jul 18, 2025

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There may be no moment in the year when my friend Ken Druse and I are more grateful for the range of textures and colors of foliage we made room for in our gardens than we are right now –... Read More ›

George Schoellkopf of Hollister House – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 14, 2025 Jul 11, 2025

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Today’s guest returned from a 1979 trip visiting English gardens inspired to do some garden-making of his own. His canvas was a northwestern Connecticut hillside and not the Cotswolds, and the home he’d just purchased wasn’t a grand manor house... Read More ›

Dr. John Marzluff on Crows – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 7, 2025 Jul 04, 2025

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A couple of ravens have been shouting at each other across the garden each day this spring-into-summer, and their loud-mouthed antics reminded me of a somewhat less bawdy conversation about crows and ravens that I had a decade ago on... Read More ›

Beth Brantley on Beech Diseases – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach – June 30, 2025 Jun 27, 2025

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A big old copper beech tree is a focal point of my garden, and each time I look out the window at it admiringly these days, I feel the same love and gratitude I always have for its grandeur –... Read More ›

Mike Gibson on Topiary – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 23, 2025 Jun 20, 2025

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Today we’re going to do some pruning, but not the same old straight-forward kind. Instead we’re going to talk topiary, and its transformative powers – not just on the plant that is the subject that’s getting clipped, or on the... Read More ›

Frances Palmer on Cutting Gardens – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 16, 2025 Jun 13, 2025

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Some of us plant a row of particular annuals with the intention to cut them for bouquets in their moment of bloom – and some of us think bigger have a whole cutting garden within our landscape. I feel like... Read More ›

Abundant Landscapes with Kelly Norris – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 9, 2025 Jun 03, 2025

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We may know one when we see it, but what word best describes an ecological landscape? Compared to traditional, more formal gardens, such native-plant-forward designs are variously labeled as looser, or naturalistic, or wildish—all perfectly accurate. Is there perhaps a... Read More ›

Gardening with My Sister – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 2, 2025 May 29, 2025

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I’ve answered a lot of garden questions in my time as a garden journalist, but nobody has asked more of them than today’s guest—who’s also the person I’ve known longer than anyone else on the planet. My baby sister, Marion... Read More ›

Eco Adventures with ‘The Bad Naturalist’ – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 26, 2025 May 23, 2025

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Again and again, as I was reading the recent book “Bad Naturalist” by Paula Whyman, I kept thinking: Good thing I only have a couple of acres of land. Whyman tackled 200 acres on a Virginia mountaintop, dreaming of reshaping... Read More ›

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