MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN
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MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN
A WAY TO GARDEN is the horticultural incarnation of Margaret Roach
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Winter Squash with Kevin West – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Oct. 13, 2025
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...
Sourdough, with Gardener Sarah Owens – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Oct. 6, 2025
Almost 10 years ago on this program, I talked about making sourdough starter with today’s guest, Sarah Owens, on the occasion of the publication her b...
Privacy Screens with Basil Camu – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept. 29, 2025
Most of us have something to hide – in our gardens, that is, some view of something we’d like to erase. It could be the telephone pole across the stre...
Leslie Needham on Design Tips – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 22, 2025
The “what plant goes where?” aspect of gardening is the hardest part for a lot of us. And as we increasingly shift our plant palette and gardening sty...
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 15, 2025 – Jenks Farmer on Transplanting & Watering Tips
In recent growing seasons, the “new normal” of a changing climate has sometimes been making me feel like my Northeastern garden has relocated farther...
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 8, 2025 – Julie Zickefoose on Birdwatching
The fall bird migration is under way, and that means the cast of characters we’re seeing and hearing in the garden is changing quickly – as we say goo...
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 1, 2025 – Dr. Susan Pell on Poison Ivy
In the age of climate change, my guest on today’s reprise edition of the podcast told me, we can expect “more poison ivy and meaner poison ivy,” and I...
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Aug 25, 2025 – Rebecca McMackin on Garden Resources
Today’s guest and I were sitting having a cup of tea together recently and talking abou guess what? Plants! What came up pretty fast was how lately we...
Patrick McDuffee on Scented Geraniums – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Aug 18, 2025
Patrick McDuffee believes that everyone should have at least one scented geranium on their windowsill year-round, for an on-demand invigorating whiff...
Clematis with Alla Olkhovska – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Aug. 11, 2025
The last time I spoke to Alla Olkhovska from her home and garden in Ukraine, she confessed to growing about 120 different types of Clematis—a number t...
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Aug 4, 2025 – Trialing Seed for Seed Savers Exchange
On the weekend of Aug. 8 and 9, the beloved Seed Savers Exchange will celebrate its 50th anniversary of preserving our seed heritage with festivities...
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 28, 2025 – Thor Hanson on Wonders
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...
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 21, 2025 – Ken Druse on Foliage Power
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 i...
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 14, 2025 – George Schoellkopf of Hollister House
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 Connectic...
Dr. John Marzluff on Crows – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 7, 2025
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...
Beth Brantley on Beech Diseases – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach – June 30, 2025
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 g...
Mike Gibson on Topiary – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 23, 2025
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 –...
Frances Palmer on Cutting Gardens – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 16, 2025
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...
Abundant Landscapes with Kelly Norris – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 9, 2025
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-...
Gardening with My Sister – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 2, 2025
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...
Eco Adventures with ‘The Bad Naturalist’ – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 26, 2025
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....
Nancy Lawson on Mosquitoes – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 19, 2025
The first issue of “American Gardener,” the newly redesigned member magazine of the American Horticultural Society, arrived recently, and in it are lo...
Ken Druse on Shade Treasures – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 12, 2025
When I first started gardening, it wasn’t unusual to hear other gardeners lamenting the shady areas of their landscapes – wishing for more, more, more...
Dan Wilder on Powerhouse Shrubs – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 5, 2025
Woody plants—the trees and shrubs—can be pure ecological powerhouses, but most of us don’t have room for an entire forest in our backyards. So on a ga...
Uli Lorimer on Trillium & More – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – April 28, 2025
I look forward to spring for many reasons, not the least of which is the emergence and bloom time of the trilliums. There’s a saying that good things...
Marigolds & More with Peace Seedlings – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – April 21, 2025
So you think you’re familiar with marigolds and zinnias? Well, it’s time to take another look, I think, as I have been longingly in the seed list fro...
Rosy Dawn Gardens on Coleus – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – April 14, 2025
It’s hard to think of a brighter botanical bright spot than the one that Coleus creates—whether in a container design, or planted in a garden bed. An...
Amy Chaplin on Spring Flavors – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – April 7, 2025
I can almost taste it now: the flavors of the first spring crops, whether homegrown, or from your CSA share, or even ethically foraged…with the promis...
Teresa Woodard on Maximalist Design – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – March 31, 2025
More isn’t always better, of course, but in the case of the gardens profiled in the new book “Garden to the Max,” it definitely is, whether more color...
Theresa Crimmins on Phenology – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – March 24, 2025
Though the calendar says that spring started on March 20, the many clues that nature offers to those who watch and listen add up to a more complex and...
Garden Biodiversity at Chanticleer – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – March 17, 2025
Anyone who has heard of or even better visited Chanticleer Garden in Pennsylvania knows that it is home to some of the country’s most exceptional exam...
Jim Sirch on Frog Gardens – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – March 10, 2025
We’ve all heard about what plants and other features figure into making a garden for the birds, or a pollinator garden … but what about a frog garden?...
Ken Druse on ‘Fat’ Houseplants – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Mar 3, 2025
If another houseplant dropped all its leaves for several months each year, you’d think you killed it. But with some of Ken Druse’s and my favorite ind...
Julie Zickefoose on Welcoming Bluebirds – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Feb 24, 2025
The sight of Eastern bluebirds rates high on my happiness scale, so I say bring them on. But what makes a place look like inviting habitat to these ch...
Sam Hoadley on Ironweeds – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Feb 17, 2025
One of the tallest perennials in my garden is New York ironweed, Vernonia noveboracensis, but basically my knowledge of the genus starts and ends ther...
Josie Flatgard on Seed Exchange – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Feb 10, 2025
You probably know the popular Seed Savers Exchange catalog, which this year features 600 varieties of seed to choose from, and supports the beloved no...
Matt Mattus on Garden Rituals – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Feb 3, 2025
Have you ever replied, “I don’t know; that’s just the way I’ve always done it” when someone asked why you performed a certain garden task in a particu...
Joseph Tychonievich on Snapdragons- A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Jan 27, 2025
Anybody in the mood for something just plain pretty at the moment, something to search the seed catalogs for, choosing among the many wildly colorful...
Warren Leach on The Winter Garden – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Jan 20, 2025
How’s winter shaping up where you are so far – or more to the point, how’s the winter garden looking? What’s your view out the window this time of yea...
Kelly Norris on Your Natural Garden – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Jan 13, 2025
As many of us heavy up on native plants, and transition larger areas of our landscapes toward more naturalistic styles of design, there is a lot to le...