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MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

Margaret Roach

A WAY TO GARDEN is the horticultural incarnation of Margaret Roach

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A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Aug 25, 2025 –...

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2025/08/22

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 both sometimes cringe at the results to our online searches about one... Read More ›

00:26:12

Patrick McDuffee on Scented Geraniums – A Way to...

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2025/08/15

Patrick McDuffee believes that everyone should have at least one scented geranium on their windowsill year-round, for an on-demand invigorating whiff of fragrance, or to admire its colorful flowers…or to make a homebrewed cup of herbal tea from its leaves.... Read More ›

00:27:50

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Aug 11, 2025 – ...

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2025/08/08

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 that after seeing her recently published e-book “Clematis Passports,” which profiles 140 kinds, I suspect... Read More ›

00:27:16

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Aug 4, 2025 –...

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2025/08/01

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 at its homebase in Decorah, Iowa. I wanted to celebrate Seed Savers here a little, too,... Read More ›

00:27:32

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 28, 2025 –...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2025/07/25

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 ›

00:27:38

Foliage Power with Ken Druse – A Way to Garden with...

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2025/07/18

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 ›

00:26:03

George Schoellkopf of Hollister House – A Way to...

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2025/07/11

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 ›

00:24:54

Crows With Dr. John Marzluff – A Way to Garden with...

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2025/07/04

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 ›

00:28:15

A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach – June 30, 2025 –...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2025/06/27

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 ›

00:28:02

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 23, 2025 –...

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2025/06/20

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 ›

00:28:03

Cutting Garden with Frances Palmer – A Way to Garden...

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2025/06/13

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 ›

00:26:48

Abundant Landscapes with Kelly Norris – A Way to...

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2025/06/03

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 ›

00:27:57

Gardening with My Sister – A Way to Garden with...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2025/05/29

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 ›

00:27:53

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 26, 2025 –...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2025/05/23

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 ›

00:27:15

Nancy Lawson on Mosquitoes – A Way to Garden with...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2025/05/16

The first issue of “American Gardener,” the newly redesigned member magazine of the American Horticultural Society, arrived recently, and in it are lots of good reads—including an article by today’s guest, Nancy Lawson, aka “The Humane Gardener.” She writes about... Read More ›

00:27:50

Shade Treasures with Ken Druse – A Way to Garden with...

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2025/05/09

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 sun. But my friend Ken Druse never looked at the lower-light areas that way –... Read More ›

00:28:03

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 5, 2025 –...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2025/05/02

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 garden scale, which shrubs in particular really get the job done best? Dan Wilder, a longtime native plant... Read More ›

00:27:07

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – April 28, 2025...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2025/04/25

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 come in threes, and trilliums are certainly proof of that. I talked... Read More ›

00:27:28

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – April 21, 2025...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2025/04/17

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 from Oregon-based Peace Seedlings. Among their offerings are multi-toned zinnias in shades you won’t... Read More ›

00:27:11

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – April 14, 2025...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2025/04/11

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. And it’s hard to think of a more Coleus-filled place than Rosy Dawn Gardens,... Read More ›

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