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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 – April 7, 2025 –...

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2025/04/04

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 promise of a whole growing season of the freshest, tastiest produce to come. It’s the... Read More ›

00:27:06

Maximalist Design With Teresa Woodard – A Way to...

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2025/03/28

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, more texture, more drama or all of the above, and then some,... Read More ›

00:27:02

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – March 24, 2025...

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2025/03/21

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 layered unfolding over time. Inspired by a new book called “Phenology,”... Read More ›

00:27:33

Garden Biodiversity at Chanticleer – A Way to Garden...

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2025/03/14

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 examples of horticultural creativity and innovation. A multi-year biodiversity survey of the Chanticleer property has... Read More ›

00:28:10

Frog Gardens With Jim Sirch – A Way to Garden With...

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2025/03/07

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? I’m crazy about frogs and would like to think my place is... Read More ›

00:27:43

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Feb 24, 2025 – ...

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2025/02/21

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 charismatic birds, encouraging them to maybe stick around during breeding season? And... Read More ›

00:29:06

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Jan 20, 2025 –...

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2025/01/17

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 year, and could it be improved with some strategic enhancements? That’s... Read More ›

00:27:36

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Jan 13, 2025 –...

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2025/01/10

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 learn – or maybe un-learn, if our gardening experience up until now was... Read More ›

00:28:22

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Jan 6, 2025 – ...

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2025/01/03

I messaged to my arborist neighbor the other day to just say, “Happy holidays.” And at the end of my note, I also said this: “See you soon.” Winter may be the quiet season up North here in the garden... Read More ›

00:27:36

2024 Recap With Joe Lamp’l – A Way to Garden With...

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2024/12/26

Whether out loud here on the podcast or just between us on one of our periodic late Friday afternoon phone calls, I always benefit from catching up with today’s guest, Joe Lamp’l (aka Joe Gardener). Probably no time for talking... Read More ›

00:27:50

Nature Watching With Margaret Renkl – A Way to Garden...

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2024/11/29

She has had various job titles in her career, but writer Margaret Renkl says one consistent role in her life for decades has been that of “a window-gazer,” someone who watches what’s going on out there. Even better, she gets... Read More ›

00:27:27

Peggy Anne Montgomery on Forcing Bulbs – A Way to...

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2024/11/22

It’s practically December, but like many gardeners I’m already thinking about spring. One big element of that thinking is how to maximize the power of flower bulbs, and though you might have already planted some in the ground earlier this... Read More ›

00:27:55

‘WildStory’ Podcast’s Poetry + Plants – A Way to...

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2024/11/15

I was invited recently to be a guest on a podcast called The Wildstory from The Native Plant Society of New Jersey that talks about plants, of course, and ecology … but unlike other garden-related podcasts, it also explores poetry. I was intrigued,... Read More ›

00:29:16

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Nov. 11, 2024 –...

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2024/11/08

When cold weather approaches, we humans often have it easy: We can retreat to the shelter of central heating, or pile on more layers of clothing. The path to survival is a lot more complicated for birds, of course, and a new... Read More ›

00:27:34

Trees for the Future With George Coombs – A Way to...

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2024/10/31

In the face of shifting weather patterns influenced by a changing climate, the garden can be a really confusing place these days. What stressors are coming next, and which plants will have the resilience required to stand up to whatever... Read More ›

00:28:06

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Oct 28, 2024 –...

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2024/10/22

The garden is my favorite escape from stress, of course, but as I have confessed before on the podcast, I sometimes succumb to the lure of swiping my way through Instagram during non-garden hours, like so many millions of us... Read More ›

00:29:19

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Oct 21, 2024 –...

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2024/10/18

Today’s guest, Sara Weaner Cooper, and her husband, Evan Cooper, bought their first home a couple of years ago, and before long undertook transitioning the front lawn organically from mown grass into a meadow. Sara’s here to tell us about... Read More ›

00:28:36

Birding Journal With Joan Strassmann – A Way to...

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2024/10/11

It was almost two years ago to the day when today’s guest, Joan Strassmann, last visited me on the show, right around the time her book “Slow Birding” was released. Now, as then, I’ve seen what are pretty much my... Read More ›

00:28:53

Managing Invasives With Daniel Weitoish – A Way to...

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2024/09/27

Increasingly in recent years, my garden “weeds” include more and more tenacious opponents – and the landscape along the roadsides nearby and pretty much everywhere I drive is one of hedgerows formed of a tangle of non-native shrubs and vines.... Read More ›

00:27:59

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 23, 2024 –...

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2024/09/20

If you have ever tried creating, and then caring for, a habitat-style garden with native plants … well, let’s just say it’s not exactly the same thing as combining a group of hostas with some astilbes an a couple of... Read More ›

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