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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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00:27:20

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Nov 3, 2025 –...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2025/10/31

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 ›

00:27:51

Woodpeckers with Paul Bannick – A Way to Garden with...

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2025/10/24

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 ›

00:27:21

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

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2025/10/17

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 ›

00:27:01

Kevin West on Winter Squash – A Way to Garden with...

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2025/10/08

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 ›

00:27:39

Sourdough, with Gardener Sarah Owens – A Way to...

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2025/10/03

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 book called “Sourdough.” Now a 10th anniversary edition of the James Beard Award-winning book is about... Read More ›

00:26:35

Privacy Screens with Basil Camu – A Way to Garden...

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2025/09/26

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 street that we can see from certain spots, or the neighbor’s... Read More ›

00:27:13

Leslie Needham on Design Tips – A Way to Garden with...

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2025/09/19

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 style to more native and ecologically focused, decisions about design might seem even... Read More ›

00:27:35

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 15, 2025 –...

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2025/09/12

In recent growing seasons, the “new normal” of a changing climate has sometimes been making me feel like my Northeastern garden has relocated farther to the South. So maybe that’s part of what caught my attention when I saw news... Read More ›

00:28:29

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 8, 2025 –...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2025/09/05

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 goodbye for now to some species, and keep a close eye out... Read More ›

00:24:43

Poison Ivy with Dr. Susan Pell – A Way to Garden with...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2025/08/29

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’d say from what I see growing around me and the rashes... Read More ›

00:27:13

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

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

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...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

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 – ...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

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 –...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

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...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

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...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

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...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

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 –...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

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 ›

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