MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

00:26:58

Awe-Filled Gardens with Nancy Lawson – A Way to...

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2026/10/02

One late-August day, Nancy Lawson—or “The Humane Gardener,” as she is perhaps better known—was making a video about a spicebush swallowtail butterfly when something just beyond it in her Maryland yard caught her eye. A green heron was visiting a... Read More ›

00:26:58

Hannah Fries’s ‘A Forest Language’ – A Way to Garden...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2026/09/25

In the introduction to her latest book “A Forest Language,” Hannah Fries acknowledges a fascination with the words we use to talk about trees – organisms she calls the backdrop of her life. From our human vocabulary of forest ecology... Read More ›

00:27:02

Seed Saving with Bill Braun – A Way to Garden with...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2026/09/18

I look around the garden and I see it happening everywhere, on so many different plants: seed is forming. Seed is the start of most everything we grow, yet most of the seed we gardeners and even more important the... Read More ›

00:27:21

Exceptional Woody Plants from ‘Arnold Selects’ – A...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2026/09/11

What makes a tree or shrub exceptional – something worthy of introduction into the nursery trade, and eventually maybe making its way into your garden? There are many pathways a plant can travel to get there, including one unique one... Read More ›

00:26:40

Vegetable Garden Wisdom with JM Fortier – A Way to...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2026/09/04

When I heard that today’s guest, who’s been a guiding force in educating organic farmers, was finally publishing a book specifically for gardeners … I was thrilled. I’d been following JM Fortier since his first handbook on biointensive organic market... Read More ›

00:26:30

Home Greenhouses with Leslie Halleck – A Way to...

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2026/08/28

Is a greenhouse in your future? I’ve never had one, and I have always been not-so-secretly jealous of friends who do—whether to propagate their seedlings in late winter into spring, or grow more tropicals and other “houseplants” than fit in... Read More ›

00:25:26

Fresh From the Garden with Timothy Pakron – A Way to...

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2026/08/21

The opening pages of Timothy Pakron’s about-to-be-released cookbook aren’t pictures of plates of food, but rather gorgeous flower photos – some dreamy cosmos, followed by a double-page spread of silvery mountain mint, or Pycnanthemum, gleaming against a moody dark background.... Read More ›

00:27:46

Marc Hachadourian on Water Lilies – A Way to Garden...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2026/08/14

Rather than digging in, let’s wade in to our topic this week – because the subject is waterlilies. If you follow any botanical gardens on social media, you’ve probably seen how the giant tropical Victoria water lilies, with their massive... Read More ›

00:26:11

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Aug 10, 2026 –...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2026/08/07

When was the last time you made room in your vegetable garden for something a little out of the ordinary that you’d never grown or maybe even tasted before? I don’t know of anyone who speaks out more passionately or... Read More ›

00:25:51

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Aug 3, 2026 –...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2026/07/31

I don’t recall who tipped me off to the Amphibian and Reptile Conservancy’s email newsletter, but I am glad that I found it and signed up. Those of you who are longtime listeners or readers of A Way to Garden... Read More ›

00:26:50

Pick of the Hydrangeas, with Adam Wheeler – A Way to...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2026/07/24

Trigger warning: Today’s segment will include mention of irresistible hydrangeas and may prompt severe plant-shopping binges in susceptible individuals. You’ve been warned. My guest is Adam Wheeler of Broken Arrow Nursery, a retail and mail-order destination for exceptional plants in... Read More ›

00:26:58

Talking Houseplants with August Laska – A Way to...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2026/07/17

Are you a follower of fashion—houseplant fashion, that is—seeking out the latest variety that everyone’s after, perhaps the “it” plant that’s been splashed across social media? Or was each houseplant in your care carefully chosen because it’s a perfect match... Read More ›

00:28:05

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 13, 2026 –...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2026/07/10

I call the phenomenon tomato troubles: the yellow-spotted foliage that falls off, or the plant that produces all those misshapen fruits. And yes, the attack of the hornworms, too, when you wake up to a lot of missing leaves one... Read More ›

00:26:50

Lea Johnson on Conservation Meeting Horticulture – A...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2026/07/03

Today’s guest is a plant ecologist whose work, she says, is driven by this question: “All of the wild diversity of life on earth is here, with us, right now. How can we take it with us into the future?”... Read More ›

00:26:37

Doug Muller on Successions and Cover Crops – A Way to...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2026/06/26

I know, it feels like we just planted the vegetable garden moments ago. But a close look around as summer really takes hold quickly reminds us that our work is never done. Some crop or other is reaching the end... Read More ›

00:28:02

Design Ideas from Madoo – A Way to Garden with...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2026/06/19

The recently published book “Madoo: The Making of an American Garden,” reminded me of the power of certain key design strategies that can make all the difference—ones that proved to be formative elements in the highly distinctive garden that is... Read More ›

00:26:50

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 15, 2026 –...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2026/06/12

I’ve been digging into a diverse and compelling collection of essays in a recent book that’s centered on the subject of flowers – everything from topics like their breeding, to which species we covet most of all, to some of... Read More ›

00:28:01

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 8, 2026 –...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2026/06/05

When today’s guest, Elise Howard, and I talked on the show in March, her new book “Plant This, Not That” was just out. The popular book offers basic guidelines for selecting and using native plants, and specific substitutes for non-natives... Read More ›

00:27:00

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 1, 2026 –...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2026/05/27

If you’ve ever posted a photo on the massive community science project called iNaturalist and wondered how such contributions get used in research …. well, today’s guest is here to tell us about one especially stunning example. It involves 1.6... Read More ›

00:27:04

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

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2026/05/22

Owls: They are birds we more often hear than see, exceptionally well-camouflaged creatures, many of whom move about in the hours of low light for an extra layer of stealth, making them seem even more mysterious. So what do you... Read More ›

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