Some of the most beautiful and intricate creatures in the garden are not plants at all. A diversity of lichens are showing off right now on tree bark and branches, on stones, on unpainted garden furniture and even soil, more… Read More ›
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A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – November 22, 2021 – Marta McDowell on a Secret Garden
Author Marta McDowell, a gardener and landscape designer in contemporary New Jersey, has an enduring passion for digging into history, particularly into noted authors and their gardens—what she calls the “connection between the pen and the trowel.” She’s written books… Read More ›
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – November 15, 2021 – Ken Druse on Last Fall Chores
It’s been a strangely mild fall so far in the Northeast, where Ken Druse and I both garden. But as some recent overnight freezes served as a reminder: Get the must-do chores done or else, because who knows when the… Read More ›
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – November 8, 2021 – David Culp on Design Tweaks
Designer David Culp sees the garden in layers, but not just the most obvious landscape ones most of us do—meaning the canopy, the shrub layer and ground-covering plants. His view of the garden is more like 3D chess and then… Read More ›
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – November 1, 2021 – John Forti on Heirloom Gardening
When I saw news of a popular new garden book called “The Heirloom Gardener,” I thought it would be about growing vegetables or flowers of old-time, open-pollinated varieties maybe. You know: of heirlooms. But John Forti’s latest book is about… Read More ›
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – October 25, 2021 – Lee Reich on Fall Prep
What are the forward-looking steps in your fall garden routine—the most important tasks you take now to get your garden tucked in, that really focus on success next year? Over at the part-farm, par-garden of Lee Reich in the Hudson… Read More ›
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – October 18, 2021 – Ken Druse on Monocots
“What do you want to talk about when we tape our next podcast segment, I asked Ken Druse the other day, and his answer was succinct. “Monocots,” he said. To which I said, “What?” “I want to talk about monocotyledons,”… Read More ›
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – October 11, 2021 – Cary Oshins on Composting Tips
Have you made room in the compost heap for all that incoming organic material about to be created during your fall cleanup? Compost is today’s topic with Associate Director Cary Oshins of the US Composting Council. And we’ll talk about… Read More ›
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – October 4, 2021 – Marc Wolf on Native Shrubs
I’m always looking for more places to tuck native plantings, and my current mission is along my property edges, where I’m adding a more complex layer of shrubs and small trees adjacent to the big old canopy-level ones to increase… Read More ›
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – September 27, 2021 – Ken Druse on Dividing Perennials
I’ve been scouting around in my garden for orphaned plants, ones that used to be in visually pleasing clumps or masses, but because of expanding shade or a naughty vole or who knows what, aren’t looking as good as they… Read More ›