The word “downsizing” was spoken more than once when Page Dickey and her husband were making plans a few years back to leave their beloved home and big old garden, called Duck Hill, in Westchester County, New York, for a… Read More ›
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A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – September 21, 2020 – Marc Hachadourian on Houseplants
Who are you going to tuck in with this fall and winter, as the garden starts to rest and we are all indoors more? Do you have any hand-me-down houseplants from a relative maybe, or plants that you bought that… Read More ›
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – September 14, 2020 – Dan Hinkley on Making Windcliff Garden
I have a running joke with today’s podcast guest, a joke I suspect thousands of other former customers just like me email him about regularly, too. Every spring cleanup I come up with more distinctive turquoise plastic labels in my… Read More ›
Ken Druse on Saving and Sowing Seed – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – September 7, 2020
Maybe you can feel it where you garden, too. A slight shift in the weather, which combined with shortening days, means summer is loosening its grip. It’s not fall yet. It’s not cleanup time, but what time is it… Read More ›
Jenny Elliott on Flowers for Drying – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – August 31, 2020
A reader emailed me not long ago, asking if I’d ever written a story or done a podcast about dried flowers—which ones to grow and how to dry them and so on. And no, I hadn’t, I had to admit,… Read More ›
Matt Mattus on Bulbs You Should Grow – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – August 24, 2020
I suspect that you each have several mail-order bulb catalogs on hand, and also that each catalog devotes page after page to gorgeous photos of Narcissus and tulips, often right up front. Don’t get me wrong, I love both of… Read More ›
Owen Wormser on Lawns Into Meadows – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – August 17, 2020
A new book came my way recently with a title that just said it all. “Lawns Into Meadows” is what it’s called, and its author, landscape designer Owen Wormser, gave me a short course on meadow-making in a recent conversation… Read More ›
Ken Druse on Rejuvenation and Propagation – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – August 10, 2020
Today’s show came out of a phone conversation that Ken Druse and I were having the other day, when I found myself confessing to him that I’d let things in my containers get, shall we say, a tad overgrown this… Read More ›
Ecology Lessons From Mt. Auburn Cemetery – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – August 3, 2020
Years ago, a friend who founded a botanic garden in Massachusetts took me to visit a landscape that he had long loved and admired. It was not just beautiful, but a designated National Historic Landmark—and one that was also a… Read More ›
Michael Balick on Poisonous Plants – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 27, 2020
A surprising number of people ask me about whether this plant or that plant in my garden or theirs is poisonous. And so when I saw news from the New York Botanical Garden about a just-published, fully-updated edition of a… Read More ›