Hot and dry: That’s the lament of gardeners in most regions in high summer, and also of many plants in their flower gardens. The author of a new book called “The Ultimate Flower Gardener’s Guide” is here to suggest which… Read More ›
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Craig LeHoullier on Tomato Troubles – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – August 8, 2022
I call the phenomenon tomato troubles. You know, 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… Read More ›
Ken Druse on Shade Solutions – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – August 1, 2022
I recently hosted a shade-gardening webinar featuring my friend, Ken Druse. The enthusiastic registration and the outpouring of audience questions that evening reminded me how popular a topic shade is, especially the challenge of dry shade, so I asked Ken… Read More ›
Alan Branhagen on Natives – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 25, 2022
I’ve been undertaking more native-plant-focused garden transformations in recent years, as I know many of you listening have, too. Today’s guest is a naturalist with a background in landscape architecture who’s been making wildish gardens for decades, both at home… Read More ›
Ali Stafford on Summer Squash – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 18, 2022
You know how the vegetable garden goes. One day, there are just two green beans ready to pick, and then there are 62 all at once. Famine and then feast. Some of that can be moderated by growing different varieties… Read More ›
Angela Sirois-Pitel on Stiltgrass – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 11, 2022
If you think that managing invasive plants in a garden is a challenge, imagine that on a larger scale—a much larger scale, like Angela Sirois-Pitel faces in the name of supporting native habitat on Nature Conservancy land. From barberries and… Read More ›
Hortus Arboretum on Native Fruits – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 4, 2022
More than 20 years ago, artists Allyson Levy and Scott Serrano started a botanical garden in the backyard of their Hudson Valley, New York, home. Today, the Hortus Arboretum and Botanical Gardens has grown to 11 acres of diverse collections…. Read More ›
Dan Wilder on Rethinking Lawn – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 27, 2022
The lecture that he’s been giving for a number of years is not so subtly called “Kill our Lawn.” Ecological horticulturist Dan Wilder knows that starting over and creating an entire native habitat instead of a lawn isn’t for everyone…. Read More ›
Ken Druse on Surprise Plants – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 20, 2022
Today’s show is all about surprises—and the first one is my guest. He’s back: My old friend Ken Druse is here after too many months of absence, and our subject is the surprises our gardens have offered so far this… Read More ›
Wes Knapp on Taking Stock of Natives – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 13, 2022
While researching a story about the endangered status of native trillium in North America recently, I was happy to meet today’s guest, botanist Wesley Knapp. Our trillium conversations got me thinking about how headlines like the trillium one, highlighting reports of the… Read More ›