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 ›
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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 ›
Ken Druse on Leaves First – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 20, 2020
Ken Druse and I both love leaves, and so do the naughty furbearing herbivores who have been visiting our gardens with a vengeance this season—but that’s another story. Today’s topic is leaves to love from the gardener’s point of view,… Read More ›
Niki Jabbour on Season Extending – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 13, 2020
Season Extending with Niki Jabbour – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 13, 2020 Longtime gardeners and first-timers went all out in this craziest of years, bringing the expression “victory garden” back into the headlines. We all… Read More ›
Uli Lorimer on Native Plants – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach – July 6, 2020
As more gardeners shop for native plants each year, more plant descriptions in catalogs and on nursery labels use the blanket phrase “pollinator-friendly” to catch our attention. But is that the whole story behind each plant that’s so labeled, and… Read More ›