Garden Design Ideas: A few of the gardeners I’ve learned the most from over my career have one thing in common: They’ve worked at Wave Hill, the exceptional public garden in New York City, perched above the Hudson River with… Read More ›
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Ken Druse on Garden Gifts – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Monday December 9, 2019
By the time I finished fall cleanup in November, a few essential pieces of garden equipment were looking worse for wear, like that tarp I’ve been dragging around over a couple of seasons loaded with debris that suddenly looks more… Read More ›
Ali Stafford on Spicing it Up – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Monday December 2, 2019
Spice It Up: Standing in my kitchen the other day I had a craving, specifically for sesame or peanut noodles, for something I eat when I do take out or go out to eat. Because with such flavors we think… Read More ›
Emma Grieg on How to Help Birds – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Monday November 25
How to Help Birds: Research on bird populations published in fall of 2019 was alarming: 29 percent of all birds in the U.S. and Canada have vanished since 1970, a drop of 2.9 billion birds in our lifetime. In light… Read More ›
Long Litt Woon on Mushrooms – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – November 18, 2019
Mushrooms: I have only in recent years tuned in to mushrooms really at all, despite much of a life spent engaged with the outdoors. So when I saw a review in late summer of a new book called “The Way… Read More ›
J.C. Chong on Plant Pests – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – November 11, 2019
Plant Pests: In an issue of his “Pest Talks” e-newsletter not long ago, entomologist Dr. Juang-Horng Chong wrote something that I really loved. “I often consider ignorance the most serious pest of plants,” said J.C, as he is known, who… Read More ›
Margaret Renkl on Late Migrations – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – November 4, 2019
Margaret Renkl: In her recent book, “Late Migrations,” and also in big letters displayed across the homepage of her website, “New York Times” contributing opinion columnist Margaret Renkl reminds herself and her readers where to focus their attention. “Every day,… Read More ›
Katie Dubow on Garden Trends – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – October 28, 2019
2020 Garden Trends: I have to confess that I have weeded out and discarded a lot of press releases and new product announcements I’ve received each week as a garden writer all these years, touting this new gimmicky gadget or… Read More ›
Marta McDowell on Emily Dickinson’s Gardening Life – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – October 21, 2019
Emily Dickinson was a great poet, yes, but she was also an accomplished gardener and a devoted student of the natural world. An all new edition of a book on Emily as a gardener titled “Emily Dickinson’s Gardening Life” is… Read More ›
Ken Druse on Fragrant Plants – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – October 14, 2019
Fragrant Plants: What kind of scents that plants offer up please you…or don’t? How do you even describe what things in the garden smell like? I spoke with Ken Druse, author of the new book “The Scentual Garden,” about his… Read More ›