When I talk about intermingling several plants to serve as a mixed groundcover, perhaps under trees and shrubs, I often refer to the idea as “making mosaics.” No surprise, therefore, that a new book called “A Tapestry Garden” caught… Read More ›
Archives
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 9 – Jane Hurwitz on Butterfly Gardening
Jane Hurwitz says that her mission is simply this: to get more of us to garden with butterflies in mind. I suspect that sounds like something you wouldn’t mind being nudged to do, or do more effectively. Jane Hurwitz is editor of… Read More ›
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 2 – Ken Druse Q&A
The latest crop of Urgent Garden Questions ranges from peonies that just didn’t bloom, to ants on peony buds and ants in flower pots, mosquitoes in water gardens, slugs in everything and more. Ken Druse and I teamed up to… Read More ›
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 25 – Ali Stafford on Cooking From the Garden
How do you grill vegetables to perfection? And what do I do with my garlic scapes, or the greens on all those radishes? And so many of the other extras of the garden, or perhaps from your weekly CSA share… Read More ›
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 18 – Christina King on Rose Rosette Disease
I don’t grow a lot of roses, just a few favorites, but birds plant the occasional multiflora rose seed here and there around the garden. One of the resulting seedlings looked really strange when I noticed while weeding in an… Read More ›
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 11 – Scott Freeman on Saving Tarboo Creek
Since I have lived full-time in a rural place the last decade, I find that probably not coincidentally, my reading list tends increasingly toward tales of the natural world. The new book “Saving Tarboo Creek: One Family’s Quest to Heal… Read More ›
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 4 – Alana Chernila Vegetable Cookbook
The vegetable garden is starting to provide in earnest. But before we all dish out the same old side of steamed broccoli or green beans or kale every night from here to the first freeze, it’s time to get some… Read More ›
Doug Tallamy on Nativars – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 28
‘m a gardener, someone who loves showy plants in artful arrangements. But in recent years, I’ve been looking less with a collector’s eye when shopping and more from the point of view of an insect. Yes, really. That means more… Read More ›
Ken Druse Q&A – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 21, 2017
Anybody got an Urgent Garden Question? Apparently so, and because you keep asking them in comments on the website, in emails, and even on Facebook, and now at @awaytogarden, on Instagram, too. Friend and fellow garden writer Ken Druse keeps coming back… Read More ›
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 14 – Lynn Faust on Fireflies
Fireflies: They never fail to bring out that sense of first time wonder, the excitement of a child on a summer camping trip when the sky darkens and the flashing begins. But until a new field guide reached my desk,… Read More ›