“I don’t know how you tell these ferns apart,” people have been saying to for as long as she can remember. FYI, ferns do not all look alike, at least not once you’re clued in to how to look with a… Read More ›
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A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Feb 26 – George Coombs on Phlox
Few gardeners would dispute the fact that garden Phlox is a worthy addition to the summer landscape, and nectar-seeking butterflies emphatically agree. But which varieties among the many offered at nurseries and catalogs do the best job of both adding… Read More ›
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Feb 19 – Q&A with Ken Druse
If it thaws outside, should I clean up now, or what if I do and then the weather gets freezing cold again? What am I doing wrong with my African violets? How can I tackle lily leaf beetle, and can… Read More ›
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 19, 2014 – Bernd Heinrich on the Homing Instinct
Acclaimed scientist and author Bernd Heinrich has returned every year since boyhood to a beloved patch of western Maine woods. What is the biology in humans that explains this deep-in-the-bones pull toward a particular place, and how is it related… Read More ›
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Feb 12 – Garden Designer Susan Morrison
I don’t have a small yard, but I nevertheless sat down with a new book called “The Less Is More Garden” by landscape designer Susan Morrison, and came away with numerous practical ideas for fine-tuning the design of my outdoor… Read More ›
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Feb 5 – Niki Jabbour on Spinach Alternatives
Niki Jabbour‘s adventures with oddball, unexpected edibles began when she grew a 5-foot-long snake gourd intended as an element of Halloween decorations. And then almost accidentally she learned from her Lebanese mother-in-law that young fruits off the vine were also… Read More ›
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Ken Druse Q&A – January 29
You know the routine: I ring up my longtime friend Ken Druse on Skype each month and then we tackle your Urgent Garden Questions—which this time range from growing pansies from seed, to trees in pots, to keeping garden journals… Read More ›
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Jan 22 – Don Tipping on Growing Brassicas
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach: Don Tipping on Growing Brassicas The other day as I was plotting who I could ask for help outsmarting the coming season’s cabbage worms, and coaxing the Brussels sprouts to fatten up on… Read More ›
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Jan 15 – Joseph Tychonievich on Annual Flowers
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach -Joseph Tychonievich on annual flowers Joseph Tychonievich, a garden writer and backyard plant breeder and passionate flower grower, has gone on a bit of a sunflower binge, declaring it his personal Year of… Read More ›
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Dec 2, 2013 – Seed Series Kickoff with John Navazio
Ever-grow an open-pollinated or heirloom variety from seed, only to have it not look or taste like the photo on the packet—or even like the “same” variety when you grew it before? Maybe not your fault. Seeds aren’t like widgets;… Read More ›