MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN
Episodes
Using Color with Stephen Orr – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 4, 2026
01 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
How confident are you about the use of color in your garden, and where do you draw your inspiration from for creating a pleasing palette? The topic of...
Native Cultivars with Sam Hoadley – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach – April 27, 2026
24 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
If we’re shopping for native plants with the most ecological impact—ones with the most pollinator appeal, for example—then simply choosing by th...
Performance Plants of the High Line – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach – April 20, 2026
15 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Both gardeners and their plants have to be more resilient than ever these days in our changing climate, it seems. At the High Line in New York City, o...
Outsider Animals with Marlene Zuk – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – April 13, 2026
10 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
I’m privileged to observe a fascinating diversity of animals outside where I live, but the term “Outsider Animals” was new to me—and it’s th...
Bird Gardens with Becca Rodomsky-Bish – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – April 6, 2026
03 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
I always say that birds taught me to garden, as I watched their behavior here at my place, and added more of the plants and features they seemed to li...
Creating Habitat with Shaun McCoshum – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – March 30, 2026
27 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
We talk about pollinator gardens, and seek out the plants that provide that essential nourishment to bees and butterflies and moths, for example. ...
Wisdom in a Tree with Ned Friedman – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – March 23, 2026
20 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
I wish that when I was a college freshman, a course like Harvard’s seminar called “Tree” had been part of the curriculum, because since I learne...
‘Plant This, Not That’ with Elise Howard – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – March 16, 2026
13 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
You’ve seen and heard the list of no-no plants that were showy longtime nursery and garden standards, but have proven invasive and need to go. Y...
Let’s Get Out and Botanize – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – March 9, 2026
06 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
When spring approaches and we get out into the garden again, it’s easy to get distracted by the to-do list, or just by the latest pretty thing that’...
The Weedy Garden with Margaret Renkl – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – March 2, 2026
27 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret Renkl’s newest book “The Weedy Garden: A Happy Habitat for Wild Friends,” is aimed at children, but it’s really for everyone, she say...
Seed-Starting Mixes with Joe Lamp’l – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Feb. 23, 2026
20 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
When growing from seed, the long list of decisions starts with what turns out to be the simplest question of all: which variety of bean (or tomato, or...
Homegrown Spices with Sarah Kleeger – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Feb. 16, 2026
13 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What do you say we explore expanding our herb-gardening efforts to include some goodies to fill those jars in the spice rack, too? Most of us have pro...
Rainbow of Peas with Peace Seedlings – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Feb. 9, 2026
06 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
“The dream has always been a rainbow of peas,” Dylana Kapuler said to me more than a decade ago, and that dream continues to fuel a passion for br...
Goldenrods with Sam Hoadley – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Feb. 2, 2026
30 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Goldenrods are powerhouses – keystone plants that serve as hosts for more than 100 species of butterflies and moths, and rich late-season sources of...
Top Tomatoes with Don Tipping – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Jan. 26 2026
23 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
IT WAS 1 degree Fahrenheit outside when I looked at my electronic weather station readout this morning – a perfect time for some winter-defying ta...
Reprise Matt Mattus on Sweet Peas – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Jan 19, 2026
16 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Every year when I get to the sweet pea listings in the seed catalogs, I think this is the year, the year I’ll organize some supports in the garden f...
Dye Plants with James Young – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Jan 12 2026
09 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Until I met today’s guest, James Young, early in 2025, it hadn’t really registered in my brain that some of the familiar annuals I grow fr...
Must-Try Vegetable Seeds with Lane Selman – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Jan. 5, 2026
02 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
I’m letting myself be transported away from the winter scene outside my window, burying my nose not in the snow but instead in the spring-into-summe...
Bird-Feeding Season with Julie Zickefoose – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Dec. 29, 2025
26 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I put out my first bird feeder of the season around Thanksgiving or so each year and get the party started. But there’s more to feeding the birds th...
Tree Care History and How-to with Melissa Finley – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Dec. 22, 2025
19 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The earliest references to people cultivating trees date back to 6000 B.C., and there are records of tree-care tactics in the Bible, too, and from anc...
Keystone Plants with Uli Lorimer – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Dec. 15 2025
12 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Not so many years ago, relative to the history of horticulture, even a now-ubiquitous phrase like “pollinator plant” wasn’t part of our everyday...
Holiday Blooms with Matt Mattus – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Dec. 8, 2025
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If I say: quick, name a holiday flower, you might first answer poinsettia. But the poinsettia wasn’t always synonymous with this time of year, today...
Unusual Houseplants with Rob Moffitt – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Dec. 1, 2025
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I can’t imagine life without my admittedly oddball collection of houseplants, many of whom have been with me for several decades already. So I was d...
Heritage Apples with Jamie Hanson – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Nov. 24, 2025
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When I bought my place decades ago it was nestled in a tiny piece of former farmland with a little 1880s house and no garden. There were, however, fiv...
Joseph Tychonievich on Seed Sources – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Nov 17, 2025
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Once upon a time the seed catalogs came out around the start of the New Year, but these days the very first ones may arrive by Thanksgiving, and their...
Eco Garden Care with Dan Wilder – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Nov 3, 2025
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Besides their native-heavier plant palette and looser style, ecologically designed landscapes have another difference: The way we maintain them is not...
Paul Bannick on Woodpeckers – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Oct 27, 2025
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s guest didn’t have to convince me to be wild about woodpeckers, because I already am—utterly so. These charismatic, hardworking birds mak...
Max Ferlauto on Leaf Removal’s Impact – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Oct 20, 2025
17 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Every gardener has certainly heard the rallying cry each recent autumn to “leave the leaves”, invoking us to go gentler with our cleanup to suppor...
Kevin West on Winter Squash – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Oct 13, 2025
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kevin West begins his newest book, called “The Cook’s Garden,” like this:  “This is a book about flavor,” he writes. “It is a book ab...
Gardener Sarah Owens on Sourdough – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Oct 6, 2025
03 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Almost 10 years ago on this program, I talked about making sourdough starter with today’s guest, Sarah Owens, on the occasion of the publication her...
Basil Camu on Privacy Screens – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 29, 2025
26 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Most of us have something to hide – in our gardens, that is, some view of something we’d like to erase. It could be the telephone pole across the ...
Leslie Needham on Design Tips – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 22, 2025
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The “what plant goes where?” aspect of gardening is the hardest part for a lot of us. And as we increasingly shift our plant palette and gardening...
Jenks Farmer on Transplanting and Watering Tips – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 15, 2025
12 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In recent growing seasons, the “new normal” of a changing climate has sometimes been making me feel like my Northeastern garden has relocated fart...
Julie Zickefoose on Birdwatching – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 8, 2025
05 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The fall bird migration is under way, and that means the cast of characters we’re seeing and hearing in the garden is changing quickly – as we say...
Dr. Susan Pell on Poison Ivy – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 1, 2025
29 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the age of climate change, my guest on today’s reprise edition of the podcast told me, we can expect “more poison ivy and meaner poison ivy,”...
Rebecca McMackin on Garden Resources – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Aug 25, 2025
22 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s guest and I were sitting having a cup of tea together recently and talking abou guess what? Plants! What came up pretty fast was how lately ...
Patrick McDuffee on Scented Geraniums – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Aug 18, 2025
15 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Patrick McDuffee believes that everyone should have at least one scented geranium on their windowsill year-round, for an on-demand invigorating whiff ...
Alla Olkhovska on Clematis – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Aug 11, 2025
08 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The last time I spoke to Alla Olkhovska from her home and garden in Ukraine, she confessed to growing about 120 different types of Clematis—a number...
Trialing Seed for Seed Savers Exchange – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Aug 4, 2025
01 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On the weekend of Aug. 8 and 9, the beloved Seed Savers Exchange will celebrate its 50th anniversary of preserving our seed heritage with festivities...
Thor Hanson on Wonders – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 28, 2025
25 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For each of us, it’s probably safe to bet that our most familiar piece of the natural world is the outdoor space right beside the place we live – ...
Ken Druse on Foliage Power – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 21, 2025
18 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There may be no moment in the year when my friend Ken Druse and I are more grateful for the range of textures and colors of foliage we made room for i...
George Schoellkopf of Hollister House – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 14, 2025
11 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s guest returned from a 1979 trip visiting English gardens inspired to do some garden-making of his own. His canvas was a northwestern Connect...
Dr. John Marzluff on Crows – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 7, 2025
04 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A couple of ravens have been shouting at each other across the garden each day this spring-into-summer, and their loud-mouthed antics reminded me of a...
Beth Brantley on Beech Diseases – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach – June 30, 2025
27 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A big old copper beech tree is a focal point of my garden, and each time I look out the window at it admiringly these days, I feel the same love and g...
Mike Gibson on Topiary – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 23, 2025
20 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today we’re going to do some pruning, but not the same old straight-forward kind. Instead we’re going to talk topiary, and its transformative powe...
Frances Palmer on Cutting Gardens – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 16, 2025
13 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Some of us plant a row of particular annuals with the intention to cut them for bouquets in their moment of bloom – and some of us think bigger have...
Abundant Landscapes with Kelly Norris – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 9, 2025
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We may know one when we see it, but what word best describes an ecological landscape? Compared to traditional, more formal gardens, such native-plant-...
Gardening with My Sister – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 2, 2025
29 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I’ve answered a lot of garden questions in my time as a garden journalist, but nobody has asked more of them than today’s guest—who’s also the...
Eco Adventures with ‘The Bad Naturalist’ – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 26, 2025
23 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Again and again, as I was reading the recent book “Bad Naturalist” by Paula Whyman, I kept thinking: Good thing I only have a couple of acres of l...
Nancy Lawson on Mosquitoes – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 19, 2025
16 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The first issue of “American Gardener,” the newly redesigned member magazine of the American Horticultural Society, arrived recently, and in it ar...
Ken Druse on Shade Treasures – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 12, 2025
09 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When I first started gardening, it wasn’t unusual to hear other gardeners lamenting the shady areas of their landscapes – wishing for more, more, ...
Dan Wilder on Powerhouse Shrubs – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 5, 2025
02 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Woody plants—the trees and shrubs—can be pure ecological powerhouses, but most of us don’t have room for an entire forest in our backy...
Uli Lorimer on Trillium & More – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – April 28, 2025
25 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I look forward to spring for many reasons, not the least of which is the emergence and bloom time of the trilliums. There’s a saying that good t...
Marigolds & More with Peace Seedlings – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – April 21, 2025
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
So you think you’re  familiar with marigolds and zinnias? Well, it’s time to take another look, I think, as I have been longingly in the...
Rosy Dawn Gardens on Coleus – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – April 14, 2025
11 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s hard to think of a brighter botanical bright spot than the one that Coleus creates—whether in a container design, or planted in a garden bed....
Amy Chaplin on Spring Flavors – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – April 7, 2025
04 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I can almost taste it now: the flavors of the first spring crops, whether homegrown, or from your CSA share, or even ethically foraged…with the ...
Teresa Woodard on Maximalist Design – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – March 31, 2025
28 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
More isn’t always better, of course, but in the case of the gardens profiled in the new book “Garden to the Max,” it definitely is, whether more...
Theresa Crimmins on Phenology – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – March 24, 2025
21 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Though the calendar says that spring started on March 20, the many clues that nature offers to those who watch and listen add up to a more complex and...
Garden Biodiversity at Chanticleer – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – March 17, 2025
14 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Anyone who has heard of or even better visited Chanticleer Garden in Pennsylvania knows that it is home to some of the country’s most exceptional ex...
Jim Sirch on Frog Gardens – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – March 10, 2025
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve all heard about what plants and other features figure into making a garden for the birds, or a pollinator garden … but what about a frog...
Ken Druse on ‘Fat’ Houseplants – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Mar 3, 2025
28 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If another houseplant dropped all its leaves for several months each year, you’d think you killed it. But with some of Ken Druse’s and my favorite...
Julie Zickefoose on Welcoming Bluebirds – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Feb 24, 2025
21 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The sight of Eastern bluebirds rates high on my happiness scale, so I say bring them on. But what makes a place look like inviting habitat to these ch...
Sam Hoadley on Ironweeds – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Feb 17, 2025
14 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
One of the tallest perennials in my garden is New York ironweed, Vernonia noveboracensis, but basically my knowledge of the genus starts and ends ther...
Josie Flatgard on Seed Exchange – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Feb 10, 2025
07 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You probably know the popular Seed Savers Exchange catalog, which this year features 600 varieties of seed to choose from, and supports the beloved no...
Matt Mattus on Garden Rituals – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Feb 3, 2025
31 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever replied, “I don’t know; that’s just the way I’ve always done it” when someone asked why you performed a certain garden task in...
Joseph Tychonievich on Snapdragons- A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Jan 27, 2025
24 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Anybody in the mood for something just plain pretty at the moment, something to search the seed catalogs for, choosing among the many wildly colorful ...
Warren Leach on The Winter Garden – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Jan 20, 2025
17 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How’s winter shaping up where you are so far – or more to the point, how’s the winter garden looking? What’s your view out the window this tim...
Kelly Norris on Your Natural Garden – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Jan 13, 2025
10 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As many of us heavy up on native plants, and transition larger areas of our landscapes toward more naturalistic styles of design, there is a lot to le...
Basil Camu on Winter Tree Care – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Jan 6, 2025
03 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I messaged to my arborist neighbor the other day to just say, “Happy holidays.” And at the end of my note, I also said this: “See you soon.”&#...
Joe Lampl’s 2024 Recap – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Dec 30, 2024
26 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Whether out loud here on the podcast or just between us on one of our periodic late Friday afternoon phone calls, I always benefit from catching up wi...
A Dry Year With Julie Zickefoose – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach – Dec. 16, 2024
13 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Did you have an abnormally dry growing season this year—one where it felt like you just couldn’t keep up with the watering, maybe? Today’s guest...
Sarah Jayne on Supporting Biodiversity – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Dec 9, 2024
06 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The message has become increasingly clear: By shifting the palette of what we plant toward native, and refining the practices we employ in caring for ...
Margaret Renkl on Nature Watching – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Dec 2, 2024
29 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
She has had various job titles in her career, but writer Margaret Renkl says one consistent role in her life for decades has been that of “a window-...
Peggy Anne Montgomery on Forcing Bulbs – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Nov 25, 2024
22 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s practically December, but like many gardeners I’m already thinking about spring. One big element of that thinking is how to maximize the powe...
‘WildStory’ Podcast’s Poetry + Plants – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Nov 18, 2024
15 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I was invited recently to be a guest on a podcast called The Wildstory from The Native Plant Society of New Jersey that talks about plants, ...
David Sibley on Birds in Winter – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Nov. 11, 2024
08 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When cold weather approaches, we humans often have it easy: We can retreat to the shelter of central heating, or pile on more layers of clothing. The ...
George Coombs on Trees for the Future – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Nov 4, 2024
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the face of shifting weather patterns influenced by a changing climate, the garden can be a really confusing place these days. What stressors are c...
Flora & Frost on Solving Garden Mysteries – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Oct 28, 2024
22 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The garden is my favorite escape from stress, of course, but as I have confessed before on the podcast, I sometimes succumb to the lure of swiping my ...
Sara Weaner on Lawn Transformation – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Oct 21, 2024
18 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s guest, Sara Weaner Cooper, and her husband, Evan Cooper, bought their first home a couple of years ago, and before long undertook transition...
Joan Strassmann on a Birding Journal – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Oc. 14, 2024
11 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It was almost two years ago to the day when today’s guest, Joan Strassmann, last visited me on the show, right around the time her book “Slow Bird...
Tim Johnson on Native Seeds – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Oct 7, 2024
04 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When I read the other day that Native Plant Trust, the nonprofit plant conservation organization in New England, had successfully raised the money to ...
Daniel Weitoish on Managing Invasives – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 30, 2024
27 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Increasingly in recent years, my garden “weeds” include more and more tenacious opponents – and the landscape along the roadsides nearby and pre...
Preston Montague on Ecological Landscaping – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 23, 2024
20 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If you have ever tried creating, and then caring for, a habitat-style garden with native plants … well, let’s just say it’s not exactly the ...
Jared Rosenbaum on Native Plant Stories – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 16, 2024
13 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“Plants tell the story of a place,” says field botanist and native plant nursery owner Jared Rosenbaum. “If you want to be rooted on the earth y...
Real Organic Project on Soil-Supporting Advice – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 9, 2024
06 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Organic farming and gardening have always been based on the principle of “feed the soil, not the plant.” In a recent interview, I got some expert ...
Ken Druse on Bulb Shopping and Dividing – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Aug 26, 2024
22 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Have you done your bulb shopping yet? It’s ordering time—both for fall-blooming treats like Colchicum, which you can only buy now if you hurry, an...
Matt Mattus on Holiday Cactus – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Aug 19, 2024
16 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I was scrolling through Instagram the other day – yes, sometimes I just cannot help myself – when I saw a post by Matt Mattus about Christmas cact...
Daniel Weitoish on Extreme Weather – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – August 12, 2024
09 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I suspect I’m not alone when I say that weather extremes in recent growing seasons have made me feel a bit like a stranger in a strange land in my o...
Carly Still on Medieval Herbs – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Aug 5, 2024
02 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When most of us think of growing herbs each spring, what we probably put into our shopping cart, whether from online seed catalogs or at the garden ce...
Ken Druse on Hydrangea Time – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 29, 2024
26 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s Hydrangea season, and in the Northeast, in particular, this summer, it’s REALLY been a crazy hydrangea season in 2024, with billows of blue b...
Amy Stewart on “The Tree Collectors” – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 22, 2024
19 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We’re going to talk about collectibles today, but not the kind you score at a flea market or from an online auction. We’re going to talk about...
Benjamin Vogt on Meadow Making – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 15, 2024
12 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are you thinking about the possibility of transitioning an area of your lawn into something more diverse, like maybe a meadow? A question I’m asked ...
Lessons from the High Line – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 8, 2024
05 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s one of the best-known naturalistic gardens anywhere, and yet it’s perched in the most unnatural spot imaginable, 30 feet high above N...
Hortus Arboretum’s Unusual Fruits – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 1, 2024
28 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Some of the many unusual fruits that Allyson Levy and Scott Serrano grow in their arboretum in the Hudson Valley of New York, like goji berries or may...
Rodney Eason on Auditing Your Garden – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 24, 2024
21 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nobody wants to get the IRS notice in the mail that they’re being audited, heaven forbid. But when it comes to gardens, Rodney Eason believes th...
Ken Druse on Garden Visiting – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 17, 2024
14 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What’s one of the best sources of inspiration and information about gardening you can get outside of a classroom, and that is also wonderfully e...
Hardy Kern on Neonic Dangers – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 10, 2024
07 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I suspect every gardener has for years now, over and again, heard the warnings about the most widely used pesticides in the US, neonicotinoids – or ...
Neil Diboll on Prairie Plants – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 3, 2024
31 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Interest and awareness around native plants has been trending in recent years, and it makes them almost feel new. But of course natives are the origin...
Basil Camu on Supporting Trees – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 27, 2024
24 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Most people call in an arborist when they think it’s time for a tree to be removed—a costly process both financially and environmentally, since tr...
Apiary Studio on Regenerative Landscaping – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 20, 2024
17 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Landscape design may be part of the green industry, but sometimes rethinking a garden space, or creating a garden where there didn’t used to be one,...