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A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 22, 2025 – Leslie Needham on Design Tips
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 style to more native and ecologically focused, decis…
Published on 7 hours ago
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 15, 2025 – Jenks Farmer on Transplanting & Watering Tips
In recent growing seasons, the “new normal” of a changing climate has sometimes been making me feel like my Northeastern garden has relocated farther to the South. So maybe that’s part of what caught…
Published on 1 week ago
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 8, 2025 – Julie Zickefoose on Birdwatching
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 goodbye for now to some species, and keep a close ey…
Published on 2 weeks ago
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 1, 2025 – Dr. Susan Pell on Poison Ivy
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,” and I’d say from what I see growing around me and the …
Published on 3 weeks ago
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Aug 25, 2025 – Rebecca McMackin on Garden Resources
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 we both sometimes cringe at the results to our onli…
Published on 4 weeks ago
Patrick McDuffee on Scented Geraniums – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Aug 18, 2025
Patrick McDuffee believes that everyone should have at least one scented geranium on their windowsill year-round, for an on-demand invigorating whiff of fragrance, or to admire its colorful flowers…o…
Published on 1 month ago
Alla Olkhovska on Clematis – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Aug 11, 2025
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 that after seeing her recently published e-book “C…
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Trialing Seed for Seed Savers Exchange – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Aug 4, 2025
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 at its homebase in Decorah, Iowa. I wanted to cel…
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Thor Hanson on Wonders – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 28, 2025
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 – our own yard. But how well do we really know even... …
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Ken Druse on Foliage Power – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 21, 2025
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 in our gardens than we are right now –... Read Mor…
Published on 2 months ago