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George Schoellkopf of Hollister House – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 14, 2025
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 Connecticut hillside and not the Cotswolds, and the home h…
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago
Dr. John Marzluff on Crows – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 7, 2025
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 somewhat less bawdy conversation about crows and…
Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Beth Brantley on Beech Diseases – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach – June 30, 2025
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 gratitude I always have for its grandeur –... Read…
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Mike Gibson on Topiary – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 23, 2025
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 powers – not just on the plant that is the subject that’s…
Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago
Frances Palmer on Cutting Gardens – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 16, 2025
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 a whole cutting garden within our landscape. I fee…
Published on 3 months ago
Abundant Landscapes with Kelly Norris – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 9, 2025
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-forward designs are variously labeled as looser, …
Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Gardening with My Sister – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 2, 2025
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 person I’ve known longer than anyone else on the planet.…
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Eco Adventures with ‘The Bad Naturalist’ – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 26, 2025
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 land. Whyman tackled 200 acres on a Virginia mountaint…
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Nancy Lawson on Mosquitoes – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 19, 2025
The first issue of “American Gardener,” the newly redesigned member magazine of the American Horticultural Society, arrived recently, and in it are lots of good reads—including an article by today’s …
Published on 4 months ago
Ken Druse on Shade Treasures – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 12, 2025
When I first started gardening, it wasn’t unusual to hear other gardeners lamenting the shady areas of their landscapes – wishing for more, more, more sun. But my friend Ken Druse never looked at the…
Published on 4 months, 1 week ago